JP2003275371A - Prize-winning state monitor device for game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To issue alarm by reliably detecting illegality when a new signal is fetched into the remote controller of a game hall to perform an illegal action concerning a prize-winning pattern. <P>SOLUTION: A game machine includes: the remote controller 10 for collecting information from a plurality of game machines via game machine controllers 21, 22 and 23, and displaying them; and communication lines 24 for connecting the game machines and the remote controller. When a prize is won in the game machine, the remote controller 10 receives the prize-winning pattern and prize contents from the game machine, inspects that they coincide with the predetermined combination of the prize-winning pattern and the prize, and issues alarm in the case of non-coincidence. Thus, the illegal action to upset the combination of the prize pattern and the prize is immediately detected. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a management system for collectively managing electronic game machines in a game arcade.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At a game hall that provides entertainment by providing ball-ball type game machines such as pachinko machines and rotating-type game machines such as pachislot machines, a game machine remote consisting of a hall computer etc. in a management room where a manager exists. A monitoring device is installed to monitor the usage status of each gaming machine and collect and display the data used for the operation of the gaming hall. The gaming machine remote monitoring device reports the number of balls and medals IN / OUT on each machine, and the number of occurrences of events such as BB (big bonus) and RB (regular bonus). It is possible to infer the presence or absence of cheating,
Since it is a statistical event and requires the accumulation of data, it cannot be detected during the Goto act.

The fraudulent method has become more sophisticated year by year, and it becomes more and more difficult to accurately judge whether or not fraud is actually performed on the gaming machine by the statistical processing of these data. In particular, it is possible to tamper with the control circuit by attaching a special board or electromagnetic operation so as to obtain a large prize regardless of the winning pattern, or to immediately detect fraudulent acts that make it easy for a certain winning pattern to appear. It is difficult and troublesome because the damage will spread. Moreover, in order to eliminate arbitrary operations on the hall side, it is not allowed to adjust the control circuit inside the machine base from outside the machine base, and the game machine can only take in signals from the outside. Without authorization, it was difficult to detect these frauds automatically.

[0004]

Therefore, the problem to be solved by the present invention is to more reliably tamper with a fraudulent act relating to a winning pattern when a new signal is taken into a remote monitoring device in a game hall. Is to be able to detect and give an alarm.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, the gaming machine winning status of the present invention, which is adapted to be used by incorporating it into the function of a remote monitoring device installed in a game arcade equipped with a plurality of gaming machines. The monitoring device is connected to a communication path for collecting information from a game machine in the game arcade, receives a winning pattern and the number of medals paid out from the game machine when a prize is won at the game machine, and determines a predetermined winning pattern. The feature is that it is inspected that the combination of the number of paid-out medals matches, and if it is different, an alarm is issued. The gaming machine winning situation monitoring device of the present invention can immediately detect and warn of an illegal act that attempts to obtain an illegal profit by changing the combination of the winning pattern and the number of paid-out medals. It should be noted that, in this fraud monitoring, only the information is collected from the gaming machine, and it is not necessary to give a signal from the monitoring device side to the gaming machine control board, so that the circuit configuration adapted to the regulation is possible.

As an alarm method, an accessory attached to the machine base may be used to give an alarm by light or sound to warn the customer. However, an alarm in the management room and a log of abnormality information are generated to notify the administrator. You may make it deal with it by judgment. Further, the seriousness of the fraudulent activity may be taken into consideration to make an appropriate selection. It is preferable that the winning patterns actually generated and the payout results of medals as prizes are stored in the winning situation monitoring device, data is stored therein, and arbitrarily displayed so that they can be examined. Even if there is no abnormality in the combination of the winning pattern and the prize, if the winning of a certain pattern appears abnormally, it is suspected that the fraudulent act is performed, and thus it is possible to use the accumulated data to judge the fraud.

Further, the electronic gaming machine of the present invention is characterized by having a function of transmitting winning combination information and a payout state of medals to the gaming machine winning situation monitoring device. The electronic gaming machine of the present invention can give an alarm for preventing fraud by connecting to a winning situation monitoring device having a function of detecting fraud from a combination of winning patterns and prizes. The number of medals actually paid out may be acquired from the main board of the gaming machine or may be detected by a sensor provided in the hopper. When measuring with a hopper, the result actually paid out is directly measured, so that fraud can be detected more reliably.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The gaming machine prize status monitoring device of this embodiment can be configured as a part of a game hall remote monitoring device which has been conventionally used. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on an embodiment with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a management system using the gaming machine prize status monitoring device, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the types of signals transmitted from the gaming machine control circuit, and FIG. 3 is a prize status monitor. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the device, and FIG. 4 is a flow diagram for explaining the operation of the winning condition monitoring device. As shown in FIG. 1, the gaming machine management system using the winning situation monitoring apparatus of the present embodiment, the winning situation monitoring apparatus 10 placed in the management room, the gaming machines A, B, C, ... Installed in the hall. , And the communication bus 24 for connecting the gaming machine control device and the winning situation monitoring device 10 to each other.

Gaming machine control units 21, 22, 23, ...
As shown in FIG. 2, “*” controls overall control of each gaming machine by the control board 31 of the machine base provided inside. Further, the data related to the management of the gaming machine provided from the machine base control board 31 is automatically transmitted to the winning state monitoring device 10 via the external centralized terminal board 32 and the communication bus 24. Such gaming machine management data is conventionally used, such as turning on the power, starting the game of the customer, the number of IN / OUT medals, the operation of the bonus continuous operation increasing device such as the big bonus (BB) and the regular bonus (RB), etc. In addition to what has been done, the winning pattern and data regarding the number of medals paid out as a prize are included.

Signals for transmitting these information are sent by unidirectional communication using an output unit that only outputs, in order to satisfy the regulation that the condition setting of the machine base is not permitted during business. Moreover, in principle, no input unit is provided so that a control signal cannot be sent from the control room to the machine base. In the gaming machine management system according to the present embodiment, even when the alarm is displayed on each machine, an alarm signal sent from the prize status monitoring device 10 to the machine is sent from the receiving unit 33 to the machine display and sound. The signal is not brought into the control board 31 of the machine base by directly supplying the accessory control panel 34 for controlling the device 35.

The prize status monitor 10 comprises a management computer 11, a display device 12, an input interface 13 and an output interface 14. Management computer 1
1 has a table storage device 15 for storing, monitors the winning situation for each machine supplied through the input interface 13, displays the abnormality on the display device 12, and outputs the output interface 14 if necessary. The game machine having an abnormality is notified via the and an alarm is displayed. The gaming machine has winning patterns 1, 2, 3, 4, ... For example, for each, for example, 9, 9, 15,
The relationship between the winning pattern and the number of medals out, such as 9 coins, is paid out in advance. Table storage device 1
In this way, the number of medals payouts scheduled for each winning pattern is listed and stored in the memory 5.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart for explaining the operating procedure of the management computer 11. When a winning occurs in the gaming machine, the data of the winning pattern is sent to the management computer (S11). The management computer 11 reads out and stores the planned number of medals to be paid out corresponding to the winning pattern data from the table storage device 15 (S
21). The gaming machine pays out the number of medals corresponding to the winning (S12), and notifies the management computer 11 of the number of paid-out medals (S13).

The management computer compares the received actual number of payout medals with the scheduled number of payout medals read from the table storage device 15 to determine whether they match (S22). In the case where the two do not match, for example, 15 medals are paid out for the winning pattern 1 in which it is determined that the prize is 9 medals, a signal is sent to an alarm device to display an alarm (S31). The alarm may be displayed on the alarm device or the display device 12 in the control room, or may be issued using light or sound at each machine. Further, the abnormal situation is stored as management data in the storage device of the management computer so that the situation and degree of damage can be grasped and analyzed to be utilized as a countermeasure (S2).
3).

Even when the actual number of payouts matches the planned number, it is preferable to store the result and store the data (S23). For example, there is a fraudulent act that easily causes a certain winning pattern, but in this case, the same winning pattern appears considerably higher than the expected probability, and therefore it is possible to judge by calculating the probability from the accumulated data. In addition, by utilizing the fact that the data of the number of medals actually paid out is accumulated, it is possible to display these performance data in the form of tables and graphs that are easy to analyze so that they can be used for the operation of the hall. it can. As for the number of medals to be paid out to the management computer, if the value set on the gaming machine control board is used, it is not necessary to make a major modification to the conventional circuit. However, it is more preferable to use a value obtained by counting the actual number of payouts by providing a sensor on the hopper. This is because various fraudulent means can be detected without failure if the decision is made based on the final payout result.

The game hall management system of this embodiment is
It can be applied not only to rotating-type gaming machines such as pachislot machines, but also to ball-and-ball-type gaming machines such as pachinko machines, and can also be applied to amusement halls where both are mixed. It goes without saying that you can do it.

[0016]

As described above, by the remote management device of the present invention, the information of the winning pattern and the payout number of medals at the time of winning is directly acquired from the gaming machine and analyzed, so that there is an illegal act. Sometimes it can be detected immediately and an alarm can be issued to suppress the spread of damage.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a gaming machine management system using an embodiment of a gaming machine winning situation monitoring device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing types of signals transmitted from the gaming machine control circuit in the winning situation monitoring device of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a winning situation monitoring device of the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the winning condition monitoring device of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Prize status monitor 11 hall computer 12 Display 13 Input interface 14 Output interface 15 table storage 21,22,23 game machine control device 24 communication bus 31 Machine console control board 32 External common terminal board 33 receiving unit 34 accessory control panel 35 audio equipment

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A gaming machine is provided with a table storage device which is connected to a communication path for collecting information from gaming machines in a game arcade and stores a list of combinations of predetermined winning patterns and payout numbers of medals. When the winning pattern and the number of medals paid out are received from the gaming machine, it is inspected that the combination of the winning pattern and the number of medals paid out matches the combination read out from the list, and if they are different, an alarm is issued. Characteristic prize status monitoring device. 2. The winning condition monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the received winning pattern and information on the number of paid-out medals are accumulated in a storage device. 3. The gaming machine management system according to claim 1, wherein when the warning is issued, the warning is simultaneously displayed on the gaming machine which is the subject of the warning. 4. The winning situation monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the gaming machine is a spinning-type gaming machine. 5. A game machine having a function of transmitting the winning combination information and the payout status of medals to the winning status monitoring device according to claim 1. 6. The gaming machine according to claim 3, wherein a medal sensor is provided on the hopper, and the number of paid-out medals to be transmitted is detected by the medal sensor.