Patent ID: 8840455

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a symbol display unit that displays a plurality of reels including a plurality of symbols, the plurality of symbols including a specific symbol; a memory that stores plural kinds of data including data controlling an appearance probability of the specific symbol and program data for executing a game; and a controller that reads out the plural kinds of data from the memory, executes a normal game mode based on the read-out data, and executes a continuation game mode based on the symbols displayed to the symbol display unit as a result of a rearrangement of the plurality of reels in the normal game mode, wherein the appearance probability that the specific symbol will be displayed to the symbol display unit as a result of a rearrangement of each of the plurality of reels in the continuation game mode is increased relative to the normal game mode and is increased as a number of successively executed continuation games in the continuation mode increases, and wherein the controller is programmed to rearrange each of the plurality of reels in each of the successively executed continuation games.