GAMING APPARATUS AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20080146308A1
• Filed: 11/14/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interblock DOO
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/)
• Inventors: OKADA, Kazuo
• Granted Patent: US 7,988,548 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games

Abstract

For a number of execution times of roulette game in a roulette game machine (1), if the number of land-in times at a prescribed numbered pocket (23) has become equal to or greater than a reference time number, then from among a plurality of control data sets such a control data set that is different from a current control data set is determined to be referred to.

Claims

1. A gaming apparatus comprising:

a roulette wheel provided with a set of pockets each respectively given in advance a number corresponding thereto;

a memory for storing a plurality of control data for controls to bias a reception probability of receiving a ball for a respective one of subsets of the set of pockets;

a bet switch adapted for a bet operation to any pocket of the set of pockets; and

a controller adapted to;

(a) execute a roulette game

to accept the bet operation, and

to effect, with reference to a prescribed one of the control data, a spinning of the roulette wheel and a shooting of the ball, to have an increased reception probability of the ball for a prescribed subset of the set of pockets; and

(b) execute the roulette game with reference to another control data different from the prescribed control data, as a number of times of reception by the prescribed subset of the set of pockets has reached or exceeded a prescribed time number.

2. A gaming apparatus comprising:

a roulette wheel provided with a set of pockets each respectively given in advance a number corresponding thereto;

a memory for storing a plurality of control data for controls to bias a reception probability of receiving a ball for a respective one of subsets of the set of pockets;

a bet switch adapted for a bet operation to any pocket of the set of pockets;

a time number switch adapted to input a prescribed time number as a trigger for interchanging the control data; and

a controller adapted to;

(a) execute a roulette game

to accept the bet operation, and

to effect, with reference to a prescribed one of the control data, a spinning of the roulette wheel and a shooting of the ball, to have an increased reception probability of the ball for a prescribed subset of the set of pockets; and

(b) execute the roulette game with reference to another control data different from the prescribed control data, as a number of times of reception by the prescribed subset of the set of pockets has reached or exceeded the prescribed time number input by the time number switch.

3. A gaming apparatus comprising:

a roulette wheel provided with a set of pockets each respectively given in advance a number corresponding thereto;

a memory for storing a plurality of control data for controls to bias a reception probability of receiving a ball for a respective one of subsets of the set of pockets;

a bet switch adapted for a bet operation to any pocket of the set of pockets; and

a controller adapted to;

(a) execute a roulette game

to accept the bet operation, and

to effect, with reference to a prescribed one of the control data, a spinning of the roulette wheel and a shooting of the ball, to have an increased reception probability of the ball for a prescribed subset of the set of pockets; and

(b) execute the roulette game with reference to another control data different from the prescribed control data, as a number of times of reception by the prescribed subset of the set of pockets has reached or exceeded a prescribed time number, to change the prescribed time number randomly.

4. A gaming apparatus comprising:

a roulette wheel provided with a set of pockets each respectively given in advance a number corresponding thereto, the set of pockets being distributed in a plurality of regions;

a memory for storing a plurality of control data for controls to bias between the regions a reception probability of receiving a ball for a corresponding one of subsets of the set of pockets belonging to a respective one of the regions;

a bet switch adapted for a bet operation to any pocket of the set of pockets; and

a controller adapted to;

(a) execute a roulette game

to accept the bet operation, and

to effect, with reference to a prescribed one of the control data, a spinning of the roulette wheel and a shooting of the ball, to have an increased reception probability of the ball for a prescribed subset of the set of pockets belonging to a prescribed one of the regions; and

(b) execute the roulette game with reference to another control data different from the prescribed control data, as a number of times of reception by the prescribed subset of the set of pockets belonging to the prescribed region has reached or exceeded a prescribed time number.

5. A playing method of a gaming apparatus, comprising the steps of:

executing a roulette game

to accept a bet operation to any pocket of a set of pockets provided to a roulette wheel and each respectively given in advance a number corresponding thereto, and

to effect, with reference to a prescribed one of a plurality of control data for controls to bias a reception probability of receiving a ball for a respective one of subsets of the set of pockets, a spinning of the roulette wheel and a shooting of the ball, to have an increased reception probability of the ball for a prescribed subset of the set of pockets; and

determining another control data different from the prescribed control data to be a target of reference, as a number of times of reception by the prescribed subset of the set of pockets has reached or exceeded a prescribed time number.

6. A playing method of a gaming apparatus, comprising the steps of:

executing a roulette game

to accept a bet operation to any pocket of a set of pockets provided to a roulette wheel and each respectively given in advance a number corresponding thereto, and

to effect, with reference to a prescribed one of a plurality of control data for controls to bias a reception probability of receiving a ball for a respective one of subsets of the set of pockets, a spinning of the roulette wheel and a shooting of the ball, to have an increased reception probability of the ball for a prescribed subset of the set of pockets; and

determining another control data different from the prescribed control data to be a target of reference, as a number of times of reception by the prescribed subset of the set of pockets has reached or exceeded a prescribed time number input by a time number switch.

7. A playing method of a gaming apparatus, comprising the steps of:

executing a roulette game

to accept a bet operation to any pocket of a set of pockets provided to a roulette wheel and each respectively given in advance a number corresponding thereto, and

to effect, with reference to a prescribed one of a plurality of control data for controls to bias a reception probability of receiving a ball for a respective one of subsets of the set of pockets, a spinning of the roulette wheel and a shooting of the ball, to have an increased reception probability of the ball for a prescribed subset of the set of pockets;

determining another control data different from the prescribed control data to be a target of reference, as a number of times of reception by the prescribed subset of the set of pockets has reached or exceeded a prescribed time number; and

changing the prescribed time number randomly, after said another control data has been determined to be the target of reference.

8. A playing method of a gaming apparatus, comprising the steps of:

executing a roulette game

to accept a bet operation to any one of regions each respectively including a corresponding one of subsets of a set of pockets provided to a roulette wheel and each respectively given in advance a number corresponding thereto, and

to effect, with reference to a prescribed one of a plurality of control data for controls to bias between the regions a reception probability of receiving a ball for a corresponding subset of the set of pockets belonging to a respective one of the regions, a spinning of the roulette wheel and a shooting of the ball, to have an increased reception probability of the ball for a prescribed subset of the set of pockets belonging to a prescribed one of the regions; and

determining another control data different from the prescribed control data to be a target of reference, as a number of times of reception by the prescribed subset of the set of pockets belonging to the prescribed region has reached or exceeded a prescribed time number.