Patent ID: 8961293
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a display unit having a plurality of display regions each being adapted to display one of a plurality of symbols; a control unit randomly determining an outcome of a first instance of a game, the outcome including a symbol to be displayed in each of the plurality of display regions; and wherein in the first instance of the game, in a case that a predetermined triggering condition occurs, the control unit groups two of the same shape regions into a re-drawing group and in an additional instance of the game, the control unit: (a) determines for the re-drawing group, a single random symbol that is to be displayed in common in all of those display regions in the re-drawing group from the plurality of types of symbols; (b) determines for each of those display regions that are not in the re-drawing groups a random symbol that is to be displayed in the respective display region from the plurality of symbols; and (c) rotates the two of the same shape regions in the re-drawing group in a synchronized manner during the additional instance of the game such that the same symbols are displayed at the same time in each of the two of the same shape regions during rotation.