Patent ID: 8840456

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: at least one input device; at least one display device; at least one processor; and at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device and the at least one input device to: (a) display an offer component position set in association with a persistent offer and acceptance game, said offer component position set including a plurality of offer component positions, (b) for a play of a primary game in association with a placement of a wager: (i) randomly generate a plurality of symbols, (ii) display the generated symbols, (iii) determine any award associated with the generated symbols, and (iv) display any determined award, (c) if none of a plurality of different designated symbols occupy any of the offer component positions of the offer component position set or at least one of the generated symbols is one of the plurality of different designated symbols and said designated symbol is associated with each of the symbols which occupy each of the offer component positions of the offer component position set: (i) assign said designated symbol to at least one of the offer component positions of the offer component position set, and (ii) display said assigned designated symbol at the at least one of the offer component positions of the offer component position set, (d) if at least one of the generated symbols is one of the plurality of different designated symbols and said designated symbol is not associated with any of at least one symbol which occupies at least one of the offer component positions of the offer component position set: (i) eliminate a display of the designated symbols which occupy the offer component positions of the offer component position set, (ii) assign said designated symbol to at least one of the offer component positions of the offer component position set, and (iii) display said assigned designated symbol at the at least one of the offer component positions of the offer component position set, (e) form an award offer based on the symbols assigned to the offer component positions of the offer component position set, (f) display the formed award offer, (g) enable a player to accept or reject the formed award offer, (h) if the player accepts the formed award offer, provide the player the accepted award offer, and (i) if the player rejects the formed award offer and the formed award offer is not a final award offer, repeat (b) to (i) for another play of the primary game upon another placement of another wager.