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GAMING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRESSIVELY DECREMENTING FEATURE UNLOCK REQUIREMENTS
20230008548 · 2023-01-12 ·

The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for progressively decrementing unlock requirements for a game feature of a base game based on wagers made on the game. The game feature corresponds to in-game opportunities such as incorporating special symbols and multipliers or to other games, jackpots, or progressives that increase the chances of winning for a player using the game feature. As wagers, for example, into a wager pool the amount required to unlock the game feature is progressively reduced, or decremented over time. The amount is decremented by some proportion of the wagers made in the wager pool. As the wagers increase, the amount required to unlock the game feature decreases until the game feature is unlocked.

Gaming system and method for automatically transferring funds to a mobile device
11551522 · 2023-01-10 · ·

The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for facilitating an automatic transfer of funds to and from an electronic gaming machine via a mobile device.

Gaming machine and method with persistence feature

A gaming machine includes an electronic display device configured to display an array of symbol positions and registers. The registers are associated with respective subsets of one or more of the symbol positions of the array. Game-logic circuitry directs the display device to animate a plurality of spins of symbol-bearing reels wherein, in each spin, the reels are spun and stopped to land symbols in the array. The plurality of symbols include value-bearing symbols, redemption symbols, and reset symbols. For each landed value-bearing symbol, the symbol value is added to the applicable register. In response to accumulating a predetermined number of the redemption symbols in a subset, the value in that subset's register is awarded. In response to the reset symbol landing in a subset, the value in that subset's register is reset.

Scratch-Off Ticket
20230042542 · 2023-02-09 ·

The method of playing a scratch-off gaming ticket. Each ticket consists of scratching and revealing license plate numbers. License plate numbers revealed will be used to match the license plate numbers in the play area, which will determine the prize shown in the prize legend.

SYSTEM, METHOD, AND GAMING MACHINE FOR DYNAMICALLY INCREASING NUMBER OF PAYLINES OF REEL-BASED WAGERING GAMES
20230037984 · 2023-02-09 ·

A system, method, and gaming machine dynamically increases a number of paylines in a reel-based wagering game is provided. The system, method, and gaming machine provides a gaming device having a game display configured to display at least a portion of game reels of the reel-based wagering game, a controller programed to display, on the game display, a plurality of game reels and a multiplier reel, wherein the controller dynamically increases the number of paylines per stop on the game reels on a given spin of the game reels by the multiplier reel.

SPORTING EVENT WAGERING FOR PROGRESSIVE AWARDS
20230044780 · 2023-02-09 ·

A system which scales the probability of winning a progressive award to the odds associated with a winning sporting event wager placed.

SECONDARY MARKET AWARD PREDICTIONS
20230037607 · 2023-02-09 ·

Systems and methods that offer a secondary market award based on one or more predictions made in association with a primary market award.

Casino floor service management system and method

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a casino floor service management system and method that integrates with a casino management system of a casino and leverages the knowledge and experience of casino floor service management system users, such as technicians, floor attendants, and hostesses, to efficiently resolve service floor events in a timely manner. Generally, the casino floor service management system of the present disclosure is configured to: (1) receive notifications from the casino management system when floor events occur, (2) automatically distinguish between service floor events and non-service floor events, (3) automatically generate work items representing the service floor events and aggregate the work items into a dynamically-updated backlog, and (4) enable casino floor service management system users to interface with the casino floor service management system to personally choose which particular work items from the backlog the casino floor service management system users will resolve.

Fraud detection system in a casino
11594101 · 2023-02-28 · ·

A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.

Gaming machine and method with prize chance configurable symbol

A gaming machine initiates a feature game in response to a base game outcome comprising a predetermined number of a configurable symbol. For an initial round of a quantity of rounds for the feature game, the gaming machine retains each of the configurable symbol from the base game outcome at a corresponding feature game display position of a feature game outcome. For each feature game display position not displaying the configurable symbol, the gaming machine determines whether to display the configurable symbol with an assigned prize indicia at the respective feature game display position. After the quantity of rounds, the gaming machine awards a prize chance for a specific prize in response to a prize indicia for the specific prize being assigned to the feature game outcome. The gaming machine further awards the specific prize in response to randomly determining that the prize chance was successful.