Gaming device having a first game scheme involving a symbol generator, a second game and a first game terminator
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1. A gaming device comprising:
- a first game;
a plurality of symbol generators in said first game, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one of said symbol generators including a terminator symbol and at least one of said symbol generators including a second game triggering symbol;
an independently operated second game, said second game associated with the symbol generator having said second game triggering symbol;
a termination condition associated with the symbol generator having the terminator symbol, wherein said termination condition occurs when a designated number of the terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator;
at least one display device operable to display the first game and the second game; and
a processor operable with the display device to activate the symbol generators for a number of activations, initiate the second game when the second game triggering symbol is generated by the symbol generator including said second game triggering symbol in said activations and terminate the first game when the termination condition occurs in said activations.
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Abstract
A gaming device including a primary game having one or more symbol generators and one or more secondary games associated with the symbol generators. The gaming device activates the symbol generators for a number of activations. When the symbol generator generates one or more predetermined symbols, the gaming device operates one or more of the secondary games associated with the symbol generators. In one embodiment, the gaming device continues to activate the symbol generators until at least one of the symbol generators generates one or more termination symbols, or until there are no activations remaining in the primary game.
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1. A gaming device comprising:
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a first game;
a plurality of symbol generators in said first game, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one of said symbol generators including a terminator symbol and at least one of said symbol generators including a second game triggering symbol;
an independently operated second game, said second game associated with the symbol generator having said second game triggering symbol;
a termination condition associated with the symbol generator having the terminator symbol, wherein said termination condition occurs when a designated number of the terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator;
at least one display device operable to display the first game and the second game; and
a processor operable with the display device to activate the symbol generators for a number of activations, initiate the second game when the second game triggering symbol is generated by the symbol generator including said second game triggering symbol in said activations and terminate the first game when the termination condition occurs in said activations. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A gaming device comprising:
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a first game;
a plurality of symbol generators in the first game, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one of said symbol generators adapted to generate at least one terminator symbol, a plurality of said symbol generators adapted to generate at least one predetermined symbols;
a plurality of independently operable second games associated with said symbol generators, each of said second games associated with at least one of said symbol generators including said predetermined symbol;
at least one display device operable to display the first game and the second game; and
a processor operable with the display device to;
(a) activate the symbol generators;
(b) initiate at least one of the second games associated with said symbol generators when said predetermined symbol is generated by said symbol generators, and (c) repeat steps (a) to (b) for a designated number of activations until a designated number of terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator including said terminator symbol or until there are no activations remaining. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A method for operating a gaming device, the method comprising:
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(a) displaying a first game to a player, said first game including a plurality of symbol generators, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one of said symbol generators including a terminator symbol and at least one of said symbol generators including a second game triggering symbol;
(b) associating a termination condition with said symbol generator including said terminator symbol, said termination condition occurring when a designated number of the terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator having said terminator symbol;
(c) activating the symbol generators;
(d) initiating and displaying an independently operated second game when the second game triggering symbol is generated by said symbol generator which has the second game triggering symbol; and
(e) repeating steps (c) to (d) for a designated number of activations of the symbol generators until the termination condition occurs or until there are no activations remaining. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A method for operating a gaming device, the method comprising:
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(a) displaying a first game to a player, said first game including a plurality of symbol generators, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one of said symbol generators including a terminator symbol and at least one of said symbol generators including a predetermined symbol;
(b) displaying a plurality of independently operable second games, each of said second games being associated with at least one of said symbol generators including said predetermined symbol; and
(c) associating a termination condition with said symbol generator including said terminator symbol, said termination condition occurring when a designated number of the terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator having said terminator symbol;
(d) activating the symbol generators;
(e) initiating the second games associated with any symbol generators which generated the predetermined symbol;
(f) repeating steps (d) to (e) for a designated number of activations of the symbol generators until the termination condition occurs or until there are no activations remaining. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A gaming device comprising:
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a first game;
a plurality of symbol generators in the first game, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one said symbol generators adapted to generate at least one terminator symbol, a plurality of said symbol generators adapted to generate at least one predetermined symbol;
a plurality of independently operable second games associated with said symbol generators, each of said second games associated with at least one of said symbol generators including said predetermined symbol;
at least one display device operable to display the first game and the second game; and
a processor operable with the display device to;
(a) activate the symbol generators;
(b) initiate at least one of the second games associated with said symbol generators when said predetermined symbol is generated by said symbol generators, and (c) repeat steps (a) to (b) for a designated number of activations until a designated number of terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator including said terminator symbol. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68)
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69. A method for operating a gaming device, the method comprising:
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(a) displaying a first game to a player, said first game including a plurality of symbol generators, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one of said symbol generators including a terminator symbol and at least one of said symbol generators including a second game triggering symbol;
(b) associating a termination condition with said symbol generator including said terminator symbol, said termination condition occurring when a designated number of the terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator having said terminator symbol;
(c) activating the symbol generators;
(d) initiating and displaying an independently operated second game when the second game triggering symbol is generated by said symbol generator which has the second game triggering symbol; and
(e) repeating steps (c) to (d) for a designated number of activations of the symbol generators until the termination condition occurs. - View Dependent Claims (70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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76. A method for operating a gaming device, the method comprising:
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(a) displaying a first game to a player, said game including a plurality of symbol generators, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one of said symbol generators including a terminator symbol and at least one of said symbol generators including a predetermined symbol;
(b) displaying a plurality of independently operable second games, each of said second games being associated with at least one of said symbol generators including said predetermined symbol; and
(c) associating a termination condition with said symbol generators including said terminator symbol, said termination condition occurring when a designated number of the terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator having said terminator symbol;
(d) activating the symbol generators;
(e) initiating the second games associated with any symbol generators which generated the predetermined symbol;
(f) repeating steps (d) to (e) for a designated number of activations of the symbol generators until the termination condition occurs. - View Dependent Claims (77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89)
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79. The method of 77, which includes associating a plurality of awards with the selections, and enabling the player to pick at least one of the selections and providing the awards associated with the picked selections to the player.
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