Patent ID: 7972208

Claim:
A slot machine comprising: a symbol display device capable of variably displaying a plurality of symbols; an image display device; and a controller, said controller programmed to conduct the processing including, executing a game in which said plurality of symbols are variably displayed and then stop-displayed to said symbol display device after game media are BET in number equal to or less than a previously set maximum number of BETs, and game media are paid out in number according to said plurality of symbols stop-displayed or a combination thereof; first shifting a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode on condition that a predetermined number of game media is inserted; counting the number of games played after shifting to said insurance mode, in said insurance mode; paying out a predetermined number of game media when the number of games counted in said counting the number of games played reaches a specific number; second shifting the mode from said insurance mode to said non-insurance mode when the predetermined number of said game media is paid out in said paying out a predetermined number of game media; third shifting the mode from said insurance mode to said non-insurance mode when a predetermined insurance canceling condition is established before the number of games counted in said counting the number of games played reaches said specific number; displaying an image showing that the mode is shifted to said non-insurance mode to said image display device when the mode has been shifted from said insurance mode to said non-insurance mode; and displaying an image on said image display device showing the number of games left to be played until the number of games reaches said specific number every time a game is executed, wherein said third shifting the mode includes shifting the mode from said insurance mode to said non-insurance mode with the number of games counted in said counting the number of games played being kept when said insurance canceling condition is established, and when the mode is shifted to the non-insurance mode with the number of games counted in said counting the number of games played being kept, and is subsequently shifted again to the insurance mode, counting of the number of games restarts from the number of games kept, and said counting the number of games played includes counting, in said insurance mode, only the number of games in which games with the maximum number of BETs thereon among the games executed after the mode has been shifted to the insurance mode.