Patent ID: 8172673
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A game server, comprising: a controller that collectively controls a plurality of game machines which are brought into a status enabling to start a game based on a throw-in coin number or given credit number, and which are subjected to a payout according to a result of said game, wherein the controller performs a lottery for determining a timing of a return; a first sending unit that sends a control signal for executing the return at a predetermined return rate to one of the game machines on which a player is continuously performing the game, irrespective of the result of the game when a cumulative coin or credit consumption reaches a predetermined upper limit by the player based on information about coin or credit consumption in the one of the game machines on which the player is performing the game, wherein the controller judges that the one of the game machines that has reached the predetermined upper limit is a return destination; and a second sending unit that sends a display control signal, based on a result of the lottery for determining the timing of the return, for displaying said result of the lottery for determining the timing to the one of the game machines on which the player is performing the game when the return is discharged, wherein the controller performs a return destination lottery and determines the timing of the return after judging that the one of the game machines that has reached the predetermined upper limit is the return destination.