Systems and methods for enhancing gaming payouts

    公开(公告)号:US10453304B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-22

    申请号:US15655970

    申请日:2017-07-21

    Inventor: Jacob Lamb

    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for enhancing payouts in gaming activities. One or more payout modifiers may be presented in the game play area, where portions of the game play area identified by the one or more payout modifiers are made eligible for award enhancement for awards occurring on paylines or other pay areas that pass through or otherwise use the identified portions of the game play area that are currently eligible for the award enhancement. In various embodiments, the payout modifiers may identify different volumes of the portions of the game play area to be eligible for the award enhancement, and/or may move about the play area, and/or intersect to form new and potentially more lucrative payout modifiers.

    GAMING DEVICE HAVING CONDITIONAL REEL FUNCTIONALITY

    公开(公告)号:US20190311583A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-10

    申请号:US16450047

    申请日:2019-06-24

    Inventor: Peter BERMAN

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing conditional reel functionality in gaming devices. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to increase the variety of outcomes and sense of anticipation in a video slot game, by varying the composition of symbols on one or more reels based on outcomes of previously determined reels. In some embodiments this varying of composition occurs while the reels are still spinning. The varying of composition may be accomplished by modifying, substituting, generating, or otherwise altering symbols or the order of symbols in the one or more reels.

    Gaming methods, systems, and devices for implementing dice game having re-roll feature

    公开(公告)号:US10373437B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-06

    申请号:US15661089

    申请日:2017-07-27

    Inventor: Bradley Berman

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for implementing a dice game having a re-roll feature on a gaming device. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to roll multiple virtual dice on a game display and determine if the result of the dice roll satisfies a predefined criterion. When the result of the initial dice roll satisfies the predefined criterion, one or more of the multiple virtual dice is re-rolled. The gaming device then evaluates a game result after the re-roll, where the combination of the displayed faces from any initially rolled dice that were not re-rolled and the displayed faces from the re-rolled dice are used in the evaluation.

    GAMING DEVICES WITH SYMBOL BLOCKING AND RESPIN FEATURE

    公开(公告)号:US20190188950A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-20

    申请号:US16281215

    申请日:2019-02-21

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing a symbol blocking and respin feature. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to receive a first game initiation signal and spin reels on the display to show a first game outcome. The gaming device then determines if the results of the first game outcome are associated with a multi-reel symbol trigger condition. When it is determined that the trigger condition is satisfied, a multi-reel symbol is formed from symbols associated with the triggering condition by locking the symbols together. The game device then spins a reel with in the block symbol location with various modifier subsymbols, or other block symbols, to provide additional award opportunities. A second game outcome may be determined when the spinning block reel stops and any modifiers or other symbols are evaluated with the other symbols on the game grid.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING GAMING AWARDS VIA GAMBLING TICKETS SPANNING MULTIPLE EVENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20190139373A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US16183875

    申请日:2018-11-08

    Inventor: Jacob LAMB

    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for enhancing awards and/or providing additional awards in connection with gaming activities. A game play ticket may be configured to have multiple ticket symbols hidden to the player, and to have a winning combination of the ticket symbols among those ticket symbols. The game play ticket is presented with a gaming event, such as a slot game reel spin, where at least one of the ticket symbols is exposed. If a qualifying quantity of like ticket symbols have been exposed, a game play ticket award is provided, otherwise the game play ticket may be presented with other ones of the gaming events.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING POTENTIAL PAYOUT OPPORTUNITIES IN CARD GAMES

    公开(公告)号:US20190122504A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-25

    申请号:US16228224

    申请日:2018-12-20

    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for increasing potential payout opportunities using multiple card indicia representing multiple cards. One embodiment involves determining whether any one or more of a plurality of cards of a poker game having multiple poker hands are to be randomly provided with multiple card indicia representing multiple cards, presenting the plurality of cards of the poker hands, including the one or more of the plurality of cards determined to be randomly provided with multiple card indicia, and identifying a plurality of resulting hands for each of the multiple poker hands that include a multiple card indicia, where each of the plurality of resulting hands includes a different subset of a total of the indicia of the other cards in the respective poker hand and any cards provided with multiple card indicia.

    REEL-BASED WAGERING GAMES
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190114873A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-18

    申请号:US16162021

    申请日:2018-10-16

    Inventor: Sara Minor

    CPC classification number: G07F17/3213 G07F17/3244 G07F17/3267

    Abstract: Reel-based wagering games comprise displaying a number of game reels; evaluating payout conditions associated with the number of game reels; based on evaluation of the payout conditions, displaying a bonus reel; and evaluating payout conditions associated with the number of game reels and the bonus reel.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OVERRIDING GAMING RESULTS

    公开(公告)号:US20190043305A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-07

    申请号:US16031289

    申请日:2018-07-10

    Inventor: Jacob LAMB

    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for overriding gaming results, to provide particular gaming awards or payouts more often than the natural odds of such particular gaming awards/payouts may otherwise statistically allow. A particular gaming event has a natural probability of occurring during game play, and a separate random event may be established to cause the particular gaming event outcome to occur more frequently than the particular gaming event would occur naturally. If the separate random event occurs, the particular gaming event is forced to occur even though it may not have otherwise occurred.

    Game modifier usable between game stages for gaming device

    公开(公告)号:US10074241B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-11

    申请号:US15583195

    申请日:2017-05-01

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the use of game modifiers between game stages of a game played on a gaming device. According to some embodiments, a gaming device is configured to play a multi-stage game of chance. After a first stage is completed and a result for the first stage is determined, a game modifier is altered and applied to a second stage of the game when a predefined criterion is satisfied. The game modifier may modify prizes associated with the second stage of the game by, for example, applying a multiplier to prizes associated with a second stage result, the modifier may alter an aspect of the second stage of the game by, for example, adding or replacing one or more game elements used in evaluating the second stage outcome for prizes, or the modifier may trigger a bonus event.

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