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Granted Patent B2
US 11,769,377 · App. 17/368,354 · Granted Sep 26, 2023

Gaming system and method providing wild extra spot indicator feature

Inventors: Bradford Brown (Sparks, NV); Daniel Helzer (Reno, NV)
Assignee: IGT
G07F17/329G07F17/3211G07F17/3267
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Patent No.
US 11,769,377
App. No.
17/368,354
Granted
Sep 26, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Gaming systems and methods that, upon an occurrence of a designated triggering event, associated with a keno game, provide wild ball feature for one or more keno cards of the keno game.

Claims (28)

1. A method comprising:

displaying, via a display device, a plurality of keno cards each comprising a plurality of spots,

displaying, via the display device, for each of the plurality of keno cards, an indication of a plurality of player spots selected from the plurality of spots of that keno card,

displaying, via the display device, a plurality of drawn spot indicators that each indicate one of the spots on each of the keno cards,

displaying, via the display device, a triggering event occurring in association with the plurality of keno cards,

displaying, via the display device, an extra spot indicator on one of the plurality of spots of the plurality of keno cards, and

displaying, via the display device, a sequential occurrence of a plurality of activator events,

sequentially displaying, via the display device, a movement of the extra spot indicator to an extra spot of one of the plurality of the keno cards, and

displaying, via the display device, for each keno card, an indication of a quantity of the player spots of that keno card that match any of the drawn spot indicators and an indication of any extra spots on that keno card that are indicated by the extra spot indicator regardless of whether any of those extra spots are player spots.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the extra spot indicator is associated with a predetermined quantity of extra spots.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising displaying, via the display device, a numerical quantity of extra spots before displaying, via the display device, the extra spot indicator sequentially moving to the plurality of extra spots of the plurality of the keno cards.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the extra spot indicator is a ball and further comprising, displaying, via the display device, the triggering event occurring in association with the plurality of keno cards, and displaying, via the display device, the ball sequentially moving to the plurality of extra spots on the plurality of the keno cards based on movements of a displayed activator.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, responsive to a physical item being received via a payment acceptor, establishing a credit balance based on a monetary value associated with the received physical item, and responsive to a cashout input being received, initiating of any payout associated with the credit balance.

6. A method comprising:

causing a display, via a display device, of a plurality of keno cards each comprising a plurality of spots,

causing a display, via the display device, for each of the plurality of keno cards, an indication of player spots selected from the plurality of spots of that keno card,

causing a display, via the display device, of a plurality of drawn spot indicators selected by a processor and that each indicate one of the spots on each of the keno cards,

causing a display, via the display device, of a triggering event occurring in association with the plurality of keno cards,

causing a display, via the display device, of an extra spot indicator indicating one extra spot of one of the keno cards,

causing a display, via the display device, of an activator event occurring,

causing, a display, via the display device, of a movement of the extra spot indicator to an extra spot of one of the plurality of keno cards, and

causing a display, via the display device, for each keno card, an indication of a quantity of the player spots of that keno card that match any of the drawn spot indicators and an indication of any extra spots on that keno card that are indicated by the extra spot indicator regardless of whether any of those extra spots are player spots.

7. The method of claim 6 , which comprises, responsive to the triggering event occurring in association with the plurality of keno cards, causing a display, via the display device, of the extra spot indicator moving to a plurality of extra spots of each of the keno cards.

8. The method of claim 6 , which comprises, causing a display, via the display device, of the triggering event occurring in association with the plurality of keno cards, and an indication of extra spots to move to on the keno cards.

9. The method of claim 6 , which includes causing a display, via the display device, of the extra spot indicator to move to a same one of the extra spots of each of the keno cards.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the extra spot indicator is a ball and which comprises, causing a display, via the display device, of the triggering event occurring in association with the plurality of keno cards, and causing a display, via the display device, of the ball sequentially moving to the extra spots on the plurality of the keno cards.

11. The method of claim 6 , wherein the extra spot indicator is associated with a predetermined quantity of extra.

12. The method of claim 6 , wherein the display device comprises part of a mobile device configured to communicate with the processor via a wireless network.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jul 3, 2025
From: IGT
To: DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 071817/0394 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 6, 2021
From: BROWN, BRADFORD; HELZER, DANIEL
To: IGT
Reel/Frame 056765/0121 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16555054 · Aug 29, 2019
Related Publication 20210335088A1 · Oct 28, 2021