Gaming machine which is executable rescue process in response to insurance bet and gaming method thereof

• US 8,622,804 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2010
• Issued: 01/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technological Group Limited, Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/), Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: Okada, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): CUFF, MICHAEL A
• Application Number:
  US12/784,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20100304834A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,328 Days
• Field of Search: 463 16- 21
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• 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

Abstract

A gaming machine runs a base game in which symbols 501 are rearranged and a base payout is awarded according to the rearranged symbols 501, when a game value is bet, runs a bonus game in which the symbols 501 are rearranged with a higher payout rate than that of the game and a bonus payout is awarded according to the rearranged symbols 501, if the symbols 501 are rearranged in a predetermined condition in the base game, makes an insurance bet by using at least a part of the bonus payout awarded in the bonus game, determines whether a rescue start condition is established, if the insurance bet has been made, and performs a rescue process if the rescue start condition has been established.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising a symbol display device which rearranges plural symbols and a controller programmed to execute the steps of:

(a1) on condition that a game value is bet, running a base game in which the symbols are rearranged on the symbol display device and a base payout is awarded according to the rearranged symbols;

(a2) on condition that the symbols are rearranged in a predetermined condition in the base game, running a bonus game in which the symbols are rearranged with a condition in which a payout rate is higher than that of the base game and a bonus payout is awarded according to the rearranged symbols;

(a3) making an insurance bet automatically without an operation by a player for the insurance bet by using at least a part of the bonus payout awarded in the bonus game and setting insurance when the bonus payout has been awarded;

(a4) if the insurance has been set, determining whether a rescue start condition is established; and

(a5) if the rescue start condition has been established, performing a rescue process; and

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wherein insurance is not set in (a3) when the bonus payout has not been awarded.

2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein, in the step (a2), a free game which does not require the betting of the game value is run as the bonus game.

3. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein, in the step (a3), the least bonus payout among bonus payouts awarded according to the symbols in the bonus game is used.

4. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein, in the step (a2), the bonus payout according to the symbols is awarded at once after the bonus game ends.

5. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein, in the step (a4), whether the rescue start condition has been established is determined according to whether the number of repetition of the base game has reached a predetermined number.

6. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein, in the step (a5), a free game which does not require the betting of the game value is run as the rescue process.

7. The gaming machine according to claim 6, wherein, in the step (a5), the free game is run with a game repeat count corresponding to an average bet amount until the rescue process is performed.

8. The gaming machine according to claim 6, wherein, in the step (a5), the free game is run with a payout amount corresponding to an average bet amount until the rescue process is performed.

9. A gaming machine comprising a symbol display device which rearranges plural symbols and a controller programmed to execute the steps of:

(b1) on condition that a game value is bet, running a base game in which the symbols are rearranged on the symbol display device and a base payout is awarded according to the rearranged symbols;

(b2) when the symbols are rearranged in a predetermined condition in the base game, running a bonus game in which a free game which does not require the betting of the game value is repeated plural times in accordance with a game repeat count, the symbols are rearranged in the free game, and a bonus payout corresponding to the rearranged symbols is awarded at once after the bonus game ends;

(b3) making an insurance bet automatically without an operation by a player for the insurance bet by using the lowest bonus payout among bonus payouts which are awarded in accordance with the symbols in the bonus game and setting insurance when the lowest bonus payout has been awarded;

(b4) if the insurance has been set, determining whether a rescue start condition has been established according to whether the number of repetition of the base game has reached a predetermined number; and

(b5) if the rescue start condition has been established, performing a rescue process with at least one of game modes of a game repeat count and a payout amount corresponding to an average bet amount until the rescue process is performed; and

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wherein insurance is not set when the lowest bonus payout has not been awarded.

10. A gaming method of a gaming machine, comprising the steps of:

on condition that a game value is bet, running a base game in which symbols are rearranged and a base payout is awarded according to the rearranged symbols;

on condition that the symbols are rearranged in a predetermined condition in the base game, running a bonus game in which the symbols are rearranged with a condition in which a payout rate is higher than that of the base game and a bonus payout is awarded according to the rearranged symbols;

making an insurance bet automatically without an operation by a player for the insurance bet by using at least a part of the bonus payout awarded in the bonus game and setting insurance when the bonus payout has been awarded;

if the insurance has been set, determining whether a rescue start condition is established; and

if the rescue start condition has been established, performing a rescue process; and

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wherein insurance is not set when the bonus payout has not been awarded.