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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 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 a jackpot challenge for providing a progressive payout. A controller executes each round of a game, determines an event to be performed in each round, determines whether a determined event belongs to predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of icons, performs the determined event and determine a result of a performed event, obtains an icon of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events and the result of the performed event is to award the icon of the performed event to a player, triggers the jackpot challenge when the plurality of icons are obtained, and executes the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player.