GAMING MACHINE WITH INTERACTIVE SCORECARD

• US 20120015709A1
• Filed: 07/13/2011
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Original Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Inventors: Bennett, Nicholas Luke, Bryant, Natalie, Graham, Phillipa
• Granted Patent: US 8,641,504 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3213 Details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members

Abstract

A gaming machine includes a controller for controlling operation of the machine, a primary display is provided on which a game to be played is displayed. A secondary display is also provided on which a scorecard, indicating prizes to be paid upon a winning game being achieved, is displayed. The game and the scorecard are controlled by the controller and the scorecard is a dynamic scorecard with the relationship between combinations of symbols constituting a winning game and the prizes awarded by the scorecard for that particular game changing from game to game.

Claims

1. A gaming machine for use with a game of a spinning of a plurality of game reels, the gaming machine comprising:

a controller arranged to control spinning of said game reels;

a primary display arranged to display a spinning of each of said plurality of game reels; and

a secondary display, via the controller, arranged to display a scorecard, said scorecard having a plurality of spinning prize reels, each of said spinning prize reels randomly displaying one of a range of digits, said plurality of randomly displayed digits forming a prize to be paid upon winning said game of spinning of said plurality of game reels, wherein a said spinning prize reel is arranged to stop spinning when a said game reel stops spinning.

2. The gaming machine of claim 1, and wherein said prize reels stop spinning from a rightmost prize reel to a leftmost prize reel.

3. The gaming machine of claim 1, and further including an animated character, said animated character being displayed on said secondary display and indicates changes to said scorecard.

4. The gaming machine of claim 1, and wherein said secondary displaying is arranged in a top box of said gaming machine.

5. The gaming machine of claim 1, and wherein said prize reels stop spinning one reel at a time.

6. The gaming machine of claim 1, and wherein said scorecard having a plurality of prizes, and wherein said spinning prize reels forming one of said prizes.

7. The gaming machine of claim 6, and wherein only one of said prizes includes said spinning prize reels.

8. The gaming machine of claim 6, and wherein each of said game reels includes a plurality of symbols.

9. The gaming machine of claim 8, and wherein only said prize reels associated with a symbol spin when said symbol is also spun up at one of said game reels.

10. The gaming machine of claim 1, and wherein said digit is non-zero.

11. A method of awarding a prize in a spinning reel game being playing on a gaming machine, said gaming machine having a controller, the method comprising:

displaying via a controller a spinning of a plurality of game reels of said spinning reel game at a primary display;

displaying via said controller a scorecard at a secondary display, said scorecard having a plurality of spinning prize reels, each of said spinning prize reels randomly displaying one of a range of digits;

displaying via said controller a random spinning of said plurality of prize reels, thereby randomly displaying a plurality of digits that form a prize to be paid upon winning said game of spinning of said plurality of game reels; and

stopping said spinning of plurality of prize reels when said spinning of plurality of game reels stop.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising stopping said prize reels stop spinning from a rightmost prize reel to a leftmost prize reel.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying an animated character on said secondary display to indicate changes to said scorecard.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying said secondary display in a top box of said gaming machine.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising stopping said spinning of said prize reels one reel at a time.

16. The method of claim 11, and wherein said scorecard having a plurality of prizes, the method further comprising forming one of said prizes from said spinning of prize reels.

17. The method of claim 16, and wherein only one of said prizes includes said spinning prize reels.

18. The method of claim 16, and wherein each of said game reels includes a plurality of symbols.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising spinning only said prize reels associated with a symbol when said symbol is also spun up at one of said game reels.

20. The method of claim 11, and wherein said digit is non-zero.