Gaming machine with interactive scorecard

• US 20030001338A1
• Filed: 07/10/2002
• Published: 01/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Original Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Inventors: Bryant, Natalie, Bennett, Nicholas Luke, Graham, Philippa
• Application Number:
  US10/181,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20030001338A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/292
• 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 (10) includes a controller for controlling operation of the machine (10), a primary display (16) is provided on which a game to be played is displayed. A secondary display (18) is also provided on which a scorecard (22), indicating prizes to be paid upon a winning game being achieved, is displayed. The game and the scorecard (22) are controlled by the controller and the scorecard (22) is a dynamic scorecard (22) with the relationship between combinations of symbols constituting a winning game and the prizes awarded by the scorecard (22) for that particular game changing from game to game.

Claims

1. A gaming machine which includes:

a control means for controlling operation of the machine;

a primary display means on which a game to be played is displayed; and

a secondary display means on which a scorecard, indicating prizes to be paid upon a winning game being achieved, is displayed, the game and the scorecard being controlled by the control means and the scorecard being a dynamic scorecard with at least one of a prize indicated by the scorecard for a particular combination of symbols and a combination of symbols indicated by the scorecard as constituting a prize-winning combination of symbols changing from game to game without player intervention.

2. The gaming machine of claim 1 in which the scorecard changes depending on the result of a game played.

3. The gaming machine of claim 1 or claim 2 in which the scorecard affects the result of the game.

4. The gaming machine of claim 1 in which changes in the scorecard are effected independently of any game result and vice versa.

5. The gaming machine of any one of the preceding claims in which an animated character implements changes to the scorecard.

6. The gaming machine of any one of the preceding claims in which the game and the scorecard are displayed on a single screen of the gaming machine.

7. The gaming machine of any one of claims 1 to 4 inclusive in which the game is displayed on one screen with the scorecard being displayed on a second screen.

8. The gaming machine of claim 7 in which the second screen is arranged in a top box of the gaming machine.