Patent ID: 9633524
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a reel unit including a plurality of mechanical reels having symbols on an outer circumferential side, a plurality of motors for driving the plurality of mechanical reels, and a backlight unit being provided on an inner circumferential side of the mechanical reels, the reel unit being configured to display a result of a game by drivingly rotating the mechanical reels to rearrange the symbols, and the backlight unit being configured to execute a plurality of indication effects that are executed before the symbols are rearranged on the reel unit; at least one entry configured to receive a physical game medium providing credits to be bet to play the game; a storage device configured to store an effect combination table including a plurality of tables corresponding to a plurality of combination conditions that are determined based on combinations of the symbols, wherein effect combinations each coupled with one or more of the indication effects are associated with probabilities in each of the tables; and a controller by which the game starts, the controller being programmed to execute, as a result of a player having bet credits, the steps of: (A) randomly determining the symbols to be rearranged on the reel unit and rotating the symbols by rotating the mechanical reels; (B) determining which one of the combination conditions a combination of the symbols determined in the step (A) corresponds; (C) selecting one of the tables included in the effect combination table based on the corresponding one of the combination conditions determined in the step (B) and randomly selecting one of the effect combinations based on the probabilities in the selected table; (D) executing an indication effect indicated by the effect combination randomly determined in the step (C), by the backlight unit, wherein the effect combinations include at least one first effect combination constituted by a single indication effect and at least one second effect combination constituted by two or more indication effects, and wherein the single indication effect and the two or more indication effects are selected from among a plurality of indication effects including at least one first indication effect executed before a rotation of the symbols starts, at least one second indication effect controlling the rotation of the symbols, and at least one third indication effect executed during the rotation of the symbols, wherein the plurality of tables includes a first table and a second table, and at least one of the effect combinations included in the second table is the same as at least one of the effect combinations included in the first table, wherein the plurality of tables further includes a specific table corresponding to a specific combination condition of the plurality of combination conditions, the combination of the symbols including a specific symbol corresponds to the specific combination condition, and at least one of the effect combinations included in the specific table is not included in remaining tables of the plurality of tables.