Patent ID: 8029354

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a display that displays plural symbols with a matrix shape of N rows and M columns, the N being a natural number and more than 2, the M being a natural number and more than 2, the plural symbols including predetermined symbols; a memory that stores reels having the plural symbols; a processor that controls the display and a gaming session, the gaming session including a first game and a second game; wherein the reels include a base reel used in the first game and a special reel used in the second game, the special reel having more predetermined wild symbols than the base reel and a consecutive number of the predetermined wild symbols is larger than that of the base reel, wherein at least N of the predetermined wild symbols are consecutively displayed on the each of the reels so that the predetermined wild symbols are able to be arranged in all areas along a column direction, and wherein the processor (a) changes the gaming session from the first game to the second game if the predetermined symbols are displayed on the display with a predetermined number and above, (b) changes the base reel used in the first game to the special reel used in the second game, (c) variably displays the reels on the display in the second game, (d) determines the plural symbols to be displayed on the display in the second game, (e) displays the plural symbols determined in the process (d) on the display, determines whether a symbol combination displayed along a pay line of the display is a winning symbol combination and pays out outcome when determined that the symbol combination is the winning symbol combination, (f) determines whether N of all symbols are displayed on at least one of the columns are the predetermined symbols, and (g) holds the column on which N of the predetermined wild symbols is displayed in a next second game.