Patent ID: 8414378
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a display on which plural types of symbols are to be arranged; a memory for storing a plurality of accumulative values, which are accumulated by unit game, to activate a plurality of insurance pays, and has a first threshold value and a second threshold value, and a volume of a prize of the insurance pays, which is stored in association with the first threshold value and the second threshold value of the accumulative value; and a controller, the controller being configured to execute the processing of: (i) for every game routine in which the following processing operations (i) to (iii) are defined as one set of processing operations, randomly determining a predetermined number of times of insurance pay to be activated from among the plurality of insurance pays and then storing the randomly determined number of times in a counter; (ii) in a case where a value of the counter indicating the number of times of activating the insurance pay that is randomly predetermined in the processing (i) is at least two or more, further executing the processing of: (iii) subsequently to the processing of activation of the insurance pay in the processing operations (i) to (iii), resetting the counter; and (iv) repeatedly executing the game routine in which the processing operations of (i) to (iii) are defined as one set of processing operations.