GAMING MACHINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYING FEATURE GAME Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC G07F17/32 A63F13/00 

FIELD: electronics.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to means of processing data during games on gaming machines. Gaming machine and system comprise a housing having a user interface, display means, preferably a lower display and an upper display, and a controller preferably mounted in housing and in communication with display means. Controller enables standard game play mode until occurrence of a predetermined event, such as appearance of preferably three scatter symbols. Upon occurrence of predetermined event, controller enables feature game play mode, where display means presents a plurality of feature game symbols, and a symbol selection pointer, and optionally presents a landscape including at least some of feature game symbols. At least one of feature game symbols is a switchable symbol having a first state and a second state, and at least one is a switching symbol that changes state of switchable symbol. Controller causes symbol selection pointer to randomly select one of feature game symbols. There are two ways to change state of switchable symbol. Selecting switchable symbol changes its state. Selecting switching symbol causes switchable symbol to also change its state.

EFFECT: technical result is providing flexible control of state of gaming machine depending on obtained data.

13 cl, 12 dwg