Abstract: A feature game presented on a gaming machine after a base game includes symbols having corresponding values which may be incremented based at least in part on a random determination during an instance of the feature game. Such symbols and their associated values may persist through one or more subsequent instances of the feature game. In some embodiments values of individual symbols may be incremented multiple times.

Abstract: A graphical user interface for providing skill-based tests that require players of a game of chance to engage in one or more deliberate actions in order to collect an award provided in response to an outcome in a game of chance.

Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a processor configured to control a display device to display a first matrix of symbol positions, and to evaluate a plurality of symbols displayed in the first matrix to determine whether to award a plurality of free games. If free games are awarded, the processor may control the display device to display a plurality of volatility options, each of which may be associated with one or more additional matrices of symbol positions. In addition, the processor may receive a player selection of one volatility option of the plurality of volatility options, and to control the display device to display the one or more additional matrices of symbol positions associated with the player selected volatility option.

Abstract: A gaming system including a display having a plurality of reels. A controller controls the display to animate a zone that occupies a subset of the reels, and selects symbols for the zone and the rest of the reels from a first set of symbols including zone symbols, and a second set of symbols both zone symbols and gem symbols, respectively. The first and second symbol sets associated with the reels are shuffled from a current instance to a subsequent instance for a balanced symbol selection. For the current instance, assigned values of zone symbols selected for the zone are collected, but only the assigned values of the gem symbols selected for outside the zone are collected. The zone is expanded for the subsequent instance when enough gem symbols selected for outside the zone are collected.

Abstract: A technique for pre-truncating potential game outcomes includes simulating a plurality of game outcomes for an electronic game, and determining whether each of the plurality of game outcomes satisfies an inclusion criterion. Game outcomes that fail to satisfy the inclusion criterion are excluded to obtain a subset of the plurality of game outcomes. The technique also includes generating a weighted table comprising the subset of the plurality of game outcomes to satisfy a weighting criterion. The electronic game utilizes the weighted table for selecting one or more of the subset of the plurality of game outcomes during a game session. Game outcomes include wins, nudge-based potential wins, and losses.

Abstract: An electronic gaming system is described. The electronic gaming system includes a server computing device configured to receive an input from a first user computing device including a request to initiate an electronic game and assign a plurality of user devices to the electronic game. The server is further configured to identify a second player account as an initial play player account, wherein the initial play player account is designated to initiate a first play of the electronic game. The server is further configured to transmit content to a second user computing device that causes a gameplay user interface at the second user computing device to include a first display area including video images from a video stream from the second user computing device and a second display area including video images received by the server from a video stream received from the first user computing device.

Abstract: An electronic gaming system including processor in communication with a memory with instructions stored thereon is described. The instructions cause the processor to cause display of an electronic game including a plurality of reels, a plurality of persistent win positions, and a timer, and cause the timer to incrementally transition between a first time and a second time. As spins of the plurality of reels occur, the instructions also cause the processor to identify any trigger symbols, for game outcomes that include at least one trigger symbol, cause a respective output amount associated with a respective at least one trigger symbol to be displayed, for game outcomes that do not include at least one trigger symbol, cause the plurality of persistent win positions to be cleared, and when a predetermined number of positions of the plurality of persistent win positions include output amounts, cause the output amounts to be awarded.

Abstract: Multi-player games in which players cooperate and/or compete with one another over the course of several rounds of the game are disclosed. A controller may synchronize gaming devices used by the players during the multi-player games. The controller may send sync commands to the gaming devices. In response to the sync commands, the gaming devices may start a sync timer which defines a window in which certain guarded operations may be accepted by the gaming devices. The controller may send periodic sync update commands to the gaming devices which cause the gaming devices to update their respect sync timers to a time remaining of a master sync timer or window maintained by the controller. The controller may ensure that play of the multi-player game proceeds in a relatively lock-step manner across the gaming devices.

Abstract: A gaming system includes a processor configured to cause display of a game outcome in a primary display area of at least one display, cause display of a metamorphic indicator in a secondary display area of the at least one display, and cause display of a plurality of sub-metamorphic indicators in visual association with the metamorphic indicator. The visual association links the plurality of sub-metamorphic indicators with the metamorphic indicator. Each sub-metamorphic indicator of the plurality of sub-metamorphic indicators has a reduced size relative to the metamorphic indicator, and identifies a respective feature enhancement awardable in response to a metamorphic trigger symbol occurring in the game outcome. In response to the metamorphic trigger symbol occurring in the game outcome, the processor determines whether to award a feature enhancement associated with at least one of the plurality of sub-metamorphic indicators.

Abstract: A system for electronic gaming is provided. The system is configured to: (1) generate a first random outcome for a first reel of an electronic game, the random outcome including a single-triggering symbol associated with a first metamorphic feature, (2) generate a second random outcome for a second reel of the electronic game, the second random outcome including a multi-triggering symbol, the multi-triggering symbol associated with the first metamorphic feature and at least one other metamorphic feature, each of the metamorphic features associated with a visual change in the electronic game indicating the metamorphic feature is active, (3) for each of the metamorphic features associated with the multi-triggering symbol, determine whether to activate the metamorphic feature based on a respective RNG outcome, and (4) for the first metamorphic feature associated with the single-triggering symbol, determine whether to activate the first metamorphic feature based on a respective RNG outcome.

Abstract: A system for electronic gaming is provided. The system may be configured to (1) select, based on a first RNG call, one of a first group of reel sets or a second group of reel sets, the second group of reel sets including more single-triggering symbols than the first group of reel sets, (2) select, based on a second RNG call, whether to upgrade the at least one of the single-triggering symbols to a multi-triggering symbol, (3) generate a game outcome including a plurality of symbols based on the selected group of reel sets, (4) control a display device to display the generated game outcome, (5) if the multi-triggering symbol is displayed in the game outcome, activate each metamorphic feature of a plurality of metamorphic features, and (6) for each activated metamorphic feature, control the display device to display a visual outcome associated with the activated metamorphic feature.

Abstract: An electronic gaming system is described. The electronic gaming system includes a server computing device configured to receive an input from a first user computing device including a request to initiate an electronic game and assign a plurality of user devices to the electronic game. The server is further configured to identify a second player account as an initial play player account, wherein the initial play player account is designated to initiate a first play of the electronic game. The server is further configured to transmit content to a second user computing device that causes a gameplay user interface at the second user computing device to include a first display area including video images from a video stream from the second user computing device and a second display area including video images received by the server from a video stream received from the first user computing device.

Abstract: Multi-player games in which players cooperate and/or compete with one another over the course of several rounds of the game are disclosed. A controller may synchronize gaming devices used by the players during the multi-player games. The controller may send sync commands to the gaming devices. In response to the sync commands, the gaming devices may start a sync timer which defines a window in which certain guarded operations may be accepted by the gaming devices. The controller may send periodic sync update commands to the gaming devices which cause the gaming devices to update their respect sync timers to a time remaining of a master sync timer or window maintained by the controller. The controller may ensure that play of the multi-player game proceeds in a relatively lock-step manner across the gaming devices.