Patent ID: 8342934
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a display including a plurality of display regions for displaying a plurality of kinds of symbols; memory for storing a stopping order control program for controlling a stopping order for each of the plurality of display regions, in which the plurality of kinds of symbols stop varying and are statically displayed; an input device for accepting external input; and a controller for executing processing of: (a) in response to an input signal from the input device, randomly determining a symbol to be statically displayed in each of the plurality of symbol display regions after the variable display of the symbols; (b) determining, in a winning combination processing step, whether, after (a), a combination of symbols to be rearranged in the plurality of display regions along a pay line after the variable display of the symbols corresponds to a winning combination; (c) after (b), where it is determined that the combination of symbols to be displayed after the variable display will not constitute a winning combination, automatically statically displaying those symbols corresponding to a winning combination and then subsequently automatically statically displaying those symbols that do not correspond to the winning combination by means of the stopping order control program; and, (d) after (b), wherein is determined that the combination of symbols to be displayed after the variable display will constitute a winning combination, randomly statically displaying the symbols corresponding to the winning combination.