Patent ID: 9520027
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A gaming machine, comprising: a first display configured to display a jackpot challenge for providing a progressive payout; a second display; a value-addition mechanism configured to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value by which a player is able to add to the gaming machine gaming media to be bet; an award payout mechanism by which gaming media can be paid out to the player or credited to current credits of the player as an outcome of a game; and a controller configured, as a result of the player having bet gaming media, to execute a base game, to trigger a bonus game when a result of the base game satisfies a predetermined condition, to display a plurality of cells forming courses on the first display when the bonus game is triggered, wherein the plurality of cells forming courses are associated with a plurality of events; to execute each round of the bonus game, to display a wheel including a plurality of digits on the second display when each round is executed, to determine any one digit from among the plurality of digits when the wheel is slid by the player on the second display, to stop the wheel on the first display to indicate the determined digit, to move a character of a player by the determined digit on the courses, to determine whether an event of a cell at which the character arrives by moving the character by the determined digit in each round belongs to a predetermined type of events among the plurality of events provided by the bonus game, the predetermined type of events being events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of different icons among the plurality of events, to determine whether a determined event belongs to the predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of different icons, to perform the determined event and determine a result of the event, wherein it is determined whether to award an icon of the event as the result only when the event belongs to the predetermined type of events, to obtain the icon of the event when the result of the event is to award the icon of the performed event to the player, to trigger the jackpot challenge when all of the plurality of different icons are obtained by executing a plurality of rounds of the game, to execute the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player, and to pay out the progressive payout by the award payout mechanism when the controller determines to award the progressive payout to the player.