US 9,520,027 B2Granted

Gaming machine, gaming system, and gaming method

AssigneesUniversal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

InventorsMasumi Fujisawa, Hiroki Munakata, Kenji Enokido, Takehisa Itagaki, Masaya Honda, Daisyun Okamoto

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Abstract

In a gaming machine, a display displays a jackpot challenge for providing a progressive payout. A controller executes each round of a game, determines an event to be performed in each round, determines whether a determined event belongs to predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of icons, performs the determined event and determine a result of a performed event, obtains an icon of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events and the result of the performed event is to award the icon of the performed event to a player, triggers the jackpot challenge when the plurality of icons are obtained, and executes the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A gaming machine, comprising:

a first display configured to display a jackpot challenge for providing a progressive payout;
a second display;
a value-addition mechanism configured to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value by which a player is able to add to the gaming machine gaming media to be bet;
an award payout mechanism by which gaming media can be paid out to the player or credited to current credits of the player as an outcome of a game;
and a controller configured, as a result of the player having bet gaming media, to execute a base game,
to trigger a bonus game when a result of the base game satisfies a predetermined condition,
to display a plurality of cells forming courses on the first display when the bonus game is triggered, wherein the plurality of cells forming courses are associated with a plurality of events;
to execute each round of the bonus game,
to display a wheel including a plurality of digits on the second display when each round is executed,
to determine any one digit from among the plurality of digits when the wheel is slid by the player on the second display,
to stop the wheel on the first display to indicate the determined digit, to move a character of a player by the determined digit on the courses, to determine whether an event of a cell at which the character arrives by moving the character by the determined digit in each round belongs to a predetermined type of events among the plurality of events provided by the bonus game, the predetermined type of events being events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of different icons among the plurality of events,
to determine whether a determined event belongs to the predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of different icons,
to perform the determined event and determine a result of the event, wherein it is determined whether to award an icon of the event as the result only when the event belongs to the predetermined type of events,
to obtain the icon of the event when the result of the event is to award the icon of the performed event to the player,
to trigger the jackpot challenge when all of the plurality of different icons are obtained by executing a plurality of rounds of the game,
to execute the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player, and
to pay out the progressive payout by the award payout mechanism when the controller determines to award the progressive payout to the player.

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A gaming system, comprising:

a plurality of main displays for a plurality of players, each main display configured to display images of a game for a corresponding player;
a common display provided for the main displays;
a value-addition mechanism configured to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value by which the corresponding player is able to add to the gaming system gaming media to be bet;
an award payout mechanism by which gaming media can be paid out to the corresponding player or credited to current credits of the corresponding player as an outcome of the game;
and
a controller configured, as a result of each of the plurality of players having bet gaming media, to execute a base game for each player,
when a result of the base game for a certain player satisfies a predetermined condition, to trigger a bonus game of the certain player,
to display a plurality of cells forming courses on the common display when the bonus game is triggered,
wherein the plurality of cells forming courses are associated with a plurality of events,
to execute each round of the bonus game,
to display a wheel including a plurality of digits on the main display when each round is executed,
to determine any one digit from among the plurality of digits when the wheel is slid by the certain player on the main display,
to stop the wheel on the common display to indicate the determined digit,
to move a character of the certain player by the determined digit on the courses,
to determine whether an event of a cell at which the character arrives by moving the character by the determined digit in each round belongs to a predetermined type of events among the plurality of events provided by the bonus game, the predetermined type of events being events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of different icons among the plurality of events,
to perform the event and determine a result of the event, wherein it is determined whether
to award an icon of the event as the result only when the event belongs to the predetermined type of events,
to award the icon of the event to a player of the event when the result of the event is to award the icon of the event,
to trigger a jackpot challenge for a certain player when the certain player obtains all of the plurality of different icons by executing a plurality of rounds of the game,
to execute the jackpot challenge on the common display to determine whether to award a progressive payout to the certain player, and
to pay out the progressive payout by the award payout mechanism when the controller determines to award the progressive payout to the certain player.

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A gaming method by a controller of a gaming machine including a value-addition mechanism configured to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value by which a player is able to add to the gaming machine gaming media to be bet and an award payout mechanism by which gaming media can be paid out to the player or credited to current credits of the player as an outcome of a game, the method comprising, as a result of the player having bet gaming media:

executing a base game;
triggering a bonus game when a result of the base game satisfies a predetermined condition;
displaying a plurality of cells forming courses on a first display when the bonus game is triggered, wherein the plurality of cells forming courses is associated with a plurality of events;
executing each round of the bonus game;
displaying a wheel including a plurality of digits on a second display when each round is executed;
determining any one digit from among the plurality of digits when the wheel is slid by the player on the second display;
stopping the wheel on the first display to indicate the determined digit;
moving a character of the player by the determined digit on the courses;
determining whether an event of a cell at which the character arrives by moving the character by the determined digit in each round belongs to a predetermined type of events among the plurality of events provided by the bonus game, the predetermined type of events being events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of different icons among the plurality of events;
performing the event and determining a result of the event, wherein it is determined whether to award an icon of the event as the result only when the event belongs to the predetermined type of events;
obtaining the icon of the event when the result of the event is to award the icon of the event to the player;
triggering a jackpot challenge when all of the plurality of different icons are obtained by executing a plurality of rounds of the game;
executing the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award a progressive payout to the player;
and
paying out the progressive payout by the award payout mechanism when the controller determines to award the progressive payout to the player.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/892,375Filed 13 May 2013
Published: US 2014/0335946 A113 Nov 2014
Granted: 13 Dec 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G07F 17/3258
Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes: cumulative reward schemes, e.g. jackpots
G07F 17/32
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
G07F 17/326
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: game play aspects of gaming systems
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…

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