Patent ID: 8357036

Claim:
A method of playing an attraction trial game in a leased gaming machine, the leased gaming machine having a base game with a base game pay table, the method comprising: determining a time when to attract players to play the attraction trial game at the leased gaming machine in a remote controller connected to the leased gaming machine over a communication network; displaying, on a display of the leased gaming machine, an attraction sequence for the attraction trial game when the time to attract occurs from the remote controller over the communication network, wherein the attraction sequence announces on the display that the attraction trial game can be played; receiving an input from a player in the leased gaming machine to start play of the attraction trial game in response to displaying the attraction sequence; playing the attraction trial game, in a display of the leased gaming machine under control of a processor, for a set number of successive wagers detected in the leased gaming machine in response to receiving the input; for each successive wager detected in the set number, the method further comprising: 1.) providing an attraction trial game outcome in the display with an attraction award based on an attraction pay table in a memory of the leased gaming machine, each attraction trial game outcome with the attraction award corresponding to a base game outcome in the base game pay table having a base game award; and 2.) awarding, in the display of the leased gaming machine, the provided attraction award; and ending play of the attraction trial game in the leased gaming machine after the set number of successive wagers occurs, at the end of play of the attraction trial game a value corresponding to the sum of the attraction awards awarded during the set number of successive wagers at least equaling a value corresponding to the sum of the set number of successive wagers made, whereby play of the attraction trial game appears to a player of the leased gaming machine to be play of the base game with winning base game outcomes and base game awards.