Electronic game for computer or slot machine

Abstract

An electronic game for interactive play on a screen of a slot machine, gaming machine, or computer. The game comprises a display having a plurality of indicia, displayed in a plurality of rows and columns initially in two dimensions. The rows and columns combine to form a predetermined two dimensional shaped display so each of the rows include one or more of the indicia. When one or more of the columns spin in a generally vertical plane responsive to a spin command and at the completion of the spinning in the vertical plane and contingent upon a required result, at least one of the rows are capable of spinning in a generally horizontal plane. At the conclusion of the spinning of the rows a player obtains a random indicia or combination of the indicia, the combination being compared to a predetermined pay or win table or data base to determine the outcome of said game.

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       15 . An interactive internet game for playing on an electronic device such as a computer: the game comprising indicia, disposed in a plurality of parallel and/or intersecting rows and columns; wherein each indicia or row of indicia is capable during the course of playing the game of undergoing a temporary transformation from a two dimensional display when a spin is commenced, to a three dimensional operating display during the spin; whereupon said display returns to a two dimensional array of random indicia; the outcome of the game determined by a comparison of said random indicia display with a win table; wherein a participant may make a wager on the random outcome.  
   
   
       16 . An internet game according to  claim 15  wherein a player attempts to achieve on a second and any subsequent screen displays like indicia or numbers in any row or column or in predetermined positions in said rows or columns.  
   
   
       17 . An internet game according to  claim 16  wherein a participant may nominate a row or rows to spin in a horizontal plane in order to match symbols indicia presented by rotation of said columns in the vertical plane.  
   
   
       18 . An internet game according to  claim 17  wherein in full spin mode each row which may spin individually, will present an appearance while spinning as if the indicia have left the plane of the initial two dimensional display.  
   
   
       19 . An internet game according to  claim 18  wherein a player may elect to retain a column bearing the result of a vertical spin of columns or a row bearing the result of a horizontal spin of rows and spin the remaining respective columns or rows.  
   
   
       20 . An internet game according to  claim 19  wherein a game includes an additional feature whereby a predetermined event during an initial play will trigger a second game state and a number of subsequent game states wherein a shape bearing one or more of the indicia move individually from a two dimensional display to an outstanding three dimensional display then to a two dimensional display.  
   
   
       21 . An internet game according to  claim 20  wherein, a screen displays at least one single indicia of a row or column presenting the indicia outstanding from the two dimensional plane when a column or row executes responds to a spin command.  
   
   
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       33 . An electronic game for interactive play comprising: 
 a display screen which displays a plurality of indicia in a plurality of rows and columns, said rows and columns each forming a line comprising a plurality of indicia;    means for providing player input;    means for causing at least one of said lines to appear to rotate about a first axis and then stop to provide a first display of a plurality of indicia;    wherein said indicia are initially displayed as two-dimensional indicia in rows and columns and wherein at least some of said lines of indicia transform from two-dimensional images to three-dimensional images during rotation.