US 12,374,184 B2
Gaming device with wheels for awarding composite features
Antoon Visser, Coogee (AU); James Loader, Springfield (AU); Joshua Matos, Cordeaux Heights (AU); Luke Ireland, Denistone (AU); and Karen Kendall, Toongabbie (AU)
Assigned to Aristocrat Technologies, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited, North Ryde (AU)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,591.
Claims priority of application No. 2021903283 (AU), filed on Sep. 27, 2021; application No. 2021903149 (AU), filed on Oct. 1, 2021; and application No. 2022204451 (AU), filed on Jun. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0106453 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. G07F 17/34 (2006.01); G06F 7/58 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3213 (2013.01) [G06F 7/588 (2013.01); G07F 17/3267 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic gaming machine comprising:
a display device;
a random number generator;
a processor; and
a memory that stores:
a set of weighted tables that define trigger probabilities for different feature events in compliance with at least one target return to player (RTP); and
instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to, in response to a feature wheel initiation condition being met:
select, based at least in part on one or more random numbers dynamically generated by the random number generator, one or more scatter symbols to land on one or more spinning reels during a spinning reel event;
select, based at least in part on the one or more scatter symbols, a weighted table from the weighted tables;
select, based at least in part on the weighted table, stopping positions for a plurality of feature wheels associated with the different feature events corresponding to the spinning reels;
control the display device to display spinning of the plurality of feature wheels to land at the stopping positions;
determine a plurality of outcomes that correspond to the stopping positions;
initiate, based at least in part on the outcomes, a composite feature event that concurrently animates, on the display device, special effects characteristic of a plurality of the different feature events.