Patent Application Number: 2009200684
Filing Date: February 20, 2009Priority Date: February 20, 2008
Inventors: Steven D. Rood
Applicants: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
View Prior Art for Claim 13
A gaming system comprising: a display for symbols to be displayed in a set of display positions to a player corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reels; a symbol selector for selecting a set of symbols for display in the set of display positions; a game round outcome determiner for determining a game round outcome based on the selected set of symbols. a feature game round controller for determining whether a feature game round should occur; and a feature game round outcome determiner for determining a feature game round outcome based on an optimal winning combination of symbols from a feature subset of the set of symbols for display comprising more symbols than the number of reels.
Patent/Application # 6,461,241
Description
This prior art concerns a gaming device with primary and secondary games, with the use of various symbol generators. Various elements of the primary game are then used in the secondary game, which is similar to the Australian patent in question.
United States