Patent ID: 8235798

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a wager input device; a display for displaying a randomly selected outcome of a wagering game; and a controller operatively coupled to said display and said wager input device to operate in a plurality of selectable game modes of which a selected one is a current game mode; said display having an array of reel strips, each of said selectable game modes being respectively associated with a subset of said reel strips of said array, a first game mode of said plurality of selectable game modes having at least one reel strip that differs from at least one reel strip of a second game mode of said plurality of selectable game modes, said second game mode having at least one reel strip that differs from at least one reel strip of said first game mode; said controller operative to cause said display to selectively conceal each of said reel strips other than said subset of said reel strips associated with the current game mode.