Patent ID: 9747756
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A gaming machine running a normal game and a bonus game developing from the normal game, the gaming machine comprising: a symbol display device configured to display a result of a game by rearranging symbols; a value-input mechanism by which a physical monetary value to be bet can be added to the gaming machine; a validator; an award payout mechanism that pays out gaming media; a storage device configured to store a bonus game number random determination table in which the number of times of execution of the bonus game is associated with a random number; and a controller which, via the validator, identifies legitimacy of gaming media that has been added to the gaming machine and which establishes a credit balance for a player based at least in part on gaming media that has been added to the gaming machine, the controller being programmed to execute, as a result of the player having bet a value based on the credit balance, the processes of: (1A) as the normal game, randomly selecting the symbols to be rearranged on the symbol display device; (1B) rearranging the symbols selected in the process (1A) on the symbol display device and awarding a benefit in accordance with a combination of the rearranged symbols; (1C) when the benefit awarded in the process (1B) is a right to run the bonus game, counting how many predetermined bonus symbols are included in the combination of the symbols with which the right to run the bonus game is awarded; (1D) performing random determination based on the bonus game number random determination table for the number of times corresponding to the number of the predetermined bonus symbol counted in the process (1C); wherein a bonus game number is randomly determined by the random determination for each of the predetermined bonus symbols and a total number is determined as a total sum of the bonus game numbers determined for the number of times corresponding to the number of the predetermined bonus symbols; (1E) as the number of times of execution of the bonus game, awarding the total number determined in the process (1D); (1F) as options, presenting the execution of the bonus game for the number of times awarded in the process (1E) and the execution of the one-time game with which the benefit is awarded as a result of random determination once; and (1G) executing the bonus game for the awarded number of times when the execution of the bonus game is chosen in the process (1F), or executing the one-time game when the execution of the one-time game is chosen in the process (1F), wherein an expectation value of the benefit awarded in the one-time game is equal to a value calculated by multiplying an expectation value of a benefit awarded as a result of running the bonus game once by the awarded number of times of execution of the bonus game, wherein the credit balance is updated based on any awards awarded in the bonus game.