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<p id="pa01" num="0001">A coin-operated entertainment machine has a main display (12) which presents a card game, such as poker, or a dice game such as Poker Dice. Playing cards (26) are selected from a pack, or faces are selected from dice, and these can be changed on the display (12) using player controls (8). An award is made available if a winning card hand or dice face combination is obtained. Some winning combinations also result in transfer to an entry trail (14, 16). Play can progress from location to location (15) along the trail (14, 16) until a transfer location (17) is reached. Play can then transfer to a feature game which involves progression around a feature game trail (18, 19).<img id="iaf01" file="imgaf001.tif" wi="71" he="123" img-content="drawing" img-format="tif"/></p>
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