SLOT MACHINE PERFORMING PAYOUT OF A PREDETERMINED AMOUNT OF CREDITS WHEN THE NUMBER OF GAMES REACHES A PREDETERMINED NUMBER

• US 20090082093A1
• Filed: 02/27/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technological Group Limited
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/)
• Inventors: OKADA, Kazuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,187,076 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

Abstract

The gaming machine 10 executes a game which pays out the amount of credits corresponding to a rearrangement state of a plurality of the symbols, switches a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode based on a predetermined condition, counts the number of games executed after switching to an insurance mode, in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed before the number of games counted reaches a specified number of games, the rearrangement state of the plurality of symbols matches a predetermined symbol combination, and alternatively, the specified winning is generated, continues without resetting the insurance mode to which it was switched, and pays out a predetermined amount of credits when the number of games counted reaches a specified number of games.

Claims

1. A slot machine, comprising:

a symbol display device for displaying a plurality of symbols; and

a controller configured with logic to;

(a) rearrange the plurality of symbols on the symbol display device after accepting a bet, and execute a game which pays out an amount of credits corresponding to a rearrangement state of the plurality of the symbols;

(b) switch a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode based on a first condition;

(c) in a case of switching to the insurance mode, count the number of games executed after switching to the insurance mode;

(d) pay out a predetermined amount of credits when the number of games counted by the operation (c) reaches a specified number of games; and

(e) in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed before the number of games counted by the operation (c) reaches a specified number of games, reset the insurance mode to which was switched by the operation (b), and alternatively, in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed and a second condition is satisfied, continue without resetting the insurance mode which was switched thereto by the operation (b).

2. A slot machine, comprising:

a symbol display device for displaying a plurality of symbols; and

a controller configured with logic to;

(a) rearrange the plurality of symbols on the symbol display device after accepting a bet, and execute a game which pays out the amount of credits corresponding to a rearrangement state of the plurality of the symbols;

(b) switch a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode based on a predetermined condition;

(c) in a case of switching to the insurance mode, count the number of games executed after switching to the insurance mode;

(d) pay out a predetermined amount of credits when the number of games counted by the operation (c) reaches a specified number of games; and

(e) in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed before the number of games counted by the operation (c) reaches a specified number of games, reset the insurance mode to which was switched by the operation (b), and alternatively, in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed and the rearrangement state of the plurality of symbols matches a predetermined symbol combination, continue without resetting the insurance mode which was switched thereto by the operation (b).

3. A slot machine, comprising:

a symbol display device for displaying a plurality of symbols; and

a controller configured with logic to;

(a) rearrange the plurality of symbols on the symbol display device after accepting a bet, and execute a game which pays out an amount of credits corresponding to a rearrangement state of the plurality of the symbols;

(f) simultaneously with the operation (a), determine whether to generate a specified winning or not;

(b) switch a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode based on a predetermined condition;

(c) in a case of switching to the insurance mode, count the number of games executed after switching to the insurance mode;

(d) pay out a predetermined amount of credits when the number of games counted by the operation (c) reaches a specified number of games; and

(e) in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed before the number of games counted by the operation (c) reaches a specified number of games, reset the insurance mode to which was switched by the operation (b), and alternatively, in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed and the specified winning is generated, continue without resetting the insurance mode which was switched thereto by the operation (b).

4. A gaming system, comprising:

a server; and

a plurality of slot machines,

wherein the server is connected with each of the plurality of slot machines via a communication line, and

wherein a controller of the server is configured with logic to;

determine whether to generate a specified winning or not;

in a case of determining to generate the specified winning, determine a slot machine to pay out a credit corresponding to the specified winning among the plurality of slot machines; and

transmit data indicating that the specified winning was generated to the slot machine thus decided, and

wherein each of the plurality of slot machines is connected with the server via the communication line, and comprises;

a symbol display device capable of variably displaying a plurality of symbols; and

a controller configured with logic to;

(a) rearrange the plurality of symbols on the symbol display device after accepting a bet, and execute a game which pays out the amount of credits corresponding to the state of the rearrangement of the plurality of the symbols;

(b) switch a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode based on a predetermined condition;

(c) in a case of switching to the insurance mode, count a number of games executed after switching to the insurance mode;

(d) pay out a predetermined amount of credits when the number of games counted by the operation (c) reaches a specified number of games; and

(e) in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed before the number of games counted by the operation (c) reaches a specified number of games, reset the insurance mode to which was switched by the operation (b), and alternatively, in a case where a game which paid out more than a predetermined amount of credits has been executed and data which indicates that the specified winning is generated is received from the server, continue without resetting the insurance mode, which was switched thereto by the operation (b).