Patent ID: 8083580
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A game control method implemented by a controller in a game machine, the game control method comprising: executing a game in which a plurality of symbols are variably displayed and then stop-displayed to a symbol display device capable of variably displaying a plurality of symbols after game media are BET in a number equal to or less than a previously set maximum number of BETs, and game media are paid out in a number according to a combination of said plurality of stop-displayed symbols; shifting a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode on a condition that a predetermined number of game media is inserted; counting, with the controller, a number of games in which game media are BET in a number equal to said previously set maximum number of BETs after shifting to said insurance mode, in said insurance mode, and not counting a game in which game media are BET in a number not equal to said previously set maximum number of BETs; paying out a second predetermined number of game media when the number of games counted in said counting reaches a specific number; and shifting the mode from the insurance mode to the non-insurance mode while holding the number of games counted in said counting when a predetermined insurance canceling condition is established.