Gaming system, gaming device and method providing a first game and a plurality second wagering games each associated with a separate activatable component of the first game

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8992297-B2
Application number	US-201313779065-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2013
Priority date	Apr 27, 2010
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

A gaming system having a first skill, partial skill, or pseudo skill based game having a plurality of individually activatable designated components and a plurality of second chance based games each respectively associated with a different one of the individually activatable components of the skill based game. When each designated component of the first game is activated through one or player inputs, a corresponding chance based game associated with that designated component is activated. Each chance based game randomly determines whether the player wins an award. In one embodiment, the likelihood of activating each designated component is different and the chance based game associated with each different designated component is different.

First claim

The invention is claimed as follows:

1. A gaming system comprising:
at least one input device;
at least one display device;
at least one processor; and
at least one memory device storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one input device and the at least one display device to, for a single play of a game:
(a) display a gaming environment having one or more individual…

Assignees

• Igt Reno Nev

Inventors

• De Waal Daniel J
• Filipour Cameron A
• Baerlocher Anthony J

Classifications

• G07F17/3297

  Physics · mapped topic

• A63F13/44

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G07F17/3248

  Physics · mapped topic

• A63F7/02

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G07F17/3286

  Physics · mapped topic