Electronic gaming systems and methods with mixing and matching multiple metamorphics and bonus game pick feature enhancements

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12444271-B2
Application number	US-202318222812-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2023
Priority date	Sep 9, 2022
Publication date	Oct 14, 2025
Grant date	Oct 14, 2025

Abstract

An electronic gaming system includes a display device and a game controller in communication with the display device. The game controller includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the game controller to: determine that a bonus game including display of pick icons is triggered based on a game outcome; activate a metamorphic for the bonus game based on the game outcome, the activated metamorphic being associated with a pick feature enhancement for the bonus game; cause display of a visual indication of the activated metamorphic; initiate a play of the bonus game and apply the pick feature enhancement associated with the activated metamorphic thereto; receive a selection of one of the pick icons during the play of the bonus game; and cause display of an award associated with the selected pick icon and determined based on the applied pick feature enhancement.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic gaming system comprising:
at least one display device configured to display an electronic game that includes a base game, a bonus game, and metamorphics associated with pick feature enhancements for the bonus game;
an input device operable to receive a player input; and
a game controller in communication with the at least one display device and the input device, the game controller comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the game controller to:
determine that the bonus game is triggered based on a game outcome of the base game, the bonus game including display of pick icons;
activate at least one of the metamorphics for the bonus game based on the game outcome, the at least one activated metamorphic being associated with at least one of the pick feature enhancements;
cause display of a visual indication of the at least one activated metamorphic;
initiate a play of the bonus game and apply the at least one pick feature enhancement associated with the at least one activated metamorphic thereto;
receive, via the input device, the player input indicative of a selection of at least one of the pick icons during the play of the bonus game; and
cause display of an award associated with the at least one selected pick icon, wherein the award is determined based on the at least one pick feature enhancement applied to the play of the bonus game.

2. The electronic gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the game outcome of the base game includes at least one metamorphic trigger symbol, the at least one activated metamorphic being associated with the at least one metamorphic trigger symbol in the game outcome and being activated in response thereto.

3. The electronic gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the metamorphics include a multiplier metamorphic associated with a multiplier enhancement applied to the play of the bonus game when the multiplier metamorphic is activated.

4. The electronic gaming system of claim 3 , wherein the multiplier enhancement includes at least one multiplier value applied to a value of the award associated with the at least one selected pick icon.

5. The electronic gaming system of claim 4 , wherein the at least one multiplier value includes different multiplier values applied to awards associated with different selected pick icons.

6. The electronic gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the metamorphics include a jackpot metamorphic associated with a jackpot enhancement applied to the play of the bonus game when the jackpot metamorphic is activated, and wherein, when the jackpot enhancement is applied to the play of the bonus game, the instructions, when executed, further cause the game controller to cause display of a jackpot meter including at least one incomplete jackpot meter progress symbol, cause display of a jackpot award progress symbol associated with the at least one selected pick icon, and cause display of the at least one incomplete jackpot meter progress symbol to transform into a completed jackpot meter progress symbol in response to display of the jackpot award progress symbol.

7. The electronic gaming system of claim 6 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the game controller to award a jackpot value associated with the jackpot meter when each of the at least one incomplete jackpot meter progress symbol have been transformed into the completed jackpot meter progress symbol.

8. The electronic gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the play of the bonus game includes a total number of pick selections and a remaining number of pick selections, wherein the remaining number of pick selections is decremented after each pick icon that is selected during the play of the bonus game.

9. The electronic gaming system of claim 8 , wherein the metamorphics include an extra picks metamorphic associated with an extra picks enhancement applied to the play of the bonus game when the extra picks metamorphic is activated.

10. The electronic gaming system of claim 9 , wherein when the extra picks enhancement is applied to the bonus game, the instructions, when executed, further cause the game controller to cause display of the award associated with the at least one selected pick icon that includes an extra number of pick selections, and cause the total number of pick selections to increase to a sum of the extra number of pick selections and the total number of pick selections.

11. The electronic gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the pick icons are displayed in a pick icon matrix comprising at least one row and at least one column, wherein a number of the at least one row and a number of the at least one column of the pick icon matrix are determined based on the at least one activated metamorphic.

12. The electronic gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one selected pick icon includes two or more selected pick icons, the awards associated with the selected pick icons being displayed in a reveal order that is predetermined or random.

13. The electronic gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the game controller to determine that the bonus game is triggered and activate the at least one of the metamorphics for the bonus game based on one or more outcomes generated by a random number generator in response to the game outcome.

14. The electronic gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the game controller to generate a primary game output that determines the game outcome of the base game, and to determine that the bonus game is triggered and activate the at least one of the metamorphics for the bonus game based on a lookup operation using the primary game output.

15. The electronic gaming system of claim 14 , wherein the primary game output is an outcome of a bingo game randomly generated by the game controller.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
generate a game outcome of a base game on at least one display device, the base game including display of metamorphics on the at least one display device, the metamorphics being associated with pick feature enhancements for a bonus game;
determine that the bonus game is triggered based on the game outcome, the bonus game including display of pick icons on the at least one display device;
activate at least one of the metamorphics for the bonus game based on the game outcome, the at least one activated metamorphic being associated with at least one of the pick feature enhancements;
cause display of a visual indication of the at least one activated metamorphic;
initiate a play of the bonus game and apply the at least one pick feature enhancement associated with the at least one activated metamorphic thereto;
receive, via an input device, a player input indicative of a selection of at least one of the pick icons during the play of the bonus game; and
cause display of an award associated with the at least one selected pick icon, wherein the award is determined based on the at least one pick feature enhancement applied to the play of the bonus game.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the game outcome of the base game includes at least one metamorphic trigger symbol, the at least one activated metamorphic being associated with the at least one metamorphic trigger symbol in the game outcome and

Assignees

• Aristocrat Technologies Inc

Inventors

• Walsh Kevin
• Marston Daniel
• Uss Jeffrey

Classifications

• G07F17/3262 Primary

  Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played · CPC title

• G07F17/3213

  Details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members · CPC title

• G07F17/3267 Primary

  Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games · CPC title