Patent ID: 8123617
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A game system, comprising: a plurality of gaming machines capable of communicating with each other via a communication line, the plurality of gaming machines each having: (i) a display device onto which a plurality of types of symbols are arranged; (ii) an input device operable to input an insurance BET; (iii) at least one memory; and (iv) a controller; the controller being configured to: (a) store a first predetermined value and a second predetermined value in the memory; (b) accept an insurance BET input from the input device; (c) count the insurance BET thus accepted in an accumulative manner, and store the insurance BET number thus counted in the memory; (d) automatically re-arrange the plurality of types of symbols arranged on the display device; (e) judge whether the insurance BET number stored accumulatively at the itemized (c) reaches the first predetermined value stored at the itemized (a) as a result of repeating processing from the itemized (b) to (d); (f) judge whether a same result as said a result of said judgment at the itemized (e) is obtained by at least two or more gaming machines from among the plurality of gaming machines in a case where it is judged, as a result of said judgment at the itemized (e), that the insurance BET number stored accumulatively at the itemized (c) reaches the first predetermined value stored at the itemized (a); (g) sum up the accumulated insurance BET number of said at least two or more gaming machines of the plurality gaming machines stored accumulatively at the itemized (c), and store a total insurance BET number summed up in the memory, in a case where it is judged, as a result of said judgment at the itemized (f), that the insurance BET number of said at least two or more gaming machines of the plurality of gaming machines stored accumulatively reaches the first predetermined value; (h) execute a common game shared among said at least two or more gaming machines of the plurality of gaming machines; and (i) award a prize to a specific gaming machine from said at least two or more gaming machines from among the plurality of gaming machines, the prize including said total insurance BET number stored at the itemized (g), based on an outcome of the common game thus executed.