Patent ID: 8465359

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a display unit having a plurality of mutually adjacent, same shape display regions each being adapted to display one of a plurality of symbols; a control unit randomly determining an outcome of a main game, the outcome including a symbol to be displayed in each of the plurality of display regions; and wherein in the main game, in a case that a predetermined triggering condition occurs, the control unit groups two of the same shape regions into a re-drawing group and determines a number of feature games, and in each of the determined number of feature games, the control unit: (a) determines for the re-drawing group, a single random symbol that is to be displayed in common in all of those display regions in the re-drawing group from the plurality of types of symbols; (b) determines for each of those display regions that are not in the re-drawing groups a random symbol that is to be displayed in the respective display region from the plurality of symbols; and (c) rotates the two of the same shape regions in the re-drawing group in a synchronized manner during the feature game such that the same symbols are displayed at the same time in each of the two of the same shape regions during rotation.