GAMING MACHINE ENABLING BET FOR GETTING INSURANCE-PAY AND METHOD OF PLAYING GAMES USING THE SAME

• US 20080254860A1
• Filed: 01/31/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Jun, Inamura, Yukinori
• Application Number:
  US12/023,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20080254860A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

A gaming machine is configured to scroll symbols in three display regions and to execute free game rounds when “7” symbols are stopped in each display region. In addition, the gaming machine executes the free game rounds after passage of 1000 games without any one game having the “7” symbols aligned in the three display regions. Execution of the free game rounds triggered by the passage of 1000 games is termed a rescue pay. To gain the rescue pay, a player makes a bet for the rescue pay. In this betting action, multiple games such as 10 games are defined as one group, and the player can make a bet on a group basis.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising:

a display configured to display an image concerning a unit game for determining whether or not a play result deserves an award;

a counter configured to be reset under a predetermined resetting condition and to increment a count value every time the unit game is executed; and

a controller operable to;

(a) provide a predetermined amount of award when a play result of the unit game satisfies a predetermined play result;

(b) receive a bet, as a prerequisite for getting an insurance-pay, on an arbitrary number of the unit games set as a group; and

(c) execute a plurality of rounds of the unit games without making a bet when the count value reaches a predetermined value in the group of the unit games on each of which the bet as a prerequisite for getting the insurance-pay is made.

2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the count value is any of the number of the unit games that have been executed, an accumulated amount of bet made on a plurality of the unit games, and an accumulated value of differences between the amount of bet made on the plurality of the unit games and an amount of awards.

3. The gaming machine according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined condition for resetting is an occurrence of the specific play result in the unit game.

4. A gaming machine comprising:

a display configured to display an image concerning a unit game for determining whether or not a play result deserves an award;

a counter configured to be reset under a predetermined resetting condition and to increment a count value with every execution of the unit game on which a bet as a prerequisite for getting an insurance-pay is made; and

a controller operable to;

(a) provide a predetermined amount of award when a play result of the unit game satisfies a predetermined play result;

(b) receive a bet, as a prerequisite for getting the insurance-pay, made on an arbitrary number of the unit games as a group; and

(c) execute a plurality of rounds of the unit games without making a bet when the count value reaches a predetermined value in the group of the unit games on which the bet as a prerequisite for getting the insurance-pay is made.

5. The gaming machine according to claim 4, wherein the count value is any of the number of the unit games that have been executed, an accumulated amount of bets made on a plurality of the unit games, and an accumulated value of differences between the amount of bets made on the plurality of the unit games and an amount of awards.

6. The gaming machine according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined condition for resetting is an occurrence of the specific play result in the unit game.

7. A gaming machine comprising:

a display configured to display an image concerning a unit game for determining whether or not a play result deserves an award;

a counter configured to be reset under a predetermined resetting condition and to increment a count value every time the unit game is executed; and

a controller operable to;

(a) provide a predetermined amount of award when a play result of the unit game satisfies a predetermined play result;

(b) receive a bet, as a prerequisite for getting an insurance-pay, made on an arbitrary number of the unit games set as a group;

(c) randomly determine the number of the unit games to be executed without making a bet when the count value reaches a predetermined value in the group of the unit games on each of which the bet as a prerequisite for getting the insurance-pay is made; and

(d) execute the determined number of the unit games without making a bet.

8. The gaming machine according to claim 7, wherein the count value is any of the number of the unit games that have been executed, an accumulated amount of bets made on a plurality of the unit games, and an accumulated value of differences between the amount of bets made on the plurality of the unit games and an amount of awards.

9. The gaming machine according to claim 7, wherein the prerequisite for resetting is an occurrence of the specific play result in the unit game.

10. A method of playing games using a gaming machine configured to execute unit games consecutively, the method comprising:

making a bet for the unit games;

providing a predetermined amount of award when a play result of the unit game satisfies a predetermined play result;

making a bet as a prerequisite for getting an insurance-pay on an arbitrary number of the unit games set as a group;

incrementing a count value, which is to be reset under a predetermined resetting condition, every time the unit game is executed; and

executing a plurality of rounds of the unit games without making a bet when the count value reaches a predetermined value in the group of the unit games on each of which the bet as a prerequisite for getting the insurance-pay is made.

11. The method of playing games using a gaming machine according to claim 10, wherein the count value is any of the number of the unit games that have been executed, an accumulated amount of bets made on a plurality of the unit games, and an accumulated value of differences between the amount of bet made on the plurality of the unit games and an amount of awards.

12. The method of playing games using a gaming machine according to claim 10, wherein the predetermined condition for resetting is an occurrence of the specific play result in the unit game.

13. A method of playing games using a gaming machine configured to execute unit games consecutively, the method comprising:

making a bet on the unit games;

providing a predetermined amount of award when a play result of the unit game satisfies a predetermined play result;

making a bet as a prerequisite for getting an insurance-pay on an arbitrary number of the unit games set as a group;

incrementing a count value, which is to be reset under a predetermined resetting condition, with every execution of the unit game on which the bet as a prerequisite for getting the insurance-pay is made; and

executing a plurality of rounds of the unit games without making a bet when the count value reaches a predetermined value in the group of the unit games on each of which the bet as a prerequisite for getting the insurance-pay is made.

14. The method of playing games using a gaming machine according to claim 13, wherein the count value is any of the number of the unit games that have been executed, an accumulated amount of bets made on a plurality of the unit games, and an accumulated value of differences between the amount of bets on the plurality of the unit games and an amount of awards.

15. The method of playing games using a gaming machine according to claim 13, wherein the predetermined condition for resetting is an occurrence of the specific play result in the unit game.

16. A method of playing games using a gaming machine configured to execute unit games consecutively, the method comprising:

making a bet on the unit games;

providing a predetermined amount of award when a play result of the unit game satisfies a predetermined play result;

making a bet as a prerequisite for getting an insurance-pay on an arbitrary number of the unit games set as a group;

incrementing a count value, which is to be reset under a predetermined resetting condition, every time the unit game is executed;

determining randomly the number of the unit games to be executed without making a bet when the count value reaches a predetermined value in the group of the unit games on each of which the bet as a prerequisite for getting the insurance-pay is made; and

executing the determined number of the unit games without making a bet.

17. The method of playing games using a gaming machine according to claim 16, wherein the count value is any of the number of the unit games that have been executed, an accumulated amount of bets on a plurality of the unit games, and an accumulated value of differences between the amount of bets on the plurality of the unit games and an amount of awards.

18. The method of playing games using a gaming machine according to claim 16, wherein the predetermined condition for resetting is an occurrence of the specific play result in the unit game.