LNW Gaming, Inc.

There are provided a gaming machine and method that utilize game-logic circuitry and a presentation assembly configured to present a plurality of symbol-bearing base reels, a base array, and a plurality of persistent elements. The plurality of base reels are spun and stopped to land symbols from the base reels in the base array. In response to the landed symbols including at least one accumulation symbol, an animation of addition of the accumulation symbol to one of the plurality of persistent elements is presented. A random determination whether or not to trigger one or more game features is made. If the determination is to trigger the one or more game features, the one or more game features are implemented via the game-logic circuitry and the presentation assembly, wherein the implementation may be determined by a persistent sliding range associated with at least one of the game features.

Disclosed is a gaming machine including a cabinet with an emotive lighting system coupled to the cabinet and logic circuitry. The emotive lighting system includes a plurality of light transmitting fibers, each end of which is positioned adjacent to a light-emitting device aligned to emit light into its respective fiber end. The light-emitting devices are arranged in an array and the logic circuitry causes each light-emitting device of the array to selectively emit light such that its associated fiber is illuminated. A method of assembling such an emotive lighting system and attaching it to the gaming machine is also disclosed.

There is provided a gaming system, machine, and method that utilize a presentation assembly to present a primary game interface including symbol positions, present a trigger game outcome by populating the symbol positions with randomly-selected symbols, animate a transition to a secondary game interface in response to detecting a trigger event by updating the symbol positions into a set of active positions including any symbol positions occupied by value-bearing symbols and a set of inactive positions, present a secondary game outcome by selectively populating the active positions with award elements, update, in response to a first award element occupying a first active position, award indicia associated with the first active position as a function of an award indicated by the first award element, and present an award sequence in response to an award event for an award based on the award indicia associated with the first active position.

A gaming system comprises a presentation assembly presenting a base set of symbol positions and game-logic circuitry that causes the presentation assembly to present, in response to a feature trigger event, an expanded set of symbol positions including a plurality of additional symbol positions within symbol position subsets, present feature game outcomes, lock, in response to any value-bearing symbols detected within the feature game outcomes, the value-bearing symbols within the expanded set of symbol positions. The game-logic circuitry initiates, in response to detecting a first subset reaching an award threshold of locked value-bearing symbols, an outcome counter, resets, in response to detecting a second subset reaching an award threshold, the outcome counter to a reset value, and causes, in response to the outcome counter reaching a termination value, the presentation assembly to conclude the feature game outcomes and present an award sequence for any awarding subsets.

There are provided a gaming machine and method that utilize game-logic circuitry and a presentation assembly configured to display a plurality of reels, an array, a persistent element, and a wheel. The persistent element is associated with a feature including the wheel. The reels are spun and stopped to land symbols from the reels in the array. In response to the landed symbols including an accumulation symbol, the accumulation symbol is added to the persistent element, and the game-logic circuitry randomly determines whether to award a spin of the wheel. In response to not awarding the spin of the wheel, a prize on the wheel is upgraded. In response to awarding the spin of the wheel, the wheel is spun and stopped to award a prize on the wheel.

A method of operating a gaming machine includes presenting, on a display device, an array of symbols corresponding to symbol-bearing reels and, using game-logic circuitry with a random number generator, spinning and stopping the reels to populate the array. During spinning, a persistent symbol is displayed at a first symbol position in the array and is animated to move to a second symbol position. The animated movement causes the persistent symbol to enter a win zone that is located outside the array or within the array. In response to a trigger event associated with the win zone, the game-logic circuitry animates an increment of a meter using a value associated with the persistent symbol.

Systems and methods are provided for gaming solutions across different gaming channels, different entities, and different environments using blockchain and/or non-fungible token (NFT) components and/or functionality. In an embodiment, a computing system can associate an NFT with a game session executed via a gaming device associated with a gaming environment, where the NFT is configured to allow for recreation of the game session via a local device associated with the gaming environment or a remote device associated with a second environment being different from the gaming environment. In another embodiment, a computing system and/or a gaming device can: perform a blockchain mining process and concurrently execute a game; track one or more game participation metrics corresponding to a player participating in the game and provide the player with a defined percentage of a token based at least in part on the one or more game participation metrics.

A gaming system comprises a gaming machine and game-logic circuitry. The gaming machine includes an electronic display device configured to display an array of symbol positions. The game-logic circuitry is configured to perform the operations of: spinning and stopping symbol-bearing reels to land one or more first value-bearing symbols borne by the reels in the array; animating the array to tag the symbol positions in which the first value-bearing symbols land; again spinning and stopping the symbol-bearing reels to land a second value-bearing symbol borne by the reels in one of the tagged symbol positions; awarding an award based on the value borne by the second value-bearing symbol; and animating the array to untag the one of the tagged symbol positions and any other ones of the tagged symbol positions that are in a cluster with the one of the tagged symbol positions.

There is provided an example gaming system (and method) to perform operations that include presenting a plurality of reels for a base game. While conducting the base game, the plurality of reels bear a plurality value-bearing symbols, each value-bearing symbol being associated with one of a plurality of tiers for a feature game. The operations further include conducting a series of spins of the plurality of reels for the base game to land randomly selected sets of value-bearing symbols. The operations further include animating persistence of at least some of the randomly selected sets of value-bearing symbols in corresponding tiered, revolving persistence elements presented in a persistence area. The operations further include, in response to determining a random trigger of the feature game, using at least some persisted value-bearing symbols from the persistence area to populate one or more portions of a feature-game array.

A gaming system comprising a presentation assembly, one or more player input devices, and game-logic circuitry. The presentation assembly presents a multi-game management interface including presentation elements for participating game slots, active games, and search tools and a multi-game interface for playing games associated with the game slots. The game-logic circuitry collects game data for active games, compares, in response to player selection of a first search tool, the collected game data to predefined search criteria of the first search tool. The presentation assembly updates the presentation elements of the active games to be organized based on the comparison, visually links the presentation element of a first participating game slot with the presentation element of a first game in response to player input adding the first game, and unlinks, in response to player input removing the first game, the presentation elements of the first game and the first game slot.