Patent ID: 9129480
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a symbol display device having a plurality of display blocks for variably displaying symbols, which blocks are aligned to form a matrix of at least one row and at least one column; an input device that allows an input of an instruction related to a game; a controller programmed to execute the following processes of: (a1) running a base game in response to receipt of a bet input of game media, the base game which variably displays and then stop-displays the symbols and awards a payout according to a predetermined symbol combination formed by the symbols stop-displayed; (a2) when the symbols stop-displayed in the base game run in (a1) includes a plurality of specific symbols, enabling the input device to accept an input related to selection of any of the specific symbols stop-displayed; (a3) determining whether or not a specific symbol selected in (a2) is a symbol that causes an occurrence of a free game; (a4) when it is determined in (a3) that the symbol is a symbol that causes an occurrence of the free game, running the free game a predetermined number of times, each of which game variably displays and stop-displays symbols and awards a payout based on a predetermined symbol combination formed by the stop-displayed symbols; (a5) when a specific symbol is stop-displayed in the free game run in (a4), enabling the input device to accept an input related to the specific symbol stop-displayed; (a6) when an input related to the specific symbol is received in (a5), replacing at least one of the symbols stop-displayed in display blocks of the same row or the same column as the specific symbol with a wild symbol deemed as any of the other symbols; and (a7) awarding a payout according to a predetermined symbol combination based on one or more wild symbols resulting from the replacement of (a6) and the other symbols stop-displayed.