Patent ID: 8210923

Claim:
A dice gaming machine comprising: a dice box in which a plurality of dice are rolled and stopped; a plurality of terminals each of which has a betting board having a plurality of bet areas each associated with a dice-winning condition based on spots on any of the plurality of dice stopped and a payout magnification ratio previously determined, and accepts an input by a player; and a processor executing processes to: for each of the plurality of terminals: (a) accept a bet of a gaming value on any of the plurality of bet areas of the terminal; (b) when acceptance of the bet of the gaming value ends, carry out a lottery for each of the plurality of the bet areas making up the betting board of the terminal, each of the bet areas being associated with a lottery winning probability previously determined; (c) determine which one of the plurality of bet areas won in the lottery based on the lottery winning probabilities associated with the plurality of the bet areas; (d) change the payout magnification ratio of the determined bet area which won in the lottery with respect to the terminal; (e) roll and stop the plurality of dice for the terminal; (f) identify any of the bet areas which satisfies the dice-winning condition based on spots on the plurality of dice stopped; and (g) award a prize based on an amount of the gaming value bet at each bet area identified at the process (f) and the payout magnification ratio associated with each bet area identified at the process (f).