Patent ID: 8277306
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine, comprising: (i) a display device on which plural types of symbols are arranged; (ii) an insurance input section for setting an insurance function in a game; (iii) a selection input section for a player to make a predetermined selection; (iv) a memory which stores an accumulative value accumulated every game execution and a predetermined value for activating the insurance function; and (v) a controller, the controller being configured to: (a) accept an insurance function setting request in the game, based upon an input from the insurance input section; (b) rearrange the plural types of symbols on the display device; (c) increment the accumulative value stored in the memory; (d) judge whether a payout of a preset value for insurance or an execution of a special game has been selected by the player in response to an input from the selection input section by the player when the accumulative value stored in the memory so as to be accumulatively updated on a game-by-game basis has reached the predetermined value for activating the insurance function, as a result of repeating the processes (b) and (c) on the game-by-game basis, wherein a choice of the input is selected from the group consisting of the preset value for insurance and the exection of the special game; and (e) perform either of the payout of the preset value for the insurance and the execution of the special game, based upon a result of the judgment in the process (d).