Patent ID: 9159201
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a display for displaying a predetermined number of a plurality of symbol columns, each of the plurality of symbol columns being configured by a plurality of kinds of symbols, symbols of the plurality of kinds of symbols, whose each of the kinds is the same, being arranged in succession; a controller for executing a game in a base game mode played on condition of placing a bet and games in a free game mode played with no need of placing any bet; a value-addition mechanism by which credits to be bet can be added to the gaming machine and credited to a player's current credits; a bet-placing mechanism by which the player can bet an amount of credits on an outcome of the game in the base game mode to be played; and a pay-out mechanism by which credits can be paid out to the player or credited to the player's current credits under control of the processor and in accordance with a final outcome of the games in the base game mode and free game mode, the controller being programmed to execute processes described below: (1-1) a symbol drawing process in which in the free game mode, a plurality of symbols to be rearranged on the display are determined by conducting a drawing for each of the games; (1-2) a wild symbol column drawing process in which in the free game mode, separately from the symbol drawing process, a drawing is conducted to modify symbols of a predetermined symbol column to wild symbols; and (1-3) a priority rearrangement process in which based on a drawing outcome of the symbol drawing process and a drawing outcome of the wild symbol column drawing process, symbols are rearranged on the display, and the symbols determined by the wild symbol column drawing process are rearranged in priority to the symbols determined by the symbol drawing process.