Patent ID: 9495843
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a symbol display device configured to variably display and rearrange symbols including a trigger symbol; a validator configured to validate game media that has been added to the gaming machine and to receive the game media into the gaming machine when the game media is valid; and a controller programmed to, as a result of a player having wagered game media, execute the processes of: (a1) executing a normal game by rearranging the symbols on the symbol display device; (a2) determining whether a trigger condition indicating that a first predetermined number or more of the trigger symbol is rearranged is established in the normal game; (a3) when the trigger condition is established, executing a free game for a second predetermined number of times as a bonus game; (a4) each time the free game is executed in the bonus game, determining whether a re-trigger condition indicating that a number of rearranged trigger symbols is smaller than first the predetermined number is rearranged is established; and (a5) each time the re-trigger condition is established, increasing a payout rate of the free game executed as the bonus game, wherein the controller: includes a rank data table in which the number of rearranged trigger symbols is associated with a rank; and in the process (a5), calculates a rank corresponding to the number of rearranged trigger symbols with which the re-trigger condition is established, based on the rank data table, and multiplies the payout rate of the free game executed as the bonus game by the rank.