Patent ID: 6497617
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
A game machine having a prize mode, the prize mode enabling a player of the game machine to reasonably predict the value of a prize during playing of the game, the game machine comprising:prize mode determining means which determines a prize mode of a game with reference to a probability table comprising data for classifying a drawing random number into an individual prize mode, and which erects a hit flag of a prize mode to which the drawing random number belongs; a variable display device for displaying various patterns variably in a plurality of columns and for displaying a combination of the patterns statically in said individual columns in accordance with the prize mode which is determined by said prize mode determining means; information means for informing a player of an information corresponding to a kind of a hit flag of a prize mode determined by a random number lottery with reference to an informing determination table, which is different from said probability table, for determining the prize mode to be informed, at a predetermined probability determined by the random number lottery with reference to the informing determination table, enabling a player to estimate the value of the predetermined prize mode; and notification means for notifying the player in conjunction with said information means, that the hit flag of a specific prize mode was erected by said prize mode determining means in a predetermined informing mode on condition that said information is a predetermined one corresponding to the specific prize mode.