Gaming machine and control method thereof

摘要

To provide a gaming machine and a control method therefor, having a new entertainment characteristics, a slot machine 10 of the present invention, when a “BONUS” symbol 250 associated with a pick-up bonus game is selected, receives selection of any one of twenty little pig's noses 210 displayed. Then, a benefit associated with the selected little pig's nose 210 is awarded. When the benefit to be awarded is a “stick house” 218 which means “step-up”, a step-up occurs to the stick house stage and the expectation value for a payout is raised. Thus, when one little pig's nose 210 is selected out of the twenty little pig's noses 210 displayed in the stick house stage, the payout amount of the benefit associated with the little pig's nose 210 is increased.

主权项

1. A gaming machine comprising:
a symbol display device having a plurality of display blocks for variably displaying symbols, which blocks are aligned to form a matrix of at least one row and at least one column; an input device that allows an input of an instruction related to a game; a controller programmed to execute the following processes of: (a1) running a base game in response to receipt of a bet input of game media, the base game which variably displays and then stop-displays the symbols and awards a payout according to a predetermined symbol combination formed by the symbols stop-displayed; (a2) when the symbols stop-displayed in the base game run in (a1) includes a plurality of specific symbols, enabling the input device to accept an input related to selection of any of the specific symbols stop-displayed; (a3) determining whether or not a specific symbol selected in (a2) is a symbol that causes an occurrence of a free game; (a4) when it is determined in (a3) that the symbol is a symbol that causes an occurrence of the free game, running the free game a predetermined number of times, each of which game variably displays and stop-displays symbols and awards a payout based on a predetermined symbol combination formed by the stop-displayed symbols; (a5) when a specific symbol is stop-displayed in the free game run in (a4), enabling the input device to accept an input related to the specific symbol stop-displayed; (a6) when an input related to the specific symbol is received in (a5), replacing at least one of the symbols stop-displayed in display blocks of the same row or the same column as the specific symbol with a wild symbol deemed as any of the other symbols; and (a7) awarding a payout according to a predetermined symbol combination based on one or more wild symbols resulting from the replacement of (a6) and the other symbols stop-displayed.