Gaming machine with symbol restriction

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9997012
APP PUB NO 20170316641A1
SERIAL NO

15485984

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A gaming machine may award a number of spins of a plurality of reels in an instance of the bonus game. A symbol counter may be set to an initial value. Until the awarded number of bonus game spins have been performed, the gaming machine may repeatedly carry out iterations of bonus game operations including: (i) selecting a first symbol set or a second symbol set for display on the plurality of reels, where the first symbol set excludes a predetermined symbol, where the second symbol set includes a number of the predetermined symbol equivalent to the symbol counter, and where, when the second symbol set is selected, the symbol counter is incremented, and (ii) transmitting, to a client machine, a representation of the selected symbol set.

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GAMES GLOBAL OPERATIONS LIMITED55 ATHOL STREET DOUGLAS IM1 1LA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Igesund, Terence Kaw-Zulu Natal, ZA 15 345
Wortmann, Jonathan B Ballarat, AU 5 78

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