Patent ID: 7874910

Claim:
A method for facilitating participation in a slot game, comprising: presenting a plurality of display segments in a grid arrangement of rows and columns, each of the rows comprising multiple of the display segments and each of the columns comprising multiple of the display segments; presenting a plurality of display subsegments in at least one of the display segments; presenting a plurality of symbols, wherein at least one symbol of the plurality is presented in each display segment of the plurality and at least one symbol of the plurality is presented in each of the display subsegments independently of the other display subsegments in its respective display segment; and creating paylines from a plurality of the display segments, wherein at least one of the symbols in at least one of the display subsegments is used, independently of the symbols of the other subsegments in the same display segment, in formulating payout results for the paylines in which the at least one of the display segments is affiliated, wherein creating paylines is implemented at least in part by a gaming device.