Patent Document ID: 9240105
Application ID: 14496224

Base Claim:
1. A method of providing a slot game on a gaming device having a display device, a player interface device, a memory, and a storage device, the method comprising the steps of: setting up the slot game in an initialization stage comprising the substeps of: receiving a set of game parameters associated with the slot game; receiving a target phrase comprising: a plurality of characters derived from a set of available characters; and a plurality of positions having a linear order, wherein each character corresponds to a position; displaying the target phrase on the display device; preparing an outcome set for each position in the plurality of positions, wherein the outcome set comprises a plurality of outcome characters comprising the plurality of characters in the target phrase; displaying the outcome set on the display device as a series of unrevealed selectable characters for each position in the plurality of positions; determining a selection result in a game play stage, comprising the substeps of: receiving a selection signal corresponding to each outcome set via the player interface device wherein the selection signal designates one outcome character from the plurality of outcome characters; and revealing the outcome character designated by the selection signal for each position in the plurality of positions whereby a final selection result is displayed comprising the outcome character designated for all positions in the plurality of positions; and finalizing the slot game in a settlement stage, comprising the substeps of: retrieving pay table information; determining a reward by comparing the final selection result to the pay table information; ending the slot game when the reward is null; and dispensing the reward and ending the slot game when the reward is not null.

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Claim 17:
17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the pay table information is retrieved in one or more of the following manners: from the storage device of the gaming device; from an external data source via a network communications device of the gaming device; and from the processor of the gaming device wherein the processor calculates the pay table information based upon the game parameters and the target phrase.