JP5392898B2 - Sparrow ball game machine and mahjong game control program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a sparrow ball game machine using a game ball and a mahjong game control program operable on a home or business game machine in which a mahjong game can be played. The present invention relates to a sparrow ball game machine and a mahjong game control program provided with a calculation function for obtaining the number of listeners indicating the number of spider symbols required for this purpose.

  A conventional sparrow ball game machine has a game board in which a plurality of entrances corresponding to symbols of a plurality of types of mahjong tiles (hereinafter referred to as a samurai) are arranged, and a predetermined number of games per game in the game board. A game ball launching device for launching a game ball, a main control means for controlling the progress of the game, a sub-control means for controlling the effect of the game, etc., and a game effect image and the like controlled by the sub-control means are displayed. A display device or the like is provided. When the player inserts a predetermined number of medals necessary for a game of the game into the medal slot, the software installed in the main control means of the sparrow ball game machine constituted by the microcomputer starts the game. And the progress of the game is controlled in accordance with the player's abandonment and self-restraint operations.

In such a sparrow ball game machine, when a player performs a game start operation, software installed in the sparrow ball game machine controls the progress of the game as follows.
First, the symbols of the 14 bags that are necessary for starting the game are determined by lottery using random number generating means and distributed as the player's hands. The 14 handed symbols that are arranged are displayed on the display device controlled by the sub-control means as the player's hand.

  Next, in the case where the symbols of the 14 tiles that have been arranged have not been raised and the role has not been completed, the player throws away the single tile that is determined to be unnecessary from these 14 manuals. Perform the operation. When this throwing-in operation is performed, the main control means controls the sub-control means to perform processing for updating and displaying 13 symbols serving as the current trick of the player on the display device. The game ball is controlled to be supplied to the game ball launcher.

  Subsequently, the player performs a self-control operation of launching one game ball from the game ball launching device into the game board. The symbol of the kite corresponding to the entrance into which the launched game ball has entered is added to the hand as a self-defeated kite. At this time, the software of the main control means performs processing for storing its own symbol code in the manual data storage area of the storage device, and controls the secondary control means to become the current manual of the player. The process of updating and displaying the symbols on the display device is performed. These operations and processing constitute a self-operating means for the sparrow ball game machine. However, when the number of disclosures disclosed in the game place of the symbol of the self-obtained obtained by the self-control operation reaches a preset upper limit number (for example, four), the operation of the self-control Is configured so that the self-operation is performed again.

  Subsequently, the winning determination means provided in the main control means is that the combination of 14 hand-hand symbols that have been made by the operation of the player has completed the combination of the up (completion) combination set in advance. Processing to determine whether or not. Then, when the hand tile is raised and the combination of the winning combinations is not completed, the player again selects one unnecessary basket from the hand basket and performs the discarding operation. This discarding operation is performed by pressing a discarding switch button corresponding to the design of the manual displayed on the display device, and the manual data stored in the storage area is also updated. These throwing-in operations and processing constitute the throwing-out operation means of the sparrow ball game machine.

In this way, the player performs a self-rotation operation to fire a predetermined number of game balls (for example, 11) within a predetermined number, and the number of the 14 hands is predetermined as the predetermined rising role. When the combination is completed, the main control means of the sparrow ball game machine performs a process of paying out a predetermined number of medals set for each rising combination as a prize. Even when the automatic arrangement of the 14 baskets ends at the start of the above-described one game, the winning determination means determines whether or not the 14 combinations have already completed the winning combination.
On the other hand, if the player cannot complete the winning combination even if a predetermined number of game balls are fired, the main control means performs a process of ending (game) the game.

  In addition, in a conventional sparrow ball game machine, if you can get the required additional symbol, you can complete the rising role, or when you are in a listening state, The present applicant has proposed a sparrow ball game machine having a function of displaying a symbol on a display device and supporting a player's self-determination operation (see Patent Document 1 below).

JP 2005-224498 A

  However, in the conventional sparrow ball game machine as described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, it is determined whether or not the current manual is a hearing or a one-way listening. The player is informed of the habits necessary to listen to the necessary habits for one-time listening, but if one-way listening has not been reached, how many additional symbols should be added to the current habit There is no disclosure of a technique for calculating the number of people who are in a hearing state. This is because, when trying to obtain the number of listeners by the arithmetic processing described in Patent Document 1, several hundreds of billions of loop processes must be performed depending on the combination of procedures, and an existing CPU takes several seconds to perform the process. This is because it may take some degree and cannot be put to practical use. Therefore, there has been a problem that in the state of the hand that has not reached the one-off listening, it is impossible to accurately notify the player of the handbag to be discarded or the handbag to be self-sufficient.

  In addition, since the conventional means for determining hand-holding is based on the current hand-held data, it is determined whether it is in the state of apparent listening or one-way listening. Since the feasibility of completing a rising role has not been verified in consideration of the situation of abandonment, etc., the number of hearings judged to be apparent may differ from the number of possible hearings. There was a problem that support for the elderly was not made.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve such a conventional problem, and based on a novel technical idea, has a function capable of calculating the number of listeners that can quickly complete a rising role in the current procedure. An object is to provide a sparrow ball game machine and a mahjong game control program.

In order to solve such a problem, the invention according to claim 1 is directed to a game board in which a ball entrance corresponding to a plurality of types of baskets is arranged, and before a game ball launched into the game board enters the game board. A self-operating means for adding the symbol of the bag corresponding to the entry ball mouth to the symbol of the manual as self-control, and a discarding operation unit for discarding an unnecessary symbol from the symbol of the manual A number-of-hearing number judging means for judging the number of hearings indicating the number of designs of the kite necessary for the current handbook to become a hearing kit, wherein the combination of the design of the handbook has a preset combination of When a combination of symbols is completed, a sparrow ball game machine that pays out a set number of game media for each rising combination, wherein the number-of-listening judging means obtains the symbol data of the current hand for each species. stores in a predetermined storage area of the distribution and storage, the current hand for each of the tiles species By counting the number of symbols data and tile type sorting means for storing in a predetermined storage area of the storage device, for each tile of the tiles species determined for each number of identical tiles species symbol data included in the hand tiles The hand composition value obtained in advance based on the number of symbol data combinations is pre-arranged corresponding to the number of the same kind of symbol data included in the hand and the symbol data for each kind. a tile hand configuration value tables, based on the number of symbols data of said current tile hand of each of the tiles species counted by the symbol data and the tile species distribution means of each tile that has been distributed by the tiles species distribution means a tile hand eigenvalue calculation means above with reference to tile hand configuration value table to acquire the tile hand configuration values for each tile, determining the tile hand eigenvalues for each tile type by calculating the sum of the obtained tile hand configuration values, Corresponds to the number of symbol data for each species A face configuration table in which flag data configured by setting a flag to bits corresponding to the face configuration patterns of the number of face pieces, the number of towers, and the number of sparrows is stored in advance corresponding to all the eigenvalues the tile hand with reference to the face configuration table for each said tile hand eigenvalues based on the tile hand eigenvalues for each tile type determined by the eigenvalue calculating unit, obtainable face number, the Touko number and sparrow head count face a face structure pattern acquisition means for acquiring the flag data structure pattern, the number the number of tiles used in each of the face structure pattern corresponding to the flag data obtained for each tile type of the tiles species tiles Subtracted from the number of provisional listeners for each of the species, and the sum of the provisional listeners of all species is taken as the first number of listeners of the hand, and from all combinations of the face configuration patterns The group Of the plurality of first listening numbers calculated for each match, the first listening number calculation means for calculating the minimum first listening number corresponds to the minimum first listening number. Face configuration determination means for determining whether all towers included in the face configuration pattern can configure a face, and the face configuration corresponding to the minimum first listening number by the face configuration determination means When it is determined that there is a tower that cannot form a face in the tower included in the pattern, a virtual that can form a face using a fence included in the tower that cannot configure the face and an isolated fence that does not constitute the face or tower A virtual face configuration pattern generating means for generating a face configuration pattern, and subtracting the number of eyelids used in each virtual face configuration pattern generated for each type from the number of types of the type Find the actual number of listeners for each , The sum of the actual direction聴数all tiles species as a second direction聴数the tile hand, the virtual face from said all the combinations of configuration patterns of a plurality computed for each said combination a second direction聴数of characterized the second direction聴数calculating means for calculating said second direction聴数that minimizes, to become comprises a.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the sparrow ball game machine according to the first aspect of the invention, the number of listening determination means is the minimum number of the first listening obtained by the first number of listening calculation means. when it is below the second direction聴数before SL minimum, and wherein the actuating said face arrangement determining means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the sparrow ball game machine according to the first or second aspect, when the operable number of times of the self-contained operation is equal to the minimum second number of second listening, It is further characterized by further comprising a flow station notification means for notifying that a game result is a flow station.

The invention described in claim 4 is a self-operating means for adding a single spear symbol from a plurality of types of spear symbols to the hand spear symbol as a self-reliant, and discarding unnecessary symbols from the hand spear symbol Necessary scissors operating means for performing, a rising hand determining means for determining whether or not the combination of symbols of the hand tiles completes a preset rising hand, and necessary for the current hand tile to be a hearing A game control program for a mahjong game device, comprising: a number-of-hearing number judging means for judging a number of hearing sounds indicating the number of patterns of the nails. A type that is sorted and stored in a predetermined storage area of a storage device for each type, and that the number of symbol data of the current manual is counted for each type and stored in a predetermined storage area of the storage device Sorting by sorting process and the seed sorting process Was based on the number of symbols data of the current tile hand of each of the tiles species counted by the symbol data and the tile species distribution processing of the tiles, the number of identical tiles species symbol data included in the manual tile Based on the number of combinations of symbol data for each kite of the kite type determined every time, the handpiece composition value obtained in advance is the number of the same type of symbol data included in the kite and the symbol for each kite type. Corresponding to the data , refer to the pre-arranged manual composition value table, obtain the manual composition value of each basket, calculate the sum of the obtained manual composition values , and perform the manual for each type. a tile hand eigenvalue calculation process for obtaining the eigenvalues,該手tiles each said tile hand eigenvalues based on the tile hand eigenvalues for each tile type determined by the eigenvalue calculation process, all corresponding to the number of symbols data for each tile type The number of facets that can be acquired and the number of towers With reference to the number and sparrow head count face configuration table face constituting the pattern flag is configured to flag the bit corresponding to the data is stored in advance in, obtainable face number, face arrangement pattern of Touko number and sparrow head count a face structure pattern and acquires the flag data, subtracting the number of tiles used in each of the face structure pattern corresponding to the flag data obtained for each tile type from the number of the tiles species tiles Then, the number of provisional hearings for each of the species is obtained, and the sum of the provisional number of hearings of all the species is set as the first number of hearings of the procedure, and the combination is selected from all combinations of the face configuration patterns. A first listening number calculation process for calculating a minimum number of the first listening numbers among the plurality of first listening numbers calculated for each , and the face corresponding to the minimum first listening number All of the composition patterns A face configuration determination process for determining whether or not a tower can configure a face, and a face is formed on the tower included in the face configuration pattern corresponding to the minimum first listening number by the face configuration determination process A virtual facet configuration that generates a virtual facet configuration pattern that can constitute a facet using a saddle included in a tower that cannot constitute the facet and an isolated face that does not constitute a facet or tower when it is determined that there is an incapable tower The actual number of hearings for each type is obtained by subtracting the number of cocoons used in each virtual face configuration pattern generated for each type of pattern from the pattern generation process and the number of types of cocoons of the type. , The sum of the actual number of common hearings of all the species is used as the second number of common hearings of the hand, and the plurality of second common listening numbers calculated for each combination from all combinations of the virtual facet configuration patterns among the second having the smallest A second direction 聴数 arithmetic processing for determining the 聴数 a mahjong game control program for causing a computer to execute the mahjong game device.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the mahjong game control program according to the fourth aspect of the invention, the listening number determination means is the minimum first listening number obtained by the first listening number calculation process. when it is below the second direction聴数before SL minimum, and performs the face arrangement determining process.

  In the specification and claims of the present application, the “listening” state means that a combination of 13 hand-drawn symbols by the player performing a throw-away operation is performed by the following self-operation. A state where a combination of rising roles can be completed.

  “Number of listeners (Shantensu)” means the number of symbols of the kite necessary to make the current manual kite in the hearing state. For example, if one more necessary design is obtained, the state that becomes hearing is called “one-way listening (Eshanten)”, and the state that requires three more patterns before hearing is called “three-way listening (Sanshanten)”. . In this embodiment, which will be described later, since “seven pairs” are adopted as one of the rising roles, the maximum number of listening is six-way listening.

  “Faces” is a general term for “kotsu”, which is composed of three “Shunz” and three “Shunz”, each of which is a series of three “牌”. “Tago” means a combination of two ridges that can constitute a face if one more necessary symbol is obtained. The Toko has “Lyantaa”, “Kantaa”, “Pentaa”, and “Toy”, which are candidate candidates.

  “Jantou” means a combination (pair) of two identical baskets, which is always required for a combination of rising roles. All the rising roles except “Kokushi Musou” and “Seven Pairs” consist of one set of sparrow head and four sets of faces.

  In a normal mahjong game, there are 9 types of “Ichigo” to “Kyujo”, 9 types of “Ichitsu” to “Nine-cylinder”, and “Ikko” to “Jukugo”. ”9 types of Choshi-an, and“ East ”,“ South ”,“ West ”,“ North ”,“ White ”,“ San ”,“ Middle ”, and a total of 34 patterns Four persimmons are used. The eggplant rice cake, the tube child rice cake, and the rope child rice cake are numbers that can be constructed with either an order or an indenter. In the sparrow ball game machine, a total of 27 types of symbols, excluding the seven types of “Noro” to “Yakko”, may be used. And “Kyuuko” may not be able to constitute Junko, so it may be treated as a kind of character.

According to the sparrow ball game machine according to the first aspect of the present invention, a game board on which entrances corresponding to a plurality of types of basket symbols are arranged, a self-tapping operation means, a throwing-in control means, A sparrow ball game machine comprising: a hearing number judging means for judging the number of hearings indicating the number of symbols of the kite necessary for the hand of the player to become a hearing person, The design data of the hand is sorted for each type and stored in a predetermined storage area of the storage device, and the current number of design data for each type is counted and stored in the predetermined storage area of the storage device. to the tiles species distribution means, tile hand configuration values previously obtained on the basis of the number of combinations of symbols data of each tile of the tiles species determined for each number of identical tiles species symbol data included in the tile hand is tile hand Corresponding to the number of symbol data of the same species included in the symbol and the symbol data of each species. And tile hand configuration values and tables, tile hand configuration values based on the current number of symbols data tile hand of each tile species counted by the symbol data and tile species distribution means of each tile that has been distributed by Pai species distribution means A manual eigenvalue calculation means for obtaining a manual eigenvalue for each type by obtaining a manual configuration value for each type by referring to the table and calculating the sum of the acquired manual configuration values and a design for each type Flag data configured by setting a flag to bits corresponding to the face configuration patterns of the number of facets, the number of towers, and the number of sparrows corresponding to all the manual eigenvalues corresponding to the number of data are stored in advance. The number of facets, the number of towers, and the number of sparrows that can be obtained by referring to the facet configuration table for each of the hand eigenvalues based on the facet structure table and the hand eigenvalue for each type determined by the hand eigenvalue calculating means face of A face structure pattern acquisition means for acquiring a flag data for forming a pattern, by subtracting the number of tiles used in each face arrangement pattern corresponding to the flag data acquired for each tile type from the number of the tiles species tiles Calculate the number of provisional hearings for each species, and use the sum of the provisional number of hearings for all species as the first number of hearings for that procedure, and calculate for each combination from all combinations of face configuration patterns Since the first listening number calculation means for calculating the minimum number of first listening sounds among the plurality of first listening numbers is provided, it is set in advance from manual data distributed for each kind. By calculating a manual eigenvalue quantified based on the manual configuration value obtained by referring to the manual configuration value table and referring to the face configuration table set in advance from the manual configuration value, Flag data (number of facets, towers and sparrows that can be acquired) Data that can identify the pattern of the number of heads) can be acquired almost instantaneously, and there is no need to perform loop processing as in the prior art, so the processing speed of the apparent number of listening (first listening) The speed can be increased to about 1/1 million to 1 / 100,000.

Furthermore, the number-of-listening judging means is a face configuration judging means for judging whether or not all towers included in the face configuration pattern corresponding to the minimum first number of listeners can constitute the face, and face configuration judgment When it is determined by the means that there is a tower that cannot form a face in the face composition included in the face composition pattern corresponding to the smallest first number of listeners , the trap and face included in the tower that cannot constitute the face are also formed. a virtual face arrangement pattern generating means for generating a possible virtual face configuration pattern constituting the face by using the isolated tile not, the number of tiles used in each virtual face arrangement pattern generated for each tile type the Virtual face composition pattern by subtracting from the number of cocoons of each kind to obtain the actual number of hearings for each kind, and the sum of the actual number of hearings of all kinds as the second number of common hearings the combined each from all the combinations of Of the calculated plurality of second direction聴数 it is provided with the second direction聴数calculating means for calculating a second direction聴数that minimizes, in a first direction聴数a direction聴数apparent The face composition determination means determines whether or not the rising combination can actually be configured, and if the rising combination cannot be actually configured with the face pattern of the first listening number, it is possible to form a tower that can configure the face. The virtual face configuration pattern used virtually is generated by the virtual face configuration pattern generation means, and the second listening number that is the number of hearings that can be realized from the combination of the virtual face configuration patterns is calculated as the second listening number calculation means. Therefore, the game can be supported by more accurately informing the player of the heel to be discarded and the heel to be self-defeated. Moreover, it can also comprise so that the production | presentation relevant to the number of listening may be displayed and alert | reported suitably.

According to the second aspect of the invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect of the invention, in the sparrow ball game machine according to the first aspect, the number-of-hearing number judging means includes a first number-of-hearing number calculation. the minimum of the first direction聴数obtained by means operates the face arrangement determining means when the following second direction聴数the minimum, for example, face arrangement pattern acquisition means all that is acquired for each tile species by Even if there are a large number of combinations of the face configuration patterns, the minimum number of the second listening is stored in the predetermined storage area of the storage device among the combinations of the face configuration patterns. Since the processing by the face configuration determining means is performed only when the number is less than or equal to the number, the number of times of processing by the face configuration determining means can be reduced, and the processing speed of the number-of-listenings processing can be further increased.

According to the invention described in claim 3, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1 or 2, in the sparrow ball game machine according to claim 1 or 2, the operation of the self-rotation operation is performed. When the possible number of times and the minimum number of the second listening are equal, the game can be further configured to include a flow notifying means for notifying that the result of the game is a flow. Even if there is a ball remaining, if the minimum number of listeners that can be realized and the remaining number of game balls, which is the number of self-operating operations, become equal, the game cannot complete the rising role. Since it can be determined, the player is informed that the current game will become a player by means of the player notification means, thereby prompting the player to start the next game without causing unnecessary use of the player. To improve the operating rate of sparrow ball machines It can be.

  According to the invention described in claim 4 or claim 5, in the home or business game machine capable of playing the mahjong game, the effect of the invention described in claim 1 or claim 2 can be obtained. it can.

It is a front view which shows the structural example of the front part of the sparrow ball game machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which shows the structural example of the game board in the sparrow ball game machine shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of arrangement | positioning of the design of the entrance and the cage | basket which are installed in the lower part of the game board shown in FIG. It is a front view for demonstrating the structural example of the operation panel in the sparrow ball game machine shown in FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of a screen displayed on the 2nd display apparatus shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen which displayed the symbol which should be thrown away on the 1st display apparatus. It is a figure which shows the structure of the control board which controls operation | movement of the sparrow ball game machine which concerns on one Embodiment 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 for demonstrating the structural example of the symbol code table of the cocoon which shows the relationship between the symbol of the mahjong tile used for the sparrow ball game machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention, and the symbol code set to this symbol. is there. The winning medal number table for each winning combination indicating the name and code of the rising combination set in the sparrow ball game machine according to the embodiment of the present invention, and the number of acquired medals associated with winning when the rising combination is completed. It is a figure which shows the example of a structure. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the sub control board | substrate shown in FIG. It is the flowchart which showed the flow of the process in which the number-of-listenings determination means based on one Embodiment of this invention calculates | requires the number of hearings from the present manual data. It is the flowchart which showed the flow of the process in which the number-of-listenings determination means based on other embodiment of this invention calculates | requires the number of hearings from the present manual data. It is a figure which shows an example of the manual configuration value table which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the structure of the flag data of the face structure pattern set to the face structure table which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the combination of the design of the handle according to one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the 1st image control board shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the 2nd image control board shown in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of control of the game progress in the sparrow ball game machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of control of the game progress in the sparrow ball game machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of control of the game progress in the sparrow ball game machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of control of the game progress in the sparrow ball game machine which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a sparrow game machine according to the present invention will be described. The sparrow ball game machine according to the present invention is a game machine in which a game is played by using 108 spears in total, each of 27 kinds of spears, like the sparrow ball game machine proposed in the past. is there. The 27 types of kites are 9 types of eggplants, “Ichigo” or “Kyuho”, 9 types of “Itsutsu” or “Nine-cylinder”, There are two types of “Roku” and seven types of character “牌”, “East”, “South”, “West”, “North”, “White”, “發”, “Middle”. Therefore, the lion, tube, and cord are several, but since the cord is only provided with “Ikko” and “Juku”, the species that cannot form the “junko”, that is, It can be regarded as the same kind of character.

  In addition, the above-mentioned two kinds of numbers are composed of, for example, nine symbols from “Ichijo” to “Jiu” and nine types from “Ikko” to “Juku”. There are two types of sleeves: “One-cylinder” and “Nine-cylinder”. Characters are “East”, “South”, “West”, “North”, “White”, “、”, “Medium”. It is good also as a sparrow ball game machine which has a spear pattern comprised from. In addition, the sparrow ball game machine according to the present invention is composed of four kinds of spears, ie, three kinds of spears (eg, lion, tube, cord) and a sparrow sphere that uses a total of 136 symbols. It can also be implemented as a gaming machine.

  First, the structure of the front part of a housing | casing is demonstrated about the sparrow ball game machine which concerns on this invention. FIG. 1 is a front view showing a configuration of a front portion of a housing in a sparrow ball game machine showing an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the front part of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is basically a game board 2, an operation panel 3, a game ball launch lever 4 provided below the operation panel 3, a medal tray 5, and a speaker. 6 includes an audio output port 7 for outputting audio and sound effects, a lamp device 8, a guide rail 9, and the like.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the configuration of the game board 2 is in the center of the game board 2 surrounded by the guide rails 9, a first display device 10 made of a liquid crystal display device, and an obliquely lower side of the first display device 10. Are provided with entrances 13a and 13b. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, 25 entrances 13c, 13d,... Are arranged in the lower part 2a of the game board 2 in the lateral direction. On the right side of the first display device 10, a special entrance (hereinafter referred to as an attacker) 11 is provided, and an attacker operating port 12 through which a game ball can pass is provided above the attacker 11. The first display device 10 is controlled by a sub control board Kb which is a sub control means of the sparrow ball game machine 1 described later.

  Each of the entrances 13 a, 13 b,... Has a spear symbol displayed thereon, and the arrangement of the 27 entrances 13 a, 13 b,. In the lower left, there is a “Ikko” entrance 13a, and in the lower right, there is a “Jukuno” entrance 13b. Further, on the lower side 2a of the game board 2 below the first display device 10, as shown in FIG. The “South” entrance 13d, the “Ichigo” entrance 13e,...

  The game board 2 is further provided with a decoration device 14 with a lamp, a windmill 15 and the like. The light emitters used for the lamp device 8 and the lamp-equipped decoration device 14 use LEDs that emit various color colors. The game board 2 is provided with a large number of nails for guiding the movement of the launched game balls, but these nails are not shown in FIG. Further, a main display device 36 composed of a dot matrix display or the like is provided above the game board 2. The main display device 36 is controlled by a main control board Ka that is a main control means of the sparrow ball game machine 1 described later.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 4, the operation panel 3 is provided with a second display device 16 constituted by a liquid crystal display device, a medal slot 17, and various operation buttons (button switches). The second display device 16 is controlled by a sub control board Kb which is a sub control means of the sparrow ball game machine 1 described later. These various operation buttons include a game start (BET) button 18, buttons corresponding to the 13 handbag symbols, which are disposed in the horizontal direction and are used for abandonment button switches 19 a and 19 b. , ..., 19m, self-throwing button switch 20 for performing the operation of throwing away the self-trapping pad, reach button serving as a reach operation input means for reaching when a hand is heard 21, a right shift button 22a, a left shift button 22b, a selection determination button 23, a game (game) end button 24, a medal payout button 25, and the like. Note that the discard button switch 19a, 19b,..., 19m, and the discard button button 20 serve as a discard operation means for performing an operation of discarding unnecessary bags from the hand.

  When the player operates the above-mentioned various buttons (presses the switch contact to turn on), for example, when the player presses the button switch 19a for discarding, a discarding signal is generated, and this signal is constituted by the microcomputer. Input to the control board. Then, software (hereinafter referred to as a program) installed in the ROM of the control board analyzes the input signal, and executes a process corresponding to the analyzed input signal, so that the game proceeds.

  The first display device 10 and the second display device 16 are used to display necessary information and effect images according to the progress of the game for the player. The first display device 10 and the second display device 16 are constituted by a sub control board Kb, a first image control board Kc, and a second image control board Kd, which are sub control means of the sparrow ball game machine 1 described later. Be controlled.

  The first display device 10 is mainly used when a player performs an operation of throwing away an unnecessary bag from a hand bag and when a player operates a hand bag by itself. It is used as a means for displaying in advance the symbol of the kite that should be self-contained. This makes it possible for beginners with little knowledge of mahjong to enjoy the game easily.

  The second display device 16 is mainly composed of the current number of medals stored by the player in the sparrow ball game machine 1, the number of remaining game balls during the game, and the symbol of the kite constituting the player's hand. It is used as a means for displaying the symbol of the bowl discarded by the player as the discarded bowl.

  FIG. 5 shows a display example when various images and information are displayed on the second display device 16. As shown in FIG. 5, in the upper horizontal direction of the display surface of the display device 16, the medal accumulated number display unit 26, the remaining game ball number display unit 27, the front dram display unit 28, the back dram display unit 29, and the effect image display A part 30 and a parting waste display part 33 for displaying the design of the parting waste are provided.

  In the upper part of the effect display unit 30, a BB game combination display unit 31a for displaying a rising combination that can obtain the right of a big bonus game (BB game) among special game combinations that can be acquired in the game, and a regular An RB game combination display unit 31b that displays a winning combination that can obtain the right of a bonus game (RB game), and a CB game that displays two types of rising combination that can acquire the right of a chance bonus game (CB game) A combination display portion 31c is provided. The effect image or the like is displayed on the effect image display unit 30 when the winning combination is completed.

  In addition, as a special game combination (bonus game combination), a big bonus game (hereinafter referred to as BB game) combination, a regular bonus game (hereinafter referred to as RB game) combination and a chance bonus game (hereinafter referred to as CB game) combination are provided. It has been. The BB game combination is a special game combination determined in advance by lottery using a random number generating means as a BB game combination for each game. When the BB game combination is raised in the BB game combination, a predetermined number of times (for example, 13 times) ), The right to play a game advantageous to the player can be acquired.

  In the game that has acquired the right of the BB game role, the attacker operating port 12 on the game board 2 is activated, and when the game ball launched by the player passes through the attacker operating port 12, the attacker 11 opens. Then, when a game ball enters the attacker 11, the game allows the player to select a desired basket as a self-control by operating the selection buttons 22a and 22b and the selection determination button 23. When the player completes the winning combination for the game that has acquired the right of the BB game, a plurality of games (for example, 13 games) after the next time can play the game with the right of the BB game acquired. .

  The RB game combination is a special game combination determined by lottery using a random number generation means as an RB game combination for each game. When the RB game combination is raised, The game can be played with the right acquired.

  The CB game combination is a special game combination determined by lottery using random number generation means as a CB game combination for each game. When this CB game combination is completed, the attacker operation port 12 is activated in the game. Then, by passing the game ball through the attacker operating port 12, the attacker can be opened, and an advantageous self-operation using the attacker 11 can be performed.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the scoring device is configured to operate on the condition that the above-mentioned special game player is completed or the attacker operating port 12 is validated. The number of points (medal number) that can be acquired in the acquired game is added (for example, doubled) compared to the number of points that can be acquired by the same ascending combination during normal games. It is what is done.

  Therefore, the player can acquire more medals when the special game right is obtained. The normal game refers to a game that has not acquired the right of the BB game combination, RB game combination or CB game combination.

  Further, in the lower horizontal direction of the second display device 16, there are provided a hand bag display unit 34 for displaying the symbols of 13 hand rods, and a self screen display unit 35 for displaying the symbols of the bag that has been self-trapped by the self-manipulation operation. It has been. In addition, at the lower part of each symbol displayed on the manual display unit 34 and the self-display unit 35, the button switches 19a, 19b for discarding buttons serving as a discarding operation means for determining an unnecessary discarding rule from the manuals. -Button names (A, B, C, D, E,..., M, N) corresponding to 19m and 20 are displayed. The symbol of the cocoon displayed on the hand pallet display unit 34 is displayed in color in a predetermined order, for example, in the sequence of the symbol code of the cocoon described later. Further, each display unit of the second display device 16 displays the symbols, effect images, numerical values, etc. of the kite updated by program processing as the game progresses.

  An example of the screen displayed on the first display means 10 is shown in FIG. In FIG. 6, on the upper part of the display screen, the number of times of game execution 37a on the current day, the same number of times of increase 37b on the same day, and if the game result executed just before the game is a fluent station, The number of times of self-restraint performed by the player in the game is displayed. Note that the continuous flow station count 38 is the number of times that a flow station including this flow game continues in the past game history when the game result executed immediately before the game is a flow station. For example, “10” is displayed in the case where the flow game is continued ten times.

  In the central portion of the screen display shown in FIG. 6, there are 14 current handbags, and the player should use the thrower as determined by the dumper support program before the player performs the thrower operation from the handbag. The symbol of is displayed. Similarly, before the player's current maneuver is 13 and the player performs a self-determination operation, the symbol of the decoy to be self-determined determined by the self-determination support program is displayed at the center of the screen display.

  A control board, which is a control means for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1 according to the present invention, is mounted at a predetermined position inside the housing of the sparrow ball game machine 1. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the control board includes a main control board Ka that is a main control means for controlling the progress of the game of the sparrow ball game machine 1 and a game controlled by the control of the main control board Ka. It is composed of a sub control board Kb, a first image control board Kc, and a second image control board Kd, which are sub control means for controlling effects according to the progress. These control boards Ka, Kb, Kc and Kd are respectively CPUs 40a, 40b, 40c and 40d which are microprocessors, ROMs 41a, 41b, 41c and 41d which are storage devices (ROM), and RAMs 42a which are also storage devices (RAM). 42b, 42c, 42d, input / output interface (I / F) circuits 43a, 43b, 43c, 43d, communication interface (I / F) circuits 44a, 44b, 44c, 44d, etc. .

  The main control board Ka and the sub control board Kb, the sub control board Kb and the first image control board Kc, and the sub control board Kb and the second image control board Kd are connected by cable lines T1, T2, and T3. Data communication is possible. Thus, when data is transmitted from the main control board Ka to the first image control board Kc or the second image control board Kd, the data is transmitted via the sub control board Kb. The RAMs 42a to 42d of the control boards are preferably made of, for example, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory so that the stored contents are retained even when the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned off.

  The input / output interface circuit 43a mounted on the main control board Ka has a medal insertion sensor 17a for detecting a medal inserted into the medal insertion slot 17 by the player when the game is executed, and each of the entrances 13a, 13b, 13c,..., Etc., are connected to the ball sensor, the throwing button switches 19a, 19b, 19c,..., And various button switches. It is input to the main control board Ka. Further, the input / output interface circuit 43a is connected with a medal payout device for paying out medals to the player, a game ball feeding device for sending game balls to the launching device, an attacker opening / closing device for controlling the opening / closing of the attacker 11 and the like. Control signals are output to these devices under program control. Further, the input / output interface circuit 43a is connected to a main display device 36 for displaying information relating to the game / discard game during the game.

  The lamps 8, 14 and the like are connected to the input / output I / F circuit 43b mounted on the sub control board Kb. The first display device 10 is connected to the input / output I / F circuit 43c of the first image control board Kc, and the second display is connected to the input / output I / F circuit 43d of the second image control board Kd. The device 16 and the speaker 6 are connected.

  A program for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball gaming machine 1 is stored (loaded) in the ROMs 41a to 41d of the control boards Ka, Kb, Kc, and Kd. Each of the RAMs 42a to 42d is used as a storage area (work area) for storing and reading various data and creating and calculating data when these programs operate. As the CPUs 40a to 40d, either 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit CPUs are adopted so that the functions required for the respective control boards Ka, Kb, Kc, Kd can be appropriately processed. be able to. Furthermore, it is possible to employ a CPU having excellent processing capability. The above-described control boards Ka, Kb, Kc, Kd and the programs stored in the ROMs 41a to 41d serve as control means for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1 according to the present invention.

  In the example shown in FIG. 7, the program for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1 according to the present invention is stored in the ROMs 41a to 41d of the control boards Ka, Kb, Kc, and Kd. Further, it may be stored in a computer-readable recording medium such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, MO, floppy disk or the like.

(Program installed on main control board Ka)
Next, the configuration of the program mounted on the main control board Ka will be described. The ROM 41a of the main control board Ka stores various programs for controlling the game progress of the sparrow ball gaming machine 1 in an integrated manner. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, these programs include a main control program P1, a medal management program P2, a game ball management program P3, an automatic layout program P4, a special gamer lottery program P5, a dora lottery program P6, and a winning determination. The program P7 includes a medal discharge control program P8, a self-selection support program P9, a game history data recording program P10, a score increase program P11, and the like.

  Of these programs, the main control program P1 is a main program that controls the overall operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1, and further, as subprograms, the input signal analysis program P1a, the communication control program P1b, and the remaining number of game balls are counted. A program P1c is provided.

  The input signal analysis program P1a described above includes a game start button 18, a throw-away button switch 19a, a reach button 21, a right shift button 22a, a left shift button 22b, a selection determination button 23, a game end button 24, and a medal payout button 25. When the input signal is input to the main control board Ka from the above, a program for performing processing for analyzing these input signals.

  The communication control program P1b is a program for performing communication with the sub control board Kb. In this communication, data composed of a control command in which what kind of processing is performed on data to be transmitted and control data transmitted together with the control command is transmitted as communication data.

The main control program P1 mainly performs the following processing.
(1) When the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned on, processing for initializing the storage area of the RAM 42a is performed. Further, the main control program P1 transmits an initialization control command when the power is turned on to the sub control board Kb. Further, the sub control board Kb performs processing for transmitting the initialization control command to the first image control board Kc and the second image control board Kd. Based on this control command, the sub-control board Kb and the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd perform initialization processing when the power is turned on.

  (2) At the start of the game, a process for storing an initialization setting value for the number of game balls, that is, a specified number that can be fired by a player in one game, in an area for storing the remaining number of game balls in the RAM 42a. I do. The prescribed number indicates the number that can be fired in one game based on the specifications of the sparrow ball game machine 1, and stores, for example, 11 pieces. As a result, if the player cannot complete the rising combination even if 11 game balls are fired per game, the game is over and ends.

  (3) Similarly, when the game is started and the automatic layout program P4 is operated and 14 layouts are determined, the symbol codes of the layout are assigned in the predetermined order to be described later. A process for storing the data in the manual data storage area of the RAM 42a as data is performed, and a process for transmitting the manual data to the second image control board Kd via the sub-control board Kb.

  (4) When a signal is input from the medal insertion sensor 7a, the ball sensor, the button switches 18, 19a,..., Etc., the signal is analyzed by the input signal analysis program P1a, and processing corresponding to the signal is performed. To control. For example, when a game ball is fired as a player's self-operation, and an incoming signal is input from an incoming sensor such as the entrance 13a into which the game ball has entered, an incoming ball corresponding to the incoming signal is received. The symbol code of the bag such as the mouth 13a is obtained. Then, a process of adding this symbol code as manual data to the manual data storage area of the RAM 42a is performed, and the second code control is performed on the local code via the sub-control board Kb. Processing for transmitting to the substrate Kd is performed.

  (5) In the process of (4) above, when a ball entry signal is input from a ball entrance sensor such as the ball entrance 13a by the player's self-determination operation, the game ball remaining number counting program P1c is activated and the RAM 42a A process of subtracting “1” from an area for counting the number of game balls that can be fired (hereinafter referred to as the remaining number of game balls) set to “1” is performed.

  (6) Similarly, in the process of (4) above, when a signal is input that the player has made a throw-in operation, the design code of the throw-in is analyzed by the input signal analysis program P1a, and the design code is Then, a process of transmitting to the second image control board Kd via the sub control board Kb is performed. Subsequently, the discarding symbol code is deleted from the manual data storage area of the RAM 42a, and the processing of arranging the manual data stored in the manual data storage area in the order of the symbol code is performed. The processing for transmitting the manual data that has become to the second image control board Kd via the sub-control board Kb is performed.

  The medal management program P2 counts the number of medals inserted by the player into the medal slot 17 based on a signal from the medal insertion sensor 17a, an input signal from the game end button 24, and an input from the medal payout button 25. This is a program for updating the number of stored medals when a signal is detected.

  The game ball management program P3 is a program that is activated by the main control program P1 at the start of the game and when a throw-in operation signal is input to the main control board Ka from the throw-in button switch 19a,. Then, the game ball feeding device is controlled to perform a process of feeding one game ball to the game ball launch position (not shown in FIG. 1). Thereby, the player can operate the game ball launch lever 4 to launch a game ball, that is, perform a self-sufficient operation.

  The automatic catering program P4 is a program for performing a process of automatically and randomly determining the 14 chord symbol codes that will become a player's hand at the start of one game. This automatic catering program P4 uses the random numbers generated by the random number generating means to determine 14 catering symbol codes from a total of 108 kites for 27 types used in the sparrow game machine 1. Process.

  As shown in FIG. 9, for example, 27 types of “1” or “medium” 27 types of hex codes (symbol codes) are used for each of these 27 types used in the present sparrow ball game machine 1. In addition, four numerical values are assigned to each symbol code. The bag symbol code table shown in FIG. 9 is registered in the ROM 41a in advance. The automatic catering program P4 uses the random numbers generated by the random number generating means described above to randomly select the numerical values (0 to 107) assigned to the respective symbol codes, so that the 14 catering symbol codes The process of determining is performed. The main control program P1 stores the symbol code (symbol data) of the hand in the hand data storage area of the RAM 42a according to the order of the symbol code.

  The special game combination lottery program P5 is a process for determining a winning combination that can acquire a special game right for each game from among predetermined rising combinations by lottery using random numbers generated by the random number generating means. It is a program to be performed.

  For example, in the special game combination lottery program P5, “Kokushi Musou”, “Dai Sangen”, “Kyuren Baoji”, “Ippontsu”, One type is selected by lottery from the five types of “Character Color”. Similarly, as an uplifting role that can acquire the right of the RB game role, the rise of the pre-set “Ichitsunuki”, “Dai Shiki”, “Kiyo head”, “Niiguchi”, “Three colors same time” One type is determined by lottery. Similarly, the rising role that can acquire the right of the CB game role is, for example, the rising role of “Mixed Elder Head”, “Seven Pairs”, “Three Dark”, “Peace”, “Ichiguchi”, “Tan Yao” 2 types are determined by lottery. The code of the winning combination that can acquire the determined special game right is stored in the RAM 42a and transmitted to the second image control board Kd via the sub-control board Kb.

  The Dora lottery program P6 includes a front Dora lottery program and a back Dora lottery program. The front-draft lottery program is a program for determining one front-draft using a random number generated by the random number generation means by lottery at the start of the game. In the back-draft lottery program, when the player's hand is in a hearing state and the player presses the reach button 21, one back-dra is determined by lottery according to the control of the main control program P1. It is a program for. The front and back symbol codes determined by the Dora lottery program P6 are stored in the RAM 42a and transmitted to the second image control board Kd via the sub-control board Kb.

  The winning determination program P7 determines whether or not a combination of rising hand data is completed (rising determination program), and when determining that the rising is completed, this winning combination determination (raising combination determining program) This is a program for performing a process for obtaining the number of medals (the number of medals obtained with winning) that the player can acquire by this winning combination. This winning determination program P7 is the main control program when the automatic arrangement program P4 determines 14 arrangements at the start of the game, and when the player performs the self-operation and becomes 14 pieces. It is a program executed according to the control of P1.

  FIG. 10 shows the name and code of the rising combination set in advance in the sparrow ball game machine 1 of the present invention, and the number of medals obtained with winning that can be acquired by the player when the rising combination is completed. . The winning combination medal number table with the data structure shown in FIG. 10 is stored in advance in the ROM 41a of the main control board Ka. Then, when the winning combination is completed, the winning determination program P7 performs a process of determining the rising combination and refers to the winning combination medals number table shown in FIG. 10 from the rising combination code. Thus, the number of medals that can be obtained for the winning combination won by the player can be obtained.

Further, when the combination of the winning combination is completed, the combination of the rising combination completion, the code of the rising combination, the number of medals acquired with winning a prize, the number of increased medals described later, etc. according to the control of the main control program P1. The first and second image control boards Kc and Kd are transmitted via the sub control board Kb.
When the player's hand data completes the combination of the rising combination, the determination process as to which rising combination is completed by the winning determination program P7 from the rising combination codes shown in FIG. It is possible by performing the program processing described in (4) to (4).

  (1) The general rising role excluding “Kokushi Musou” and “Seven Pairs” is composed of four sets of “Konko” and “Junko” and one set of “Jonggo (Pop)”. The Therefore, the winning determination program P7 performs a process of determining the number of combinations of “knot” or “junko” and the number of “sparrow heads” for the current 14 hand-held data stored in the RAM 42a. Thus, it is possible to determine whether this procedure has been completed or is in a hearing state.

  (2) When it is determined that the current hand has completed a general winning combination, the winning determination program P7 executes a program for determining what rising combination the player has raised. The program for determining the rising combination registers determination data for determining the rising combination for each general rising combination in advance as a data table in the ROM 41a, and determines the rising combination by referring to the rising combination determination table. It becomes possible. In the rising combination determination table, for each rising combination, a combination of symbol codes constituting “character”, “junko”, and “sparrow head”, which are the characteristics, are registered.

  (3) “Kokushi Musou” and “Seven Pairs” are the rising roles that come up with a special combination of kites. Accordingly, the winning determination program P7 determines whether or not the current hand has been raised for each of “Kokushi Musou” and “Seven Pairs”, or whether or not the player will be in a state of hearing if a single kite is discarded. A program for judging whether or not

  (4) The winning determination program P7 operates the above-described programs for determining each rising combination in sequence, and if the current hand has completed the rising combination or has completed the rising combination, It is determined whether or not a rising role is achieved and if a single piece is discarded, a hearing state is reached. At this time, a plurality of rising combinations may be determined. When the rising combination is determined, the rising combination code is stored in the RAM 42a.

  The medal discharge control program P8 controls the medal payout device of the medal storage hopper installed inside the sparrow ball game machine 1 when the player completes the rising role, This is a program for performing a process of paying out an increased medal number obtained by a score increase program described later.

  The self-selection selection support program P9 is configured such that when a signal that a game ball has entered the attacker 11 is input to the player when the player has acquired a special gamer's right, This is a program for supporting the operation of arbitrarily selecting the symbol of the cocoon to be self-contained by the screen of the display device 10 and the interactive method.

  The game history data recording program P10 is a program for performing processing of storing history data of game results for each game executed on the day in the RAM 42a. The game result history data includes the number of times the game has been played on the current day, the number of times that the winning combination has been completed (total number of winnings), the number of times that the BB game role has been acquired on the same day, and the number of times that the RB game role has been acquired. And the number of times that a CB game was won, the name of the winning combination and the number of medals paid out at the same time, the number of games played from the previous win to the next win, When the game executed in the above is a game in which the winning combination is completed, data relating to the number of consecutive continuous winnings indicating the number of consecutive winnings is recorded.

  Of the game result history data described above, data such as the number of times the game has been executed and the number of times that the game has been executed, the number of consecutive consecutive winnings, the number of continuous affairs, etc. are controlled by the main control program P1 every time one game is completed. The image is transmitted to the first image control board Kc via the control board Kb.

  The score increase program P11 includes two subprograms, a score increase program P11a by special game and a score increase program P11b by drag.

  The score increase program P11a by special game is obtained when the player acquires the right of special game and the player completes the rising role after the attacker operating port 12 is activated. The medal of the acquired medal number accompanying the winning set in the winning medal number medal table shown in FIG. In other words, when a player completes a winning combination in a game that has acquired a special game right, the number of medals earned for winning a prize excluding the increased number by the drag is doubled.

  The score increase means by the dredger is executed by the score increase program P11b by the drag. Although not shown in FIG. 8, the score increase program P11b based on the dredger includes a score increase program based on the front drum and a score increase program based on the back drum.

  The score increase program by the table dora determines how many symbol codes of the table dora stored in the RAM 42a are included in the hand data completed in the rising combination stored in the RAM 42a. Is included, a process of increasing a predetermined number of medals, for example, three medals, for each front drum. Note that, as described above, in the front dora, at the start of one game, the symbol of one bag is determined by lottery by the dora lottery program P6.

  The score increase program by the back side drum determines how many back side symbol codes stored in the RAM 42a are included in the hand data that has completed the rising combination stored in the RAM 42a. Is included, a process of increasing a predetermined number of medals, for example, three medals, is performed for each back drum. Note that, as described above, the back dora is determined by lottery by the dora lottery program P6 at the start of one game, but the player's hand is in a listening state. When a person presses the reach button 21 to make a reach, it is displayed on the back drum display portion 29 of the second display device 16 under the control of the main program P1.

(Program mounted on sub-control board Kb)
Next, the configuration of the program mounted on the ROM 41b of the sub control board Kb will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 11, the sub-control board Kb is mainly loaded with a program composed of a main control program P21, a lamp control program P22, and an assist program P23.

  Among these, the main control program P21 decodes various control commands and control data transmitted from the main control board Ka, executes the programs P22 and P23, and first and second image controls for each control command. Processing for controlling communication with the substrates Kc and Kd is performed. The main control program P21 includes a communication control program P21a for performing this communication.

  The lamp control program P22 is a program for controlling lighting and extinguishing of the lamps 8 and 14 based on a control command and control data transmitted from the main control board Ka.

  The assist program P23 is a program for assisting the player in the progress of the game (game operation support). A support program P23d is provided.

  The number-of-hearing determination program P23a is a program for determining the number of hearing of the symbol combination of the hand and the character which is a feature of the present invention. -2, face configuration pattern acquisition program P23a-3, first listening count calculation program P23a-4, face configuration determination program P23a-5, virtual face configuration pattern generation program P23a-6, second listening count calculation program P23a- 7 etc.

  The number-of-listenings determination program P23a is increased in the determination process of the winning determination program P7 on the main control board Ka described above when the player performs a self-restraint operation or a throw-away operation. This is a program that operates when it is determined that a hand has been completed or is in a hearing state, and obtains the current number of hearings of the hand by means of arithmetic processing. It is a determination means.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a process flow in which the number-of-hearing determination program P23a obtains the number of listening from the current manual data. Hereinafter, the processing by the number-of-hearing determination program P23a and its subprograms will be described with reference to FIGS. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 16, the current 14 hand-painted symbols are “Ichigo”, “Tsubame”, “Tsubame”, “Rokugo”, “Hachiman”, “Two” Example of the number-of-hearing-number calculation processing when “Cylinder”, “Two cylinders”, “Five cylinders”, “Eight cylinders”, “Nine cylinders”, “Ichigo”, “East”, “West”, “West” Explained.

(Step S101) (Step S102)
Since the hand pick shown in FIG. 16 has not completed any of the rising roles shown in FIG. 10 and has not reached the hearing state, the number-of-listenings determination program P23a executes the kind distribution program P23a-1. By actuating, all symbols in the hand bag are sorted into cocoon types (eg, cocoon candy, tube candy candy, character candy), and each symbol data is stored in a predetermined storage area of the RAM 42b as a storage device (step S101). At the same time, the number of symbols is counted for each type and stored in a predetermined storage area of the RAM 42b (step S102). In the example shown in FIG. 16, there are five eggplant bowls, “Ichigo”, “Tsubaki”, “Tsubame”, “Rokugo”, and “Yawata”. There are five, “two-cylinder”, “five-cylinder”, “eight-cylinder”, and “nine-cylinder”, and four characters “Ichigo”, “east”, “west”, and “west”. As described above, “Ichigo” and “Kyuuko” cannot be used to form an order, so that the cocoon type is processed as a character 牌. The seed distribution program P23a-1 is a seed distribution means in the present embodiment.

(Step S103) (Step S104)
Subsequently, the number-of-hearing-number determination program P23a operates the manual eigenvalue calculation program P23a-2 to acquire the manual configuration value for each type (step S103), and the total sum of the acquired manual configuration values. Is calculated to obtain a manual eigenvalue for each type (step S104). The hand flaw eigenvalue calculation program P23a-2 is a hand flaw eigenvalue calculation means in the present embodiment.

  In step S103, the process of obtaining the manual configuration value for each type by the manual eigenvalue calculation program P23a-2 is performed as follows. The ROM 41b of the sub control board Kb stores a manual configuration value table as shown in FIG. In this manual composition value table, the hand composition value of each symbol is referred to from the manual composition value set in the right column of FIG. 14 according to the number of symbols for each species. For example, if there is one eggplant symbol in the handbag, refer to the handpiece composition value set in the 14th column of FIG. In this case, the manual configuration values set in the 12th to 14th columns in FIG. 14 are referred to. Then, when all the 14 hand symbols are insulators, all hand component values set in the 1st to 14th columns are referred to. In addition, the part set to "-1" in the manual composition value table has shown the part which is not referred.

  Specifically, in the example shown in FIG. 16, since there are five symbols for the eggplant rice cake, the hand setting values set for the 10th to 14th columns in FIG. 14 are referred to. The When the eggplant has the five symbols “Ichigo”, “Tsubame”, “Tsubame”, “Rokugo”, and “Hachiman”, the leftmost column to be referenced (the tenth column) ) To the hand wrinkle composition value of each symbol in ascending order of symbol symbol code shown in FIG. Therefore, “784” is acquired from the intersection of the row of “Ichijo” and the 10 columns of the manuscript configuration value table as the “Ichigo” manual configuration value. Similarly, “210” is acquired from the intersection of the row “2 萬” and the 11th column of the table composition value table as the table composition value of “second table”, and as the table composition value of “third table”, “56” is acquired from the intersection of the row of “three bases” and the 12 columns of the manual configuration value table, and the row “13” of the manual configuration value table and 13 are obtained as the manual configuration values of “six bases”. “6” is acquired from the intersection of the columns, and “1” is acquired from the intersection of the row of “Yawata” and the 14 columns of the table of component values table as the manual configuration value of “Yawata”.

In step S104, as described above, a process is performed for calculating the sum total of all the hand composition values obtained by referring to the hand composition value table to obtain the hand characteristic value for each kind. That is, 784 + 210 + 56 + 6 + 1 = 1057 is set as the hand eigenvalue of the cocoon bag in the table shown in FIG. Since the number of combinations of the cocoon symbols when the number of cocoon symbols is five is 1278, the unique value of the hand tile is 0 to 1277, and different combinations of unique hand tile values corresponding to one-to-one It is configured to correspond.
Similarly, the handpiece eigenvalue of the sleeve rod in the handrail of FIG. 16 is the handpiece composition value “455” of the first “two-cylinder” and the handpiece composition value “210” of the second “two-cylinder”. , The sum of the hand-roll composition value “20” for “5-cylinder”, the hand-roll composition value “1” for “8-cylinder”, and the hand-roll composition value “0” for “nine cylinders” is calculated to be “686”. . Since there are four characters, “Ichigo”, “East”, “West”, and “West”, 4 columns from 11 to 14 in the manual table composition value table are referred to. Manual composition value “330”, “east” manual composition value “56”, first “west” manual composition value “10”, second “west” manual composition value “4” "400" is the characteristic value of the character string. Since the number of combinations of the heel symbols when the number of heel symbols is 4, the hand tile eigenvalue is any one of 0 to 494.

(Step S105)
In step S105, the face configuration pattern acquisition program P23a-3 is operated, and the face configuration table (not shown) set in advance in the ROM 41b from the hand-specific values acquired by the processing in step S104. ) To obtain the flag data of the pattern of the number of facets, the number of towers, and the number of sparrows that can be obtained.

  FIG. 15 is a view for explaining the structure of flag data of the face configuration pattern set in the face configuration table. In the face configuration table, flag data respectively corresponding to all the characteristic values corresponding to the number of symbols for each type is stored. One flag data is composed of 32-bit data as shown in FIG. As shown on the right side of FIG. 15, 30 types of face configuration patterns divided into pattern numbers from “0” to “29” are prepared corresponding to the patterns of the number of face pieces, tower numbers and sparrow heads that can be acquired. In addition, a flag is set for bits corresponding to all face configuration patterns that can be acquired (for example, “1” is stored). In the present embodiment, since the face configuration pattern in which the sum of the number of facets and the number of towers is 5 or more is not considered, the face configuration patterns are 30 types shown in FIG.

  For example, the face configuration patterns from which the symbols of the five eggplant bowls in FIG. 16 can be acquired are the pattern numbers “0”, “2”, “4”, “10”, and “12” shown in FIG. It is a pattern. In other words, the flag data of the face pattern that can be acquired corresponding to the hand symbol eigenvalue “1057” of the five symbols is “00000000000000000000001010000010101”, and the flag data corresponding to all the cardinality values is stored in the face configuration table stored in the ROM 41b. It is remembered. Similarly, the face configuration patterns from which the symbols of the five tube baskets in FIG. 16 can be acquired are the pattern numbers “0”, “1”, “2”, “3” and “4” shown in FIG. Since it is a pattern, the flag data of the acquirable face pattern corresponding to the hand symbol eigenvalue “686” of the 5 symbols is stored as “00000000000000000000000000011111”, and the face configuration pattern from which the characters of 4 characters can be acquired is Since the three pattern numbers “0”, “1” and “2” shown in FIG. 15 are stored, “00000000000000000000000000011111” is stored as the flag data of the face pattern that can be acquired corresponding to the eigenvalue “400” of the 4 symbols. Has been.

  In this step S105, the flag data of the face configuration pattern can be acquired only by referring to the face configuration table based on the manual eigenvalue for each type calculated in step S104, so that extremely high speed processing is realized. Is done.

(Step S106)
In step S106, the first listening number calculation program P23a-4 is operated to calculate the apparent number of listening (first listening number) from each combination of face configuration patterns acquired for each type. To perform the required processing. Specifically, in the case of 13 hands, the number of cocoons used in each face configuration pattern for each cocoon type is subtracted from the number of cocoons for each cocoon type, and provisional listening for each cocoon type is performed. The number is obtained, and the sum of the provisional number of hearings of all species is set as the apparent number of hearings of the table. If there are 14 hand tiles, then discard the unnecessary spider pattern and perform a habit to make 13 hand tiles, so “1” is calculated from the sum of the provisional listening numbers of all the above-mentioned types. The subtracted number is used as the apparent number of listening of the hand.

  In the example of the hand tile shown in FIG. 16, in the case of the face pattern with the pattern number “0” shown in FIG. 15 of the eggplant bowl, the number of symbols used in the face face configuration pattern among the five symbols of the eggplant bowl. Is 0, the provisional number of listening is 5-0 = 5 (five listening). In the case of the face pattern with the pattern number “2” shown in FIG. 15 of the eggplant bowl, since two symbols are used to form one set of towers, the provisional number of listening is 5-2 = 3. . In the case of the face pattern of the pattern number “4” shown in FIG. 15 of the eggplant bowl, since four symbols are used to form two sets of towers, the provisional number of listening is 5-4 = 1. In the case of the face pattern with the pattern number “10” shown in FIG. 15 of the eggplant bowl, since three symbols are used to form one set of facets, the provisional number of listening is 5-3 = 2. In the case of the face pattern of the pattern number “12” shown in FIG. 15 of the eggplant bowl, all five symbols are used to form one set of face pieces and one set of towers. 5-5 = 0.

  Then, the apparent number of listening of the hand-claw is calculated by combining the face-constituting patterns of the eggplant bowl, the pipe bowl, and the character bowl one by one. For example, in the case of the combination of the face pattern with the pattern number “2” of the eggplant bowl, the face pattern with the pattern number “3” of the tube bowl bowl and the face pattern with the pattern number “1” of the letter bowl with the manual stroke of FIG. The tentative listening number of the puppet is 3, the tentative listening number of the tube candy is 1, and the tentative listening number of the character is 2, so the apparent listening calculated by this combination is The number is (3 + 1 + 2) -1 = 5.

(Step S107)
The first listening count calculation program P23a-4 performs a process of storing the apparent listening count obtained by the calculation process of step S106 in a predetermined storage area of the RAM 42b, and is obtained by the current calculation process. When the apparent number of hearings is compared with the apparent number of hearings already stored in a predetermined storage area of the RAM 42b, when the minimum number of hearings is calculated, the minimum number of hearings is calculated. The number is updated and stored in the listening number storage area of the RAM 42b. The first listening number calculation program P23a-4 is first listening number calculation means in the present embodiment.

(Step S108)
In step S108, processing for determining whether or not the processing of step S106 and step S107 has been completed is performed for the combination of face patterns in all species, and when processing of all combinations is completed (YES in step S108). ) End the process of determining the apparent number of listening. For example, in the case of the hand-claw shown in FIG. 16, (5 patterns from which the cocoon bowl can be acquired) × (5 patterns from which the cocoon bowl can be acquired) × (3 patterns from which the letter tile can be acquired) = 75 combinations. In all cases, the processes of steps S106 and S107 are performed, and the apparent number of listening determination process is terminated. In the case of the handbag shown in FIG. 16, among the 75 facet configuration patterns, the combination of the pattern number “12” of the eggplant bowl, the pattern number “3” of the sleeve bowl and the pattern number “2” of the letter bowl, and When there are two combinations of the pattern number “12” of the eggplant と, the pattern number “4” of the tube candy パ タ ー ン and the pattern number “1” of the letter 牌, the apparent number of listening is “two-way listening”. Minimal.

(Step S109)
In step S109, the number-of-hearing determination program P23a operates the face configuration determination program P23a-5, and the combination of the face configuration patterns corresponding to the apparent first minimum number of first listening stored in step S107 is as follows. In this game, a process is performed to determine whether or not it is possible to complete a rising combination with the number of first listening. In the present embodiment, it is configured so that only a maximum of four symbols can be used in one game. Therefore, a total of 4 tiles are already used to make the facet that is a face candidate included in the face composition pattern corresponding to the smallest apparent number of first listeners. If it is, the tower cannot be used as a face in the current game, and it is determined that the combination of the face composition patterns cannot complete the winning combination with the first listening number.

  In the determination in step S109, when it is determined that there is a combination of face composition patterns that can complete the winning combination with the minimum number of first listening even in one set, the listening number determination processing ends. If it is determined that there is no combination of face configuration patterns that can complete the winning combination with the minimum number of first listening, the process proceeds to step S110. The face configuration determination program P23a-5 is a face configuration determination means in the present embodiment.

(Step S110)
In step S110, the number-of-hearing-number determination program P23a operates the virtual facet configuration pattern generation program P23a-6, and the soot that is included in the tower that cannot constitute the face and the soot that does not constitute the face or tower, that is, the face is selected. A process for generating a virtual facet configuration pattern capable of constructing a face by using a face not included in the tower capable of constructing a face except for the composed face is performed. Specifically, in the manual shown in FIG. 16, four “seven swords” are already used (discarded), and “two cylinders”, “seven cylinders”, and “west” each have at least one. When the symbols are available, the tower of “Rokugo, Hachiman” included in the pattern number “12” of the above-mentioned eggplant bowl is the face (“Rokugo, Shichijo, Since there is no face composition pattern that can complete a rising role with the first number of listeners (two-way listener), NO determination is made in step S109. Processing will be performed.

  At this time, the virtual face configuration pattern generation program P23a-6 does not include the face that can constitute the face except for the face that constitutes the face ("6", "8", "5 cylinders"). , “Ichinose”, “East”), a process for generating a virtual face configuration pattern capable of forming a face is performed. That is, a virtual face that can be realized is determined by determining whether one or more of each of “four-thousand” and “five-thousand” can be used for “six-thousand” and two or more “six-thousand” can be used. All the configuration patterns are stored in the RAM 42b. For "Hachiman", "Ichigo" and "East", determine whether or not an indenter can be configured. The process which memorize | stores a possible virtual face | piece structure pattern in RAM42b is performed. The virtual face configuration pattern generation program P23a-6 is virtual face configuration pattern generation means in the present embodiment.

(Step S111) (Step S112) (Step S113)
Subsequently, in step S111, step S112, and step S113, the second listening number calculation program P23a-7 is operated, and the same processing as in steps S106 to S108 described above is performed for all combinations of virtual face configuration patterns. To end the number-of-hearing determination process. As a result, the actual minimum listening number that can complete the rising combination in the current game is stored in the RAM 42b by the process of step S112. The second listening number calculation program P23a-7 is a second listening number calculation means in the present embodiment.

(Step S114)
In the determination processing in step S109, if there is a combination that can actually complete a rising role with the number of listening in the current game even among one combination of face configuration patterns corresponding to the minimum number of first listening Then, this minimum first listening number is used as the actual minimum listening number to be updated and stored in a predetermined storage area of the RAM 42b, and the listening number calculation process is terminated.

  Note that the main control program P21 of the sub control board Kb sets the actual minimum listening number and the number of times that the self-operating operation can be performed when the listening number determination program P23a calculates the actual minimum listening number. The remaining number of corresponding game balls are compared, and when the actual minimum number of listening and the remaining number of game balls are equal, it is determined that the current game will be a flow, and the data and control command to that effect are the first The process of transmitting to the image control board Kc is performed.

  FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a process flow of another embodiment of the number-of-hearing number calculation process according to the present invention. The processes in steps S201 to S207 in FIG. 13 are the same as the processes in steps S101 to S107 shown in FIG.

(Step S208)
In step S208, processing is performed to determine whether or not the apparent number of hearings stored in step S207 is equal to or less than the actual minimum number of hearings stored in RAM 42b. Here, when the apparent number of hearings obtained by the current computation is larger than the actual number of hearings already stored in the RAM 42b (the determination result of step S208 is NO), this face composition pattern is the current game number. Regardless of whether or not the rising combination can be completed, the apparent number of listening cannot be the actual minimum number of listening, so that the process proceeds to step S213 without performing steps S209 to S212 described later. move on. This processing can greatly reduce the number of processing steps of meaningless steps S209 to S212, so that it is possible to increase the processing speed of the overall listening number calculation processing. In the determination process of step S208, when the apparent number of listening obtained by the current calculation is less than or equal to the actual number of listening already stored in the RAM 42b, the process proceeds to step S209.

(Step S209)
In step S209, the face configuration determination program P23a-5 is operated in the same manner as in step S109 of FIG. 12 described above, and the combination of face configuration patterns corresponding to the apparent number of first listenings stored in step S207. However, in this game, a process is performed to determine whether or not it is possible to actually complete the winning combination with the first listening number. If the rising combination can be completed, the process proceeds to step S212. If it is determined that the rising combination cannot be completed, the process proceeds to step S210.

(Step S210) (Step S211) (Step S212)
In each step from step S210 to step S212, processing similar to the processing in each step from step S110 to step S112 in FIG. 12 is executed, and the process proceeds to step S213.

(Step S213)
In step S213, processing for determining whether or not the processing in steps S206 to S212 has been performed for all combinations of the face configuration patterns for each type acquired in step S205 is completed. When this is done, the number-of-hearing number calculation process is terminated.

  Note that the process shown in FIG. 12 and the process shown in FIG. 13 may be configured to be selected according to the specifications of the sparrow ball game machine or the mahjong game machine. Alternatively, processing may be performed by switching according to the number of face configuration pattern combinations that can be acquired.

  The goal-raising combination setting program P23b is the player's current manual data stored in the RAM 42b, that is, the 13 manual data before the self-operating operation, and the 14 data before the discarding operation. This is a program for performing a process of determining the rising combination that is the target of the current procedure based on the procedure data.

  The process of determining the rising combination by the target rising combination setting program P23b can be performed as follows, for example. That is, the data for determining the winning combination by the winning determination program P7 of the main control board Ka described above is registered in advance as a data table in the ROM 41b of the sub control board Kb. Then, the goal raising combination setting program P23b refers to this table in the order of the raising combination shown in FIG. 10, and performs a process of setting the raising combination having the smallest number of listening as the target raising combination.

  The discarding support program P23c, when the current number of manuals is 14, throws away from this manual as a waste before the player performs the operation of the discarding based on the manual data stored in the RAM 42b. This is a program for assisting the player to determine the power and decide to discard the symbol. The symbol code and priority data of the kite determined by the discarded kite support program P23c are transmitted to the first image control board Kc, and the symbol is displayed on the first display device 10 as shown in FIG. .

For example, the process of determining the design of the bag to be discarded by the discarded bag support program P23c can be performed as follows.
When the above-mentioned goal-raising role is “Kokushi Musou”, it is determined that the symbol code other than Yaochu must be discarded. Next, discard one of the symbol codes that form the “knot” (including the same four ridges), and then one of the symbol codes that form two or more pairs. It is determined that it should be a trap.

  When the goal of the hand tile is “seven pairs”, it is determined that the symbol code of the kites that do not form “pairs” should be discarded. At this time, the priority order when there are a plurality of symbol codes of the kite that does not form the “pair” is, for example, that the symbol codes other than “1” and “9” of the numbers are given first priority, The symbol codes “1” and “9” of several characters are used, and then the symbol code of the character character “X”. The reason for this is that if you have left the character in the manual data, you have a higher probability of completing a rising combination that can earn more medals when you complete the rising pair of "Seven Pairs". .

  When the goal of the hand is a “general climbing role”, that is, a climbing role consisting of four sets of “face (junko)” and one set of “sparrow” , When one symbol code is sequentially discarded from 14 pieces of hand data, the structure of the 13 pieces of hand code data is determined by the above-mentioned number-of-listenings determination program P23a. In addition, a process is performed in which the symbol code of the discarded trap that is the actual minimum number of listening is set to be discarded.

  In the self-supporting support program P23d, when there are 13 current manuals, the player performs a self-control operation on the target upward combination determined by the above-described target upward combination setting program P23b. Before, it is a program for determining the symbol of self-restraint to be added to this procedure. The symbol code of the bag to be self-determined determined by the self-supporting program P23d is transmitted to the first image control board Kc, and the symbol is displayed on the first display device 10.

For example, the self-supporting program P23d can determine the design of the cocoon to be self-contained as follows.
From the goal-raising role of the hand before the self-restraint, there is a shortage of symbols for the combination of the symbols that make up the “sparrow head”, “knot”, “junko”, etc. judge. Then, it is possible to program a process for determining a symbol to be self-contained in accordance with this priority order by setting a priority to be self-contained for the insufficient symbol.

(Program mounted on first image control board Kc)
Next, the configuration of the program installed in the ROM 41c of the first image control board Kc will be described with reference to FIG. These programs are mainly programs for displaying various images and the like on the first display device 10, and include a main control program P31, a screen display program P32, and the like.

  The main control program P31 receives the control command and control data transmitted from the sub control board Kb, and performs processing for controlling the operation of each subprogram of the screen display program P32 based on the received data.

  The screen display program P32 is a program for performing control for displaying an image, numerical information, and the like on the first display device 10 based on a control command and control data transmitted from the sub control board Kb. The game screen display program P32a, the special game screen display program P32b, the assist screen display program P32c, and the like are included.

  The normal game screen display program P32a supports various effect images and players on the first display device 10 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 various images. The normal game screen display program P32a further includes an initial effect display program P32a-1 and a game effect display program P32a-2 as subprograms.

  The initial effect display program P32a-1 is a program for displaying an initial screen when the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned on. The game effect display program P32a-2 displays a screen or the like for assisting the player in operating the game as the game progresses. In addition, when the game effect display program P32a-2 receives data and a control command indicating that the current game becomes a mainstream from the sub-control board Kb, the game effect display program P32a-2 performs a display informing the first display device 10 of the fact. Although the game effect display program P32a-2 serves as a flow notification device in the present embodiment, this function may be configured to be performed by the game effect program P42a-2 of the second image control board Kd described later. It may be configured to be performed by both programs.

  The special game screen display program P32b is a program that performs processing for displaying various effect screens when the player acquires the right of special game, and includes a right acquisition effect display program P32b-1.

  The assist screen display program P32c is composed of a self-display display program P32c-1 and a throw-away display program P32c-2. The self-recognition display program P32c-1 is a program for displaying on the first display device 10 the symbol of the reed that should be self-reliant with respect to the above-described target rising combination. Similarly, the discarded jar display program P32c-2 is a program for displaying the above-mentioned symbol of the trash to be discarded on the first display device 10 as shown in FIG.

(Program mounted on second image control board Kd)
Next, the configuration of the program installed in the ROM 41d of the second image control board Kd will be described with reference to FIG. These programs include a main control program P41, a screen display program P42, a sound / sound effect output program P43, and the like.

  The main control program P41 receives the control command and control data transmitted from the sub control board Kb, and activates each subprogram of the screen display program P42 and the sound / sound effect output program P43 in response to the received data. It is a program to do. The screen display program P42 includes a normal game screen display program P42a and a special game screen display program P42b.

  The normal game screen display program P42a includes subprograms such as an initial effect display program P42a-1 and a game effect display program P42a-2. The initial effect display program P42a-1 is a program for displaying an initial screen when the sparrow ball game machine 1 is powered on.

  The game effect display program P42a-2 is mainly used when 14 arrangements are determined, and whenever the player performs a throw-in operation, a self-control operation by launching a game ball, or the like as the game progresses. Based on the control command and its control data transmitted from the main control board Ka via the sub-control board Kb, as shown in FIG. This is a program for performing processing.

  The special game screen display program P42b is a program for displaying various effect screens when the player acquires the right of special game, and includes a self-candidate candidate selection support program P42b-1 as a subprogram. . The self-candidate candidate selection support program P42b-1 displays the 27 kinds of spider symbols displayed on the first display device 10 when the player has acquired the special gamer's right as a spear selection right shift button 22a, Or it is a program for supporting the operation which selects the symbol of the heel which should be self-recognized by an interactive system, operating the heel selection left shift button 22b and scrolling.

  The sound / sound effect output program P43 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.

  Note that image data to be displayed on the first and second display devices 10 and 16 is stored as digital image data in the ROM 41c of the first image control board Kc and the ROM 41d of the second image control board Kd, respectively. . These data are, for example, a design image of each kite, an image related to the background and characters for the announcement of the arrangement and other effects, an image for the effect when the winning combination is completed, and the like.

  A program for controlling the operation of the game mounted on each of the control boards Ka, Kb, Kc, and Kd is developed using an assembler language, C language, Visual Basic language, or the like, and the CPUs 40a to 40d of each board are used. Programs translated into machine language programs that are executable programs are stored in the ROMs 41a to 41d of the control boards Ka, Kb, Kc, and Kd.

(Game progress control)
Next, a flow in which the game operation control program installed in the sparrow ball game machine 1 controls the progress of the game when the player executes the game will be described. FIGS. 19 to 22 are flowcharts showing the flow of control of the main control program P1 mounted on the main control board Ka that controls and controls the progress of the game. Hereinafter, based on FIG. 19 thru | or FIG. 22, the flow of control of 1 game is demonstrated in order of a step.

(Step S1)
First, the manager of the game store turns on the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 before starting business on that day. When the power of the sparrow ball game machine 1 is turned on, the main control program P1 of the main control board Ka initializes the storage area of the RAM 42a of the main control board Ka. At this time, “0” indicating a normal game is stored as an initial value in a special game flag described later. Subsequently, the main 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 this initialization control command to the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd. .

  When the sub-control board Kb, the first and second image control boards Kc, Kd receive this initialization control command, the main program mounted on each control board initializes the storage areas of the RAM 42b, RAM 42c, RAM 42d. Turn into. Further, the main programs P31 and P41 mounted on the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd operate the initial effect display programs P32a-1 and P42a-1, and the effect screen when the power is turned on, For example, processing such as displaying an image relating to the background or character on the first and second display devices 10 and 16 is performed. As a result, the sparrow ball gaming machine 1 enters a state in which the game can be executed when the player inserts a predetermined number of medals per game into the medal slot 17.

(Step S2)
In order for a player to play a game, it is necessary to insert a predetermined number of game media, for example, three medals, into the medal slot 17 per game. When the medal insertion signal from the medal insertion sensor 17a is input to the main control board Ka, the main control program P1 activates the medal management program P2. The medal management program P2 performs processing for storing the number of inserted medals.

  When the main control program P1 determines that the number of medals necessary for the execution of one game has been inserted, the main control program P1 sends a control command for prompting the player to press the start button 18 via the sub-control board Kb. 1 to the image control board Kc. When the first image control board Kc receives this control command, the game effect display program P32a-2 performs a process of displaying “Please press the game start button” on the first display device 10. At this time, the sound / sound effect output program P43 of the second image control board Kd may be operated to simultaneously output sound from the speaker 6.

(Step S3)
When the player presses the game start button 18 and a game start signal is input to the main control board Ka, the main control program P1 sends a game start control command to the first and second control boards Kb via the sub control board Kb. It transmits to the second image control board Kc, Kd. Based on this control command, the game effect display programs P32a-2 and P42a-2 for the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd display the effect images at the start of the game on the first and second display devices 10, respectively. 16 and the sound is output from the speaker 6 by the sound / sound effect output program P43. In this way, one game of the sparrow ball game machine 1 starts.

(Step S4)
Subsequently, the main control program P1 performs a process of storing initial values in various storage areas set in the RAM 42a at the start of one game. For example, a predetermined number of “11” is stored as an initial value in an area (the remaining number storage area of game balls) that stores the number of game balls that can be fired by a player for self-control in one game. .

(Step S5)
Subsequently, the main control program P1 of the main control board Ka operates the automatic layout program P4 to perform a process of automatically determining 14 layout codes required for starting the game. The automatic layout program P4 stores the 14 symbol codes automatically arranged in the manual storage area of the RAM 42a, and in a predetermined order, for example, ascending order of the symbol codes, that is, insulator, tube, cord, wind A process of rearranging in the order of 牌 and ternary 牌 and storing in the manual storage area is performed.

  Next, the main control program P1 of the main control board Ka transmits the 14 arranged symbol codes together with the control command to the sub control board Kb. When the main control program P21 of the sub control board Kb receives the 14 arranged symbol codes, the main control program P21 stores the symbol codes in the RAM 42b, and stores the 14 arranged symbol codes in the second control code P21. Transmit to the image control board Kd. When the game effect display program P42a-2 on the second image control board Kd receives the 14 design codes, the game design display program P42a-2 displays the image of the design shown in FIG. The display process is performed on the hand display unit 34 and the self display unit 35 of the second display device 16.

(Step S6) (Step S7)
Subsequently, the main control program P1 of the main control board Ka operates the BB game and the RB game by operating the special gamer lottery program P5 (which is activated when a normal game is played) and the dora lottery program P6. The CB game role, the RB game role, and the CB game role code, the front and back dramas are determined. Is stored in the RAM 42a. Further, the main program P1 uses the first and second image control boards via the sub-control board Kb together with the control command of the code of the winning combination that can acquire the special game right of the game and the design code of the front drum. Processing to transmit to Kc and Kd is performed. The symbol code of the back side is transmitted to the second image control board Kd via the sub control board Kb under the control of the main control program P1 when the player presses the reach button 21.

  When the main control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb receives from the main control board Ka the code of the rising combination determined as the BB game combination, the RB game combination and the CB game combination of the game, the front and back dra design codes, These codes are stored in the RAM 42b. Subsequently, the main control programs P31 and P41 of the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd display on the first and second display devices 10 and 16 that the game start condition has been prepared, and the speakers. 6 is controlled so as to perform the process of notifying by voice.

  Further, when the game effect display program P42a-2 of the second image control board Kd receives the front code and the back code code, as shown in FIG. The symbol code of the back side is stored in the RAM 42d.

  Note that the symbol corresponding to the symbol code of the back side received by the second image control board Kd and stored in the RAM 42d has a control command indicating that the reach has been applied from the main control board Ka via the sub control board Kb. When the image is transmitted to the second image control board Kd, the game effect display program P42a-2 for the second image control board Kd displays it on the back-dora display unit 29.

(Step S8)
The main control program P1 performs processing for checking the data stored in the special game flag set in the RAM 42a. If “0” is stored in the special game flag, the process proceeds to step S9. If “1” or “2” is stored, the process proceeds to step S50 shown in FIG.
The special game flag is “0” when the game to be executed is a normal game, “1” when the game has acquired the right of the BB game described later, and “0” when the game has acquired the right of the RB game. 2 "is stored.

(Step S9)
The main control program P1 operates the winning determination program P7 to determine whether or not the 14 hand movement data automatically distributed and stored in the RAM 42a have already completed the winning combination. If it is determined in step S9 that the value is raised, the process proceeds to step S30 shown in FIG. On the other hand, if it is determined that it has not risen, the main control program P1 transmits a control command for discarding assistance to the sub-control board Kb, and proceeds to step S10. At this time, when the 14 pieces of wrist data have not reached the listening state, the main control program P21 of the sub control board Kb operates the number-of-hearing determination program P23a to perform the number-of-listening determination processing of the hand data. . At this time, the main control program P21 compares the calculated actual minimum listening number and the remaining number of game balls. If the number of listening sounds is equal to the number of remaining game balls, The data and command to that effect are transmitted to the first image control board Kc. The game effect display program P32a-2 on the first image control board Kc displays on the first display device 10 that the current game will be a current station and notifies the player. It should be noted that data and a command indicating that the current game is a current station is transmitted to the second image control board Kd, and the current game is displayed as a current station by the game effect display program P42a-2 of the second image control board Kd. This may be configured to be displayed on the second display device 16 or may be configured to be displayed on both the first and second display devices 10 and 16.

  When the main control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb receives this throwing assist control command, it activates the target raising combination setting program P23b of the assist program P23, and the current 14 procedures stored in the RAM 42b. A process for setting the target rising combination for the data is performed.

Subsequently, the throwing-up support program P23c for the sub-control board Kb should be thrown away from these 14 procedures for the goal raising combination of the current procedure data set by the goal raising combination setting program P23b. The process which determines is performed.
Then, when the saddle to be discarded is determined, the symbol code is transmitted to the first image control board Kc together with the discard assist command. When the first image control board Kc receives the symbol code of the bag to be discarded, the first image control board Kc activates the discarded symbol display program P32c-2, and the symbol of the symbol code as shown in FIG. The process which displays on the 1st display apparatus 10 as a symbol which should be performed is performed.

(Step S10)
In step S10, under the control of the main control program P1, the player waits for an input as to whether or not the player has turned on any of the discard button switches 19a, 19b,. That is, it is set in a waiting state until the discarding operation is performed.

  Note that when the player performs a throwing-in operation and the hand is in a hearing state, and there are one or more remaining game balls, the reach button 21 is operated before the unnecessary throwing-out operation is performed. Then, when the reach is applied and the kite that has been self-sufficient in the next self-operation does not complete the role, the self-control is automatically performed by the main control program P1 without pressing the throw-away button switch 19a or the like. Abandonment processing is performed.

(Step S11)
When the player performs a throwing-in operation and a throwing-in signal is input from any of the throwing button switches 19a, etc., the main control program P1 analyzes the input signal, and the player selects The process which determines the symbol code of the symbol which performed is performed. Next, the main control program P1 performs a process of deleting the symbol code of the discarded bag from the hand data stored in the hand memory area of the RAM 42a.

  On the other hand, when the sub-control board Kb receives 13 pieces of manual data from the main control board Ka, the sub-control board Kb is controlled by the main control program P21 of the sub-control board Kb when the manual data has not reached the listening state. The hearing number determination program P23a is operated to perform the number-of-hearing number determination process for the hand-lump data. The main control program P21 compares the calculated actual minimum number of listening and the remaining number of game balls, and if the number of listening is equal to the number of remaining game balls, the main game will be a current game. Data and commands are transmitted to the first image control board Kc. At this time, the game effect display program P32a-2 of the first image control board Kc displays on the first display device 10 that the current game will be a current station and notifies the player. Subsequently, the target raising combination setting program P23b is operated under the control of the main control program P21 on the sub-control board Kb, and processing for setting the target raising combination for these 13 hands is performed. Subsequently, the self-supporting support program P23d operates to perform a process of determining an appropriate design of the self-contained to self-control with respect to the goal-raising combination. Then, the symbol code of the bag to be self-determined determined by the self-support program P23d is transmitted to the first image control board Kc by the main control program P21.

  When the first image control board Kc receives the symbol code of the bag to be self-recognized from the sub-control board Kb, the first image control board Kc operates the self-display display program P32c-1 and sets the symbol of the symbol code as the bag to be self-declared. 1 is displayed. The player can recognize in advance the entrance to enter the game ball by the next self-operation by looking at the design of the game to be displayed on the first display device 10. become.

(Step S12)
Step S12 is a waiting state until the player performs a self-sufficient operation, that is, the main control program P1 causes the player to operate the game ball launch lever 4 to fire one game ball. Enters a ball entrance 13a or the like and waits until a ball signal is input from the ball sensor.

(Step S13)
The main control program P1 activates the game ball remaining number counting program P1c and stores it in the storage area of the RAM 42a when an incoming signal is inputted from the entrance sensor of the entrance where the game ball has entered. A process of subtracting the remaining number of game balls is performed.

  Subsequently, the main control program P1 performs processing for analyzing the incoming signal of the game ball and obtaining the symbol code of the bowl at the entrance where the game ball has entered. Then, this symbol code is transmitted to the second image control substrate Kd via the sub-control substrate Kb as a symbol symbol of the bag that the player has refrained from. Next, the main control program P1 performs a process of adding the symbol code that is manually operated by the player to the 13 pieces of manual data stored in the manual storage area of the RAM 42a. In addition, when the second image control board Kd receives the symbol code of the kite that the player has refrained from, the game effect display program P42a-2 displays the symbol corresponding to the symbol code of the kite that has been refrained by the self-display unit 35. Process to be displayed.

(Step S14)
In step S14, similarly to step S9 described above, the winning determination program P7 performs a process of determining whether or not the 14 pieces of hand data have completed the winning combination. If it is determined that the winning combination has been completed, the process proceeds to step S30 shown in FIG. On the other hand, if it is determined that the rising combination has not been completed, the process proceeds to the next step S15. At this time, when the 14 pieces of wrist data have not reached the listening state, the main control program P21 of the sub control board Kb operates the number-of-hearing determination program P23a to perform the number-of-listening determination processing of the hand data. . In addition, the main control program P21 compares the calculated actual minimum listening number with the remaining number of game balls, and when the number of listening sounds is equal to the number of remaining game balls, the current game becomes a fluency. Data and a command to that effect are transmitted to the first image control board Kc. The game effect display program P32a-2 on the first image control board Kc displays on the first display device 10 that the current game will be a current station and notifies the player.

(Step S15)
The main control program P1 performs a process of determining whether or not the player can further perform a self-control operation, that is, whether or not one or more playable game balls stored in the RAM 42a remain. If one or more game balls remain as a result of this determination, the process returns to step S10. On the other hand, when the number of game balls that can be fired is zero, the game ends as a fluency, and the process proceeds to the next step S16.

(Step S16)
The game history data recording program P10 performs processing for adding the history data of the game executed by the player this time to the history data area of the RAM 42a and for updating the history data. The game result history data stored in the RAM 42a is the data item described in the processing contents of the game history data recording program P10.

(Step S17)
In step S17, since the game could not be lifted even if one game was completed, that is, a self-sufficient operation corresponding to the specified number of game balls was performed, processing for the current station is performed. As this process, for example, an initialization process for storing initial data in a storage area such as the number of remaining game balls set in the RAM 42a and a reach flag is performed. Further, a process of transmitting a game end control command to the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd via the sub-control board Kb is performed. In addition, when the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd receive the control command to end the game, the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd perform processing to display that on the first and second display devices 10 and 16.

(Step S30)
The main control program P1 operates the winning determination program P7 to determine what rising combination the hand data has completed, and stores the code of the rising combination in the RAM 42a.

(Step S31)
The main control program P1 is the target of the BB game combination, RB game combination or CB game combination whose special combination is determined by the special game combination lottery program P5 at the start of the game. A process is performed to determine whether or not it coincides with a rising combination code. As a result of the determination, if the code matches the code of the rising combination that is the target of the BB game combination, RB game combination or CB game combination, the process proceeds to step S40. On the other hand, if the rising combination is not a rising combination that can acquire the right of the BB game, RB game combination or CB game, the process proceeds to step S32.

(Step S40)
In step S40, it is determined whether or not the special game combination completed by the player is a CB game combination. As a result of the determination, if the code matches the winning combination code that can acquire the right of the CB game, the process proceeds to step S70 in FIG. On the other hand, if the rising combination is not a rising combination that can acquire the right of the CB game, the process proceeds to step S41.

(Step S41)
In step S41, if the rising combination completed by the player is a rising combination that can acquire the right of the BB game combination, "1" is stored in the special game flag set in the RAM 42a, and the right of the RB game combination is set. If the winning combination can be acquired, “2” is stored, and the process proceeds to step S32. The process in step S41 is a pre-process for causing the next game progress control to proceed in the BB game combination or RB game combination mode. In this embodiment, the game in which the BB game combination or RB game combination is established is configured to end as it is. However, after the BB game combination or RB game combination is established, the discard operation and the self-determination operation are performed. It may be configured to be able to go and aim for other rising roles. Further, after the BB game combination or the RB game combination is established, the attacker operation port 12 may be validated so that the self-operation using the attacker 11 can be performed.

(Step S32)
First, the main control program P1 transmits a control command for performing the effect display of the rising combination completion to the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd. When this control command is received, the first image control board Kc displays an effect indicating that the winning combination is completed on the first display device 10 by the game effect display program P32a-2 or the right acquisition effect display program P32b-1. Similarly, the second image control board Kd performs an effect display of the completed combination on the second display device 16 by the game effect display program P42a-2.

  Next, with reference to the winning medal number medal number table shown in FIG. 10, the number of winning medals corresponding to the code of the rising combination completed by the player, that is, the winning that the player can win for this rising combination. A process for obtaining the number of acquired medals (M) associated with is performed.

  Subsequently, in steps S33 to S36, the rising condition when the player completes the rising combination is determined, and the player further increases the number of medals to the number of acquired medals (M) associated with the winning. A process of determining whether or not it can be acquired is performed. When it is determined that the increased medal number can be acquired, a process for obtaining the increased medal number is performed. Thus, the player can further acquire this increased medal number based on the acquired medal number (M) accompanying the winning and the rising condition when the rising combination is completed.

(Step S33)
In step S33, as a rising condition when the rising combination is completed, a special game is performed when the point increasing means by the special game, that is, when the rising combination is completed by the special game after the attacker operating port 12 is activated. The increased medal number (a) corresponding to the winning combination code is obtained by the score increasing program P11a, and the increased medal number (a) is stored in the RAM 42a.

(Step S34)
In step S34, as the rising condition when the rising combination is completed, the means for increasing the score by the drool, that is, the hand when the player is reaching the table dora to the manual that completed the rising combination. If the back drum is included in the bag, the increased medal number (b) corresponding to the number of the front and back drums is obtained, and the increased medal number (b) is stored in the RAM 42a.

  In this step S34, the main control program P1 operates the score increase program P11b by dragging. Then, the score increase program P11b by the drager first determines the number of symbol codes of the table drum included in the hand data that has completed the ascent stored in the RAM 42a, and stores the number in the RAM 42a. .

  Next, the setting contents of the reach flag set in the RAM 42a are checked. As a result, when “1” is stored, the player was reaching, so the number of symbol codes of the back dora included in the hand data that completed the rising hand was determined, and the number was determined. Processing to be stored in the RAM 42a is performed. Then, the total number of the front and back drums is obtained, and the number of medals to be increased for each one of the front and back drums, for example, three, is multiplied to obtain the increased number of medals (b) by the dredger. be able to.

  The process of determining the number of drags included in the hand data by the above-described score increase program P11b by the drag is based on the symbol code of the front and back drums of the game stored in the RAM 42a. This can be done by sequentially determining whether or not it is included in the manual data composed of 14 completed symbol codes.

(Step S35)
The main control program P1 performs a process for obtaining the total number (S) of medals that can be acquired by the player completing the rising combination. The total number of medals (S) is (the number of medals acquired with winning (M) + the increased number of medals by special game (a) + the increased number of medals by dredging (b)). The calculated total number of medals (S) is stored in the RAM 42a.

(Step S36)
The main control program P1 of the main control board Ka includes the control command for completing the rising combination, the code for the rising combination, the total number of medals (S) acquired by the player, the breakdown of the number of winning medals (M), and the number of increased medals, etc. A process of transmitting data related to the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd via the sub-control board Kb is performed. When the game effect display programs P32a-2 and P42a-2 of the first and second image control boards Kc and Kd receive these pieces of information, they are displayed on the first and second display devices 10 and 16 to complete the winning combination. Display.

(Step S37)
The main control program P1 operates the medal discharge control program P8 to perform a process of paying out the total medal number (S) from the medal payout device to the player.

(Step S38) (Step S39)
The main control program P1 operates the game history data recording program P10 to perform processing for adding and updating the history data of the game that the player has executed this time in the history data storage area of the RAM 42a (step S38). . Subsequently, a game end process (step S39) is performed in the same manner as in step S17, and control is returned to step S2.

(Step S50)
FIG. 21 is a flowchart showing the progress process of the game that has acquired the right of BB game combination or RB game combination. Since the player is executing a game that has acquired the right of the BB game combination or the RB game combination, the main control program P1 determines the stored contents of the special game flag set in the RAM 42a. If “1” is stored in the special game flag, the game is a game in which the right of the BB game role has been acquired, and the process proceeds to step S51. On the other hand, if “2” is stored, since the game is a game that has acquired the right of RB game role, the process proceeds to step S60.

(Step S51)
In step S51, the progress control of the game that has acquired the BB game role right is performed. This game progress control is a flow of steps S2 to S14 excluding step S6 of FIG. 19 described above, but the self-repressing operation of step S12 is an advantageous operation for the player as follows.

  In other words, in the next game in which the player has acquired the right to play the BB game, the attacker operating port 12 of the game board 2 becomes effective after 14 hands are determined. Then, when the game ball launched by the player passes through the attacker operating port 12, the attacker 11 opens. Subsequently, each time a game ball that has been launched enters the attacker 11, a desired one is selected from the 27 types of symbols displayed on the second display device 16 by operating the selection buttons 22 a and 22 b and the determination button 23. You will be able to choose 牌 as self-restraint. Then, when the player completes the rising combination, the process proceeds to step S52, and when the player becomes a master station, the process proceeds to step S58.

(Step S52)
If the game that has acquired the right of the BB game role is continued and goes up, the game that has acquired the right of the big game role can be continued up to a preset upper limit number of times, for example, 14 times. In step S52, “1” is added to the area for counting the number of continuations of the big game set in the RAM 42a.

(Step S53) to (Step S56)
The processing contents of steps S53 to S56 are the same as the processes of steps S30 to S37 except for step S31.

(Step S57) to (Step S59)
It is determined whether or not the number of continuations of the player's BB game is equal to a preset upper limit number (step S57). This determination is performed by comparing the number of BB game continuations counted in step S52 and stored in the RAM 42a with the upper limit number stored in advance in the ROM 41a, for example, “14”. If the BB game continuation count is equal to the upper limit count, the process proceeds to step S58. In step S58, as a BB game end process, a process of storing “0” in the special game flag is performed, and the process proceeds to step S59. On the other hand, if the upper limit number has not been reached, the process proceeds to step S59, where the history data of the game executed by the player is added to the history data storage area of the RAM 42a and recorded, and the history data is updated. I do.

(Step S60)
In step S60, the progress control of the game that has acquired the RB game role right is performed. This game progress control is the same process as the process of step S51 described above.

(Step S61)
The processing from step S53 to step S56 described above is performed to determine the total number (S) of medals acquired by the player, and processing for paying out the medal from the medal payout device to the player is performed.

(Step S62) (Step S63)
When the RB game role right is acquired, the game for which the BB game role right is acquired can be executed only for the next one game. Therefore, in step S62, “0” is stored in the special game flag, and the next game is a normal game. To control the progress of the game. Then, it progresses to step S63, performs the completion | finish process of RB game, and progresses to step S59.

(Step S70)
FIG. 22 is a flowchart showing the progress process of the game that has acquired the right of the CB game. When the player completes the winning combination of the CB game combination, in step S70, the remaining game ball count program P1c on the main control board Ka is operated to determine whether or not the remaining number of game balls is zero. Do. As a result of the determination, if it is determined that the remaining number of game balls is 0, the process proceeds to step S32. At this time, when the operating condition of the score increase program P11a by special game is set to “CB game combination is established”, the score increase program P11a by special game is operated and the number of medals (a ) (Step S33 of FIG. 20) is performed, but the operating condition of the score increase program P11a by special game is “After the CB game combination is established, the game ball is passed through the attacker operating port and the attacker is opened. "Or" Open the attacker and let the game ball enter the attacker ", the right of the CB game of the game expires. If it is determined that the remaining number of game balls is not 0, the process proceeds to step S71.

(Step S71)
In step S71, processing for determining whether or not the player has performed an operation for ending the game (such as pressing operation of the game end button 24, the medal payout button 25, or the game start button 18) is performed. As a result of this determination, if it is determined that the player has performed some operation to end the game, the process proceeds to step S32. Also in step S71, as in step S70, if the operating condition of the special game scoring increase program P11a is set to "achieve CB game combination", the special game scoring increase program P11a operates. Thus, a process for obtaining the number of medals (a) by the special game (step S33 in FIG. 20) is performed. The operating condition of the score increase program P11a by the special game is “After the CB game combination is established, the game ball is operated by the attacker. If it is set to “pass the mouth and open the attacker” or “open the attacker and allow the game ball to enter the attacker”, the right of the CB game of the game expires. If it is determined that the player has not performed an operation to end the game, the process proceeds to step S72.

(Step S72)
In step S72, the same processing as in step S10 of FIG. 19 described above is performed.

(Step S73)
When the player performs a throwing-in operation and a throwing-in signal is input from any of the throwing button switches 19a and the like, the attacker operating port 12 is validated by the processing of the main control program P1, and the process proceeds to step S74. move on.

(Step S74) to (Step S78)
In steps S74 to S78, the same processing as in steps S11 to S14 of FIG. 19 is performed. If it is determined in step S78 that 14 hands are completed and the winning combination is completed, the process proceeds to step S79. . If it is determined in step S78 that the 14 hands have not been raised and the combination has not been completed, the process proceeds to step S80.

(Step S79)
In step S79, a process for determining a rising combination completed by the player is performed, and the process proceeds to step S32 in FIG.

(Step S80)
In this step S80, it is determined whether or not the remaining number of game balls is 0. If the remaining number of game balls is 0, the process proceeds to step S81, and the remaining number of game balls is not 0. Returns to step S72.

(Step S81) (Step S82)
The main control program P1 operates the game history data recording program P10 to perform processing for adding and updating the history data of the game executed by the player this time in the history data storage area of the RAM 42a (step S81). . Subsequently, a game end process (step S82) is performed in the same manner as in step S17, and control is returned to step S2.
The game control program installed in the sparrow ball game machine 1 according to the present invention executes the steps described above to control the progress of one game.

  As described above, according to the sparrow ball game machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, the number of hearing determination means (listening number determination program P23a) distributes the current data of the design of the hand to each type. Species distribution means (species distribution program P23a-1) to be stored in a predetermined storage area of the storage device, and a hand-piece composition value table set in advance based on the symbol data of each cocoon distributed by the seed distribution means Referring to (see FIG. 14), a manual eigenvalue calculation means (manual eigenvalue calculation) for acquiring the manual composition value of each basket and calculating the manual eigenvalue for each type based on the acquired manual composition value The number of facets that can be acquired with reference to the face configuration table preset for each of the hand peculiar values on the basis of the program P23a-2) and the hand eigenvalue of each kind determined by the hand eigenvalue calculating means, Tower number and sparrow head The face composition pattern acquisition means (face composition pattern acquisition program P23a-3) for acquiring the flag data of the pattern, and the first number of listens for each combination from all combinations of the face composition patterns acquired for each type ( Since it is provided with first listening number calculation means (first listening number calculation program P23a-4) for calculating the apparent number of listening), it is set in advance from the hand data distributed for each type By calculating a manual eigenvalue quantified based on the manual configuration value obtained by referring to the manual configuration value table and referring to the face configuration table set in advance from the manual configuration value, Flag data (data that can identify the number of facets, number of towers, and number of sparrows that can be acquired) can be acquired almost instantaneously, and there is no need to perform loop processing as in the past. It is possible to speed up the improvement 聴数 processing.

  Further, the face configuration determining means (listening number determination program P23a) determines whether or not all the towers included in the face configuration pattern that becomes the first number of listens can configure the face. (The face configuration determination program P23a-5) and the face configuration determination means determine that there is a tower that cannot configure the face in the tower included in the face configuration pattern that is the first listening number, the tower that cannot configure the face A virtual face configuration pattern generating means (virtual face configuration pattern generation program P23a-6) for generating a virtual face configuration pattern capable of configuring a face using a kite and an isolated soot that does not constitute a face or tower. The second number of listening (actual number of listening) that is the minimum is calculated by calculating the number of listening for each combination from all the combinations of the virtual face configuration patterns acquired for each species. Since there is a number-of-hearing number calculation means (second number-of-hearing number calculation program P23a-7), it is determined whether or not a rising role can be actually configured with the number of first listening that is the apparent number of listening. When it is determined by the determining means and the face pattern of the first number of listeners cannot actually form a rising role, the trap included in the tower that cannot configure the face and the isolated kite that does not configure the face or tower are virtually The virtual face configuration pattern used is generated by the virtual face configuration pattern generation means, and the second listening number that is realizable from the combination of the virtual face configuration patterns is calculated by the second listening number calculation means. Therefore, the game can be supported by more accurately informing the player of the trap to be discarded and the trap to be self-sufficient.

  In addition, conventionally, it has been difficult to perform a practical number-of-hearing-number calculation process in the state of a hand with a large number of numbers, but the present invention enables a number-of-hearing number calculation at a sufficiently practical processing speed. Even in the state of a hand with a large number of listeners, it is possible to provide the player with support information regarding accurate abandonment and self-restraint. Also, for example, various effects such as the number of characters and designs corresponding to the number of listeners, letters, numbers, symbols, or voice, music, sound effects, etc. can always be displayed or output acoustically. An interesting sparrow ball game machine can be provided.

  Further, when the number of self-operating operations (remaining number of game balls) becomes equal to the number of second listening, the flow station notification means (game effect display program for notifying that the result of the game is a flow station) P32a-2, P42a-2, etc.), so that even if there are remaining game balls that can be self-sufficiently operated, the game balls that are the minimum number of listeners and the number of self-operations that can be operated When the remaining number of games becomes equal, it can be determined that the winning combination cannot be completed in the game. Thus, it is possible to prompt the player to start the next game without unnecessary use of the player, and the operation rate of the sparrow game machine can be improved.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described sparrow ball game machine, but, for example, a combination of a six-six type in which a entrance corresponding to the eye of the cocoon is arranged, a card type in which an entrance corresponding to a card of cards or cards is arranged The present invention can be applied to game machines and the like, and can be applied to general-purpose game machines and mahjong game machines for home use and business use.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Sparrow ball game machine 2 ... Game board 3 ... Operation panel 4 ... Game ball launch lever 10 ... 1st display apparatus 11 ... Attacker (special entrance)
12 ... Attacker operation ports 13a, 13b, 13c,... 13A ... Entrance port 16 ... Second display device 18 ... Game start buttons 19a, 19b, 19c,. Reach button 34 ... Hand display 35 ... Self display 36 ... Main display device Ka ... Main control board (main control means)
Kb: Sub control board (sub control means)
Kc: first image control board (sub-control means)
Kd: second image control board (sub-control means)
40a, 40b, 40c, 40d ... CPU
41a, 41b, 41c, 41d ... ROM
42a, 42b, 42c, 42d ... RAM
P23a ... Listening number determination program (listening number judging means)
P23a-1 ... Species distribution program (Species distribution means)
P23a-2: Manual eigenvalue calculation program (hand eigenvalue calculation means)
P23a-3 ... Face configuration pattern acquisition program (face configuration pattern acquisition means)
P23a-4: First listening number calculation program (first listening number calculation means)
P23a-5 ... Face structure determination program (face structure determination means)
P23a-6 ... Virtual face configuration pattern generation program (virtual face configuration pattern generation means)
P23a-7 ... 2nd listening number calculation program (2nd listening number calculation means)

Claims (5)

A game board in which a entrance corresponding to a plurality of types of kites is arranged, and a design of a kite corresponding to the entrance into which the game balls launched on the game board enter are regarded as self-determination by self-operation. Self-operating means to be added to the design of the hand, discarding operation means for throwing away unnecessary symbols from the design of the hand, and the number of symbols required for the current hand to become a hearing A number-of-hearing-number judging means for judging the number of hearings that indicate the number of hearing aids, and when the combination of the symbols of the handle is completed in advance, A sparrow ball game machine that pays out game media,
The listening number determination means includes:
The design data of the current manual is distributed for each type and stored in a predetermined storage area of the storage device, and the number of the design data of the current manual is counted for each type and the predetermined value of the storage device is counted. A seed sorting means for storing in the storage area of
The handpiece composition value obtained in advance based on the number of combinations of the symbol data of each bag of the same type determined for each number of the same type of symbol data included in the table is the same bag included in the table. Corresponding to the number of symbol design data and the symbol data for each of the species, a manual arrangement value table arranged in advance,
Referring to the tile hand configuration value table based on the number of symbols data of said current tile hand of each of the tiles species counted by the symbol data and the tile species distribution means of each tile that has been distributed by the tiles species distribution means And a hand eigenvalue calculating means for obtaining a hand eigenvalue for each type by calculating the sum of the obtained hand wobble composition values,
Flags that are configured by setting flags on the bits corresponding to the face composition pattern of the number of facets, number of towers, and number of sparrows that can be acquired, corresponding to all the eigenvalues corresponding to the number of symbol data for each species A face configuration table in which data is stored in advance;
Referring to the face configuration table for each said tile hand eigenvalues based on the tile hand eigenvalues for each tile type determined by the tile hand eigenvalue calculation unit, obtainable face number, face structure of Touko number and sparrow head count a face structure pattern acquisition means for acquiring the flag data of the pattern,
By subtracting the number of wrinkles used in each face configuration pattern corresponding to the flag data acquired for each wrinkle from the number of wrinkles of that wrinkle, the provisional number of hearings for each wrinkle is obtained. , The sum of the provisional number of common hearings of all the species is defined as the first number of common hearings of the hand, and a plurality of the first common listening numbers calculated for each combination from all combinations of the face configuration patterns . Among them, a first listening number calculation means for calculating the minimum first listening number;
Face composition determination means for determining whether or not all towers included in the face composition pattern corresponding to the minimum number of first listening can configure faces .
When it is determined by the face configuration determining means that there is a tower incapable of forming a face in the tower included in the face configuration pattern corresponding to the minimum first listening number, the face included in the tower that cannot configure the face And a virtual face configuration pattern generation means for generating a virtual face configuration pattern capable of configuring a face using an isolated kite that does not constitute a face or tower, and
By subtracting the number of cocoons used in each virtual facet configuration pattern generated for each cocoon from the number of cocoons of the cocoon, the actual number of hearings for each cocoon is obtained, The sum of the actual number of listeners is the second number of listeners of the procedure, and among the plurality of second listeners calculated for each combination from all combinations of the virtual facet configuration pattern, a second direction聴数calculating means for obtaining comprising said second direction聴数,
A sparrow ball game machine characterized by comprising: The listening number determination means includes:
When the first direction聴数said minimum of said first direction聴数obtained by calculating means of the following pre SL minimum of the second direction聴数, and wherein the actuating said face arrangement determining means The sparrow ball game machine according to claim 1. When the number of times that the self-operating operation can be performed is equal to the minimum number of second listening, the game further includes a flow station notifying means for notifying that the result of the game is a flow station. The sparrow ball game machine according to claim 1 or 2. A self-tapping operation means for adding one hull design as a self-tacking from a plurality of types of hail designs to a treading design; A rising hand determining means for determining whether or not the combination of the hand-hand symbols has completed a preset rising hand, and listening to the number of symbols required for the current hand-hand to be a hearing A game control program for a mahjong game device, comprising:
The listening number determination means includes:
The design data of the current manual is distributed for each type and stored in a predetermined storage area of the storage device, and the number of the design data of the current manual is counted for each type and the predetermined value of the storage device is counted. Species sort processing to be stored in the storage area ,
The counted for each of the tiles species by pattern data and the tile species distribution processing for each tile that has been distributed by該牌species sorting process based on the number of symbols data of the current tile hand, the same contained in the hand tiles Based on the number of combinations of symbol data of each cocoon that is determined for each number of symbol data of the cocoon type, the hand composition value obtained in advance is the number of symbol data of the same genus included in the hand Corresponding to the symbol data for each of the above-mentioned types, the hand-composition value of each hand is obtained with reference to the hand-composition value table arranged in advance , and the sum of the obtained hand-composition values is calculated. a tile hand eigenvalue calculation processing for obtaining the tile hand eigenvalues for each tile type Te,
Based on the hand eigenvalue for each type determined by the manual eigenvalue calculation process, for each manual eigenvalue , corresponding to all the hand eigenvalues corresponding to the number of symbol data for each type, The number of facets and number of towers that can be acquired by referring to a facet configuration table in which flag data configured by setting a flag to the bit corresponding to the facet configuration pattern of the number of facets, number of towers, and number of sparrows is stored in advance. and a face structure pattern and acquires the flag data of the face configuration pattern sparrow head count,
By subtracting the number of wrinkles used in each face configuration pattern corresponding to the flag data acquired for each wrinkle from the number of wrinkles of that wrinkle, the provisional number of hearings for each wrinkle is obtained. , The sum of the provisional number of common hearings of all the species is defined as the first number of common hearings of the hand, and a plurality of the first common listening numbers calculated for each combination from all combinations of the face configuration patterns . Among them, a first listening number calculation process for calculating the minimum first listening number;
A face configuration determination process for determining whether or not all towers included in the face configuration pattern corresponding to the minimum first listening number can configure a face;
When it is determined by the face configuration determination processing that there is a tower that cannot constitute a face in the tower included in the face composition pattern corresponding to the minimum number of first listening , the face that is not included in the face And a virtual face configuration pattern generation process for generating a virtual face configuration pattern that can configure a face using an isolated kite that does not constitute a face or tower, and
By subtracting the number of cocoons used in each virtual facet configuration pattern generated for each cocoon from the number of cocoons of the cocoon, the actual number of hearings for each cocoon is obtained, The sum of the actual number of listeners is the second number of listeners of the procedure, and among the plurality of second listeners calculated for each combination from all combinations of the virtual facet configuration pattern, a second direction聴数arithmetic processing for obtaining a composed the second direction聴数,
Is executed by a computer of the mahjong game device. The listening number determination means includes:
Wherein said first direction聴数said minimum of said first direction聴数obtained by calculation process when the following pre SL minimum of the second direction聴数, and performs the face configuration determining process Item 5. A mahjong game control program according to item 4.

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