JPH0716333A - Automatically winning piece-throwing apparatus for mah-jongg game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable higher operation efficiency by eliminating throublesomeness in the operation after a pre-winning betting is made by the shortening of playing time per game while achieving an enjoying of a game with greater interest for players. CONSTITUTION:In this mah-jongg machine in which a pre-winning betting switch 45 is provided to operate when the array of pieces of a player reaches a pre- winning aspect to enable the generation of a winner by the pre-winning betting, a winner judging means 47 is provided to judge a winning after rearrangement under the pre-winning betted and a winning piece throwing means 52 to throw a set of winning pieces automatically when judgment of nobody in the case of winning is detected by the winning judging means 47.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tsumamo tile automatic truncation device for a sparrow ball game machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in Japanese sparrow ball game machines, Japanese Patent Publication No. 3-
As described in Japanese Patent No. 71, Japanese Patent Publication No. 4-16192, etc., there is a game that enables a rising hand to be formed by reach, as in the mahjong game.

That is, the conventional sparrow ball game machine of this kind is provided with a reach switch and a spider switch, and when the reach switch is operated in the tempo state, it is possible to form a rising hand by the reach, and When the hand is not formed, the unnecessary tiles cannot be cut off by the other tile switches, and the tsum off switch is operated to truncate the tiles within the set number of times.

[0004]

However, in the case where a rising hand is not formed in the reach state, it is impossible to re-slice other than the Tsumo tile thereafter, but conventionally, the Tsumo switch is provided, After cutting off the Tsumo tile by the operation, it is possible to hit the next game ball again. For this reason,
The player has to operate the switch to turn off the switch each time, resulting in a problem that the operation is very troublesome.

Further, since the switch switch must be operated frequently, the game time per game inevitably becomes long and the number of games per unit time naturally decreases. Therefore, it is very difficult for the game store side to improve the sales, and the game is time consuming, lacks speed and is uninteresting for the player.

In view of the conventional problems, the present invention eliminates the troublesome operation after the reach state, shortens the game time per game, improves the operation efficiency, and also for the player. The goal is to be able to play interesting games.

[0007]

According to the present invention, in a sparrow ball game machine which has a reach switch 45 which is operated in the ten-pie state and is capable of forming an ascending hand by the reach, it is possible to determine the ascending after re-turning in the reach state. The rising judgment means 47 for turning off, and the Tsumo tile discarding means 52 for automatically cutting off the Tsumo tile when the rising judgment means 47 determines that the rising is not raised.
It is equipped with.

[0008]

[Operation] When the reach switch 45 is operated in the ten-pie state, it is possible to form a rising hand by the reach. Therefore, when the reach switch 45 is operated to enter the reach state, the reach switch is turned off and then turned up, the up determination means 47 determines whether or not the up position is raised. Then, when the rising determination means 47 determines that the rising is not up, the tsum tile discarding means 52 automatically truncates the tsum tiles.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 2 and 3 show the front frame 1 side of the sparrow ball game machine, FIG. 2 is a front view, and FIG. 3 is a rear view. Figure 4 shows the front frame
FIG. 3 is a front view of a machine frame 2 side that supports 1 so as to be openable and closable. Figure 2
In the front frame 1, 3 is a glass window, 4 is a game board, which are arranged above the front frame 1, and the game board 4 is detachably attached to the front frame 1 from the back side.

As shown in FIG. 5, the game board 4 is provided with a display window 5 in the central portion thereof, a guide rail 6, an obstacle nail 7 and the like. This game board 4 has 18 pieces in a horizontal row at the bottom, and 3 diagonally at the bottom on both left and right sides.
A total of 27 ball entrances 8 are arranged, one each at the center of the upper side and one at the left and right. In addition, at each entrance 8,
Corresponding to that, 27 kinds of tiles are attached.

At the upper and lower central portions of the front frame 1, a joystick lever 9, a start switch 10, a clearing switch 11,
A coin slot 12, a card balance display portion 13 and the like are provided. At the lower part of the front frame 1, a coin payout opening 14, a coin tray 15 and a firing handle 16 are provided.

In FIG. 3, numeral 17 is a ball collecting case, which is a game board.
A standby passage at the bottom for collecting game balls that entered each of the 4 entrances 8
It is mounted on the back side of the game board 4 so as to guide you to 18. The ball collection case 17 is provided with 27 ball entry switches 19 so as to detect the respective game balls that have entered the 27 ball entry ports 8.

20 is a launching device for launching a game ball, and when the launch handle 16 is operated, the launching motor 21 operates,
One game ball supplied from the standby passage 18 to the launching section 22 is struck by the hammer 23 and is launched along the guide rail 6. 24 is a coin sorter, which is a coin slot 12
This is for selecting the authenticity of coins inserted from. 25 is a speaker.

In FIG. 4, the machine frame 2 is formed in a rectangular frame shape, and a reinforcing plate 27 is provided at the upper and lower intermediate portions so as to connect the left and right frame members 26. Also, on one side of the machine frame 2,
A hinge 28 that pivotally supports the front frame 1 so as to be opened and closed is provided above and below. 29 is a liquid crystal type image display device, 30 is a control board, and these are mounted on the reinforcing plate 27. When the image display device 29 closes the front frame 1 pivotally attached to the machine frame 2,
The display screen 31 corresponds to the display window 5 of the game board 4.

32 is a hopper tank, 33 is a coin payout device, 34 is a coin tank, and these are lower members 35 of the machine frame 2.
It is provided above. Hopper tank 32 is a coin sorter
It accepts positive coins that have passed 24,
Further, the coin payout device 33 pays out coins in the hopper tank 32 to the coin payout opening 14. The coin tank 34 is for receiving coins overflowing from the hopper tank 32.

On the display screen 31 of the image display device 29, as shown in FIG. 6A, the hand tile display section 36, the discarded tile display section 37,
A dora tile display section 38, a back dora display section 39, a place wind display section 40, a coin storage number display section 41, and a score display section 42 are provided, and a variety of characters necessary for other games are raised in the central blank area. The display is displayed at any time.

FIG. 1 shows a control system, and 43 is a control device (hereinafter referred to as CPU) which controls the control operation of the game, and displays a game progress display such as hand tiles, discard tiles, and dora tiles as the game progresses, and Depending on the hand tile at the end of the game, the CPU and the like are configured to display the game end display such as winning combinations, scores, etc. on the display units 36 to 42 on the display screen 31 of the image display device 29. Built into 30.

The CPU 43 is provided with an automatic tile distribution means 44 for automatically distributing tiles to the hand tile display section 36 of the display screen 31 of the image display device 29 in the game start state, and also operates the reach switch 45 in the ten-pie state. Reach determining means 46 for determining the reach state at the time of rising, rising determination means 47 for determining rising,
Tsumo tile discarding means 52 is provided for automatically discarding the Tsumo tiles when reaching and not forming a winning combination.

The CPU 43 includes a start switch 10, a clearing switch 11, a coin detection switch 48, a ball entry switch 19,
The reach switch 45, the tile selection switches 49, 50, the input switch such as the tile determination switch 51 are connected, and the launcher 20, the speaker 25, the image display device 29, the coin payout device 33, etc. are connected. .

The start switch 10 is operated at the start of the game. When the start switch 10 is pressed, C
The automatic distribution means 44 of the PU 43 operates, and after a lapse of a fixed time (about 1 to 3 seconds), the arrangement display section 36 on the display screen of the image display device 29 has a fixed time interval (0.3 to 0.5 seconds) in order from the left. According to the degree), four, four, four and two pieces are automatically distributed in order. The tile selection switches 49, 50 are turned on when the joystick lever 9 is operated in the left / right direction, and move the cursor displayed below the respective hand tile display positions of the hand tile display section 36 of the display screen 31 to the left / right. It is like this.

The cut tile determination switch 51 is turned on when the joystick lever 9 is operated downward, and discards the hand tile at the hand tile display position indicated by the cursor. The reach switch 53 is adapted to reach when the joystick lever 9 is operated upward. 53 is an input / output circuit.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 7 and 8. To start the game, first insert a coin into the coin insertion slot 12. This coin is sorted by the coin sorter 24 for authenticity,
If the coin is a true coin, the coin detection switch 48 is turned on, and the CP
Send a coin insertion signal to U43.

Then, by the output from the CPU 43, the number of inserted coins is displayed on the coin storage number display section 41 of the image display device 29, and the game can be started.
Up to 50 coins can be stored, and coins inserted more than that are returned by the coin payout device 33.

Then, when the start switch 10 is pushed next time, a start signal is sent to the CPU 43.
Discriminates the start of the game (step S1), the number of coins in the coin accumulated number display portion 41 is decremented by 1, and
The output from U43 causes the game start state to be displayed on the display screen 31 of the image display device 29 (step S2).
The tile distribution display processing is performed by the automatic tile distribution means 44 of U43 (step S3).

On the display screen 31 of the image display device 29, as shown in FIG. 6A in step S2, respective displays appear on the field display 40, the driver display 38, etc., and the tiles are displayed. Display
In 36, the tiles are displayed at the 14 tile display positions with the tiles turned upside down. Then, after a lapse of a certain time from this state, the tiles are automatically distributed in order from the left by the tile display processing of step S3.

This tile display processing is performed in the order shown in the time chart of FIG. That is, when a start signal is input to the CPU 43, initialization is performed to clear all the tile extraction data, the tile display data, and the storage position data (step S4). And 2 from 1 to 27
Input 7 kinds of random numbers at appropriate timing (Step S
5) The relevant tile extraction data is referred to by the random number (step S6). At this time, it is determined whether or not four pieces of tile distribution extraction data have already been extracted (step S7). This is the same 4 tiles used for Mahjong games.
There is only one sheet, so this is to match it.

If four pieces of tile distribution extraction data have already been extracted, a random number is input again (step S5) and the same processing is performed. If four pieces of tile distribution extraction data have not yet been extracted, 1 is added to the distribution tile extraction data (step S8), and then the position of the tile display data to be stored is determined from the storage position data ( In step S9), the tile distribution data obtained from the random number is stored in the corresponding tile display data (step S10).

After adding 1 to the storage position data (step S11), it is judged whether 14 pieces of tile distribution data have been decided (step S12), and all 14 pieces of tile distribution data are stored. The same process is continued until the end, all the tile data is stored, and the tile display process ends.

When such a tile display process is performed by the automatic tile distribution means 44 of the CPU 43, the hand tile display portion of the display screen is displayed.
Each tile displayed in the state of being turned over at each tile display position of 36 is displayed in order from the left at a fixed time (about 0.3 to 0.5 seconds) as shown in (B) to (E) of FIG. 4 pieces, 4 pieces
It will be turned back to one piece and two pieces, and the player can check the tiles.

Then, after the tiles at the last two tile display positions are returned, when a fixed time (about 0.5 seconds to 1 second) elapses,
As shown in FIG. 6 (F), the tiles at each tile display position are rearranged in an order having a certain regularity so that the player can easily raise the winning combination. In addition, the symbols of the tiles displayed at the respective tile display positions are 27 types corresponding to the respective entrances 8 of the game board 4, and the maximum number of the symbols is four.

Next, the CPU 43 determines whether or not unnecessary tiles can be recut (step S13). If the number of recuts is 10 per game, the reach determining means 46 determines whether or not the reach state is reached (step S14). At this time, if it is not in the reach state, it is determined whether or not the reach is possible (step S15). If the tiles on the hand tile display unit 36 are not in the tempe state, the reach is impossible, so whether or not to reshuffle is determined. It is determined (step S16), and if it is not necessary to re-turn, the process proceeds to the up determination by the up determination means 47 (step S17).

When the player performs the reshuffle, the process goes from the step S16 to the reshuffle process (step S18). In the reshuffling process at this time, when the player operates the joystick lever 9 in the left-right direction, the tile selection switch 49 or 50 is turned on, and the cursor below the tile display position of the hand tile display section 36 is moved to the left or right. Since it moves, the cursor is moved to the lower side of the unnecessary tile, and the joystick lever 9 is operated downward to turn on the tile determination switch 51. Then CPU
A cut tile determination signal is input to 43, and unnecessary tiles are cut off and the cutting process is started again (step S18).

When the tile decision switch 51 is turned on, the launching device 20 becomes ready to operate immediately, and one of the game balls in the waiting passage 18 is supplied to the launching device 20 and the launching handle 16
It is fired on the board surface of the game board 4 by the operation of. The game ball that was launched falls on the board surface of the game board 4, enters one of the 27 entrances 8, and the symbol corresponding to the entrance 8 becomes a Tsumo tile in the mahjong game. Are displayed at the Tsumo tile display position 36a of the hand tile display unit 36.

If the hand tiles on the hand tile display section 36 are in a ten-pie state, it is determined in step S15 that the reach is possible. Therefore, it is waited for the player to reach next (step S19). The process moves to the reach set (step S20). At this time, if the joystick lever 9 is operated upward, the reach switch 45 is turned on and the CPU 43
The reach signal is input to and the reach state is set. Then, the player discards unnecessary tiles in the hand tile display unit 36,
The next game ball is struck again (step S18).

If the reach switch 45 is turned on to reach, the reach determination means 46 determines the reach state (step S14), and the up determination means 47 determines whether or not the next winning combination is formed. (Step S2
1). Then, when the rising hand is not formed, only the tsum tiles at the tsum tile display position 36a can be recut after that, so a certain time (about 0.1 to 1 second after the tsum tiles are displayed at the tsum tile display position 36a). After the elapse of time, the tsum tile discarding means 52 automatically truncates the tsum tiles (step S22), and then the process proceeds to the shredding process (step S23).

Therefore, it is not necessary to operate the switch for cutting off the switch, the operation is not troublesome, and the game can proceed in a short time. Further, since the game ball is sent to the launching section 22 of the launching device 20 immediately after the tsum tiles are cut off, the launching device 20 can be used to hit the game ball again, and the game ball can be immediately hit again.

When the number of recuts reaches 10,
The process shifts from step S13 to up determination (step S2
1). Then, in the rising determination in steps S17 and S21, if a winning combination is formed, then a winning combination determination is performed (step S24), the winning score is calculated, and the number of coins to be paid out is calculated from the score (step S25). ),
The winning combination is displayed in the center part of the display screen 31 of the image display device 29, and the winning score is displayed in the score display part 42. After that, a coin payout process or an addition process to the number of stored coins is performed, and one game ends.

The winning combination and the score are as follows. In other words, the national warriors, nine consecutive lanterns, Daisangen, Shikiwa, Isshiki, Seirogashira and Shizako are 10 points, 2 cups, Shitanko, Jun Zenkoku and Kiyoichi are 3 points, and Kosangen. , 7 pairs of children, all bands and Ikki Tsuki are 2 points, and 9 points of openness, peace, 1 cup, 3 sangoku, 1 color mixture and 1 flat rise. However, the maximum total score of one game is 10.

After the game is over, the player starts the start switch.
When 10 is selected, the number obtained by subtracting 1 from the winning score is added to the display of the coin storage number display unit 41, and the start state is again established. When the clearing switch 11 is selected, the coin payout device 33 pays out coins corresponding to the sum of the winning score and the number of coins stored in the coin storage amount display unit 41.

[0040]

According to the present invention, in the sparrow ball game machine which is provided with the reach switch 45 which is operated in the ten-pie state and is capable of forming the rising hand by the reach, the rising judgment is made after the re-cut in the reach state. Climb determination means 47,
Since the rise determination means 47 is provided with the tsum tile discarding means 52 that automatically discards the tsum tiles when it determines that it is not the rise, compared to the conventional case of operating the tsumori switch, the operation after the reach state is troublesome. And time can be reduced significantly.

Therefore, the game time per game is shortened and the number of games per unit time is naturally increased. Therefore, the game shop side can improve the operation rate and increase the sales, and the game can be advanced quickly without any troublesome operation for the player, which makes the game very interesting. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a control system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a front frame side showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a rear view on the front frame side showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view on the machine casing side showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front view of the game board showing the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of a tile distribution state showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a time chart showing an example of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a time chart showing an example of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Front frame 2 Machine frame 4 Game board 29 Image display device 31 Display screen 36 Hand tile display unit 43 Control device 44 Automatic tile distribution means 45 Reach switch 47 Rise determination means 52 Tsumo tile discarding means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a sparrow ball game machine having a reach switch (45) operated in the ten-pie state and capable of forming an ascending hand by the reach, an ascending determination means for making an ascending determination after re-cutting in the reach state ( 47), and when the rise determination means (47) determines that it has not risen, it is equipped with a Tsumo tile discard means (52) that automatically discards the Tsumo tiles. .