US 11,670,135 B2
Electronic method of gaming
Matthew Chan, Gordon (AU); Emily Therese Margaret Ross, Las Vegas, NV (US); and Hanna Lee Sanborn, Pflugerville, TX (US)
Assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited, North Ryde (AU)
Filed by Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited, North Ryde (AU)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/228,315.
Application 17/228,315 is a continuation of application No. 16/226,296, filed on Dec. 19, 2018, granted, now 10,977,901.
Claims priority of application No. 2017279617 (AU), filed on Dec. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0233363 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3267 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3209 (2013.01); G07F 17/3213 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gaming system comprising:
an electronic player interface providing a plurality of display positions; and
a game controller comprising at least one processor and a memory storing a) a symbol set including a plurality of configurable symbols, and b) instructions, which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to control the electronic player interface to at least:
display a first plurality of symbols selected from the symbol set at the plurality of display positions based on one or more random numbers generated by a random number generator,
in response to an occurrence of the plurality of configurable symbols occupying a first subset of display positions, receive via the electronic player interface a player-selection of a second subset of display positions unoccupied by the plurality of configurable symbols,
display a multiplier indicium at each of the second subset of display positions based on the player-selection received via the electronic player interface,
display on the electronic player interface a second plurality of symbols at the plurality of display positions unoccupied by the plurality of configurable symbols based on the random number generator and retain all of the plurality of configurable symbols occupying the plurality of display positions, and
visually accumulate on the electronic player interface an award from a plurality of assigned values of the plurality of configurable symbols displayed at the plurality of display positions and the multiplier indicium applied to each of the plurality of assigned values of the plurality of configurable symbols displayed at the second subset of display positions based on the player-selection received.