JP5427227B2 - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention includes a start winning opening on the game board surface, a variable display unit capable of displaying various symbols, and a variable winning opening, and is generated for each winning of a pachinko ball to the starting winning opening. When the final lottery is performed based on the right of lottery, and the lottery result display operation for displaying the final lottery result is displayed after changing the display pattern on the variable display section. The present invention also relates to a pachinko machine that includes a control unit that controls the variable prize opening so as to generate a predetermined special value state advantageous to the player corresponding to the winning.

  As a conventional gaming machine, a variable display unit capable of displaying a plurality of symbols and a start winning opening are provided on the gaming board surface, and each time a ball launched on the gaming board surface wins the starting winning opening, variable display is possible. Some departments, for example, run a symbol matching game that looks like a slot machine, and when there are numbers such as “777” and a big win comes out, a special value advantageous to the player is generated. As a special value, it is generally performed to open and close a large variable winning opening which is closed in a normal state a predetermined number of times (for example, 16 times) to increase the winning probability of a ball.

  Among such gaming machines, in the gaming machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-10399, when a big jackpot occurs again, a special value for the big jackpot is given, and a special value giving operation for the first jackpot is given. It is comprised so that it may give after finishing.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-10399

  However, even in the gaming machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-10399, the game itself does not change and does not provide a new interest.

  The present invention has been made paying attention to the problems of such conventional techniques, and an object thereof is to provide a gaming machine that has no new game characteristics and can enhance new interest.

The gist for achieving such an object lies in the following section.
[1] On the game board surface (11), a start winning opening (20), a variable display section (110) of a display device (100) capable of displaying various symbols, and a variable winning opening (30) are provided. The main lottery is performed based on the one lottery right generated for each pachinko ball winning in the start winning opening (20), and the display pattern is changed on the variable display section (110). A main lottery result display operation for displaying the result is performed, and if the result of the main lottery is a win, a predetermined special value state advantageous to the player corresponding to the win is generated at the variable winning opening (30). In a pachinko machine (10) comprising a control unit (150) for controlling
The control unit (150)
During the special value state granting operation, when an additional lottery is performed and the number of open times of the variable prize opening (30) is added to the special value state, the number of open times addition mode is reached. When notifying, the number of times of opening to be added, notifying the total number of times of opening separately from the number of times of opening to be added, and when hitting a probability variation mode that increases the probability of winning in the main lottery A pachinko machine (10) characterized by notifying the occurrence thereof .

Next, the operation will be described.
When the pachinko ball launched on the game board surface (11) wins the start winning opening (20), a predetermined number of prize balls are paid out for each winning ball. Further, the control unit (150) performs one main lottery based on the one winning. As a result of this lottery, the so-called “big hit”, which is a process of causing the variable prize opening (30) to perform a predetermined action to bring about a special value state that is advantageous to the player, and the action by the variable prize opening (30) The game state that is advantageous to the player such as “so-called” “losing” and “so-called“ reach ”that is substantially“ losing ”but one step after“ winning ”on the variable display portion (110). There is.

  In accordance with the result of the main lottery, the control unit (150) stops the display after the display change of the symbol is continued for a certain time in the variable display unit (110), and displays the result of the main lottery in a combination of symbols. To do. For example, if the result of this lottery is a so-called “fever” jackpot, the variable display unit (110) is operated for a predetermined time, and then the symbol display is stopped at all the numbers such as “7”. It is.

  When the final lottery result is a “hit”, the control unit (150) opens the variable prize opening (30) for a predetermined time, closes for a short time, and then opens the predetermined time again for 16 times, for example. A special value state that allows a player to win a large number of prize balls in a short time by greatly increasing the chance of winning a prize is generated. When a pachinko ball is won in the variable winning opening (30), the number of pachinko balls multiplied by a predetermined number per winning ball is paid out as a winning ball.

Wherein the control unit (150), during said applying the operation of the special care status, to add lottery, and per opening times additional mode of adding the opening times of the variable winning opening (30) with respect to the special care status When this happens , the occurrence is notified, the number of times of opening to be added is notified, and the total number of times of opening is notified separately from the number of times of opening to be added. When the probability variation mode for increasing the winning probability in the main lottery is reached, the occurrence is notified.

The pachinko machine according to the present invention performs an additional lottery during the special value state granting operation, and when it becomes the opening number addition mode for adding the number of opening of the variable prize opening to the special value state , In addition to notifying the occurrence, the number of times of opening to be added is informed, the total number of times of opening is in addition to the number of opening times to be added, and the occurrence is notified when the probability variation mode is hit. Therefore, it is possible to provide the player with new gaming fun without having a new game characteristic.

It is a block diagram which shows the circuit structure of the pachinko machine which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which shows the pachinko machine which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the transition of the display content of the variable display part of the pachinko machine which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the process which the pachinko machine which concerns on one embodiment of this invention performs after a game start and after big hit generation | occurrence | production. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the process performed after the pachinko machine based on one embodiment of this invention enters into a jackpot game.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
1 to 5 show an embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the gaming machine 10 according to the present embodiment is a pachinko machine that wins a ball launched on the game board surface 11 and enjoys the acquisition of the ball to be paid out. The pachinko machine 10 executes a symbol matching game that looks like a slot machine on the display device 100 arranged in the center of the game board surface 11 when the launched ball wins the start winning opening 20, and controls When the unit 150 draws a lottery (the main lottery) and wins a big prize, it aligns a predetermined number such as “777”, stops the symbol display, and opens and closes the variable prize opening 30 a predetermined number of times to provide a special value advantageous to the player A state is given.

  A handle 12 for performing an operation of driving a pachinko ball onto the game board surface 11 is provided below the front surface of the pachinko machine 10. By operating the handle 12 by the player, a pachinko ball can be driven onto the game board surface 11 one by one from the front plate 13 provided on the front surface of the gaming machine 10. In addition, a lower plate 14 is provided below the front plate 13 for receiving and storing pachinko balls overflowing from the front plate 13 when a large amount of pachinko balls are released from the pachinko machine 10 into the front plate 13 due to a big hit. It has been.

  The game board surface 11 is provided with a launch rail 15 that guides a pachinko ball launched by the operation of the handle 12 in a substantially circular shape and guides it to the upper center of the game board surface 11 and the like. A display device 100 is disposed substantially at the center of the game board surface 11. A start winning opening 20 is disposed below the display device 100, and a variable winning opening 30 is disposed below the start winning opening 20.

  In addition, on the game board surface 11, there are provided an obstacle nail 16, a windmill 17, and the like for changing the falling speed and traveling direction of the pachinko balls that have been driven. Further, at the lowermost part of the game board surface 11, an out port 18 is provided for collecting pachinko balls that have not won any winning ports. Furthermore, a large number of various display lamps are provided on the front surface of the pachinko machine 10 for displaying various game states and increasing the fun of the game.

  The display device 100 notifies the LED display unit that the variable display unit 110 configured with a liquid crystal screen capable of displaying an arbitrary symbol and the number of pachinko balls (four) won in the start winning opening 20 are stored. The holding ball display unit 120 that performs the opening and the opening / closing plate opening number display unit 130 that displays the number of times the opening / closing plate 31 of the variable winning opening 30 is opened.

  The variable display unit 110 has nine display areas formed in three columns and three rows in order to display symbols that have been changed as a result of executing the symbol matching game and symbols that have been determined as execution results.

  Further, the opening / closing plate opening number display section 130 includes two upper and lower display areas, and one (for example, the upper row) displays the total number of opening / closing plate opening times due to jackpots and the added opening / closing plate opening times described later. The number display unit 131 is the other (for example, the lower row) is an additional opening number display unit 132 that displays the added opening / closing number. Furthermore, the probability that the probability has been changed may be displayed alternately with the number of additional opening / closing operations or may be displayed independently in the lower row.

  The start winning opening 20 is a winning opening that triggers execution of the symbol matching game. In a normal state, the symbol matching game is executed on the variable display unit 110 when a ball wins the starting winning opening 20. .

  FIG. 1 shows an outline of a circuit configuration of the gaming machine 10. The gaming machine 10 includes a control unit 150 that controls various devices as the game progresses. The control unit 150 includes a game control unit 160 that controls the main lottery, additional lottery, game operations, and the like, and various displays. The display control unit 170 controls the apparatus.

  The game control unit 160 wins a pachinko ball in the start winning opening 20 while a special value state based on the lottery is made in addition to the main lottery performed by winning the pachinko ball in the starting winning opening 20 and a special value state based on the lottery. Additional lottery to be performed when there is a prize, detection status at the winning detection switch of various winning ports (start winning port 20, variable winning port 30, etc.), number of winning balls to be paid to the player with winning, variable winning Various controls relating to the progress of the game, such as the number of times the opening / closing plate 31 of the mouth 30 is opened, are performed.

  The display control unit 170 is a circuit part that controls the display state of the variable display unit 110, the reserved ball display unit 120, the opening / closing plate opening number display unit 130, various display lamps, and the like. The game control unit 160 and the display control unit 170 exchange information with each other, and are configured to control various devices of the entire gaming machine 10.

  Both the game control unit 160 and the display control unit 170 are constituted by circuits having CPUs (central processing units) 161 and 171, RAMs 162 and 172, ROMs 163 and 173 as main parts. The CPU 161 included in the game control unit 160 controls the operation of the symbol matching game execution unit 164 that controls the execution of the symbol matching game performed on the variable display unit 110, and a special value that generates a special value state by controlling the operation of the variable winning opening 30. It functions as the value generation control unit 165. The ROM 163 is a program for performing an additional lottery for determining which of a plurality of types of added value states is added to the special value state based on the result of the main lottery when the result of the main lottery is successful. The additional lottery means is stored. The special value generation control unit 165 also has a function of generating the added value state determined by the additional lottery.

  The CPU 171 included in the display control unit 170 includes additional lottery display means that is a program stored in the ROM 173. The additional lottery display means displays the result of the additional lottery according to the pattern constituting the combination of the main lottery displayed on the variable display unit 110. The symbol is stopped in the corresponding arrangement, and in the case of a loss, the symbol is randomly stopped.

  The start winning opening 20 includes a start winning detection switch 21 for detecting a winning pachinko ball. The variable winning opening 30 has an opening / closing plate 31 that opens and closes forward and backward, and the opening / closing plate 31 is driven to open and close by a corresponding solenoid 32.

  The variable winning opening 30 is formed in the center of the open / close plate 31 with a win detection switch 33 for detecting a pachinko ball won when the open / close plate 31 is open, a win counter 34 for counting the detection results. A V winning detection switch 36 for detecting a pachinko ball that has won a prize in the V winning opening 35 is provided.

  The variable winning opening 30 has the opening / closing plate 31 opened only within a short period of time when a big hit state occurs for a certain time (for example, 30 seconds) or a predetermined number (for example, 10) of pachinko balls, It is configured to continue to open a predetermined number of times on condition that the V winning opening 35 is won when it is open. That is, the winning counter 34 counts to determine when the variable winning opening 30 is closed, and the V winning detection switch 36 is used to determine a condition for continuing the open state. In addition, as one of the added value states added by the additional lottery, the opening / closing plate 31 is opened / closed a predetermined number of times.

  The infinite counter 40 is a part that performs the function of paying out a prize ball. The number of pachinko balls to be paid out is counted by a prize ball payout counter 41 built in, and a predetermined number of pachinko balls are determined for each winning opening. It is configured to pay out.

The operation will be described below with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 3 shows the transition of the display state of the variable display unit 110, and FIG. 4 shows the flow of processing performed by the pachinko machine 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention from the start of the game until the occurrence of the jackpot. Yes.

  First, when a pachinko ball launched on the game board surface 11 wins the start winning opening 20, the control unit 150 performs one main lottery based on the one winning, and the symbol matching game executing unit 164 performs the symbol drawing. The execution of the matching game is started, and the symbols on the variable display unit 110 start to change (FIG. 3A) (steps 401 to 404). The symbols on the game board surface 11 are scrolled for a certain period of time and then stopped one by one. Align and stop the symbols (step 405). In FIG. 3B, “7” is displayed on the diagonal line from the lower left corner to the upper right corner, but three identical symbols are displayed on the diagonal line from the lower right corner to the upper left corner. May be.

  After the jackpot display is made, the control unit 150 starts an opening / closing operation to generate a special value state in the variable prize opening 30 (step 406). When the lottery result is lost, the lottery is randomly stopped so that the same symbol does not appear in any of the two diagonal lines and the three horizontal stages (step 4041).

  When the result of the lottery is a jackpot, the CPU 171 of the display control unit 170 further displays symbols other than the symbol (777) indicating the jackpot among symbols for displaying the lottery results displayed on the variable display unit 110 by the additional lottery display means. The symbols are erased (FIG. 3C), and at the same time as the display of variation with the remaining symbols is started, in the game control unit 160, the CPU 161 performs additional lottery by the additional lottery means (steps 407 and 408). The symbol changing operation is executed in the variable display unit 110 for a predetermined time. 3a to 3h show display examples when the result of the additional lottery is a win.

  FIGS. 3a to 3c show “777”, which is a jackpot display in the lottery, displayed side by side in the top, middle or bottom, respectively, and FIGS. 3d to 3f are one column on the left and one column on the center, respectively. And what is displayed in the right column is shown. Further, in FIG. 3g, three “7” s are arranged on the diagonal line from the upper left to the lower right, and FIG. 3h shows the same display as the jackpot result display of this lottery (step 409).

  Each of these hit indications specifies the type of added value state to be added. As the types of added value states, there are an opening number adding mode for adding the opening number of the variable winning opening 30 and a probability changing mode for increasing the probability. In the opening number adding mode, for example, an additional opening / closing number is 1 time. When the number of additional opening / closing times is two, the symbols are arranged in the middle as shown in FIG. 3b. In addition, when the number of additional opening / closing operations is 2, the symbols are arranged in one column on the left side as shown in FIG. 3d or one column on the right side as shown in FIG. 3f, and when the number of additional opening / closing operations is three, as shown in FIG. The symbols are arranged in one central row. When the additional number of times of opening and closing is 5, they are arranged diagonally as shown in FIG. 3g or FIG. 3h.

  When the result of the additional lottery becomes a hit in the probability variation mode that increases the probability of winning in the subsequent main lottery, the result display is the same display as the main lottery result display, that is, in the case of FIG. 3, FIG. Is displayed.

  In addition, the symbol arrangement of the hit display and the number of times of opening and closing can be variously combined in addition to the above, and the specific number of the number of times of opening need not be limited to the above, and various values can be set. In addition, the display of entering the probability variation mode is not the same display as the winning lottery display as described above, and a symbol arrangement unrelated to the final lottery result display is specified and displayed. Good.

  After the result of the additional lottery is displayed, the added value state is added to the special value state (step 410).

  The added opening / closing count is displayed in the lower part of the opening / closing plate opening count display section 130. In the upper part of the opening / closing plate opening number display section 130, the total number of times of opening / closing operation of the variable winning opening 30 given by the main lottery and the number of times added by the result of the additional lottery are displayed. In addition, when the result of the additional lottery comes to the probability variation mode, the probability of variation may be displayed on the lower stage of the opening / closing plate opening number display section 130, or may be lit or blinked. A plurality of types of probability values in the probability variation mode may be prepared.

  When all the total opening / closing operations have been completed, the game returns to the normal game state, and if there is a pachinko ball winning in the start winning opening 20, the main lottery is performed. When the winning of the additional lottery is in the probability variation mode, the probability of the big winning in the next lottery is maintained at a value higher than that in the normal game (steps 411 to 412).

  When the additional lottery is lost, the jackpot game in which the three numbers are not arranged in any row, column or diagonal line of the variable display section 110, and a special value state based on the jackpot by this lottery has occurred When is finished, the game returns to the normal game (step 413).

  In this way, when a big win is made in this lottery, a special value state is generated and a symbol matching game that can add added value is performed, so a new interest is hesitated.

  The gaming machine according to the present invention can be applied to a pachinko machine that wins a ball that has been launched on the game board surface and enjoys the acquisition of the ball to be paid out.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Pachinko machine 11 ... Game board surface 12 ... Handle 13 ... Front plate 14 ... Lower plate 20 ... Start winning opening 21 ... Start winning detection switch 30 ... Variable winning opening 31 ... Opening / closing plate 32 ... Solenoid 33 ... Winning detection switch 34 ... Winning Counting device 35 ... V winning opening 36 ... V winning detection switch 40 ... Infinite counter 41 ... Prize ball payout counting device 100 ... Display device 110 ... Variable display unit 120 ... Reservation ball display unit 130 ... Opening / closing plate opening number display unit 131 ... Total Number-of-opens display unit 132 ... Additional number-of-opens display unit 150 ... Control unit 160 ... Game control unit 164 ... Symbol matching game execution unit 165 ... Special value generation control unit 170 ... Display control unit

Claims (1)

There is a start winning opening on the surface of the game board, a variable display portion of a display device capable of displaying various symbols, and a variable winning opening, which is generated once for each winning of a pachinko ball to the starting winning opening. When the final lottery is performed based on the lottery right, the lottery result display operation for displaying the result of the final lottery is performed after changing the display pattern on the variable display unit. In a pachinko machine comprising a control unit for controlling the variable prize opening to generate a predetermined special value state advantageous to the player corresponding to the winning,
The controller is
During the special value state granting operation, an additional lottery is performed, and when the number of times of opening of the variable prize opening is added to the special value state , the occurrence of the open number addition mode is notified and the occurrence is notified . , Informing the number of times of opening to be added, informing the total number of times of opening separately from the number of times of opening to be added, and when the probability variation mode that increases the probability of winning in the main lottery is hit, occurrence thereof A pachinko machine characterized by informing the user.

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