GAMING DEVICE HAVING A METHOD FOR RANDOMLY GENERATING A BONUS ROUND OUTCOME

The method of the gaming device of the present invention contains a plurality of awards each having a value, a plurality of activators, a plurality of deactivators, and a set of indicators from which the activators and deactivators are chosen. The activators, deactivators and indicators are numbers. The controller of the gaming device randomly selects one of the indicators. If the plurality of activators includes the selected indicator, the player receives the value of an award. Conversely, if the plurality of deactivators includes the selected indicator, the player does not receive the value of an award. If the plurality of activators or deactivators is sequential, e.g. 1 through 5, the activator set or deactivator set can include a selected integer, for example 3, or a non-integer, for example 3.5. The implementor of the gaming device may predetermine the activators and deactivators or may add another layer of random generation, whereby the gaming device randomly selects the activators and deactivators from the set of indicators. In either case, the implementor can set the probability of success for each award to be any probability, 0 through 100%.