JP2005253521A - Mahjong ball game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mahjong ball game machine provided with a support function capable of making a ball entrance corresponding to a tile to win when drawn to complete a winning role emit colored light. <P>SOLUTION: The mahjong ball game machine in which the pattern of a mahjong tile corresponding to the ball entrance that a game ball enters is added to the tiles in hand as the tile to be drawn comprises: a winning tile determination means for determining whether or not the winning role can be completed when the pattern of one of the mahjong tiles is drawn and added to 13 pieces of the tiles in hand and extracting the tile to win when drawn; and a ball entrance light emitting means for making the ball entrance corresponding to the mahjong tile to win when drawn which is extracted by the winning tile determination means or its vicinity emit the light in different colors corresponding to the level of the winning role to be won when drawn before a player performs a drawing operation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention is a sparrow ball game machine having a support function that can be enjoyed even by a player who has little knowledge of mahjong or a player who has little experience with a sparrow ball game machine. The present invention relates to a sparrow ball game machine in which the entrance corresponding to the mahjong tile that can be displayed is clearly indicated in color.

  In a sparrow ball game machine, a plurality of entrances corresponding to the types of mahjong tiles (hereinafter referred to as “acupuncture”) are provided in the game board surface, and when a game ball enters the entrance, It is displayed on the display device as a cocoon (Tsumo) cocoon symbol corresponding to the mouth. Then, when the combination of the hand and the hand is completed in advance, the predetermined number of medals set in advance for each rising combination is paid out to the player as a prize. Further, when the rising combination is a specific rising combination set in advance, a special game advantageous to the player as compared with the normal game (normal game) can be performed by a predetermined number of games (games). It can be done.

  In an ordinary sparrow ball game machine, there are two types of special games (bonus games), a big game and a chance game. A big game is a game in which a game that is advantageous to the player can be acquired for a plurality of games from the next time, including the game, when the game is played in a specific rising role (for example, the big three yuan) set in advance. Say. In the game that has acquired the right of the big game, the passage opening (attacker operation opening) on the surface of the game board becomes effective, and when the game ball passes through the attacker operation opening, the special entry opening (attacker) opens. Then, when a game ball enters the attacker, the game allows the player to select a desired basket as his / her own by operating a selection button or the like. Then, when the player completes the winning combination for the game that has acquired the right of the big game, a plurality of games after the next time can play the game with the right of the big game being established.

  Also, the chance game is a game that can be played in the state in which the right of the big game described above is established only for the next one game when a rising combination that can acquire a predetermined chance game right is completed. Or a game in which the number of points that can be obtained only for the game is added from the normal game. Therefore, the game that has acquired the special game right can be easily won (raised) by the player. The normal game means a game that has not acquired the right of the big game or the chance game.

  In the conventional sparrow ball game machine, the hand arrangement required at the start of the game is not automatically performed by software processing. For this reason, the player operates the game ball launcher to fire 14 game balls, and the symbol of the kite corresponding to the entrance into which these game balls entered is distributed at the start of the game. It was. However, in such a conventional sparrow ball game machine, since the 14 arrangements at the start of the game are performed by the player operating the game ball launching device, the player's knowledge of the sparrow ball game machine, the game Due to the superiority or inferiority of the ball launching technique, there was a problem that the game at the start of the game was decided. For this reason, unfamiliar players and those who are familiar with the knowledge of the sparrow ball game machine and the operation of the game ball launching device cause unfairness in the game, making it impossible to play a healthy game and There was a problem of damaging. Therefore, in order to solve such problems, the applicant of the present application is a sparrow ball game machine (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-308425) provided with means for automatically arranging the 14 baskets required at the start of the game. ) Was proposed.

  However, for players who lack knowledge of mahjong, the game ball should be placed in the entrance to make the game a hearing (temple), and should be thrown away after self-determination. It is extremely difficult to immediately determine the selection of the symbol of the kite and the selection of the symbol of the kite that should be self-resolved in order to complete the rising role when the listening state is reached. The following patent documents have been proposed as sparrow ball machines that solve such problems.

JP-A-54-79746 (Specifications, pages 2 to 3, FIG. 3) Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-148310 (Specifications, pages 2 to 6, FIG. 4) JP-A-7-155426 (Specification, page 5, FIG. 4, FIG. 5) JP 2003-62333 A (specifications, pages 5 to 10, FIGS. 9 and 13)

  Among the above-mentioned patent documents, Patent Document 3 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-155426) describes a listening state in which any one of a plurality of predetermined retirement roles is completed. Based on the judgment result of the hearing judgment means and the judgment result of the hearing judgment means, it is determined which gamer will be completed when the game ball is placed in the entrance corresponding to which mahjong tile. Self-decision judging means for judging, and entrance indication means for lighting or blinking a entrance indication lamp provided corresponding to the entrance to be entered based on the judgment result of the self-decision judging means A sparrow ball game machine is described.

  Moreover, the following patent documents 5-6 are proposed as a technique using full color LED in order to raise the production effect about a game machine.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-87458 (Specifications, pages 3 to 6, FIG. 4) JP 2004-16323 A (pages 6 to 9 of the specification, FIGS. 2 and 5)

  In the above-mentioned Patent Document 5, in a gaming machine such as a slot machine, a full color LED is provided to illuminate an activated stop line among a plurality of stop lines of symbols, and the activated stop line is red. , Gaming machines that are clearly indicated by light emission colors such as green and blue are described.

  In Patent Document 6, in order to match the combination of the gaming machine frame and the game board, a full-color LED is provided in the decorative member of the front frame made of a light transmitting member, and the emission color of the full-color LED is controlled to emit light. A gaming machine such as a pachinko machine controlled by the above is described.

  The invention described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 3 is a sparrow ball game machine provided with means for displaying the entrance corresponding to the design of the kite that rises when the hand enters the hearing state. However, there is no disclosure about changing the color or the like of the lamp display according to the size of the rising combination when the rising combination is completed, that is, the number of medals that the player can acquire.

  The invention described in Patent Document 5 is intended for a slot machine in which each stop line activated for a stop line of a symbol of the slot machine is clearly indicated by changing the emission color of a full-color LED, It is not intended for sparrow ball machines. As described above, the sparrow ball gaming machine pays out a medal to the player when the combination of the baskets corresponding to the entrance into which the game ball has entered becomes a predetermined combination of rising combinations. Therefore, for a player who has little knowledge of mahjong or a player who has little experience with a sparrow ball game machine, when one heel is added to the hand (self-restraint), when the state where the rising role is completed, this “self-restraint” It is not possible to immediately determine the habit of going up. Further, when the rising combination is completed, it may be difficult to determine the size of the rising combination, that is, the number of medals that can be acquired.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to determine whether a player who has little knowledge of mahjong or a player who has little gaming experience with a sparrow ball game machine can easily enjoy the game so that he / she can “raise himself”. If it is, the entrance corresponding to this kite or its vicinity is emitted in color, and the emitted color is changed according to the level of the number of medals that can be obtained when the winning combination is completed. It is to provide a sparrow ball game machine equipped with a support function.

The present invention provides a game board surface portion having a entrance corresponding to a mahjong tile design made up of a plurality of types, and the mahjong tile design corresponding to the entrance into which the game ball entered is self-reliant. In a sparrow ball game machine, which is added to a hand as a spear and the combination of the hand spear pattern completes a preset combination of rising roles, and a player is awarded a medal as an award.
It is judged whether or not the rising combination can be completed by adding any one mahjong tile design to the current 13 manuals and extracting the mahjong tile that will rise if the self-registration is completed. A rising heel judging means,
Before the player performs his own operation, the rising entrance corresponding to the mahjong tile that rises if the self-extracting means extracted by the climbing-up determination means is moved up or close to the entrance corresponding to the mahjong tile. The sparrow ball game machine is provided with an entrance light emitting means for emitting light of different color depending on the level of the game.

  Furthermore, the present invention is a sparrow ball game machine in which the entrance light emitting means is composed of full-color LEDs.

  Furthermore, in the present invention, the level of the rising combination is a sparrow ball game machine set according to the number of medals to be paid out when the rising combination is completed.

  The sparrow ball game machine of the present invention is, for example, a sparrow ball game machine in which a game is played using a total of 108 spears, each of 27 kinds of spear symbols. Each game board surface is provided with one entrance corresponding to the 27 kinds of spider symbols. The 27 types of kites are made up of 9 types of cocoons, from “Ichigo” to “Jiu”, and 9 types of 牌 from “One” to “Nine”. ”And“ Kyuko ”are two types of cocoons, and the character 牌 is“ east ”,“ south ”,“ west ”,“ north ”,“ white ”,“ 發 ”, and“ medium ”. It is composed of two types of “Tatsuko” and “Tsutsuko”, and a total of three types. This character is made up of “Ichigo”, “Kukuro” and “East”, “South”, “West”, “North”, “White”, “Acupuncture” and “Medium”. Note that “Ikko” and “Juku” are not included in the character string because they cannot form an order, but may be included in several characters. In addition, the sparrow ball game machine of the present invention is composed of a total of four kinds of three kinds of puppets (three pieces of lions, tsutsuko, cords) and a character bowl, and uses a total of 136 symbols. It can also be applied to sparrow balls.

The sparrow ball game machine of the present invention has the following effects.
(1) When a player's hand is in a state of hearing as the game progresses, a candidate for a spear at the entrance that should be launched by launching a game ball to complete the rising role, , Or the vicinity of the entrance corresponding to the kite that will rise if it is self-sufficient, emits light in color, and the color of the light that is emitted according to the size of the rising role, that is, the number of medals that can be acquired Since the game is changed, a player who lacks mahjong knowledge can accurately and promptly determine the entrance to aim at by launching a game ball in order to complete the rising role.

  (2) When there are a plurality of entrances for launching a game ball and entering a game ball to complete the rising role when the hand is in a hearing state, The neighborhood is displayed in color, and the displayed color changes according to the number of medals that can be acquired. As a result, the player can launch a game ball aiming at a entrance where a game ball can easily enter, or whether to launch a game ball aiming at an entrance where the number of medals that can be acquired is large, etc. It is possible to provide a sparrow ball game machine that can enhance the interest in the progress of the game even for a player who has little knowledge or who has little experience with a sparrow ball game machine.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The sparrow ball game machine of the present invention described below will be described with an example of a sparrow ball game machine in which a game is performed by using a total of 108 spears, each of 27 types of spear symbols. For example, the 27 types of cocoon symbols are: 9 types of lions from “Ichigo” to “Jiu”, 9 types of “Ichitsu” to “Nine”, There are 2 types of “Kujo”, and 7 types of character are “Eastern”, “South”, “West”, “North”, “White”, “Amber”, and “Middle”. Therefore, the eggplant and the tube are several, and the chords “Ichigo” and “Jukuko” are not included in the character font because they cannot form the Junko. As a result, the type of cocoon described in the following embodiment indicates three types of “lion”, “tube”, and “character”. In addition, the above-mentioned two kinds of numbers are composed of, for example, nine kinds of symbols from “Ichigo” to “Jiufen” and nine types of symbols from “Ichigo” to “Jukugo”. The spider ball is a sparrow ball with a spear pattern consisting of “One-cylinder” and “Nine-cylinder” of Tsutsuko, and “East”, “South”, “West”, “North”, “White”, “Tail”, and “Middle” It can also be a gaming machine. Furthermore, the present invention is a sparrow ball game machine that is composed of a total of four kinds of spears, ie, three kinds of spears (lion, tube, cord) and a total of 136 symbols. Can also be applied.

  FIG. 1 is a front view showing a configuration of a game board in the sparrow ball game machine of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the front part of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is basically a game board surface part 2, an operation panel 3, a game ball launch lever 4 provided below the operation panel 3, a medal tray 5, audio. And a speaker 6 that is a sound output device that outputs sound effects (hereinafter referred to as sound), a lamp device 7, and the like.

  A special prize-winning device (hereinafter referred to as an attacker) 9 is located at the center of the game board surface 2 surrounded by the guide rails 8. An attacker operating port 10 through which a game ball can pass is located above the attacker 9. Is provided with a plurality of entrances 11a, 11b, 11c,. The plurality of entrances 11a, 11b,... Are provided with 27 entrances corresponding to 27 types of kites except for chords from two ropes to eight ropes. For example, a “white” entrance 11a and a “middle” entrance 11b are located on the left and right sides of the attacker 9, and a “first base” entrance 11c, “2” , Etc. are provided. In addition, a symbol of a bag corresponding to the entrance is displayed at the entrance 11a,. Further, the game board surface portion 2 is provided with a decoration device 12 with a lamp, a windmill 13 and the like. In addition, the light-emitting body used for the lamp apparatus 7 and the decoration apparatus 12 with a lamp can use a normal light bulb or LED.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the operation panel 3 is provided with a display device 14 including a liquid crystal display device, a medal slot 15, and various operation buttons (switches). These various operation buttons include a discard button 16a, 16b,..., 16m, in which 13 buttons are arranged in the horizontal direction, a discard button 17, a reach button 18, a selection right shift button 19, a selection button A selection left shift button 20, a self-determination determination button 21, a payout button 22, a game end button 23, a game start button 24, and a REJECT button 25 are configured. When the player operates each of these buttons (presses and turns on the switch), for example, when the player presses the self-determination button 21, a self-determination determination signal is generated, and this signal is constituted by a microcomputer. Input to the control board. And the software (program) mounted in the ROM of the control board executes a process set in advance for advancing the game for each input signal.

  Various display units are set on the display surface of the display device 14, and necessary information, images, and effect images are displayed on the display unit as the game progresses. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, in the upper horizontal direction of the display surface, the medal reserve number display unit 26, the remaining game ball number display unit 27, the wind screen display unit 28, the front drum display unit 29, and the back drum display unit 30. Among the special games, among the special games, the big game rising combination display section 32 showing the rising combination capable of obtaining the right of the big game, and the chance game indicating the rising combination capable of acquiring the right of the chance game. A rising hand display portion 33 and a throwing-up symbol display portion 34 for displaying the symbol of the throwing-away symbol are provided, and the symbol, effect image, numerical value, etc. are displayed as the game progresses.

  Further, in the lower horizontal direction of the display surface of the display device 14, there are provided a hand bag display unit 35 for displaying 13 hand bag symbols, and a self screen display unit 36 for displaying self-portraited bag designs. It should be noted that the button names (A, B, C, D,...) Corresponding to the discard buttons 16a, 16b,... Are displayed at the bottom of each symbol displayed on the hand display unit 35 and the self display unit 36. E,...) Are displayed. Moreover, the symbol of the cocoon displayed is displayed in color.

  Reference numeral 37 shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 4 denotes a ball-entrant light emitting means composed of full-color LEDs. This full-color LED 37 is provided to emit light in 27 color entrances 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d,... The position where the full color LED 37 is installed is, for example, in the vicinity of the entrance, such as between two nails protruding from the entrance of each entrance 11a,. It is preferable to embed the design in the game board surface portion 2 so as to emit light in color, and to cover the surface portion of the game board surface portion 2 with a transparent or translucent resin plate.

  The full-color LED 37 has a configuration in which three LEDs emitting three primary colors of red, blue, and green are integrally sealed, and the current and voltage supplied to the cathode of each LED are turned on and off. By controlling the above, it is possible to emit or blink any color, for example, red, yellow, blue, green, purple, white, etc.

  A control board for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1 of the present invention is mounted at a predetermined position inside the sparrow ball game machine 1. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the control board includes a main control board Ka, a sub control board Kb, and an image control board Kc. The main control board Ka, the sub control board Kb, and the image control board Kc are input / output interfaces (input / output interfaces for inputting / outputting signals to / from various operation buttons such as the CPU 40, the ROM 41, the RAM 42, various sensors, the discard button 16a, etc.) I / F) circuit 43 and a microcomputer including a communication interface circuit 44 for performing communication with the control boards Ka, Kb, and Kc. Various software (programs) for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1 or displaying information or images on the display unit of the display device 14 is a ROM 41 mounted on each control board Ka, Kb, Kc. Is remembered. Each of the RAMs 42 is used as a storage area (area) and a calculation area for reading various data, creating data, and calculating when these programs operate. The main control board Ka and the sub-control board Kb, and the sub-control board Kb and the image control board Kc are connected by cable lines T1 and T2 so that data communication can be performed. As the CPU 40, any of CPUs configured of 8 bits, 16 bits, or 32 bits corresponding to the processing functions of the main control board Ka, the sub control board Kb, and the image control board Kc is adopted. .

  Note that the lamps 7 and 12 and the full color LED 37 are connected to the input / output I / F circuit 43 mounted on the sub control board Kb. Although not shown in FIG. 4, a circuit (for example, a driver IC) for controlling the emission color of the full color LED 37 is provided between each full color LED 37 and the input / output I / F circuit 43. When a control signal for controlling the emission color is transmitted to this driver by a program mounted on the sub-control board Kb, it is supplied to the R (red), B (blue), and G (green) cathodes of the full-color LED 37. The current, voltage duty ratio, and the like are controlled, and the full color LED 37 can emit any color.

  Further, various image data to be displayed on the display device 14 and various audio data to be output from the speaker 6 are stored at a predetermined storage address of the ROM 41 mounted on the sub control board Kb. The image data includes 27 kinds of spider symbol data, image data to be displayed as an initial screen when the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned on, information and images that support the player as the game progresses, Is image data for various effects to be displayed when the winning combination is completed. The various audio data is digital data for outputting a sound for assisting the player as the game progresses or a sound effect for production.

  The ROM 41 mounted on the main control board Ka stores various programs for controlling the progress of the game of the sparrow ball gaming machine 1. As shown in FIG. 5, for example, the main board operation control program P1, the communication control program P2, the medal management program P3, the game ball management program P4, and the automatic distribution program are installed in the ROM 41 of the main control board Ka. P5, a special game player lottery program P6, a dora lottery program P7 for determining the front and back dra, a winning determination program P8, a self-selection support program P9, and the like.

The main board operation control program P1 is a program that supervises the overall operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1, and mainly performs the following processing.
(1) Initialization processing when the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned on, for example, an initialization control command when the power is turned on is sent to the image control board Kc via the sub control board Kb and the sub control board Kb. Process to send. Based on this control command, the sub control board Kb and the image control board Kc perform initialization processing when the power is turned on. As a result, the image control board Kc can output an effect image or sound when the power is turned on.

  (2) Analyzing signals input from various input / output sensors, and controlling the operation of the sparrow game machine 1 to perform processing corresponding to the signals. For example, when a player launches a game ball, it analyzes the incoming signal from the entrance that entered the ball, and adds the symbol of the kite corresponding to this entrance to the manual data as its own ), Or when the player operates the throwing pad button 16a etc. to perform an operation to cut an unnecessary paddle from the hand pad (discarding padding operation), the signal from which throwing pad button is analyzed. The process of deleting the symbol of the bag corresponding to the discard button from the manual data is performed.

  (3) The automatic arrangement program P5 is activated to determine the 14 manuals at the start of the game, and to transmit the 14 manual data (symbol code) stored in the RAM 42 to the sub-control board Kb. Each time the player performs the discarding operation and the self-control operation in the processing of (2) and the processing of (2) above, the current manual data, the discarding data, the symbol data of the self-restraint (hereinafter referred to as symbol code) The sub-control board Kb is further subjected to processing for transmitting to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb.

  The communication control program P2 is a program for performing communication with the sub-control board Kb, and the data to be transmitted is composed of a control command in which what processing is performed and control data necessary for the control command, etc. Is done. When data is transmitted to the image control board Kc, the data is transmitted via the sub control board Kb.

The medal management program P3 is a program for managing the number of stored medals and payout processing as the game progresses. When the main board operation control program P1 detects a medal insertion signal or the like from the medal insertion slot 15, the medal management program P3 performs the following processing, and the medal storage number as a result of the processing is transmitted via the sub control board Kb. Processing to transmit to the image control board Kc is also performed.
(1) When a medal insertion signal is detected from the medal insertion slot 15, the medal storage number stored in the RAM 42 is incremented by “1”.
(2) When a signal from the game start button 24 is detected, “1” is subtracted from the number of stored medal.
(3) When a signal from the game end button 23 is detected when the rising combination is completed, the number of medals acquired by the rising combination is added to the number of stored medals stored in the RAM 42.
(4) When a signal from the payout button 22 is detected, a control signal is issued so that medals corresponding to the number of stored coins are paid out to the medal tray 5. 1 ”is subtracted.

The game ball management program P4 is a program that performs the following processing based on the control of the main board operation control program P1.
(1) At the start of the game, the remaining number of game balls stored in the RAM 42 is set to 14.
(2) When an operation signal for the throwing paddle is detected from the throwing pad button 16a or the like, control is performed to send one game ball to the game ball launching position (not shown in FIG. 1).
(3) When a game ball launched from the game ball launch lever 4 enters any of the entrances 11a, 11b, 11c,... And the entry signal is detected, the remaining number of game balls is calculated. “1” is subtracted, and the symbol code of the kite corresponding to the entrance is entered. Further, a process of transmitting the remaining number of game balls to the image control board Kc via the sub control board Kb is also performed.

  The automatic laying program P5 is a program for automatically determining 14 laid-out symbols randomly at the start of one game. This automatic catering program P5 uses the random number generated by the random number generating means to perform a process of randomly determining 14 catering symbols from 108 mahjong tiles used in the sparrow ball game machine 1. .

For example, the automatic layout program P5 can determine the symbols of 14 bags required as a game when starting the game by performing the following processing.
(1) The spiders used in the sparrow ball game machine 1 of the present invention are a total of 108 spiders, 27 kinds of spears except for cords from two ropes to eight ropes. Therefore, as shown in Table 1, a symbol code (hexadecimal number) is given to the 27 types of spider symbols, and a total of 108 symbols composed of 27 types are assigned values from 0 to 107. The four assigned symbol data tables are registered in advance in the automatic layout program P5 or in the ROM 41.
(2) The automatic layout program P5 includes a random number generation program for generating, for example, a 5-digit random number. Then, the automatic distribution program P5 divides the 5-digit random number generated by the random number generation program by 108 and calculates the remainder. Subsequently, the symbol code corresponding to the remainder value is obtained with reference to Table 1, and determined as the symbol to which this symbol code is arranged.
(3) The process of the above (2) is carried out 14 times in total, and the 14 symbols required at the start of the game are determined. In addition, it is necessary to add the program which performs a randomization process so that a different random number may be generated each time to the program which generates this 5-digit random number. The 14 symbol codes determined by such processing are stored in the manual storage area of the RAM 42. The 14 pieces of layout data stored in the manual storage area are sorted and stored in ascending order of symbol codes.

The special game combination lottery program P6 is a program for determining, by lottery, a combination of winning combinations that can acquire a special game right for each game from among predetermined combinations. For example, the winning combination that can acquire the right of the big game is determined by lottery by selecting one of the three winning combinations of “Daisangyuan”, “Kokushi Musou”, and “Nine consecutive treasures”. In addition, there are six kinds of uplifting points that can acquire chance game rights, for example, “Ippontsu”, “Seven Pairs”, “Three Darks”, “Peace”, “Ichiguchi”, “Tang Yao” Two types from the rising role are decided by lottery. The method of determining the winning combination that can acquire the special game right by lottery is such that a random number of a predetermined number of digits is generated by program processing and stored in the RAM 42, and is randomly determined using this random number. .
The dora lottery program P7 is a program for determining a front dra and a back dora by lottery in the same manner at the start of the game.

  The winning determination program P8 is a combination of rising combinations that are set in advance when the 14 rules are determined by the automatic allocation program P5 described above and when the player performs his own operation. It is a program for judging whether or not. As the winning combination, a data table configured as shown in Table 2, that is, a winning combination code and a score (the number of acquired medals) that a player can acquire for the rising combination is a winning determination program P8 or ROM 41 in advance. Is remembered. If the winning determination program P8 determines that the current winning combination has been completed, the control command for completing the rising combination, the code for the rising combination, the score obtained, etc. A process of transmitting to the image control board Kc via the control board Kb is performed.

  When a signal indicating that a game ball has entered the attacker 9 is input to the attacker 9 in the game that has acquired the right of special game, the self-selection selection support program P9 is self-restrained by the screen of the display device 14 and the interactive method. This is a program for supporting the operation of selecting the symbol of the frog to be performed.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the programs mounted on the ROM 41 of the sub control board Kb are composed of a sub board operation control program P21, a communication control program P22, a lamp control program P23, a rising haze determination extraction program P24, and the like. Yes. Further, the rising habit determination and extraction program P24 includes a nineteen-character habit type calculation program P241, a hearing pattern determination program P242, a hand arrangement pattern calculation program P242a, an upward wrinkle type determination program P243, an upward wrinkle extraction program P244, The winning combination determination program P245, the entrance entrance light emission control program P246, the seven-pair child climbing kite determination program P247, the Kokushi no double climbing kite determination program P248, and the like.

The sub board operation control program P21 is a program that decodes various control commands transmitted from the main control board Ka and controls the execution of the above programs in response to the control commands.
The communication control program P22 is a program for receiving data from the main control board Ka and performing communication processing with the image control board Kc. When the image control board Kc receives these various control commands and their control data transmitted from the sub-control board Kb, the image control board Kc displays an effect image and information on the display device 14 by the program processing described later. Production sound and sound effects are output from the speaker 6.
The lamp control program P23 is a program for controlling lighting and extinguishing of the lamps 7 and 12 based on a control command and control data transmitted from the main control board Ka.

  The rising kit determining / extracting program P24 is used to complete a preset rising combination based on the current thirteen moves transmitted from the main control board Ka after the player performs a throwing kit operation. It is a program for determining and extracting a kite to be identified before the player performs a self-control operation, that is, a kite that will be "raised if self-speaking", and means for executing a configuration that is a feature of the present invention It becomes. As described above, the rising kite determination program P24 determines whether or not there is a kite that can complete the rising combination when the player adds one kite to the current thirteen hands. A determination process is performed before the player operates the player. Then, when a kite that becomes “raises by self” is extracted, the climbing kit determination extraction program P24 determines this climbing combination, and according to the number of medals that the player can acquire corresponding to the rising combination. The emission color emitted by the full color LED 37 as the entrance light emitting means is also controlled to change.

  Further, the rising wrinkle determination extraction program P24 performs a control to display on the image control board Kc a wrinkle symbol that will “go up if it is self-explanatory”. With this support function, if a player who is new to mahjong knowledge or a sparrow ball game machine launches a game ball aiming at the entrance corresponding to the symbol of the kite that goes up by “full-color LED 37” It becomes possible to complete the rising role faster and more reliably.

Next, the processing contents of the rising haze determination extraction program P24 will be described. The main board operation control program P1 for the main control board Ka is that when 14 baskets are automatically arranged at the start of the game, and when the player launches a game ball and performs his / her own operation, the number of hand baskets becomes 14 At this time, it is determined whether or not the winning combination is completed by operating the winning determination program P8. If the player does not complete the winning combination, each time the player performs an “discarding operation” that throws away one unnecessary spear out of the 14 spears, it is stored in the hand storage area of the RAM 42. The symbol code of the 13 handed handles is transmitted to the sub-control board Kb together with the control command. At this time, the 13 symbol codes are sorted in ascending order and transmitted to the sub control board Kb. When the sub-board operation control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb receives the 13 design symbols, the sub-board operation control program P21 stores the received data in the RAM 42 and then goes up the control and shifts to the wrinkle determination extraction program P24. Then, the rising habit determination extraction program P24 is, in turn, a nineteen-character habit type number calculation program P241, a 7-pair child rising habit determination program P247, a Kokushi-no-Musumi rising habit determination program P248, a hearing pattern determination program P242, an ascending habit type determination program. Control is performed to operate the P243, the rising haze extraction program P244, the rising combination determination program P245, and the entrance light emission control program P246.
Hereinafter, the processing procedure of the rising haze determination extraction program P24, which is a feature of the present invention, will be described in the order of steps S1 to S12 in the flowchart shown in FIG.

(Step S1)
First, the nineteen-character type number calculation program P241 uses “1” and “9” of several numbers (eg, eggplant and tube) for the 13 hand code symbols stored in the RAM 42 of the sub-control board Kb. The number of types A including “one pot”, “one cylinder”, “nine cylinders”, “nine cylinders”, and the character box is calculated. This calculation can be performed by the following processing.
(1) The ROM 41 of the sub-control board Kb stores in advance a symbol data table in which symbol codes are set as shown in Table 1 for each of the 27 types of samurai symbols used in this sparrow ball game machine. This symbol code is set using, for example, a 1-byte hexadecimal number. As shown in Table 1, a symbol code “01” for the symbol “Ichigo” is stored in hexadecimal, and a symbol code “1B” in the symbol “medium” is stored in hexadecimal.

  (2) With respect to the symbol codes of the 13 hand rules stored in the RAM 42, refer to the symbol data table for each symbol code to determine the numbers “1”, “9”, and character Calculate whether the type is included. This specific calculation procedure can be performed as follows. First, with regard to the 13 hand code symbols stored in the RAM 42, it is sequentially determined from the symbol code stored at the first storage address whether the symbol code matches "01". . If they do not match, it is determined whether or not they match the symbol code “09” of “Jiufen”. Further, if they do not match, it is determined whether or not they match the symbol code “0A” of “one cylinder”. In this way, with respect to all the design codes of the 13 hand tiles, it is sequentially determined whether they match the symbol codes “1”, “9”, and the character codes of the character tiles in the order of the stored storage addresses. judge. If a matching symbol code is included by such processing, the symbol code is temporarily stored in the RAM 42. When the above-described determination processing is completed for all 13 design codes, the number of design code types A is counted for the design code stored in the RAM 42 (the same design code is included). Count as one type). By performing such a process, it is possible to calculate the number A of the numbers “1”, “9”, and character types included in the 13 manuals.

  If it is determined in the process of step S1 that the number of types “1”, “9”, and the number A of character fonts are included in the 13 manuals, Since there is no possibility that the thirteen hands will rise, the process of the rising wrinkle determination extraction program P24 ends. This eliminates the need to execute the following processing steps S2 to S12 for the 13 handbooks that are not likely to go up with respect to the current handbook so that the processing time of the climbing eye determination extraction program P24 can be shortened. . If the current 13 manuals include 8 to 11 types of “1” and “9” and the number A of character fonts, one automatic signal is included in this manual. The reason why it is not possible to go up even after adding is as described in (1) to (3) below, and can also be applied to the judgment of the rising role of “Seven Pairs” and “Kokushi Musou” .

(1) General rising roles, excluding “Seven Pairs” and “Kokushi Musou”, are composed of 4 sets of indentations and Junko, and 1 set of sparrow heads. Therefore, the general rising combination is composed of five types of numbers “1” and “9” and the character font at most. Examples of this are “Ichigo, Ichigo, Ichigo”, “Jiufen, Jiufen, Jiufen”, “Seven Cylinders, Eight Cylinders, Nine Cylinders”, “East, East, East”, “ This is because the combination of “Ichigo” can be completed.
(2) When the rising role is “seven pairs”, the rising is composed of seven types of heels. Therefore, even if one heel is added, eight or more types of “1” are added to the current thirteen hands. And “9” and the character “牌” are included, it cannot be raised.
(3) If the rising role is “Kokushi Musou”, the rising is composed of 13 types of heels, so there are 11 types or less of “1” and “9” numbers and characters In the case where a kite is included, even if one kite is added to these thirteen hands, it cannot be raised.
(4) Therefore, if there are 8 to 11 types of “1” and “9” numbers and character fonts in the current 13 manuals, the rising combination cannot be completed. Can be determined.

  If the number of types A is 7 or less, or 12 or more, the process proceeds to step S2. The process of calculating the numbers “1” and “9” included in the 13 manuals and the number of types A of the character fonts by this step S1 is the calculation of the number of types of nineteen characters. Configure the means.

(Step S2)
In step S2, it is determined whether or not “seven pairs” can be achieved by adding one kite to the current thirteen hands by the seven pair kite climbing kit determination program P247, If it is determined that the kite that can be raised by “seven pairs”, the symbol code of the kite to be self-declared is temporarily stored in the RAM 42 in step S10a as a kite that will be “raised if self-speaking”. Process. Further, in the process of step S10a, the symbol code of “Seven pairs” that rises as “Seven pairs” and the combination code that rises as “Seven pairs” and the number of medals that can be obtained by referring to Table 2 Are also stored in the RAM 42 and the process proceeds to step S4. After the process of step S10a is performed, the reason for proceeding to step S4 is that a hand raised in “seven pairs” may also be raised in “second base” which is a general rising role. If it is determined that “seven pairs” cannot be raised, the process proceeds to step S3.

The determination of a kite that can be raised by “seven pairs” if one kite is added to the current table is made possible by programming the following processing, for example.
(1) The 13 hand codes stored in the RAM 42 are arranged and stored in ascending order. The number of sets in which about two identical symbol codes are arranged in order from the top of the symbol code of the manual is counted.
(2) If there are six sets of two identical symbol codes in the process of (1) above, it is determined that the 13 manuals are heard as “seven pairs”. be able to. However, when four identical symbol codes are prepared, it is not determined that the user is listening with “seven pairs”.
(3) If it can be determined in the process of (2) that he / she is listening with “Seven Pairs”, about two identical symbol codes are prepared from 13 manuals. It can be determined that the symbol code of the remaining heel, excluding the pair of heels, is “raised heels if self”. However, when the symbol code of “self-raising and rising habit” is included in the six sets of symbol codes, it is not determined that “self-raising and rising habit”.

(Step S3)
In step S3, it is determined whether or not “Kokushi Musou” can be raised by adding one kite to the current 13 hands by the Kokushi Musou climbing kit judgment program P248. When the heel that can be raised is determined, a process of temporarily storing the symbol code of the heel to be self-contained in the RAM 42 in step S10b as a crease that becomes "if self-contained" is performed. Also, in this process, the winning combination code and the number of medals that can be acquired by referring to Table 2 are stored in the RAM 42 together with the symbol code of “Kakushi Musou” that will be “if you make it self”. If it is determined that “Kokushi Musou” cannot be raised, the process proceeds to step S4.

  In the processes of steps S2 and S3 described above, if four heels that have been determined to be “self-raising will be raised” have already been disclosed at the current game site, “self-rising will be raised”. It is necessary to perform processing that is not determined as a trap. This determination method will be described in step S7 described later.

  Kokushi Musou is the result of collecting 13 types of “1” and “9” and one of them, forming a sparrow head with one of them. When 13 hands are listening to the rising role of “Kokushi Musou”, 13 types of “1” and “9” and one character are collected one by one, and the remaining one is waiting for 13 faces. There are 12 types of sparrows that have been formed and the remaining one is waiting for a tank. Therefore, it is possible to determine a kite that can be lifted by “Kokushi Musou” by self-determination of one kite by programming the following processing.

(1) Referring to the symbol codes shown in Table 1, the numbers “1” and “9” and the number A of character fonts included in the 13 hand tiles are calculated.
(2) In the process of (1) above, if the number “1” “9” and the number A of the letter A are 11 or less, it can be determined that “Kokushi Musou” has not been heard. The non-coincidence kite determination program P246 is terminated.
(3) In the process of (1) above, when “1”, “9” of several numbers and 13 types of character fonts are included, since “Kokushi Musou” is heard, All symbol codes “1” and “9” can be determined as “going up if self-speaking” waiting for 13 pages.
(4) In the process of (1) above, when “1” and “9” of several numbers and 12 types of character fonts are included, two of the 12 types of fonts are included. Check whether the sparrow head is formed. When the sparrow head is formed, any one of the remaining ones “1”, “9” and the character 牌 will become a “up if self-recognizing”, so this one remaining symbol The code can be determined, and the symbol code can be determined as a habit that will “go up if self”.

  Steps S4 to S11 to be described below are processes for determining whether a general rising combination excluding “Seven Pairs” and “Kokushi Musou” has a tendency to “raise if self-confidence”. The processes in steps S4 to S11 are performed based on the following technical idea.

As described above, the inventor of the present invention, in the sparrow ball game machine using three kinds of spiders (two kinds of spears and character spears), 14 hand guards are “Seven Pairs” and “Kokushi Musou”. When the combination of pre-set general rising combinations excluding ”is completed, this number obtained by dividing the number (total number) of cocoons for each cocoon type included in this procedure by 3 It paid attention that the arrangement | sequence (henceforth an arrangement | sequence pattern) of the remainder number for every cocoon kind can be represented by the arrangement | sequence pattern formula (1) shown below. The number of remainders (including the number of remainders described below) indicates an integer remainder value obtained by dividing the number of straws for each kind by 3 and the values are 0, 1, and 2. Either value.
(0, 0, 2) ... (1)
This array pattern formula (0, 0, 2) may be expressed as (002), which means that it is composed of a combination of “0”, “0”, and “2”.

  In the above-mentioned arrangement pattern formula (1), when the combination of 14 hands is completed, the combination of the order and the indenter is 4 in total, and the combination of the sparrow head (counter) is 1 set. It shows that it becomes. In other words, the order and the indenter are composed of three of the same species (multiple of 3). When the number of is divided by 3, the remainder is zero. At this time, when the number of cocoons contained in the cocoon type is 0, a process of setting the remainder number to 0 when the number is divided by 3 is performed. In addition, since the sparrow head is composed of two pieces of the same spearhead, when the number of spearheads constituting the sparrowhead is divided by 3, the remainder is two. Therefore, when 14 hand tiles constitute a combination of rising roles, when the number of baskets for each basket type is divided by 3, an array in which the number of remainders for each basket type is arranged is the array pattern formula (1 ), The combination is “0”, “0”, and “2”. In this arrangement pattern formula (1), when the number of baskets for each type of hand basket is divided by 3, the number of remainders for each basket type is the remainder of any of the three types. “0” indicates that the remainder of the remaining species is “2”. That is, the order of the arrangement of the remaining numerical values (numbers) “0”, “0”, and “2” for each species constituting the array pattern formula (1) may be any order, that is, the sequence order of the species. Indicates that it is not necessary to consider In the present invention, (0, 0, 2) represented by the arrangement pattern formula (1) constitutes an ascending arrangement pattern. Further, (0, 0, 2) in the array pattern formula (1) may be expressed as (002) as described above.

From the above-described arrangement pattern formula (1) at the time of ascending, it can be determined whether or not there is a possibility that the thirteen hands before the player performs his / her own operation are listening (tempered). That is, in the case where 13 hands are listening, when the number of baskets for each model is divided by 3, the array of the remaining number for each model is represented by the following array pattern formula (2 ), (3).
(0, 0, 1) ... (2)
(0, 2, 2) ... (3)

The reason why the arrangement pattern formula (2) or the arrangement pattern formula (3) is satisfied when the current thirteen hands are listening is as follows.
For 14 handbags, when one of the 1 seeds is deleted from the array pattern (0, 0, 2) showing the array pattern formula (1) at the time of rising, This is because the array pattern of the number of remainders of the basket type is (0, 0, 1) or (0, 2, 2).

From this, when the current thirteen hands can be expressed by the above arrangement pattern formula (2) or (3), the arrangement pattern formula (2) or (3) at the time of listening In addition, it is possible to determine what kind of mahjong tiles to add and add one by one to configure the above-described ascending arrangement pattern (0, 0, 2). Then, when all of the cocoons that make up the determined cocoon type are added one by one as heels that should be self-contained to the hand, can the hand that has become 14 go up and complete the role? If it is determined whether or not, it is possible to determine and extract the wrinkles that will be “up if they are self-sufficient” with respect to the current 13 hand picks.
In the present invention, the arrangement pattern formula (2) showing the arrangement pattern when 13 hands are heard (0, 0, 1) and the arrangement pattern formula (3) (0, 2 and 2) constitute an arrangement pattern during listening.

Based on the same idea as above, the mahjong tile used in the sparrow ball game machine is divided into three kinds of numbers and letter tiles, namely, “Isogo” is from 1 to 9 and “Tsutsuko” is from 1 to 9 “Koko” can be applied to a sparrow ball game machine which is composed of Ichigo to Kuro and the character is composed of East, South, West, North, White, Rooster, and the inside. Further, the present invention can also be applied to the case where “one rope” and “nine rope” of “song” described with respect to the case where the two types are composed of a number string and a character string are processed as a number string. In this way, in the sparrow ball game machine that uses three kinds of numbers and characters and a total of four kinds, the above-described arrangement pattern formula at the time of rising can be expressed by the following arrangement pattern formula (4). it can.
(0, 0, 0, 2) (4)
Moreover, the arrangement pattern formula at the time of hearing can be expressed by the following arrangement pattern formula (5) and formula (6).
(0, 0, 0, 1) (5)
(0, 0, 2, 2) (6)

  The reason why the arrangement pattern formulas (4), (5), and (6) are satisfied is the same as in the case of the above-described two kinds of numbers and letters. In other words, if the mahjong tile is composed of 4 types of mausoleums and 3 types, the number of tiles of each type is divided by 3 This is because the surplus number of the array patterns becomes (0, 0, 0, 2) in the above-described array pattern expression (4) when going up. And, when one of the cocoon of any kind is deleted from the arrangement pattern formula (4) at the time of the rise, that is, the arrangement pattern when the wrist is in the 13 listening state is as described above. This is because it can be expressed by the array pattern expression (0, 0, 0, 1) or expression (0, 0, 2, 2) at the time of listening. The arrangement pattern formula (0, 0, 0, 1) at the time of listening indicates a hearing state in which four pairs of order elements and notches have already been completed, and only the sparrow head has not been completed. Also, the arrangement pattern formula (0, 0, 2, 2) at the time of listening indicates the state of hearing when three pairs of order and incisors are completed and the sparrow head is also completed.

(Step S4)
The hearing pattern determination program P242 calculates the number of wrinkles for each wrinkle type with respect to the 13 hand code symbols stored in the RAM 42. The calculation of the number of wrinkles for each wrinkle type can be obtained by the following procedure using the hand pail arrangement pattern calculation program P242a.
(1) As shown in Table 1, the symbol code of “萬 子”, which is a number, is set to “01” to “09”. Accordingly, it is sequentially determined whether or not the symbol codes of 13 manuals are included in “01” to “09”. If they are included in this range, the number of insulators in the RAM 42 is determined each time. By adding “1” to the calculation area, it is possible to calculate the number of cocoons of “lion”.
(2) Similarly, the symbol codes for “Tsutsuko” are set to “0A” to “12”, and the symbol codes for “Izuku” and “Juku” are set to “13” to “1B”. Therefore, the number of “cylinders” and “characters” can be calculated by the same processing as in (1) above. The number of cocoons per type included in the procedure calculated in the above procedure, that is, the numbers of “coconut”, “tube” and “character” are stored in the number calculation area for each type of RAM 42. deep.

  The process of step S4 described above will be described with the 13 hand rods a1 shown in FIG. 8. The number a2 of the cocoons for each cocoon type is 5 for “lion”, 5 for “tuber”, and 3 for “letter”. These numbers are calculated and stored in the RAM 42.

  Subsequently, the hand arrangement pattern calculation program P242a divides the number of cocoons for each cocoon type calculated in the above processing by “3”, and the remaining number X (remaining number of insulators), Y (cylinder) ) And Z (remaining number of characters). As described above, the number of remainders indicates an integer remainder value obtained by dividing the number of baskets for each basket type by 3, and the value is one of 0, 1, and 2. Subsequently, an array pattern (X, Y, Z) in which the remaining numbers are arrayed is obtained and stored in the RAM 42. In addition, the arrangement pattern (X, Y, Z) constitutes the arrangement pattern of the hand in the present invention. This calculation example will be described with reference to FIG. 8. The number of remainders obtained by dividing the number of baskets for each basket type shown in a2 by "3" is "sushi" is 2, as shown in a3, "Is 2 and" Character "is 0. That is, the arrangement pattern (X, Y, Z) of the handle is (2, 2, 0). When storing the obtained hand arrangement pattern (2, 2, 0) in the RAM 42, it is stored as “220” or “022”. In this process, when the number of the cocoon of the kind is 0, a process of setting the number of the remainder obtained by dividing the number of the cocoon of the kind by “3” to “0” is performed.

(Step S5)
In the hearing pattern determination program P242, the arrangement pattern (X, Y, Z) of the handpiece obtained in step S4 is the arrangement pattern expression (2) or expression (3) at the time of the hearing, that is, (0, 0, 1). ) Or (0, 2, 2) is determined. As described above, when determining whether or not they match, the array pattern (2, 2, 0) shown in FIG. 8 obtained in step S4 is the element of “2”, “2”, “0”. It is not necessary to consider the order of “lion”, “tube”, and “letter” as the arrangement order. Therefore, it can be determined that the arrangement pattern (2, 2, 0) of the handle shown in a3 of FIG. 8 matches the arrangement pattern formula (3) at the time of hearing, that is, (0, 2, 2).

  In step S5, if the arrangement pattern of the hand tile obtained in step S4 matches the above-described arrangement pattern formula (2) or formula (3) at the time of listening, as described above, the 13 manual routines are performed. Since it can be determined that there is a possibility of being in a hearing state, the process proceeds to the next step S6. On the other hand, if it is determined in the above processing that they do not match, the processing of the rising eye determination program P24 is terminated. In actual program processing, “002” is obtained by sorting “2”, “2”, and “0”, which are elements of the arrangement pattern (2, 2, 0) of the table obtained from the current table, in ascending order. The sorted array pattern is compared with the array pattern expression (2) or expression (3) at the time of listening. Also, the arrangement pattern formula (2) or formula (3) at the time of hearing is registered in advance as constants “001” and “022” in the hearing pattern determination program P242.

  If it is determined by the process of step S5 that the current 13 hands have not been listened to, that is, there is no possibility of going up even if one hand is added by the self-operation, the steps after step S6 are performed. The processing is not performed. As a result, when a wrinkle that becomes “if it rises by itself” is not determined, the processing time of the rising wrinkle determination program P24 can be further shortened. The processes in steps S4 to S5 described above constitute a hearing pattern determination unit.

(Step S6)
The rising sow seed determination program P243 uses the current hand pick to set the hand picking array pattern obtained in step S4 to the above-described array pattern formula (1), that is, (0, 0, 2). A process for obtaining one seed to be added is performed. The outline of this process will be described below with reference to the arrangement pattern (2, 2, 0) of the handle indicated by a3 in FIG. The arrangement pattern (2, 2, 0) of the hand-claw shown in a3 is that for the current 13 hand-claws, the number of remainders of “lion” is 2, the number of remainders of “cylinder” is 2, "Indicates that the number of remainders is zero. Therefore, in order to add one sow seed to the array pattern (2, 2, 0) of a3 shown in FIG. Or if you add one of the “Tsutsuko” seeds to your hand, the number of remainders after dividing by “3” will be “0”, so it will be the array pattern (0, 0, 2) when going up. I understand. The ascending seed type determination program P243 obtained by programming such a process can constitute an ascending role for "lion" or "cylinder" in the arrangement pattern (2, 2, 0) of the hand tile shown in a3. It is possible to determine that the cocoon type, that is, the cocoon type that rises if it is self-explanatory, is “lion” or “tuber”. The rising array pattern formula (1) is registered in advance as a constant “002” in the ascent type determination program P243.

  The actual program processing of this step S6, for example, obtains the remainder of each element when “1” is sequentially added to each element of the array pattern of the hand obtained in step S4 and divided by 3, and the remainder of this element is obtained. This is made possible by programming a process for determining whether or not the array pattern matches the array pattern formula (1) at the time of rising. The process of step S6 by the rising soot seed determination program P243 constitutes the rising sow seed determining means.

(Step S7)
The rising soot extraction program P244 first selects one soot from among the soots that make up the soot type determined in step S6. For example, when the cocoon type is “lion”, a process of selecting from the symbol code “Ichigo” which is the increasing order of the symbol code is performed. This selection process is performed in order to determine whether or not a rising combination can be completed when one heel is added to the current thirteen hands.
Subsequently, it is necessary to check whether or not the selected one kite is four kites already disclosed in the game place at this time. The reason for this is that four kites that have already been disclosed cannot be selected as kites to be self-sufficient. In the present game place, the four disclosed check means can be made by programming the following (Process 1) to (Process 3), for example. Note that the four shark designs already disclosed are the same 牌 designs for the current manual, the current trash, the puppet displayed as the front dora, the back dora, and the puppet. Individually disclosed bag designs are shown. Of these, for example, the front and back drums, and the wind kites should be set appropriately, such as by performing processing that does not count as four disclosed bag designs. .

(Processing 1) The sub-board operation control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb sets the disclosed number table K for counting the disclosed numbers for each symbol code as shown in FIG.
(Process 2) The sub-board operation control program P21, when the symbol code of the 14 kites automatically arranged by the automatic arrangement program P5 is transmitted from the main control board Ka, the player launches the game ball and self-exists. When this symbol code is transmitted from the main control board Ka by performing an operation, and when a symbol code such as a table drum is received from the main control board Ka, the corresponding symbol code of the disclosed number table K A process of “+1” the storage area for counting the number of disclosures is performed.

  (Process 3) The rising wrinkle extraction program P244 of the sub-control board Kb refers to the disclosed number table K for the symbol code for which one wrinkle has been selected in the process of step S7 described above, and the selected wrinkle symbol It is determined whether four codes have already been disclosed. And, for the four code codes that have already been disclosed, the processing that is not selected as a self-contained trap, that is, the processing of steps S8 to S10 for determining whether or not to constitute a rising combination is not performed, and the disclosed number is Processing for selecting 0 to 3 symbol codes as the traps to be suppressed is performed.

(Step S8)
The symbol code selected in step S7 is added to the current 13 pieces of hand-held data stored in the RAM 42, and the 14 pieces of hand-piece data are rearranged in ascending order of the symbol codes.

(Step S9)
In step S9, a process is performed to determine whether or not the hand picks that have been made 14 in the process of step S8 described above complete the rising hand by the upward pick extraction program P244. This judging means is composed of 4 combinations of “Konko” and “Junko” and 1 combination of “Jongpo”, except for “Seven Pairs” and “Kokushi Musou”. Therefore, it becomes possible by programming a procedure for checking the number of combinations of these combinations. This check method will be described with reference to the example shown in FIG.

(1) In the process of step S6, since the cocoon species to be self-resolved in order to complete the rising combination is determined to be “lion” or “tsutsuko”, first, “Ichigo”-“ It is determined whether or not a rising combination can be completed when one of the code codes up to “Kyugo” is sequentially added to the current manual. The determination as to whether or not the rising combination has been completed is made because the symbol codes of the hand kite a1 that has become one by adding one kite are sorted in ascending order and stored in the RAM 42. Sequentially, the combination of “sparrow head” (two identical symbol codes) is completed, “indentation” (three identical symbol codes), or “junko” (three consecutive symbols) Determine whether the (code) combination is complete.
(2) As a result of the processing of (1) above, if 4 combinations of “Konko” and “Junko” and 1 combination of “Sparrow” are completed, it is determined that the rising combination is completed. . Then, if the rising combination can be completed, the process proceeds to step S10 to determine the rising combination combination. In the example shown in FIG. 8, it is possible to determine that the three kites “five-cylinder”, “three-cylinder”, and “six-cylinder” are the kites that will “raise if they are self-sufficient”.

(Step S10)
In this step S10, with respect to the hand which has been determined that the rising combination can be completed by the processing of step S9, the determination of the rising combination and the player can acquire the rising combination (to the player) Processing for determining the number of medals to be paid out. The determination of the winning combination can be performed by using the rising combination determination program P245, for example, by the following procedure.

(1) First, a hand number data table is calculated in which the number of the 14 types of design codes stored in the RAM 42 and arranged in the order of the design codes is calculated for each design code.
(2) The sparrow head is first determined from the combination of rising combinations with reference to the hand count data table created in the process of (1) above. The determination of the sparrow head is performed by selecting a cocoon having two pieces for the same symbol code from the hand piece number data table. When there is no cocoon having the number of two for the same symbol code, two of the cocoons having the number of the same symbol code having three or four are selected.

  (3) The symbol codes of the two kites selected as sparrow heads in the process (2) above are deleted from the symbol codes of the hand kit stored in the RAM 42.

  (4) Rearrange the twelve symbol codes in ascending order of symbol codes. Subsequently, referring to the hand number data table, if there is a symbol code that includes three symbols for the same symbol code, it is determined that the three symbol codes form an indenter. can do. Then, for the symbol code unit in which this indentation is formed, the inscription unit code is obtained with reference to the inscription / junction unit code table shown in Table 3 and stored in the RAM 42, and the three symbol codes are also displayed. Is removed from the symbol code of the manual. Furthermore, with reference to the hand number data table, if there is a symbol code that includes three of the same symbol code, it is determined that these three symbol codes also form an indent, With respect to the unit of the symbol code in which this indentation is formed, the code of the indentation unit is obtained with reference to Table 3 and stored in the RAM 42, and the three symbol codes are deleted from the symbol code of the hand. If the number of symbol codes stored in the RAM 42 becomes zero in the process (4), the combination is a combination of rising roles, and the process proceeds to the following process (7).

  (5) The remaining symbol codes of the hand tile are divided into three in the order of arrangement, and it is determined whether or not the three symbol codes form an order of several tiles. It is possible to determine whether or not this order is formed by referring to the symbol codes shown in Table 1 to determine whether or not three identical symbol codes are consecutive. . If the remaining symbol code still exists in the hand bag, it is further determined whether or not the remaining bag forms an order. If the order is formed, the code unit in which this order is formed is stored in the RAM 42 by obtaining the code of the order unit by referring to the inscription / order unit code table shown in Table 3. The symbol codes forming these three orders are deleted from the symbol code of the hand. The indenter / junction unit code table shown in Table 3 is a data table in which code numbers are set for three symbol codes in the ascending order in the case of an indenter, three symbol codes in ascending order, It is registered in advance in the rising combination determination program P245 or the like.

  (6) If the combination of 1 sparrow head and 4 combinations of indenter or Junko is formed by the above processes (2) to (5), the combination of rising roles is completed. The rising combination is determined according to (7). On the other hand, if one set of sparrow heads and four sets of indenters and junko are not formed, the processing returns to the above processing (2), and other sparrow heads are selected and the above processing (3) to (5). When the above process is repeated, there are always four sets of combinations of one sparrow head and a combination of indenter and junko.

  (7) For determining the rising combination, a program for determining the rising combination for each of the 20 types of rising combinations shown in Table 2 is created. The rising combination is determined with reference to the sparrow head symbol code, the indenter and the unit code stored in the RAM. For example, it is determined whether or not the rising role is “Dai Sangen”. The unit codes “59” of the indents “white and white”, “、”, and “medium, middle, and middle” shown in Table 3 are used. ], “5A”, and “5B” can be determined by determining whether or not all of them are included. If the rising combination can be determined, the number of medals to be paid out to the player corresponding to the rising combination is obtained with reference to Table 2 and stored in the RAM 42.

  (8) In mahjong games, when a rising combination is completed, it is necessary to consider a combination with other rising combinations. Also in the sparrow ball game machine of the present invention, it is possible to make a sparrow ball game machine considering the combination with other lift roles by performing the following processing when the lift role is completed. . First, a rising combination composite data table in which a composite relationship is set for each rising combination shown in Table 2 is created and registered in the rising combination determination program P245. Then, when the rising combination is determined by the procedure of (7), the rising combination combined data table is referred to for the determined rising combination and it is determined whether or not the rising combination for which the composite relationship is set is completed. judge. If the combined rising combination is completed, the number of payout medals for the rising combination is obtained and stored in the RAM 42.

  (9) Through the above processes (1) to (8), the number of medals to be paid out for a rising combination that will be “raised if self-sufficient” can be obtained. If the rising combination is combined with other rising combinations, the total number of medals to be paid out for the combined rising combination is the number of medals to be paid out to the player. However, an upper limit value, for example, 10 is set for the number of medals to be paid out in one game.

  Subsequently, the RAM 42 stores in the RAM 42 the symbol code of the kite that will be “up if self-declared”, the winning combination code corresponding to this symbol code, and the number of medals to be paid out to the player for this rising combination.

(Step S11)
It is checked whether or not all symbol codes that may constitute the winning combination obtained in the process of step S6 have been selected. If there is an unselected symbol, the process returns to step S7. . The processes in steps S1 to S10, S10a, S10b, and S11 described above constitute the rising haze determining means of the present invention.

(Step S12)
By the processing in step S10, the following processing is performed based on the symbol code stored in the RAM 42 and indicating the symbol code of the kite that will rise if it is self-raised, the winning combination code, and the number of medals to be paid out to the player.
(1) The entrance entrance light emission control program P246 uses the full-color LED 37 installed to cause the entrance entrances 11a, 11b,... Control to emit light. The full color LED 37 can change an arbitrary color color and its luminance by controlling the voltage and current values supplied to the cathodes of R (red), G (green), and B (blue). Therefore, depending on the level of the rising role that becomes “if you raise yourself”, that is, the level of the number of medals to be paid out to the player, etc. The color of the light to be emitted can be made different. For example, as shown in Table 4, the number of medals to be paid out is divided into 4 levels. When the number of medals paid out is 10, it is “red”, when it is 5-9, it is “yellow”, when it is 3-4 Emits light so that it is “blue”, and “white” when 1-2 sheets are used.

  In addition, as shown in Table 5, a rising role that can be raised by “self-sufficiency” is also applied to a rising role that can acquire the right of a big game or a chance game. The bulb opening or its vicinity is divided into 6 levels to emit light. Further, the sub-control board stores a rising role code that can obtain the right of the big game or the chance game from the main control board Ka, so that the entrance that can acquire the right of the big game or the chance game is It is also possible to attract the player's attention by controlling the emission color shown in Table 5 to blink.

  As shown in Tables 4 and 5, the sparrow ball gaming machine of the present invention is a medal that is paid out to the player with a color indicating the entrance or the vicinity corresponding to the baseball that will be “up if self-represents”. It is changed in consideration of the level of the number of sheets, or the winning role that can acquire the right of big game or chance game. As a result, the player sees the light emission color of the entrance 11a corresponding to the kite that becomes “if he / she goes up”,..., And the like, and enters the entrance 11a targeted when the game ball is fired. Etc. can be clearly recognized, and since the luminescent color is changed according to the number of medals that the player can acquire, the interest in the game progress can be enhanced. In particular, when a plurality of heels that will be “self-raised” are determined, and the number of medals that can be earned for each of these heels that rise “self-sufficient” is different, it is possible to further enhance the interest in the game progress. It becomes like this. Note that the type of changing the emission color of the full-color LED may be appropriately set in consideration of the number of medals to be paid out for a combined rising combination, a rising combination that can acquire the right of a big game or a chance game, and the like.

(2) Further, the rising wrinkle determination extraction program P24 transmits all of the symbol codes of the wrinkles that are stored in the RAM 42 to be “up if self”, together with the control command, to the image control board Kc. The control for displaying the symbol corresponding to the symbol code of the rising eye is performed. At this time, the winning combination code and the number of medals that can be acquired are transmitted to the image control board Kc together with the rising symbol code, and the image control board Kc also displays the name of the rising combination and the number of medals that can be acquired. Good.
When the process of step S12 is performed, the process of the rising haze determination extraction program P24 ends.

  In the process of step S12, when the full color LED 37 is caused to emit light, the timing for stopping this light emission is that the player fires a game ball, which is the next operation, and performs his own operation. Is transmitted from the main control board to the sub control board, the sub board operation control program P21 controls to stop the light emission of the full color LED 37.

  When the image control board Kc receives the symbol code of the kite that goes up if it is self-explanatory, as shown below, the symbol of the symbol code of the received kite is used as a candidate for the kite as shown in FIG. Is displayed on the rising haze display unit 31. At this time, sound may be output from the speaker 6. A player who is new to a sparrow ball game machine can launch a game ball aiming at the entrance corresponding to the cage that can complete the rising role by watching this display and the light emission of the entrance. become.

  In addition, the data volume of the design (image data) of the bag displayed on the display device 14 by the image control board Kc, various effect images, and the sound / sound effect data output from the speaker 6 becomes extremely large. Therefore, all or a part of these data may be stored in the ROM 41 of the sub control board Kb in advance. In this case, when the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned on (ON) and the initialization control command is transmitted from the main control board Ka to the sub control board Kb, the sub board operation control program P21 is The image data of the symbol, the effect image, and the sound / sound effect data stored in the ROM 41 of the Kb are collectively transmitted to the image control board Kc. The image control board Kc stores the received data in a predetermined storage address of the RAM 42. By performing such processing, it is possible to shorten the communication time between the control boards Ka, Kb, and Kc, downsize the control boards Ka, Kb, and Kc, and reduce the load of program processing. It should be noted that the image data to be the symbol of each kite is stored in the ROM 41 so that the storage address for storing the image data can be referred to in association with the symbol code of each kite.

  As shown in FIG. 11, the programs installed in the ROM 41 of the image control board Kc are composed of an image board operation control program P31, a screen display program P32, a sound / sound effect output program P41, and the like. Furthermore, the screen display program P32 includes a normal game screen display program P321 and a special game screen display program P322. The screen display program P32 and the audio control program P41 are a process for displaying various effect images on the display device 14 based on the control command and control data transmitted from the sub-control board Kb, and various effects. The process which outputs the audio | voice and sound effect for a speaker from the speaker 6 is performed. The outline of the processing contents of these programs will be described below.

  The image board operation control program P31 is a program that decodes various control commands transmitted from the sub control board Kb and controls the execution of the above programs in response to these control commands. The screen display program P32 is a program for performing processing for displaying an image, numerical information, and the like on the display device 14 based on the control command transmitted from the sub-control board Kb and its control data, and the normal game screen display program P321. And a special game screen display program P322. The normal game screen display program P321 displays various effect images on the display device 14 and various types of support for the player when the player is playing a normal game since the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned on. It is a program that performs processing for displaying an image. The normal game screen display program P321 further includes an initial effect display program P321a and a game effect display program P321b as subprograms.

  The game effect display program P321b is composed of a program for displaying a screen having contents as shown in FIG. For example, each time the player performs a throw-in operation as the game progresses, or in the case of a normal game, the player performs a self-control operation by launching a game ball, the main control board Ka passes through the sub-control board Kb. Based on the transmitted control command and its control data, when the current manual symbol, the discarded symbol, and the “step by itself” are transmitted from the sub-control board Kb by the process of step S12 described above. It is composed of a program equipped with various display means, such as a process for displaying the determined spear symbol as shown in FIG. 9 and a process for displaying the number of points obtained when the rising combination is completed. .

  The special game screen display program P322 is a program for performing processing for displaying various effect screens when the player acquires the right of special game. The special game screen display program P322 further includes a right acquisition effect display program P322a and a self-candidate candidate selection support program P322b that provide an effect display when the player has completed a winning combination that allows the player to acquire special game rights. ing. The self-candidate candidate selection support program P322b is a program that is activated when the player has acquired the right to a special game. The self-candidate candidate symbol displayed on the display device 14 is selected by the right-selection right shift button 19 or This is a program for supporting the operation of selecting the symbol of the cocoon to be self-contained in an interactive manner while operating the heel selection left shift button 20 to scroll.

  The sound / sound effect output program P41 is for outputting various effect sounds and sound effects from the speaker 6 as the game progresses based on the control command and its control data transmitted from the sub-control board Kb. It is a program.

  A program for controlling the operation of each of the control boards Ka, Kb, and Kc described above is developed using an assembler language, C language, Visual Basic language, or the like, and is a machine language program that can be executed by the CPU 40 of each board. The translated program is stored in the ROM 41 of each control board Ka, Kb, Kc.

  Next, an outline of the game procedure of the above-described sparrow ball gaming machine 1 and the processing of each program associated with this procedure will be described. One game (game) starts when a player inserts a medal into the medal slot 15, presses the game start button 24, and the automatic layout program P5 distributes 14 hands. Then, one game progresses in accordance with the control of each program that operates based on input signals and control signals generated from various operation buttons and sensors such as the discard button 16a,. Become.

First, when the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned on, the main board operation control program P1 of the main control board Ka initializes the storage area of the RAM 42 of the main control board Ka. Subsequently, the main board operation control program P1 transmits an initialization control command when the power is turned on to the sub control board Kb, and the sub control board Kb transmits the initialization control command to the image control board Kc. When the sub-control board Kb and the image control board Kc receive this initialization control command, the storage area of the RAM 42 is initialized, and the initial effect display program P321a mounted on the image control board Kc displays the effect when the power is turned on. Processing such as displaying a screen, for example, a landscape image on the display device 14 is performed.
When the sub control board Kb receives the initialization control command when the power is turned on, the sub board operation control program P21, as described above, stores the various image data, sound and sound stored in the ROM 41 of the sub control board Kb. The sound effect data is transmitted to the image control board Kc, and the image board operation control program P31 of the image control board Kc performs a process of storing the received image and sound / sound effect data in a predetermined storage area of the RAM.

  When the player inserts a medal into the medal insertion slot 15 and the main board operation control program P1 detects the medal insertion signal, the medal management program P3 performs a process of adding “1” to the medal storage number. Subsequently, when the player presses the game start button 24 and the main board operation control program P1 detects a game start signal from the game start button 24, a game of one game can be started. Then, the main board operation control program P1 transmits a game start control command to the image control board Kc via the sub control board Kb. Based on this control command, the game effect display program P321b of the image control board Kc displays an effect image at the start of the game on the display device 14 and outputs sound from the speaker 6 by the sound / sound effect output program P41. In this way, one game of the sparrow ball game machine starts.

  Subsequently, under the control of the main board operation control program P1, the automatic layout program P5 is activated to automatically determine the 14 layout patterns necessary for starting the game by program processing. The automatic layout program P5 sequentially stores the 14 symbol codes automatically arranged in the manual storage area of the RAM 42, and then, in a predetermined order, for example, ascending order of the symbol codes, that is, insulator, tube, cord , Wind tiles, and ternary tiles are sorted in this order (sort) and stored in the manual storage area. Subsequently, the main board operation control program P1 performs control to transmit the 14 arranged symbol codes together with the control command to the sub control board Kb. When the sub-board operation control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb receives the 14 arranged symbol codes, it stores them in the RAM 42 and transmits these 14 arranged symbol codes to the image control board Kc. To do.

  The sub-board operation control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb is disclosed at the current game site as described in the process of step S8, with respect to the 14 symbols code transmitted from the main control board Ka. A process is performed to count the number of cocoons to be disclosed in the disclosed number table K (shown in FIG. 10). Further, when the game effect display program P321b of the image control board Kc receives the 14 design codes, the game design display program P321b automatically displays the image of the design shown in FIG. Processing to display on the display unit 36 is performed. While the 14 automatic arrangements have not been determined, the backside of the cocoon or a non-displayed design is displayed as an initial screen on the manual display unit 35 and the self-displaying unit 36 that displays the self-displayed design. Process to display.

  Subsequently, each of the special gamer lottery program P6 (which operates when a normal game is being played) and the Dora lottery program P7 are activated, and the winning combination (BIC The game role) and the chance game right can be acquired (chance game role), and the front and back dramas are determined. Then, each data (coded data) of the big game rising combination and chance game rising combination, front and back drums determined by the processing of these programs P6 and P7 (encoded data) is sub-control board Kb To the image control board Kc.

  When the game effect display program P321b on the image control board Kc receives the code of the rising combination that can acquire the big game combination and the chance game combination, and the design code of the front and back dramas, as shown in FIG. A process for displaying the chance game combination on the big game rising combination display unit 32, the chance increase combination display unit 33, and the front drum on the front drum display unit 29 is performed.

  The main board operation control program P1 starts the game on the display device 14 when the control to display the 14 symbols of the game, the big game combination, the chance game combination, the front drama etc. on the display device 14 is completed. Processing to inform the player that the conditions are complete is displayed on the screen or by voice. Subsequently, the main board operation control program P1 operates the winning determination program P8 to perform a process of determining whether or not the 14 hands that have been automatically arranged have already completed the winning combination. If the winning combination is completed in this determination process, the winning determination program P8 determines the predetermined rising combination and the score (number of acquired medals) that the player can acquire (Table 2). Determine with reference to the data. Subsequently, the winning determination program P8 transmits the winning combination, the score obtained, and the like to the image control board Kc via the sub control board Kb. When the image control board Kc receives the winning combination and the acquired score, the game effect display program P321b displays the rising combination, the acquired score, and other effect images on the display device 14 for a predetermined time. Perform the process.

  On the other hand, if the 14 symbols of the automatically arranged baskets are not completed and the winning combination is not completed, the main board operation control program P1 is an operation of throwing away one unnecessary basket from the manuals to the player. A control command for performing screen display for prompting is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb. When the image control board Kc receives this control command, the game effect display program P321b performs a process of displaying a message on the display device 14 for prompting an operation of discarding one unnecessary spear from the hand spear. At this time, the voice / sound effect output program P41 may be operated to perform a process of prompting together with the voice.

  Subsequently, the player performs an operation of selecting a throwing-in trash from the symbols of the cocoon displayed on the hand-held display unit 35 and the self-displaying unit 36. Then, when the player decides on the design of the throwing bag, the player selects one of the throwing button 16a, 16b, 16c,. Then throw out this bag. On the basis of this discarding pot selection signal, the main board operation control program P1 stores the symbol code of the discarding trap after performing the discarding operation in the RAM 42, and further stores it in the manual storage area of the RAM 42. The symbol code that was discarded from the handbag is deleted, and the process of making 13 handbags is performed.

  Subsequently, the main board operation control program P1 performs image control via the sub-control board Kb and the sub-control board Kb together with the control command of the discarded design code and 13 design codes. Processing to transmit to the substrate Kc is performed. When the game effect display program P321b of the image control board Kc receives the symbol code that has been discarded, the symbol code corresponding to the symbol code is displayed on the discard symbol display unit 34, and the symbol codes of 13 manual symbols are received. Then, the process of displaying the symbol of the coral corresponding to these symbol codes on the hand symbol display unit 35 is performed. At this time, as shown in FIG. 3, the back side of the bag is displayed on the self-displaying portion 36.

  On the other hand, when the sub-board operation control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb receives the above-mentioned thirteen hand symbol symbols, the nineteen-character type number calculation program P241, the seven-pair As shown above, the rising wrinkle determination program P245, the Kokushi Musou rising wrinkle determination program P246, the hearing pattern determination program P242, the rising wrinkle type determination program P243, and the rising wrinkle extraction program P244 are operated. On the other hand, in order to complete the rising combination, it is determined whether or not there is a wrinkle that should be self-contained next. Then, when a wrinkle that becomes “if it rises by itself” is extracted, the entrance 11a,..., Or the vicinity corresponding to this wrinkle is caused to emit light by the full color LED 37. In addition, as shown in Table 4 or 5, the color of the light emitted from the full color LED 37 changes in color according to the number of medals that the player can obtain when completing a rising combination that will be "up if self-sufficient". Light is emitted. Further, as shown in FIG. 9, the symbol of the kite that will be “up if self-speaking” is displayed on the display device 14, and the next game ball is also fired and entered for the original player. Advise that there is a habit of going up.

  Subsequently, the main board operation control program P1 of the main control board Ka finishes the above-described processing related to the player's disposal operation, and activates the game ball management program P4 to bring the game ball into the game ball launch position. Processing to send a ball. Then, the player can operate the game ball launch lever 4 to launch a game ball into the game board surface 2.

  When the player launches a game ball and this game ball enters any of the entrances 11a, 11b, 11c,..., The sensor detects the game ball and generates an entrance signal. The main board operation control program P1 decodes the incoming signal and performs a process of storing the symbol code of the basket corresponding to the entered entrance into the hand storage area as a stored bowl. Subsequently, the winning determination program P8 is operated, and it is determined whether or not the 14 hands have been raised and the combination is completed. Then, if the hand is raised and the winning combination is completed, as described above, it is determined what kind of rising role that is set in advance and the score that the player can acquire, and these data are obtained, A process of transmitting to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb is performed. On the other hand, when the rising combination has not been completed, as described above, the player performs a discarding operation of throwing out one of the 14 hands that is considered unnecessary.

  In this way, the player operates the game ball launch lever 4 to launch the game ball into the game board surface portion 2 to enter the listening state, and the remaining game ball number display portion 27 has a numerical value of “1” or more. Is displayed, the player can reach by operating the reach button 18 before performing the operation of throwing away the bag. However, when the above condition is not satisfied (when the listening state is not established), the reach button 18 cannot be operated to reach. After operating the reach button 18, either one of the discard buttons 16 a, 16 b, 16 c,... When the self-cutting is performed by the operation, the design of the discarded candy is displayed on the discarded candy display portion 34 in the horizontal direction. Further, the back-dra display unit 30 performs a process of displaying the back-dra design.

The program control related to the reach operation can be performed by the following process, for example. First, the main board operation control program P1 detects an operation signal of the reach button 18, and further detects an operation signal from the discard button 16a, 16b, etc., and then performs the current procedure by the listening determination process of the winning determination program P8. When the determination result that the device is in the hearing state is obtained, a control command indicating that the reach has been applied is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb. When the game effect display program P321b of the image control board Kc receives this control command, it performs a process of displaying the design of the design code of the discarded sardine transmitted immediately after this on the side of the trash display unit 34.
When the game field reaches the reach state, the game balls fired by the player will be raised to complete the rise corresponding to the symbols entered in the entrances 11a, 11b, 11c,. If not, the main board control program P1 automatically treats the self-describing as a waste. This eliminates the need for the player to operate the discard button 16a, etc. after the reach operation. Further, when the game place reaches the reach state, the sub board operation control program P21 performs control so as not to operate the above-described rising eye determination extraction program P24.

  In the sparrow ball game machine of the present invention, the maximum score that can be obtained in one game is, for example, up to 10 points under the control of the winning determination program P8, and the upper limit is set. When two or more types of rising combinations are established at the same time, the score obtained by adding the points given to each of the rising combinations is the score of the game. Similarly, if the handbag contains the same dragon symbol as the front and back dramas, a score is also added to that dorado, for example, one score per dora is added. The One score obtained in the game corresponds to one medal. However, if the total number of points acquired in the game exceeds 10, the total number of medals (scores) that can be acquired is 10.

  The winning determination program P8 is shown in Table 2 until the game is ended, that is, when the number of remaining game balls becomes zero and the game end button 23 is pressed, or when the game start button 24 is pressed. If the predetermined combination of rising combinations shown is not completed, a game end control command is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb. Then, the game effect display program P321b on the image control board Kc displays “game over” on the display device 14 and notifies the player of the end of the game.

  Even when the combination of rising combinations is completed, if the display of the remaining game ball number display section 27 (the number of remaining balls) is “1” or more, the self-discard button 17 or the discard button 16a. , 16b, 16c,..., A game continuation control command is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the sub control board Kb under the control of the main board operation control program P1. Then, the game effect display program P321b on the image control board Kc erases the explanation of the winning combination displayed on the display device 14 and the display of the acquired score so that the game can be continued.

  Further, when the player has operated the game end button 23 or the game start button 24 when the rising combination is completed and the explanation of the rising combination is displayed on the display device 14, the main board operation control program P1 inputs this input. The signal type is decoded and the medal management program P3 is operated, the score obtained in this game is added to the medal storage number stored in the RAM 42, and this medal storage number is imaged via the sub-control board Kb. Transmit to the control board Kc. Then, the game effect display program P321b of the image control board Kc displays the medal stored number on the medal stored number display unit 26. When the player operates the game start button 24 after operating the game end button 23, the stored medal insertion operation is automatically performed, and the main board operation control program P1 can perform the next game. In order to obtain a ready state, an initialization control command such as screen display is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb.

  When the winning combination is a rising combination that can acquire the right of the big game, which is one of the special games set in advance, the winning determination program P8 confirms that the rising combination that can acquire the right of the big game is completed. The control command shown is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb. Then, the right acquisition effect display program P322a of the image control board Kc alternately displays an explanation display of the rising role and a display of establishment of the big game right at predetermined time intervals on the rising eye display unit 31 of the display device 14. Processing is performed to inform the player that the right of the big game has been established.

  When the right of the big game is established, as described above, the attacker 9 can be operated a predetermined number of times, for example, 14 times in the next and subsequent games including the game. In the present invention, even in a game in which the right of the big game is established, the sub-board operation control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb causes the player to perform a throwing operation from the main control board Ka and perform 13 procedures. Each time the symbol code is transmitted, control is performed so that the above-described rising haze determination extraction program P24 is activated.

  In a game in which the right of a big game is established, when a player launches a game ball, the game ball passes through the attacker operating port 10, and the passage signal is input to the main control board Ka, the main board The operation control program P1 controls the opening of the attacker 9 so that the game ball can easily enter the attacker 9. Each time the player enters one game ball in the attacker 9, the player can arbitrarily select self-restraint by the display device 14 and the interactive method. This self-selection operation can be performed according to the control of the self-selection support program P9 of the main control board Ka and the self-candidate selection support program P322b of the image control board Kc.

When the right of the above big game is established, the program processing for the player to arbitrarily select one self-restraint by the interactive method with the display device 14 can be performed as follows.
First, as shown in Table 1, a self-selection data table in which 27 types of symbol codes are arranged in ascending order is created in the RAM 42 of the main control board Ka. Further, each time the 牌 selection right shift button 19 or the 牌 selection left shift button 20 is pressed once so as to correspond to the storage address of the symbol code stored in this self-selection data table, Create a program that moves the address that stores the indicated cursor position.

  Then, when the right of the big game is established, the self-selection selection support program P9 transmits the data of the self-selection data table and the data of the initial position (initial address) of the cursor to the image control board Kc. Subsequently, each time the player presses the 牌 selection right shift button 19 or the 牌 selection left shift button 20, the type (right shift or left shift) of the press signal of this shift button is determined via the sub control board Kb. It transmits to the image control board Kc. Upon receiving this signal, the self-candidate candidate selection support program P322b of the image control board Kc goes up and displays a self-candidate candidate selection screen as shown in FIG. Then, when the player presses the heel selection right shift button 19 or the heel selection left shift button 20 and the signal type is transmitted, the self-candidate candidate selection support program P322b displays the symbol of the self-contained heel shown in FIG. Is displayed by scrolling one symbol in the right (R) or left (L) direction. At this time, as shown in FIG. 12, the symbol of the eyelid corresponding to the current cursor position is displayed at the position T.

  Then, when the player sees the screen shown in FIG. 12 and presses the self-decision button 21, the self-selection support program P9 of the main control board Ka is self-responsible corresponding to the cursor position at this time. A process of selecting the symbol code stored in the selection data table as a self-restraint is performed. In the example shown in FIG. 12, the “one glance” cocoon displayed at the position of T is selected as a self-gaze. In this way, when the player decides to refrain, the winning determination program P8 determines whether or not the winning combination has been completed. If the rising role cannot be completed and there are one or more remaining game balls, the player performs the throwing away operation and then fires the game ball again to attack the game ball. The operation to enter the ball 9 is performed.

  Even when the big game right described above is established, the main board control program P1 of the main control board Ka reads the symbol code of 13 handbooks every time the player performs the discarding operation. The image is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the sub control board Kb. As a result, even during the big game, the sub-board operation control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb operates the rising hail determination extraction program P24, and as described above, the hail pattern that should be self-sufficient in order to complete the rising role. Is displayed on the display device 14. In addition, the self-candidate selection screen (FIG. 12) displayed during the big game displays the four symbols that have already been disclosed by the program processing in a dark manner, and the self-raising role can be completed by self-recognition. If the symbol is brighter than the other symbols and displayed in the color as shown in Table 4, it will be the next time for players who have little knowledge of mahjong or who have little experience with sparrow balls. It becomes possible to support so that the game which acquired the right of the big game can be continued.

  In a game in which the right of the big game is established, the main board control program P1 and the winning determination program P8 indicate that a predetermined number (for example, five) of game balls enter the attacker 9 or the number of remaining game balls. If the value becomes 0 and the winning combination is not completed, it is determined that the game is over, and a process of returning the attacker 9 to a normal state, that is, a closed state in which no game ball enters, is performed. In addition, even if the big game right is established, the winning determination program P8, when the player has not completed the rising combination set in advance by the end of the game, The big game right is invalidated at that time. Therefore, when the player completes the rising combination shown in Table 2 while the right of the big game is established, the player can continue the advantageous game for operating the attacker 9 a predetermined number of times. On the other hand, when the player has acquired the chance game right, only the next game can be played in the state in which the above-mentioned big game right is established, or the score that can be acquired only for the game is usually It will be added from the game.

  In the above-described sparrow ball game machine of the present invention, a sparrow ball game machine that does not employ “kang” has been described. However, the present invention performs a process as follows to perform a sparrow ball that employs “kang”. It can also be applied to gaming machines.

  (1) The main board control program P1 of the main control board Ka transmits the control command to the sub-control board Kb when the player performs the “can” operation. When the sub-board operation control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb receives this “can” control command, the sub-board operation control program P21 performs a process of “+1” the storage area of the RAM 42 for counting the number of occurrences of “can”.

  (2) After the player performs the throwing-in operation, when the symbol code of the current hand is sent from the main control board Ka, the rising listening judgment extraction program P24 on the sub-control board Kb ”Is performed to check the number of occurrences. When the number of occurrences is not “0”, that is, when “Kan” is generated, the symbol code (the same symbol code) in which “Kan” is performed from the symbol code stored in the RAM 42 is used. 4), and a process of deleting one of the symbol data from the hand symbol data from the four symbol codes for which “can” has been performed. This process is performed as many times as the occurrence of “can”. By such a process, the current number of hand picks can be reduced to 13, so that it is possible to apply the upward wrinkle determination extraction program P24 described above. In the search of the symbol code in which “Kan” is performed from the symbol code of the table, the table data is sorted in ascending order and stored in the RAM 42. Therefore, the same symbol code 4 is stored in the storage region of this table. This is made possible by performing a process of checking whether or not it is included.

  (3) By adding program means for performing the processes (1) and (2) to, for example, the hearing pattern determination program P242, the sparrow ball game machine adopting “Kan” also has the above-mentioned book. A sparrow ball game machine to which the invention can be applied can be provided.

In the description of the embodiment of the sparrow ball gaming machine according to the present invention described above, the example of the rising hearing determination extraction program P24 is provided in the sub control board Kb, but is provided in either the main control board Ka or the image control board Kc. It is also possible. However, if the main control board Ka is provided, there is a risk that the program capacity of the main control board Ka increases and the processing speed decreases, and a large number of sensors and input / output circuits for inputting / outputting various signals are installed. Therefore, there is a possibility that the size of the main control board Ka is increased. Further, the image control board Kc needs to display data that requires a large amount of data such as an image at a high speed. Therefore, it is desirable to mount the rising listening determination extraction program P24 in the ROM of the sub-control board Kb, so that the processing time of the programs mounted on the control boards Ka, Kb, Kc is equalized. Is possible.
Note that the program stored in the ROM 41 of each control board Ka, Kb, and Kc only needs to be equipped with a program having the above-described functions, and the structure of the program is structured by combining programs created in units of processing functions. A program is good.

  The sparrow ball game machine of the present invention described above is not limited to the current game and the game in which the right of the big game is established, before the player performs the discard operation and performs the next self-control operation. When a wrinkle that is “up if self-fledged” is determined with respect to the hand of the other hand, the entrance corresponding to this wrinkle is caused to emit light by a full color LED. Furthermore, the design of the bag is displayed on the display device. As a result, players who are new to the sparrow ball game can accurately check the spear that will rise if they refrain and the entrance of the ball, so that they can enjoy the game with the sparrow ball machine with peace of mind. Become.

  Furthermore, in the sparrow ball game machine of the present invention, the determination of the symbol of the kite that will be “raised if it is self-represented” with respect to the current game is performed by program processing for all combinations of 20 or more types of climbing combinations set. Rather than determining, the determination and extraction processing of the wrinkles to be self-contained is performed using the array pattern of the remaining number obtained by dividing the number of wrinkles for each type by 3. As a result, the program processing time for determining and extracting the wrinkles to be self-contained is 1/10 to 1/1 compared to the conventional processing procedure for determining by replacing 27 types of wrinkles for all combinations of rising roles. It can be shortened to 100. Since the processing time of the program can be remarkably shortened in this way, it becomes possible to display various support and effect screens on the display device in synchronization with various operations on the player's sparrow ball game machine, It will be possible to provide a sparrow game machine that even beginners can enjoy playing with peace of mind.

It is a front view which shows an example of the sparrow ball game machine of this invention. It is a front view which shows the structure of the operation panel shown in FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of a screen displayed on the display apparatus shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the control board for controlling operation | movement of the sparrow ball game machine of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the main control board shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the sub control board | substrate shown in FIG. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the process sequence of the rising edge determination extraction program shown in FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram for describing a procedure for determining and extracting a wrinkle that rises if it is self-recognized based on a procedure example in a rising wrinkle determination extraction program. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen which displayed the design of the gourd which will go up if it self-determines by the process of a goup determination determination extraction program. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of a structure of the disclosed number table for calculating the number of bags disclosed for every symbol code of a bag with progress of a game. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the image control board shown in FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of a screen when the game which acquired the right of the big game selects the bag which a player should refrain from by a screen and an interactive system.

Explanation of symbols

1: Sparrow ball game machine 2: Game board surface part 3: Operation panel 6: Speaker 7: Lamp device 8: Special winning device (attacker)
11a, 11b, 11c, ...: Entrance entrance 12: Decoration device with lamp 14: Display device 15: Medal insertion slot 16a, 16b, 16c, ...: Discard button 17: Self-discard button 18: Reach Button 19: 牌 selection right shift button 20: 牌 selection left shift button 21: Self-decision decision button 22: Disbursement button 23: Game end button 24: Game start button 37: Full color LED
40: CPU
41: ROM
42: RAM
P1: Main board operation control program P5: Automatic distribution program P6: Special gamer lottery program P8: Winning determination program P9: Self-selection support program P21: Sub-board operation control program P24: Uphill determination extraction program P241: 19 Character number type calculation program P242: Hearing pattern determination program P243: Ascending comet type determination program P244: Ascending comet extraction program P246: Entrance entrance light emission control program P31: Image board operation control program P32: Screen display program P321b: Game effect display Program Ka: Main control board Kb: Sub control board Kc: Image control board

Claims (3)

The game board surface is provided with a entrance corresponding to a mahjong tile design made up of multiple types of mausoleums, and the hand of the mahjong tile corresponding to the entrance of the game ball entered as a trap. In the sparrow ball game machine, in which the combination of the design of the handle is completed as a combination of the rising combination set in advance, and a medal is awarded to the player as an award.
It is judged whether or not the rising combination can be completed by adding any one mahjong tile design to the current 13 manuals and extracting the mahjong tile that will rise if the self-registration is completed. A rising heel judging means,
Before the player performs his own operation, the rising entrance corresponding to the mahjong tile that rises if the self-extracting means extracted by the climbing-up determination means is moved up or close to the entrance corresponding to the mahjong tile. The entrance light emitting means for emitting light in different color colors according to the level of
A sparrow ball game machine characterized by comprising:   The sparrow ball game machine according to claim 1, wherein the entrance light emitting means comprises a full color LED. The sparrow ball game machine according to claim 1, wherein the level of the rising combination is set according to the number of medals to be paid out when the rising combination is completed.

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