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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
May. 18, 2014
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Koto-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
Probability of prize occurrence is easily controlled without provision of a blank between symbols on a reel. A gaming machineincludes a lower image display panelconfigured to variable-display symbol arrayseach including a plurality of normal symbolsand a plurality of crest symbolsarranged among the normal symbols, and then rearrange the normal symbolsand the blank symbolsin a symbol display regionhaving a matrix of cells. The gaming machinegenerates a line win or a scatter win when the normal symbolsare rearranged on the lower image display panelin a predetermined manner, and generates a crest win which is lower than the line win and the scatter win when a predetermined number or more of the crest symbolsare rearranged.