| CPC G07F 17/34 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3213 (2013.01); G07F 17/326 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |

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1. A gaming system comprising:
a housing;
a reel assembly supported by the housing, the reel assembly comprising individually rotatable reels, reel dividers positioned adjacent to the reels, and outcome indicators along a portion of an outer edge of each of the reel dividers;
a processor; and
a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
for a plurality of sequentially stopped reels:
cause the reels to spin, sequentially cause each reel to stop spinning, and for each sequentially stopped reel, responsive to the reel displaying a symbol on said reel that is part of a same predetermined winning symbol combination along a same predetermined payline, cause a predetermined quantity of outcome indicators on one of the reel dividers adjacent to said reel to be illuminated,
wherein for each of the plurality of the sequentially stopped reels, the predetermined quantity of outcome indicators are illuminated in an increasing quantity as each additional symbol of the same winning symbol combination sequentially is displayed to present an indication of a quantity of symbols achieved for the same predetermined winning symbol combination along the same predetermined payline.
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