Patent ID: 8616954

Claim:
A method of gaming for use with a gaming system having a controller and a display having a plurality of locations, and the gaming system playing a game in which symbols are displayed at locations on the display, the method comprising: a) selecting, via the game controller, one or more symbols displayed at a first location on the display, to be retained from a symbol set of a first game outcome based on a selected symbol contributing to a first winning symbol combination having a first value in the first game outcome; b) selecting via the game controller a further set of symbols for display as a second game outcome including the retained selected symbols; c) selecting via the game controller symbols to be retained from the selected further set of symbols of the second game outcome based on the selected symbols contributing to a second winning symbol combination having a second value in the second game outcome; d) determining which of the first value and the second value has a higher value; and e) retaining the selected symbols from one of the first winning symbol combination and the second winning symbol combination that has the higher value, thereby resulting in an award of a prize having the higher value from the selected symbols from one of the first game outcome and the second game outcome.