Abstract: Gaming devices and methods of operating gaming devices are provided. In an embodiment, a single activation of a gaming device can cause a series of outcomes including a symbol cascading effect upon the occurrence of sequential triggering events. In an embodiment, the triggering event occurs when a predetermined combination of symbols is generated and displayed in associated symbol positions, and a designated symbol is generated and displayed in at least one symbol position. If the triggering event occurs, the outcome can include fixing or locking the designated symbol in the symbol position and replacing each of the symbols in the combination of symbols with a generated symbol. Awards are provided for each winning combination, and an incremented modifier is applied to the awards for the occurrence of at least one triggering event. The likelihood that the triggering event will occur increases with each designated symbol fixed in a symbol position.

Abstract: A gaming device include a game having a plurality of selection groups and a final jackpot award. The game provides the player with a number of picks with which the player uses to attempt to pick selections in the groups. The number of picks in one preferred embodiment is not enough to allow the player to pick once from every group. The game requires that one advance symbol must yield another advance symbol for the player to reach a jackpot award. That is, the player has to pick an advance symbol from a first group that yields automatically an advance symbol from a second group. The player then advances through the second group without consuming a second pick to a third group or to the jackpot award.

Abstract: A gaming device with a selection game that enables a player to pick one of a plurality of selections. An award, terminator or modifier associated with the picked selection is revealed to the player. If the picked selection is associated with a terminator, the selection game ends. If the picked selection is associated with an award or value, the revealed award or value is modified by each activated modifier to form at least one modified award. The modified award is then provided to the player. If the picked selection is associated with a modifier, then the revealed modifier is activated. Once activated, the modifier will modify each of the awards that are subsequently revealed during the selection game. Moreover, once a modifier is activated, the gaming device retroactively applies the activated modifier to each of the previously revealed awards or values.