Gaming machine

摘要

A gaming machine capable of realizing game patterns differing from one another in a bonus game is provided. A main CPU 222 determines symbols to be rearranged by conducting a lottery based on a first symbol determination table in which in free games, probabilities, with each of which predetermined symbols (BONUS symbols) are rearranged on a particular condition (a condition that three or more BONUS symbols are rearranged in a display window 56), are set so as to exceed a predetermined probability and in the next free games subsequent to the game in which the predetermined symbols have been rearranged on the particular condition, determines symbols to be rearranged by conducting a lottery based on a second symbol determination table in which probabilities, with each of which the predetermined symbols are rearranged on the particular condition, are set so as to less than the predetermined probability.

主权项

1. A gaming machine in which a payout is determined based on rearranged symbols, comprising:
a symbol display device which is configured to display a plurality of symbols in display regions thereof in a scrolling manner and in a stopped manner; a memory storing therein first and second free-game-symbol-determination tables according to which predetermined symbols will be displayed in the stopped manner during execution of free games; wherein the first and second free-game-symbol-determination tables define probabilities for each of the predetermined symbols to be displayed in the stopped manner; wherein the probabilities defined by the first free-game-symbol-determination table are set such that a first likelihood that the predetermined symbols will satisfy a predetermined free-game condition exceeds a predetermined-condition-occurrence probability; and wherein the probabilities defined by the second free-game-symbol-determination table are set such that a second likelihood that the predetermined symbols will satisfy the predetermined free-game condition is less than the first likelihood that the predetermined symbols will satisfy the predetermined condition; and a controller which controls the symbol display device and which executes control to rearrange the plurality of symbols in the display regions, the controller being programmed to execute the following steps:
(a) conducting a basic-game lottery to determine symbols to be displayed in the stopped manner in a basic game; (b) causing the plurality of symbols to be displayed in the scrolling manner during execution of the basic game; and (c) causing to be displayed in the stopped manner the symbols that have been determined by the basic-game lottery to be displayed in the stopped manner;(d) shifiting to a free game if the symbols that are displayed in the stopped manner during execution of the basic game satisfy a predetermined free-game-initiation condition;(e) for each execution of the free game prior to occurrence of the predetermined free-game condition, conducting a free-game symbol-determination lottery to determine, in accordance with the first free-game-symbol-determination table, symbols to be displayed in the stopped manner in the free game; (f) causing the plurality of symbols to be displayed in the scrolling manner during execution of the free game; and (g) causing to be displayed in the stopped manner the symbols that have been determined by the free-game symbol-determination lottery, in accordance with the first free-game-symbol-determination table, to be displayed in the stopped manner; andupon occurrence of the predetermined free-game condition during a given execution of the free game, (i) conducting the free-game-symbol-determination lottery to determine, in accordance with the second free-game-symbol-determination table, symbols to be displayed in the stopped manner in each subsequent execution of the free game and (j) adding a predetermined number of free games to be executed to a number of free games remaining to be executed; (k) causing the plurality of symbols to be displayed in the scrolling manner during execution of the free game; and (g) causing to be displayed in the stopped manner the symbols that have been determined by the free-game-symbol-determination lottery, in accordance with the second free-game-symbol-determination table, to be displayed in the stopped manner.