Gaming machine including a wheel and a processor to specify a pocket of the wheel

• US 8,029,351 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2006
• Issued: 10/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: Kosaka, Toshihiko, Kogo, Junichi, Yoshizawa, Kazumasa, Kato, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Suhol; Dmitry
• Assistant Examiner(s): DUFFY, DAVID W
• Application Number:
  US11/500,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20070060262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,883 Days
• Field of Search: 463 16- 17, 273/274
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 5/00 Roulette games aspects of games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions showing representations related to the game A63F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3272 Games involving multiple players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

As a result of lottery using the roulette device 3, if the ball 27 enters in the bonus pocket 24 among the pockets formed on the wheel 22, the special bonus game using the WIN lamp 11 occurs and all credits betted to each station 4 in the present game are paid out (S15) to one station 4 which is determined based on the lottery (S123) by the server control CPU 81 that winning is obtained.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising:

a wheel having a plurality of pockets each of which is labeled with a discriminative number, the pockets being arranged thereon;

a plurality of game stations each of which has a bet acceptance device which accepts a bet operation conducted while predicting a winning number; and

a processor programmed to operate with the wheel and the game stations (a) to specify a pocket among the plurality of pockets on the wheel, (b) to detect the discriminative number given to the specified pocket as the winning number, (c) to pay out to a game station of the plurality of game stations based on the detected winning number and the bet operation accepted by the bet acceptance device in the game station, (d) to set a predetermined one of the pockets to a bonus pocket, wherein the processor notifies users of the plurality of game stations of the discriminative number given to the pocket which is set to the bonus pocket before the pocket is specified, wherein the bonus pocket is specifically selected prior to a start of a game and remains set until a new bonus pocket is specifically selected, and (e) to give an award to the game station when the bonus pocket is specified thereby.

2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the processor determines whether or not there exists the game station in which more than a predetermined bet amount is betted through the bet operation accepted by the bet acceptance device;

and

wherein the processor gives the award to the game station when there exists the game station in which more than the predetermined bet amount is betted.

3. The gaming machine according to claim 2, wherein the processor executes a bonus game as the award.

4. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the processor awards to one game station all or a part of the bet amounts which are betted in all of the game stations when the bonus pocket is specified in the one game station.

5. The gaming machine according to claim 3, wherein the processor pays out based on a game result of the bonus game executed.

6. The gaming machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

an accumulation memory for accumulatively storing a predetermined rate of a bet amount which is betted through the bet acceptance device in each of all game stations;

wherein the processor accumulatively stores in the accumulation memory all of the bet amount betted through the bet acceptance device in each of all game stations when the bonus pocket is specified thereby, and

wherein the processor pays out the bet amounts stored in the accumulation memory when a predetermined condition is realized.

7. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein a plural kinds of bet methods are accepted by the bet acceptance device, and

wherein the processor pays out corresponding to the kind of the bet method accepted by the bet acceptance device when the bonus pocket is specified in the game station.

8. The gaming machine according to claim 7, wherein the processor specifies the bet amount based on worth of the bet amount betted and a payout magnification corresponding to the kind of the bet method.

9. The gaming machine according to claim 1, further comprising a bonus pocket indicator operable to indicate which of the pockets is set as the bonus pocket prior to a start of a game.

10. A gaming machine comprising:

a selection operation acceptance device configured to accept a selection operation to select one or more number pockets among a plurality of number pockets each of which is labeled with a discriminative number;

a bonus pocket setting device configured to set as a bonus pocket the number pocket selected in the selection operation accepted by the selection operation acceptance device, wherein the bonus pocket is selected prior to a start of a game and remains set until a new bonus pocket is specifically selected;

a wheel on which the number pockets and the bonus pocket set by the bonus setting device are arranged in a line along a circumference thereof;

a pocket specification device configured to specify one or more number pockets or the bonus pocket among the plurality of number pockets arranged on the wheel;

a winning number detection device configured to detect as a winning number the discriminative number given to the number pocket specified by the pocket specification device when the number pocket is specified by the pocket specification device;

a plurality of bet acceptance devices configured to accept one or more bet operations by a player conducted based on game media accumulated while anticipating the winning number detected by the winning number detection device, wherein the bet acceptance devices notify the player of the discriminative number of the bonus pocket before the pocket specification device specifies the one or more number pockets or the bonus pocket;

a payout device configured to pay out the game media to the player based on the winning number detected by the winning number detection device and the bet operation accepted by the bet acceptance device; and

a special payout device configured to pay out to the player a part or whole of all game media betted in the bet operations accepted by the plurality of bet acceptance devices when the bonus pocket is specified by the pocket specification device.

11. A gaming machine comprising:

a selection operation acceptance device configured to accept a selection operation to select one or more number pockets among a plurality of number pockets each of which is labeled with a discriminative number;

a bonus pocket setting device configured to set as a bonus pocket the number pocket selected in the selection operation accepted by the selection operation acceptance device, wherein the bonus pocket is selected prior to a start of a game and remains set until a new bonus pocket is specifically selected;

a wheel on which the number pockets and the bonus pocket set by the bonus pocket setting device are arranged in a line along a circumference thereof;

a pocket specification device configured to specify one or more number pockets or the bonus pocket among the plurality of number pockets arranged on the wheel;

a winning number detection device configured to detect as a winning number the discriminative number given to the number pocket specified by the pocket specification device when the number pocket is specified by the pocket specification device;

a plurality of bet acceptance devices configured to accept one or more bet operations by a player conducted based on game media accumulated while anticipating the winning number detected by the winning number detection device, wherein the bet acceptance devices notify the player of the discriminative number of the bonus pocket before the pocket specification device specifies the one or more number pockets or the bonus pocket;

a first payout device configured to pay out the game media to the player based on the winning number detected by the winning number detection device and the bet operation accepted by the bet acceptance device;

a memory device configured to accumulatively store a predetermined worth amount among a worth amount of the game media betted in the bet operation;

a second payout device configured to payout to the player the game media corresponding to the predetermined worth amount accumulatively stored in the memory device when a predetermined condition is satisfied; and

a special memory configured to accumulatively store data representing all game media corresponding to all worth amount betted in the bet operations accepted by the plurality of bet acceptance devices when the bonus pocket is specified by the pocket specification device.