Patent ID: 6905410

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: game processing means for executing game processing, wherein said game processing means including dividend determining means for determining a dividend to be paid to a bettor who has won a lottery with a predetermined probability, said lottery including a plurality of objects with predetermined probabilities of winning, and for indicating the dividend to the bettor; display means for providing an execution result executed by said dividend determining means to the bettor; said dividend determining means comprising: setting means for setting a target payout rate and a probability of winning of each of the objects and for setting odds on each of the objects based on the target payout rate and the probability of winning; ordering means for arranging the objects in order of the probability of winning; first correction means for approximately correcting the odds on the object in a highest place to odds with a predetermined number of digits, correcting the probability of winning of the object in the highest place based on the corrected odds, reflecting the difference between an uncorrected probability of winning and the corrected probability of winning of the object in the probability of winning of the object in a subsequent place, predetermined the odds on the object in the subsequent place based on the corrected probability of winning of the object in the subsequent place, and repetitively performing a whole processing for the objects in all places; and second correction means for approximately correcting the predetermined odds on the object in last place to odds with a predetermined number of digits, predetermining the probability of winning based on the approximated odds, and again reflecting the difference between the probability of winning and the predetermined probability of winning at predetermined ratios in the probabilities of winning of all the objects, and wherein said display means displaying the final odds obtained by said first and second correction means.