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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
May. 13, 2013
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Masumi Fujisawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Munakata, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Enokido, Tokyo, JP;
Takehisa Itagaki, Tokyo, JP;
Masaya Honda, Tokyo, JP;
Daisyun Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
In a gaming machine, a display displays images of a free game. The controller executes a game, provides a plurality of free games when a result of the game satisfies a predetermined condition, determines at least one free game to a special mode from among the plurality of free game, and determine remaining free games to a base mode, rearranges a plurality of symbols to always appear at least one special symbol on the display in the free game of the special mode, rearranges the plurality of symbols to randomly determine whether to appear the special symbol on the display in the free game of the base mode, and provides a payout determined by a winning combination of symbols appeared on the display in each free game.