Patent ID: 7153205

Claim:
A gaming device operable under control of a processor, said gaming device comprising: a base game operable upon a wager; a triggering event associated with the base game; a bonus game operable upon the occurrence of the triggering event, said bonus game including a plurality of selections, said selections including at least one eliminator selection and at least three other selections, wherein, after the eliminator selection is picked in a play of the bonus game, at least one of the other remaining unpicked and non-eliminated selections is picked by the processor to be eliminated in said play of the bonus game, and the remaining unpicked and non-eliminated selections are available to be subsequently picked in said play of the bonus game; a display device adapted to display said selections, and, when one of the remaining unpicked and non-eliminated selections is picked to be eliminated in said play of the bonus game, to display an indication of said eliminated selection; and an outcome of the bonus game adapted to be provided to the player based on at least one of the selections other than the eliminator selection.