(19)
(11) EP 1 724 735 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
02.05.2007 Bulletin 2007/18

(43) Date of publication A2:
22.11.2006 Bulletin 2006/47

(21) Application number: 06252558.9

(22) Date of filing: 16.05.2006
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
G07F 17/34(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA HR MK YU

(30) Priority: 18.05.2005 GB 0510124

(71) Applicant: IGT-UK Limited
Lancashire OL7 0QQ (GB)

(72) Inventors:
  • Gerrard, Peter
    Manchester M25 1PE (GB)
  • Goodale, Andy
    Cheshire, SK7 1PW (GB)
  • Mountney, Rick
    Cheshire, WA 16 7PY (GB)
  • McGovern, Kevin
    Northampton, NN5 4AH (GB)
  • Evans, Mike
    Crewe CW4 8JB (GB)

(74) Representative: Wilson Gunn 
5th Floor Blackfriars House The Parsonage
Manchester M3 2JA
Manchester M3 2JA (GB)

   


(54) Entertainment machines


(57) A player-operable entertainment machine has a multi-section (13-17) main display device, such as side-by-side actual or simulated symbol-bearing rotatable reels, which displays selected main symbols (13a, b, c - 17a, b, c). For each section (13-17) there is a respective supplementary display zone (18-22) at which a combination of supplementary symbols is displayed. An award value is determined by these combinations. Each combination may comprise five face-up playing cards which are derived from special face-down card symbols (13d-17d) on the main display device (12), and the combinations are assessed as poker hands.







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