Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Patent
1995-08-31
1997-08-05
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
273143R, G07F 1734
Patent
active
056536364
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a gaming machine, such as a slot machine, for determining the reference number of pachinko balls (Japanese pinballs) corresponding to one medal and paying out pachinko balls for a winning game play in accordance with a symbol combination on drums.
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
For example, a player inputs flat articles such as medals or coins for playing a game with conventional slot machines, which are manually replenished with medals or coins because it is difficult to mechanize the handling of medals or coins. As personnel expenses are soaring nowadays, it is desired to save manpower and to automate the operation. Therefore, pachinko balls whose handling is comparatively easily mechanized are used as game play media instead of medals, coins, etc., and replenishment of the slot machine with pachinko balls and collection of pachinko balls are automated.
Since the conventional slot machines may coexist with pachinko ball machines in a single gaming house, the number of pachinko balls corresponding to one medal with respect to the economic value is five, a predetermined reference number. The reference number is fixedly predetermined for the economic value of one medal. For example, for a player to play a game with five, 10, or 15 pachinko balls, one gaming line is applied with five pachinko balls corresponding to one medal; three gaming lines are applied with 10 pachinko balls corresponding to two medals; five gaming lines are applied with 15 pachinko balls corresponding to three medals. The gaming line means a symbol position combination on drums. Assume that when three symbols are displayed on each of three slots, five gaming lines are applied. With such a slot machine, after inputting pachinko balls to a slot, a player handles a game play lever for rotating the three drums on which symbol patterns are displayed, then presses push button stop switches provided on the main unit of the slot machine in sequence for stopping rotation of the drums. A predetermined number of pachinko balls are paid out to the player from the slot machine in response to symbol display combinations after the drum rotation stops if the player wins the game.
However, at such a conventional slot machine, the player may drop or pick up pachinko balls during game play and four or less pachinko balls may remain as an incomplete number of pachinko balls, in which case no gaming lines can be set and the remaining pachinko balls are returned to the player, who has a problem with the incomplete number of pachinko balls.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a slot machine capable of setting the reference number.
To this end, according to the invention, there is provided a slot machine for executing a game upon receipt of a predetermined number of plurality of game play media, the slot machine comprising: combinations of symbol positions on drums, and selecting at least one among the plurality of gaming lines; the gaming lines; means being less than the predetermined number of game play media defined by the definition means for the gaming line selected by the gaming line selection means; symbol combination in response to the number of game play media counted by the count means upon detection by the detection means; and number of won game play media set by the number-of-won-game-play-media setting means does not become an integer.
The slot machine can further include means for displaying the number of won game play media set by the number-of-won-game-play-media setting means.
The number-of-won-game-play-media setting means can set the number of won game play media for each of the gaming lines.
The information means may further inform the player of gaming lines that can be selected if the number of won game play media set by the number-of-won-game-play-media setting means does not become an integer.
If such solution means are provided, the following operation is performed:
The count means counts the number of the received game play media; it may count the number o
REFERENCES:
patent: 5516104 (1996-05-01), Takemoto et al.
Kawashima Kazunari
Takemoto Takatoshi
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
Layno Benjamin H.
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