Bingo game machine
AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorsKusuo Matsumoto, Shiro Majima
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Abstract
A bingo game machine, in which a plurality of randomly selected special signs are compared with signs on a bingo card and a winner of a game is decided in accordance with correspondence of the signs, includes: a display unit which displays a bingo card image including squares arranged in a matrix and allotted with different signs; and a changer which changes the sign in a predetermined square of the bingo card image.
Claims15
A bingo game machine, in which a plurality of randomly selected special signs are compared with signs on a bingo card and a winner of a game is decided in accordance with correspondence of the randomly selected signs with the signs on the bingo card, comprising:
- a display unit for displaying a bingo card image including squares arranged in a matrix and for allotting signs to each of said squares such that no two of said squares have the same sign, said signs allotted to said squares being included in a pool of signs from which said randomly selected special signs are selected;
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- a changer for changing the allotment of said signs in said squares of the bingo card image in a single operation by shifting signs from one square of said squares to another square of said squares.
A bingo game machine, in which a plurality of randomly selected special signs are compared with signs on a bingo card and a winner of a game is decided in accordance with correspondence of the randomly selected signs with the signs on the bingo card, comprising:
- a display unit for displaying a bingo card image, including squares arranged in a matrix, and for allotting signs to each of said squares such that no two of said squares have the same sign, said signs allotted to said squares being included in a pool of signs from which said randomly selected special signs are selected;
- a changer which changes the sign in a predetermined square of the bingo card image;
- a counter which counts the number of said special signs selected up to a current time;
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- a count value displaying device which displays a value counted by the counter.
A bingo machine comprising:
- bingo number means for successively randomly selecting call-out numbers from a pool of numbers;
- at least one player terminal including a display and an input means for receiving player input;
- image generating means for generating a bingo card image on said display, said bingo card image being a matrix of squares arranged in rows and columns;
- allotting means for allotting numbers included in said pool of numbers randomly to said squares prior to a start of a bingo game, the start of the bingo game being defined by said bingo number means selecting a first call-out number;
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- shifting means, responsive to said input means, for shifting said allotted numbers between squares in a selected one of one of said rows and said columns following said start of said bingo game.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.