SLOT MACHINE

• US 20080146319A1
• Filed: 12/12/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: YOSHIZAWA, Kazumasa
• Application Number:
  US11/954,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20080146319A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/21
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3265 Influencing the position of stopped moving members to achieve a winning arrangement, e.g. nudging, shuffling, holding

Abstract

The present invention provides a slot machine in which, when symbols of the same kind are stopped and displayed on a plurality of reels adjacent to each other, a new reel is formed by combining the plurality of reels, and symbols are arranged by rotating the formed reel. When a total of fifteen symbols 46 are stopped and displayed on symbol display areas 31 through 45 in a normal game, if a bonus game transfer condition is satisfied and a combination including a predetermined number or more of symbols of the same kind arranged on a plurality of reels adjacent to each other is formed, anew combined reel is formed by combining the plurality of reels adjacent to each other, and a new combined symbol is formed by combining the symbols 46 of the same kind displayed on the plurality of reels adjacent to each other, and in a subsequent bonus game, a plurality of symbols including the combined symbol are scrolled and displayed on a plurality of reels including the combined reel.

Claims

1. A slot machine comprising:

a controller which controls game progress;

symbol display areas for displaying symbols; and

a plurality of reels which perform scrolling display of a plurality of symbols and stopping display of any one or a plurality of symbols in the symbol display areas, wherein

the controller

forms a new combined reel by combining a plurality of reels adjacent to each other when a predetermined number or more of symbols of the same kind are stopped and displayed on the plurality of reels adjacent to each other, and

scrolls and displays a plurality of symbols on a plurality of reels including the combined reel in a subsequent game.

4. The slot machine according to claim 1, wherein

the controller

executes a bonus game continuously from a normal game when a predetermined bonus game transfer condition is satisfied,

forms a new combined reel by combining a plurality of reels adjacent to each other when the bonus game transfer condition is satisfied and a predetermined number or more of symbols of the same kind are stopped and displayed on the plurality of reels adjacent to each other, and

scrolls and displays a plurality of symbols on a plurality of reels including the combined reel in a subsequent bonus game.

2. A slot machine comprising:

a controller which controls game progress;

symbol display areas for displaying symbols; and

a plurality of reels which perform scrolling display of a plurality of symbols and stopping display of any one or a plurality of symbols in the symbol display areas, wherein

the controller

forms a new combined reel by combining a plurality of reels adjacent to each other when a predetermined number or more of symbols of the same kind are stopped and displayed on the plurality of reels adjacent to each other,

forms a new combined symbol by combining the predetermined number or more of symbols of the same kind stopped and displayed, and

scrolls and displays a plurality of symbols including the combined symbol on a plurality of reels including the combined reel in a subsequent game.

3. A slot machine comprising:

a controller which controls game progress;

symbol display areas for displaying symbols; and

a plurality of reels which perform scrolling display of a plurality of symbols and stopping display of any one or a plurality of symbols in the symbol display areas, wherein

the controller

executes a bonus game continuously from a normal game when a predetermined bonus game transfer condition is satisfied,

forms a new combined reel by combining a plurality of reels adjacent to each other when the bonus game transfer condition is satisfied and a predetermined number or more of symbols of the same kind are stopped and displayed on the plurality of reels adjacent to each other,

forms a new combined symbol by combining the predetermined number or more of symbols of the same kind stopped and displayed, and

scrolls and displays a plurality of symbols including the combined symbol on a plurality of reels including the combined reel in a subsequent game.