Gaming machine, method and computer program for controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium having the program stored therein

• US 20110053678A1
• Filed: 11/03/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Gaming Incorporated (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Gaming Incorporated (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Aida, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US12/927,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20110053678A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means

Abstract

A gaming machine including a display, a plurality of reels displayed on the display, each reel being arranged side by side so as to independently rotate in a vertical direction, a plurality of display areas forming the reel, each display area having a hexagonal shape for displaying an indicium, each display area being connected with each other in the vertical direction via a horizontal side of the hexagonal shape, and a controller, which determines a win occurrence in a case where an identical kind of indicium is stationarily displayed on at least two of the display areas which are adjacently arranged via an upwardly-sloping direction slope or a downwardly-sloping side of the hexagonal shape of the display area.

Claims

1. A gaming machine, comprising:

a display;

a plurality of reels displayed on the display, each reel being arranged side by side so as to rotate in a vertical direction;

a plurality of display areas forming the reel, each display area having a hexagonal shape for displaying an indicium, each display area being connected with each other in the vertical direction via a horizontal side of the hexagonal shape; and

a controller, which determines a win occurrence in a case where an identical kind of indicium is stationarily displayed on at least two of the display areas which are adjacently arranged via an upwardly-sloping direction slope or a downwardly-sloping side of the hexagonal shape of the display area.

2. The gaming machine as set forth in claim 1,

wherein a line connecting two display areas situated both ends of the display areas showing an identical kind of indicium and adjacently arranged via an upwardly-sloping direction slope or/and a downwardly-sloping side of the hexagonal shape is regarded as a winning line.

3. The gaming machine as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the indicium includes a special indicium which substitutes all kinds of the indicium.

4. The gaming machine as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the gaming machine is a slot machine.

5. A method of controlling a gaming machine performed by a computer, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a display;

displaying a plurality of reels on the display, each reel being arranged side by side so as to rotate in a vertical direction;

forming the reel with a plurality of display areas, each display area having a hexagonal shape for displaying an indicium, each display area being connected with each other in the vertical direction via a horizontal side of the hexagonal shape; and

determining a win occurrence in a case where an identical kind of indicium is stationarily displayed on at least two of the display areas which are adjacently arranged via an upwardly-sloping direction slope or a downwardly-sloping side of the hexagonal shape of the display area.

6. The method of controlling a gaming machine performed by a computer as set forth in claim 5,

wherein a line connecting two display areas situated both ends of the display areas showing the identical kind of indicium and adjacently arranged via an upwardly-sloping direction slope or/and a downwardly-sloping side of the hexagonal shape is regarded as a winning line.

7. The method of controlling a gaming machine performed by a computer as set forth in claim 5,

wherein the indicium includes a special indicium which substitutes all kinds of the indicium.

8. A computer-readable storage medium, in which a program for causing a computer to execute the control method as set forth in claim 5 is stored.

9. A gaming machine, comprising:

a display;

a plurality of reels displayed on the display, each reel being arranged side by side;

a plurality of display areas forming the reel, each display area having a hexagonal shape for displaying an indicium, each display area being connected with each other in a reel rotation direction via a side of the hexagonal shape, the side being orthogonal to the reel rotation direction; and

a controller, which determines a win occurrence in a case where an identical kind of indicium is stationarily displayed on at least two of the display areas which are adjacently arranged in a direction obliquely crossing the reel rotation direction.

10. The gaming machine as set forth in claim 9,

wherein a line connecting two display areas situated both ends of the display areas showing an identical kind of indicium and adjacently arranged in a direction obliquely crossing the reel rotation direction is regarded as a winning line.

11. The gaming machine as set forth in claim 9,

wherein the indicium includes a special indicium which substitutes all kinds of the indicium.

12. The gaming machine as set forth in claim 9,

wherein the gaming machine is a slot machine.

13. A method of controlling a gaming machine performed by a computer, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a display;

displaying a plurality of reels on the display, each reel being arranged side by side;

forming the reel with a plurality of display areas, each display area having a hexagonal shape for displaying an indicium, each display area being connected with each other in a reel rotation direction via a side of the hexagonal shape, the side being orthogonal to the reel rotation direction; and

determining a win occurrence in a case where an identical kind of indicium is stationarily displayed on at least two of the display areas which are adjacently arranged in a direction obliquely crossing the reel rotation direction.

14. The method of controlling a gaming machine performed by a computer as set forth in claim 13,

wherein a line connecting two display areas situated both ends of the display areas showing an identical kind of indicium and adjacently arranged in a direction obliquely crossing the reel rotation direction is regarded as a winning line.

15. The method of controlling a gaming machine performed by a computer as set forth in claim 13,

wherein the indicium includes a special indicium which substitutes all kinds of the indicium.

16. A computer-readable storage medium, in which a program for causing a computer to execute the control method as set forth in claim 13 is stored.