SLOT MACHINE WITH WILD SYMBOL FEATURE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090239606A1
• Filed: 06/10/2008
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/)
• Inventors: Abe, Fumiya
• Application Number:
  US12/136,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20090239606A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

In a slot machine, symbols are scrolled in plural display areas provided on a display at an execution of a slot game and then stopped in the display areas respectively. Furthermore, if a “JOKER” symbol has come to a stop in a central display area, a “WILD” symbol(s) displayed in the remaining display areas is activated. If a “JOKER” symbol has not come to a stop in the central display area, a “WILD” symbol(s) displayed in the remaining display areas is deactivated. Therefore, since dividends may vary largely according to a symbol displayed in the central display area, a slot machine producing a superior entertainment feature with a “WILD” symbol can be provided.

Claims

1. A slot machine comprising:

a display including a fixing display area and plural varying display areas, in which symbols are arranged; and

a controller operable to;

(A) rearrange symbols had been displayed in the varying display areas after receiving an input from an external,

(B) change a symbol being arranged in the fixing display area to a wild symbol when a specific symbol has been displayed in any of the varying display areas, and

(C) provide an award according to a symbol combination displayed in the fixing display area and the varying display areas.

2. The slot machine according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is operable to rearrange the specific symbol last in case where the specific symbol is rearranged in any of the varying display areas.

3. A slot machine comprising:

a display including a first display area composed of a fixing display area and plural varying display areas and a second display area, in which symbols are arranged; and

a controller operable to;

(A) rearrange symbols had been displayed in the varying display areas and the second display area after receiving an input from an external,

(B) change a symbol being arranged in the fixing display area to a wild symbol when a specific symbol has been displayed in the second display area, and

(C) provide an award according to a symbol combination displayed in the first display area.

4. The slot machine according to claim 3, wherein

the controller is operable to rearrange a symbol in the second display area after rearranging symbols in the first display area.

5. A slot machine comprising:

a display including a first display area and a second display area, in which symbols are arranged; and

a controller operable to;

(A) rearrange symbols had been displayed in the first area and the second display area after receiving an input from an external,

(B) activate a wild symbol had been rearranged in the first area when a specific symbol has been displayed in the second display area, and

(C) provide an award according to a symbol combination displayed in the first display area.

6. The slot machine according to claim 5, wherein

the controller is operable to rearrange a symbol in the second display area after rearranging symbols in the first display area.

7. A control method of a slot machine, comprising:

rearranging symbols had been arranged in plural varying display areas provided on a display,

changing a symbol in a fixing display area provided on the display to a wild symbol when a specific symbol has been rearranged in any of the varying display areas, and

providing an award according to a symbol combination displayed in the varying display areas and the fixing display area.

8. The control method according to claim 7, wherein

the specific symbol is rearranged last in case where the specific symbol is rearranged in any of the varying display areas.