Patent ID: 9672695
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A gaming machine comprising: an input device used for receiving an instruction regarding a game; at least one entry configured to receive a first physical item with a monetary value by which a player is able to add to the gaming machine credits to be bet to play the game; an award payout mechanism by which a second physical item associated with a monetary value can be paid out to the player or credits can be added to current credits of the player as an outcome of the game; a symbol display device having a plurality of paylines and configured to display a result of the game by moving arranged symbols and then rearranging the symbols in a matrix manner; a notification device capable of displaying a plurality of notification patterns at symbol rearrangement regions including at least positions where the symbols are rearranged on the symbol display device and including a backlight unit, the backlight unit including a plurality of light sources; a storage device configured to store an effect combination table including a plurality of tables corresponding to a plurality of combination conditions respectively, effect combinations each including one or more of the notification patterns and being associated with probabilities in each of the tables, each of the notification patterns including an illumination pattern of the light sources, and notification timings are assigned to the notification patterns, respectively; and a controller configured to start the game based on the instruction input to the input device, the controller being programmed to, as a result of the player having bet credits, execute the steps of: (A) randomly determining the symbols to be rearranged on the symbol display device; (B) determining a combination formed by the symbols determined in the step (A); (C) selecting one of the tables included in the effect combination table based on a combination condition corresponding to the combination determined in the step (B) and randomly selecting one of the effect combinations based on the probabilities in the selected table; (D) before the symbols are rearranged on the symbol display device, executing the one or more notification patterns included in the effect combination selected in the step (C), by the notification device, executing the one or more notification patterns including illuminating light according to the illumination pattern of the one or more notification patterns at the notification timing assigned to the one or more notification patterns, wherein the controller determines whether to award a payout according to the combination by the award payout mechanism based on a payline manner in which the payout is awarded based on a number of symbols arranged on each of the paylines or a scattered manner in which the payout is awarded based on a number of symbols arranged on a matrix of the symbol display device, and wherein when the controller determines to award the payout according to the combination, the one of the notification patterns executed in the step (D) notifies a position at which a symbol associated with the combination is to be stopped while the symbols are moved.