Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
Patent
1998-09-02
2000-12-12
O'Neill, Michael
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
463 16, 463 20, 273139, A63F 922, A63F 306
Patent
active
061590983
ABSTRACT:
A bonus game for a gaming machine with two types of awards. The bonus game includes a plurality of selection elements, a number of which are associated with an award of coin(s) or credit(s) and a number of which are associated with an end-bonus penalty. The game is played by selecting a number of the selection elements, one at a time, until encountering a selection element associated with an end-bonus penalty which ends the bonus game. A first award type in the bonus game is a selection-based award in which the player is credited an amount of coin(s) or credit(s) based on the value (or cumulative value) of the selection elements selected in the bonus game. A second award type in the bonus game is a quantity-based award in which the player is credited an amount of coin(s) or credit(s) based on the number of successful trials of the bonus game.
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Grupp William A.
Slomiany Scott
Hotaling John M.
O'Neill Michael
WMS Gaming Inc.
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