Gaming machine with moving symbols on symbol array.

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EP 1 150 261 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	01.06.2005 Bulletin 2005/22

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	31.10.2001 Bulletin 2001/44

(21)	Application number: 01400727.2

(22)	Date of filing: 21.03.2001

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: G07F 17/32

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

21.03.2000 US 531712
04.10.2000 US 679207

(71)	Applicant: WMS GAMING, INC.
	Chicago, Illinois 60618 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	Jaffe, Joel R Evanston, IL 60203 (US)

(74)	Representative: Loisel, Bertrand
	Cabinet Plasseraud 65/67 rue de la Victoire 75440 Paris Cedex 09 75440 Paris Cedex 09 (FR)

(54)	Gaming machine with moving symbols on symbol array.

(57) A gaming machine is controlled by a processor in response to a wager and comprises a basic game and a bonus game. The basic game includes a plurality of symbols randomly placed in a viewable display area relative to at least one pay line. The basic game awards a basic game payout for any winning symbol combinations along the pay line, and includes a start-bonus outcome for triggering the bonus game. The bonus game includes a special indicator progressively moved to and stopped at one or more symbols in the viewable display area. For each symbol where the special indicator stops, the bonus game awards a bonus game payout for a winning scatter combination formed with that symbol regardless of whether the winning scatter combination is along the pay line. Thus, the symbol where the indicator stops pays as a scatter.

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