Igt patents

Game ticket sets and system and method for producing same

A printed game card, sheet or ticket set can incorporate multiple individual tickets separated by perforation, scoring or folds, for example. In various embodiments, the game card or sheet is printed with at least one playable game on each individual ticket, wherein the games can be instant win games with game indicia and one or more layers of varnish or rubber-based material that is removable to reveal the indicia. ... Igt

Gaming system and method for providing a persistent game

A gaming system including a multiple player persistent game, such as an ongoing community game. This ongoing community game includes a community game matrix which is continuously displayed to at least each of the players. ... Igt

Gaming system and method for providing a cascading symbol game with shifting symbols between multiple symbol display position matrices

A gaming system including a cascading symbol or tumbling reel game which utilizes a plurality of symbol display position matrices or grids. Each symbol display position matrix includes a plurality of symbol display positions, wherein at least one of the symbol display position matrices includes one or more symbol display positions associated with a plurality of different symbol display positions of a plurality of the symbol display position matrices.. ... Igt

Lottery game system, product and method with encrypted planar displays

A lottery system, ticket product and method incorporate a lottery ticket product having encrypted planar displays, wherein results are revealed through malforming the ticket, such as by manipulating the ticket to decrypt information contained on the ticket.. . ... Igt

Lottery game system, product and method

A lottery game system, product and method employs multiple connected crossword grids, where players can employ a set of player letters to form words within the crossword grids. In various embodiments of the present invention, a total number of potentially winnable prizes is provided, with a first subset of the potentially winnable prizes associated with the first crossword grid, a second subset of the potentially winnable prizes associated with the second crossword grid, and a third subset of the potentially winnable prizes associated with the first and second crossword grids together. ... Igt

Gaming system, gaming device and method for displaying multiple concurrent games using dynamic focal points

The gaming system disclosed herein changes the focal point of a display device at different points in time to assist the player in focusing on different simultaneously or concurrently played games at different points in time. Specifically, the gaming system displays a plurality of simultaneously or concurrently played games on a display device. ... Igt

Multi-grid encoded lottery ticket and system

A multi-grid encoded ticket and system of instant win tickets provides tickets with multiple grids, where each grid represents an independent game, where game play indicia on a first play area is associated with a grid on a second play area and game play indicia on a second play area is associated with a grid on a first play area, and where each ticket can be used individually or by two players interactively, with prizes awarded independently for each game on the ticket.. . ... Igt

Gaming system and method providing a bonus opportunity when a designated relationship exists between a plurality of randomly determined elements

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a bonus opportunity when a designated relationship exists between a plurality of randomly determined elements. The gaming system randomly generates a plurality of elements in association with a play of a secondary game. ... Igt

Flexible determination of progressive awards

The present invention provides novel method and devices for implementing progressive systems on networked gaming machines and associated network devices. Some preferred implementations of the invention allow a target progressive pool size to be selected and apply payouts such that the actual progressive pool size is not likely to exceed greatly the target progressive pool size. ... Igt

Gaming system, gaming device, and method providing one or more alternative wager propositions if a credit balance is less than a designated wager amount

Various embodiments of gaming systems, gaming devices, and methods of the present disclosure provide one or more alternative wagering propositions to a player when the player's credit balance is less than (or, in certain embodiments, less than or equal to) a designated wager amount. If the player accepts one of the alternative wager propositions, the player risks an amount of the player's remaining credit balance for a chance to win an alternative award. ... Igt

Method and apparatus for offering a mobile device version of an electronic gaming machine game at the electronic gaming machine

A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. When a player surpasses predetermined game play parameters on a game of an egm, a bonus game or related game material may be “unlocked” and offered to the player for download onto the player's portable electronic device (ped). ... Igt

Gaming system and method providing adjustable odds for triggering a group bonus event

The gaming system and method disclosed herein provides that the probability that a group bonus event will be triggered for a plurality of gaming devices in the gaming system is independent of the number of players that are currently playing such gaming devices. The gaming system and method disclosed herein further provides that different players that are wagering different amounts at different rates are provided different quantities of evaluation points such that if a group bonus event is triggered, different players are provided different group bonus event awards proportional to each individual player's wagering activity.. ... Igt

Enhanced electronic gaming machine with dynamic gaze display

A method of operating an electronic gaming machine includes generating an interactive game environment in accordance with game data, the interactive game environment having a viewing area may include a plurality of visible game components as a subset of the interactive game environment, displaying the viewing area with the plurality of visible game components, monitoring eye gaze of a player to collect player eye gaze data, determining a location of the eye gaze of the player relative to the viewing area using the player eye gaze data, and in response to the location of the eye gaze of the player relative to the viewing area, changing a resolution of a portion of the viewing area other than a portion of the viewing area corresponding to location of the eye gaze of the player on the viewing area. Related electronic gaming machines are also disclosed.. ... Igt

Continuous gesture recognition for gaming systems

A method for controlling a wagering gaming apparatus includes displaying a game on a display screen, receiving, from a sensor device, a plurality of location data points corresponding to a plurality of locations of an anatomical feature of the player in three-dimensional space as the anatomical feature of the player moves in the three-dimensional space, analyzing a first group of the location data points to identify a first input command, the first group of location data points comprising sequential location data points, causing a first action to be taken in the game, the first action being determined based on the first input command, and analyzing a second group of the location data points to identify a second input command, the second group of location data points comprising sequential location data points. The first group of location data points and the second group of location data points at least partially overlap.. ... Igt