Gaming apparatus and systems with a bonus scheme triggered by a threshold featured event

摘要

An embodiment of the present invention provides a bonus scheme associated with a gaming process that is a feature event. With reference to the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 3, a gaming process is conducted at Steps S3 to S5, the outcome of which determines a gaming process win value. At Step S7 the gaming process win value is compared to a threshold value and, if the gaming process win value is less than, or equal to the threshold value, a bonus prize is awarded to the player at Step S9.

主权项

1. Gaming apparatus for awarding a bonus prize to a player, the apparatus including:
a component for defining a threshold value; a component for receiving at least one of a coin, token, game credit and bank note to start a gaming process; a component for conducting the gaming process so as to determine a cumulative win value for the gaming process, wherein the gaming process is a feature event, or part thereof, which is triggerable through play of a main game and which and wherein the gaming process includes an awarding of at least two feature games; and a component for comparing the cumulative win value to the threshold value and, if the cumulative win value is less than or equal to the threshold value, awarding the bonus prize to the player and wherein a value of the bonus prize is determined based, at least in part, on the cumulative win value and a value of a wager placed on the main game which triggered the feature event.