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US 6,270,408 B1Granted
Game machine informing prize mode information based on variable display stop request
AssigneeAruze Corp.
InventorsYoshikazu Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Abstract
A game machine is disclosed in which interest in the game is created by the operation of stop buttons 16 through 18, and back lamps 57a, 57b and 57c for illuminating rotating reels 3 through 5. Patterns which differ in accordance with the kind of prize modes are announced to the player, for example, by simultaneously extinguishing the respective back lamps 57a, 57b and 57c of the rotating reels 3 through 5 when the stop buttons 16 through 18 are actuated, and the possibility of erecting a “BB” hit flag, signifying a big hit prize, is announced to the player.
Claims21
A game machine comprising:
- a variable display device for variably displaying various patterns in a plurality of columns;
- prize mode determining means which determines a prize mode of a game with reference to a probability table comprising data for classifying a drawing random number into an individual prize mode, and which erects a hit flag of a prize mode to which the drawing random number belongs;
- stopping means for stopping variable display of the variable display device at each of the respective columns;
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- informing means for informing a player of a kind of a hit flag of a prize mode determined by a random number lottery with reference to an informing determination table, which is different from said probability table, for determining the prize mode to be informed, at a predetermined probability determined by the random number lottery with reference to the informing determination table, in connection with an output of a request from the stopping means to stop the variable display of at least one column.
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