Gaming machine

• US 20050239537A1
• Filed: 04/25/2005
• Published: 10/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogiwara, Takahiro
• Application Number:
  US11/113,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20050239537A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 5/0005 Automatic roulette
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3267 Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games

Abstract

A gaming machine includes: a game processing unit that provides a game of a type in which a plurality of players participate; a plurality of betting sections provided for each of the players, the betting section allowing the player to bet on a game result of the game provided by the game processing unit; and a lottery unit that performs a lottery for each of the betting sections, the lottery to win an occurrence of a special gaming state in which condition more advantageous than in a normal gaming state, wherein each of the betting sections includes an effect producing unit that produces a special effect when the special gaming state occurs in at least one of the betting sections.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising:

a game processing unit that provides a game of a type in which a plurality of players participate;

a plurality of betting sections provided for each of the players, the betting section allowing the player to bet on a game result of the game provided by the game processing unit; and

a lottery unit that performs a lottery for each of the betting sections, the lottery to win an occurrence of a special gaming state in which condition more advantageous than in a normal gaming state,

wherein each of the betting sections includes an effect producing unit that produces a special effect when the special gaming state occurs in at least one of the betting sections.

2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the effect producing unit informs the player of a result of the lottery performed by the lottery unit in the special effect.

3. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the effect producing unit includes a display that displays an image as the special effect.

4. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein each of the betting sections includes an indicator that indicates the occurrence of the special gaming state in the respective betting section.

5. The gaming machine according to claim 4, wherein the indicator includes a win lamp that lights up when the special gaming state occurs in the betting section.

6. The gaming machine according to claim 4, wherein the indicator is provided at a position for enabling the players at all of the betting sections to visually recognize the indicator.

7. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the betting section includes a payout unit that pays out a predetermined amount of a credit points to the player in response to the game result.

8. The gaming machine according to claim 7, wherein the betting section allows the player to bet desired amount of the credit points owned by the player on the game result.

9. The gaming machine according to claim 8, wherein the betting section includes a game media acceptance unit that accepts game media input by the player, the game media depending on which a predetermined amount of the credit points are added to the credit points owned by the player.

10. The gaming machine according to claim 7, wherein the payout unit pays out more amount of the credit points to the player in the special gaming state than in the normal gaming state.

11. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the game processing unit includes:

a roulette wheel on which a plurality of symbols are arranged; and

a symbol lottery unit that draws a lottery to determine a win symbol from among the symbols arranged on the roulette wheel.

12. The gaming machine according to claim 11, wherein the game processing unit provides to the player a main game of a roulette game,

wherein the betting section allows the player to bet on at least one of the symbols arranged on the roulette wheel in the main game, and

wherein the game processing unit determines whether or not the symbol on which the player bet with the betting section matches with the win symbol determined by the symbol lottery unit.

13. A gaming method comprising:

providing a game of a type in which a plurality of players participate;

allowing each of the players to bet on a game result of the game with a plurality of betting sections respectively provided for each of the players;

performing a lottery for each of the betting sections, the lottery to win an occurrence of a special gaming state in which condition more advantageous than in a normal gaming state;

producing a special effect in each of the betting sections when the special gaming state occurs in at least one of the betting sections.