US 2014/0274299 A1Published application

Gaming machine capable of improving amusingness

AssigneesUniversal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

InventorsKenta KITAMURA, Tatsuya TERANISHI, Akira OSAWA, Hiroki MUNAKATA, Kenji ENOKIDO, Takaki NARITA

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Abstract

The present invention provides a gaming machine capable of improving amusingness of a game by varying the continuity of the main game. According to the present invention, a normal mode game in the normal mode is started based on an input of the bet information from the bet input device; the mode is entered from the normal mode to the chance mode when an enter condition is satisfied as a result of referring to the predetermined symbol determination table in the normal mode; a free game is started as a chance mode game in the chance mode; and the mode is returned from the chance mode to the normal mode when an end condition is satisfied as a result of referring to the specific symbol determination table in the chance mode.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A gaming machine comprising:

a display for displaying a result of a unit game by rearranging a plurality of symbols;
and
a controller for executing the unit game in a base game mode requiring betting and a free game mode not requiring betting, wherein:
the controller being programmed to execute the steps of:
(1-1) a free game mode transition process of making a game mode transition to a free game mode triggered by the fact that a specific symbol is selected by a symbol lottery process for selecting symbols to be rearranged on said display in said base game mode;
(1-2) a free game mode restart process of newly starting said free game mode after said free game mode is finished retriggered by the fact that said specific symbol is selected by said symbol lottery process in said free game mode.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/293,269Filed 2 Jun 2014
Priority: JP 2012-03308417 Feb 2012
Published: 18 Sep 2014
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Classification3 codes

G07F 17/34
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines
G07F 17/3267
Game play aspects of gaming systems: game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher…
G07F
Coin-freed or like apparatus

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