Patent ID: 7922580

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a display device for displaying symbols variably and statically on a display screen thereof; a starting device for an operation to start a variable display of the symbols on the display screen of the display device; a symbol combination determination device for determining a combination of symbols to be displayed statically on the display screen of the display device based on a result of a first lottery as triggered by the operation of the starting device; and a payout provision device for providing a payout corresponding to the determined combination of symbols, the gaming machine further comprising: a payout level determination device for determining a payout level corresponding to each combination of symbols determined by the symbol combination determination device based on a result of a second lottery as triggered by the operation of the starting device; a storage device for storing a plurality of predictive effect images corresponding to respective payout levels determined by the payout level determination device; a display control device for causing the display device to display on the display screen one predictive effect image of the predictive effect images corresponding to the payout level determined by the payout determination device by reading out the one predictive effect image from the storage device simultaneously with the variable display of the symbols.