Patent ID: 7927207

Claim:
A gaming machine, comprising: a plurality of variable display means for varyingly displaying a plurality of symbols in order to form prize patterns constituted of a predetermined number of symbols; a lottery means for executing a lottery of the prize patterns; a stop control means for controlling the variable display means to stop varying the plurality of symbols; a stop control selection means for selecting a type of control of the stop control means to determine an order in which the plurality of variable display means are stopped by referencing a result of the lottery; and a display device, including: a substantially transparent panel, an image display device for displaying an image, the image display device being provided behind the panel, so as to show an image visibly through the panel, and a shutter being disposed in front of the variable display means and behind the image display device to block symbols of the variable display means from viewing, and a shutter control means for controlling the shutter according to the type of control selected by the stop control selection means, wherein the shutter control means: (a) varyingly displays only a first of the variable display means which stops first, and blocks, by the shutter, symbols other than the symbol constituting a prize pattern from the prize patterns on the first-stopped variable display means when there is a symbol constituting the prize pattern when the first-stopped variable display means stops; (b) as a result (a), varyingly displays a second of the variable display means which stops second, and blocks, by the shutter, symbols other than the symbol constituting the prize pattern on the second variable display means when there is a symbol constituting the prize pattern when the second variable display means stops; (c) as a result of (b), varyingly displays a last of the variable display means which stops last, and blocks, by the shutter, symbols other than the symbol constituting the prize pattern on the last variable display means when the last variable display means stops; and (d) after all of the variable display means have stopped and after a fixed period of time has elapsed, performs transparency control of the shutter to reveal the stopped variable display means, wherein the image display device displays the existence of the prize pattern corresponding to the symbols blocked by the shutter by way of predetermined characters such that the characters overlap a symbol not blocked by the shutter.