| US 7,351,144 B2 | ||
| Bonus game using a subset of reels | ||
| Terence Gerard Daly, Las Vegas, Nev. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Bally Gaming, Inc., Las Vegas, Nev. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 08, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/615,888. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0009596 A1, Jan. 13, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. A63F 9/24 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 463—20 [463/16; 273/138.1] | 29 Claims |
| 1. A gaming method for playing a reel selection slot machine, the method comprising:
spinning a plurality of reels within a display window, the plurality of reels each displaying one or more game symbols;
selecting a subset of the currently spinning reels from the plurality of reels for use in determining a game outcome, wherein
the selection of the reels for use in determining a game outcome is player controlled;
removing the non-selected reels from a player's view within the display window;
consolidating the selected subset of the reels within the display window, wherein consolidating the selected reels within
the display window comprises juxtapositioning the selected subset of the reels to eliminate any non-contiguous positioning
of the selected reels produced by the removal of the non-selected reels; and
stopping the subset of the currently spinning reels and determining if the selected subset of reels produce a winning game
outcome, and awarding a prize if a winning game outcome is achieved.
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