Patent ID: 7753775

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a display device for variably displaying and stopping symbols during a game; a memory storing a lottery table, the lottery table having interrelated random number ranges, threshold target values and payouts corresponding to each of said random number ranges, each threshold target value being defined as an accumulatively counted number of times the game has been played; and a processor programmed to operate with the display device and the memory (a) to extract a random number, (b) to determine from the lottery table the random number range to which the random number belongs, (c) to determine the specific threshold target value corresponding to the determined random number range, (d) to accumulatively count a total number of times the game has been played while games are continuously conducted, (e) to determine whether or not the total number of times the game has been played equals the determined specific threshold target value, and (f) to determine from the lottery table and cause the display device to display the related payout and provide the payout to the player when the total number of times the game has been played equals with the determined specific threshold target value.