Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gaming method and apparatus using cluster based awards
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Application No.: US14869660Application Date: 2015-09-29
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Publication No.: US10964173B2Publication Date: 2021-03-30
- Inventor: Ryan Paul Hawkins , Yanis Tsombanidis , Stephanie Johns , Robert Honeycutt
- Applicant: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
- Applicant Address: AU North Ryde
- Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
- Current Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
- Current Assignee Address: AU North Ryde
- Agency: McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
- Priority: AU2014903909 20140929
- Main IPC: G07F17/34
- IPC: G07F17/34 ; G07F17/32

Abstract:
The present invention relates to gaming machines, systems and methods of gaming. There are a number of different ways available for determining an award by current gaming machines and systems. In this embodiment, a game controller is arranged to determine an award depending on the number of columns spanned by a cluster of symbols and the number of symbol positions in the cluster.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160093153A1 Method of Gaming, a Gaming System and a Game Controller Public/Granted day:2016-03-31
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