Patent ID: 7179166

Claim:
A rotating reel based game apparatus requiring patience, skill, knowledge, and concentration to play well comprising: (a) a plurality of reels; (b) a plurality of pre-determined fixed symbols, with said symbols randomly distributed on each of said reels; (c) means for displaying a portion of said reels to a player so that for each of said reels at least two full symbols of said symbols on each of said reels are simultaneously displayed; (d) means for rotating each of said reels; (e) for each reel of said plurality of reels, a player controlled means for stopping said means for rotating; (f) for said player controlled means for stopping, means for timing said player controlled means for stopping whereby when said player controlled means for stopping is used, said means for displaying at least two full symbols displays at least one of said two full symbols that were displayed when said player controlled means for stopping was used; (g) a pre-determined location within said portion of said reels that is displayed to said player; (h) means for determining if a symbol of said two full symbols of said plurality of fixed symbols on each of said reels is stopped within said pre-determined location; (i) a results table to determine the outcome of the play of said game based on whether said player has timed the operation of said stops whereby at least one of said pre-determined fixed symbols is stopped within one of said pre-determined locations; whereby said player plays said rotating reel based game by initiating means for rotating each of said reels then using said player controlled means for stopping for each of said reels to attempt to stop said symbol of said two full symbols within said pre-determined location according to said results table to maximize the results for said player.