Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090247263 | GAMING MACHINE WITH PROGRESSIVE FEATURE FOR PAYLINES AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A slot machine executes a slot game by rearranging symbols that are arranged in multiple partitioned regions in a matrix including first to fifth columns and first to third rows. There are multiple paylines in these partitioned regions in the matrix. A player selects and specifies some of these paylines to be bet with game media. By betting the game media on each of the specified paylines, those paylines are activated in the slot game. When the rearranged symbols form a winning combination on any of the activated paylines, the player receives an award. Moreover, the slot machine performs a process to decide an award content for a progressive bonus along execution of the slot game in which the player bets the game media on all the paylines or a predetermined number or more of the paylines. The process to decide the award content for the progressive bonus may also be performed when the slot games in which the player bets the game media on all the paylines or the predetermined number or more of the paylines are executed continuously a predetermined number of times. | 10-01-2009 |
20090247264 | GAMING MACHINE AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A gaming machine executes a slot game using all of a plurality of kinds of planet symbols and card symbols as scatter symbols, and displays rearranged symbols in partitioned regions on a display. When the rearranged symbols include a predetermined number or more of the planet symbols of the same kind, a payout is generated in the slot game. Moreover, when the rearranged symbols form a special combination in which the planet symbols of different kinds from each other are arranged in a cross or linear pattern, a jackpot bonus payout is generated. | 10-01-2009 |
20090247286 | GAMING MACHINE SHARING SOURCE OF DIVIDEND FOR SPECIAL GAME WITH OTHER GAMING MACHINES AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A slot machine is configured to accumulate a portion of credits, which are bet on a unit game for rearranging arranged symbols, in an internal counter for counting resources for a progressive bonus. When the counted value of this counter reaches a predetermined value or more, the slot machine notifies a payout controller of the fact. When the payout controller receiving the notification judges that a progressive bonus payout condition is satisfied, the payout controller notifies the slot machine of the judgment result. Upon receipt of the notification, the slot machine provides a player with a payout for the progressive bonus accumulated in the internal counter. | 10-01-2009 |
20090247290 | GAMING MACHINE WITH PROGRESSIVE FEATURE FOR PREDETERMINED BET AMOUNT AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A slot machine executes a slot game by rearranging symbols arranged in multiple partitioned regions in a matrix including first to fifth columns and first to third rows. When the rearranged symbols form a winning combination on a payline, a player receives an award. Moreover, the slot machine performs a process to decide an award content for a progressive bonus when either a slot game with a minimum bet amount or a slot game having a predetermined bet amount or less that is less than a maximum bet amount is executed. Instead, the process to decide the award content for the progressive bonus may be performed when the slot games with a minimum bet amount or the slot games having a predetermined bet amount or less that is less than a maximum bet amount are executed continuously a predetermined number of times. | 10-01-2009 |
20090253489 | SLOT MACHINE HAVING FEATURE IN WHICH SEQUENCE OF REARRANGING SYMBOLS ON RESPECTIVE DEFINED AREAS BECOMES RANDOM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SLOT MACHINE - A slot machine scrolls symbols on a plurality of defined areas provided on a display at a time of executing a slot game, and thereafter stops the symbols on the respective defined areas. A lottery of the symbols is performed not for each of the respective defined areas but for each of the defined areas divided into a plurality of groups. Moreover, a sequence of rearranging the symbols on the defined areas is changeable, and can be made random for each unit game. | 10-08-2009 |
20100056245 | GAMING SYSTEM, GAMING MACHINE, AND PLAY METHOD THEREOF - Selections of an arbitrary number of numbers are accepted from numbers 1 to 80 and then twenty elements are drawn from eighty elements each numbered with a number 1 through 80. Then, an award is provided according to the number of matching numbers between the numbers on the drawn elements and the selected numbers. In addition, in a case where a predetermined condition has been bet such as consecutively playing games of the same type, no award during a predetermined consecutive games or the like, an elimination processing is executed to eliminate elements, for example, ten elements are eliminated. Since a total number of elements is changed to seventy, a matching probability between the numbers on the drawn elements and the selected numbers is made higher, so that awarding probability to a player is made higher. | 03-04-2010 |
20100304851 | GAMING MACHINE ACCEPTING SIDE BET AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A gaming machine executing the processing of (A) accepting an input for placing a normal bet; (B) accepting an input for placing a side bet different from the normal bet, (C) starting a card game and displaying a player initial card on a display; (D) determining a result of a side game based on the player initial card, when a side bet has been placed; and (E) offering a first payout based on the result of the side game, advancing the card game to determine a result of the card game, and offering a second payout based on the result of the card game. | 12-02-2010 |
20110014965 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a gaming machine allowing a player to make more BET operations spontaneously is provided. This gaming machine includes processing of: in a case where the input number of BETs is a first number of BETs, display the specific symbol combination on the display more frequently than when a second number of BETs is placed; and disabling awarding of a payment of a prize even if a specific symbol combination is rearranged on a display; in a case where the input number of BETs is a second number of BETs, displaying the specific symbol combination on the display less frequently than when the first number of BETs is placed; and awarding the payment of the prize in a case where the specific symbol combination is rearranged on the display. | 01-20-2011 |