Systems, methods, and devices for playing wagering games with symbol-driven expected value enhancements and eliminations

• Main Authors: DIXON, PATRICK M, HORNIK, JEREMY M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.04.2013
• Subjects: AMUSEMENTS; CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; CHECKING-DEVICES; COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS; GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; PHYSICS; SPORTS; VIDEO GAMES

Gaming devices, gaming systems, methods of conducting wagering games, and computer programs for executing wagering games are disclosed. A gaming system for conducting a wagering game includes an input device, a display device, a processor, and a memory device. The memory device stores instructions which cause the processor to operate with the display device to: randomly determine an outcome of the wagering game; display symbols indicative of the wagering-game outcome; determine if the displayed symbols include to an expected-value (EV) enhancement symbol combination or an EV-elimination symbol combination, the EV-enhancement and EV-elimination symbol combinations both including a common symbol arranged in a common manner; activate, responsive to the displayed symbols including the EV-enhancement symbol combination, an EV-increasing opportunity that modifies a wagering-game parameter thereby increasing the EV of the wagering game; and deactivate, responsive to the displayed symbol-combination corresponding to the EV-elimination symbol combination, one or more EV-increasing opportunities. C') IC) LO (0 N c 10~ P, w 0 LuO -0 U ') (10 (0 LO U-) L 0 U-N)~