US 12,444,270 B2
Gaming machine and method with multiplier effects
Cydny Bloem Audia, Chicago, IL (US); Scott Donald Slomiany, Rolling Meadows, IL (US); and Juan Carlos Mariscal, Lincolnwood, IL (US)
Assigned to Everi Games, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by Everi Games Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/952,449.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/250,879, filed on Sep. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0099020 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01); G07F 17/34 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3267 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3213 (2013.01); G07F 17/34 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling operation of a gaming machine, the method including:
(a) in response to a play input entered through a player input device of the gaming machine and under control of a processing system of the gaming machine, causing a display system of the gaming machine to display a base result representation in a first area of the display system comprising a matrix of symbol locations including a first line of symbols randomly selected from among multiplier symbols and non-operative symbols, a second line of symbols randomly selected from among multiplier symbols and non-operative symbols, and a third line of symbols randomly selected from among prize symbols and non-operative symbols, the prize symbols comprising multiple-location symbols spanning multiple adjacent symbol locations and single location symbols;
(b) in response to an alignment of a prize symbol with a first plurality of multiplier symbols along a single alignment path defined through the matrix, awarding a prize amount of a prize associated with the prize symbol times a combined multiplier value indicated by the multiplier symbols;
(c) in response to an alignment of a multiple-location prize symbol along multiple alignment paths defined through the matrix, each alignment path including a plurality of multiplier symbols, awarding a prize amount of a prize associated with the multiple-location prize symbol times a combined multiplier value calculated as a product of all the multiplier symbols aligned across the multiple alignment paths; and
(d) causing the display system to display a graphic sequence visually combining the plurality of multiplier symbols from the multiple alignment paths into a single larger multiplier symbol representing the combined multiplier value, thereby providing visual feedback to a player of the combined multiplier effect.