WO2006039083A3 - Gaming device with changing wild symbols - Google Patents

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WO2006039083A3
WO2006039083A3 PCT/US2005/032298 US2005032298W WO2006039083A3 WO 2006039083 A3 WO2006039083 A3 WO 2006039083A3 US 2005032298 W US2005032298 W US 2005032298W WO 2006039083 A3 WO2006039083 A3 WO 2006039083A3
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Ryan W Cuddy
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3244—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/34—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

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A bonus game that operates in the bonus game includes a series of free spins or free evaluations in which symbols of a set of symbols are set to be wild symbols. combination with a slot machine base game is provided. Free spins occur for each symbol acting as a wild symbol until the symbol appears on the reels in a winning format, either alone or in combination with other symbols. Then, the next symbol of the set is used in the wild symbols and so on until all symbols for the set are used. If free spins remain after all symbols of the set are used, the free spin sequence is repeated until the free spins are exhausted.
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