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Gaming machine with modified prize feature

  • US 8,287,367 B2
  • Filed: 01/23/2006
  • Issued: 10/16/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A gaming system comprising:

  • a display showing a base game, said base game receiving a wager and generating a base game outcome;

    a memory holding a plurality of selectable prize series, each prize series having a plurality of prizes, each prize having a value, wherein the selectable prize series are arranged such that a first series carries prizes having the highest respective values and the last series carries prizes having the lowest respective values, wherein the plurality of selectable prize series further include at least one intermediate series arranged to carry prizes having values between said highest respective values in said first series and said lowest respective values in said last series;

    a controller prompting a player selection of one of said plurality of selectable prize series held in said memory, wherein each of the selectable prize series is associated with a group of bonus game rounds, and wherein each said group is associated with a difficulty, information related to the difficulty is displayed to the player and wherein the difficulty is proportionately increased from said last series to said first series;

    the controller further, having a strike count maintaining a count of losing bonus game round outcomes and a positive threshold, said controller suspending said base game based on said base game outcome, commencing on said display a bonus game comprising the bonus game round associated with the selected prize series, generating a bonus game round outcome, said bonus game round outcome being either a winning outcome or a losing outcome, awarding a current prize value from said selected prize series when said bonus game outcome is a winning outcome, indicating a subsequent prize value in said selected prize series to be subsequently competed for when said bonus game round outcome is a winning outcome, increasing said strike count when said bonus game round outcome is a losing outcome, terminating the bonus game in response to said strike count equaling said positive threshold, and recommencing said base game on said display when said bonus game has been terminated,wherein each of said prize values comprises a discrete prize value, wherein said prize series is arranged in an ascending order of said discrete prize values, and wherein said controller sequentially increases a respective discrete prize value in said ascending order in response to a winning outcome in the bonus game,wherein said plurality of discrete prizes comprise;

    at least one fixed prize value having a static value that remains unchanged over a period of time; and

    at least one variable prize value having a dynamic value, the dynamic value being determined by combining at least one prize modifier to at least one pre-determined prize value, wherein the combination of the at least one prize modifier and the at least one pre-determined prize progressively increases the dynamic value of the at least one variable prize value over the period of time.

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