JPH10328348A - Hall game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate a sort of unfairness felt among players in lottery for winning to be conducted when their pieces reach a goal by providing a winning probability decision means to determine the probability of winning based on the frequency of manipulation of an input means made by a player until his piece reaches the square of the goal. SOLUTION: In a hall game machine, a winning probability decision device 8 is provided to determine the probability of winning at a lottery to be conducted when a piece reaches the square of a goal based on the frequency of depressing a stop switch 2 by a player until his piece reaches the square of the goal and an algorithm for determining the probability of winning is established to increase the probability of winning as the frequency of depressing the stop switch 2 by the player increases. This eliminates a sort of unfairness felt between players with less frequency of depressing the stop switch 2 and those with more frequency thereof until their pieces reach the square of the goal. Thus, there is no fear of loss in attraction of the game, inevitably causing a drop in attracting capacity of customers by hall game machines.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hall game machine for playing a sugoroku game.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A display device for displaying a route of a sugoroku game is provided. A mesh to which a piece moves is determined by an operation applied by a player to an input means, and a hit is made when the piece reaches a goal mesh. Is going to be installed in a game hall such as a pachinko hall.

[0003]

When a player plays a sugoroku game using the above-described hall game machine, medals inserted into the game machine are consumed in accordance with the number of operations performed by the player on the input means. Therefore, if the probability of the lottery performed when the piece reaches the goal cell is fixed, the player who performs many operations on the input means before the piece reaches the goal cell is performed. Between the player and the player who performed a small number of operations on the input means until the piece reached the goal square, the unfairness was felt, the interest of the game was spoiled, and the customer attraction of the hall gaming machine And the profit of the amusement arcade is lost. Therefore, the present invention includes a display for displaying the path of the Sugoroku game, and a mesh to which a piece moves is determined by an operation performed by the player on the input means, and when the piece reaches the goal mesh, An object of the present invention is to provide a hole gaming machine in which a winning lottery is performed, wherein the winning lottery performed when a piece reaches a goal cell does not cause unfairness among players. .

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention comprises a display for displaying a path of a sugoroku game, wherein a piece is moved by an operation applied by a player to an input means. In a gaming machine where a lottery is performed when a piece reaches the goal mesh when a piece reaches the goal mesh, an operation number storage means for storing the number of operations performed by the player on the input means, There is provided a hall game machine comprising: hit probability determining means for determining a hit probability based on the number of operations performed by a player on an input means before reaching a square. The hall gaming machine according to the present invention includes the hit probability determining means for determining the hit probability based on the number of operations performed by the player on the input means until the piece reaches the goal cell. If the algorithm for determining the hit probability is determined so that the probability of hit increases as the number of operations applied to the input means increases, a large number of times may be sent to the input means until the piece reaches the goal cell. There is no unfair feeling between the player who has performed the operation and the player who has performed a small number of operations on the input means until the piece reaches the goal cell. Therefore, the interest of the game is not spoiled, the customer attraction of the hall game machine does not decrease, and the profit of the game hall is not spoiled.

[0005] In a preferred aspect of the present invention, the hall game machine has means for manually clearing the data stored in the operation number storage means by the player. A player who stops the Sugoroku game on a grid in the middle before the piece reaches the goal grid will feel unfair when the player who plays the next game will benefit from his play. If the player who stopped the Sugoroku game on the grid before the piece reached the goal grid can clear the data stored in the operation count storage means manually, the player who plays the next game will play his or her own game. The player who stops the game on the way does not feel unfair because there is no risk of benefit from the game. Therefore, the interest of the game is not spoiled, the customer attraction of the hall game machine does not decrease, and the profit of the game hall is not spoiled.

[0006] In a preferred aspect of the present invention, the hall game machine includes data display means for displaying data stored in the operation count storage means. If the data stored in the number-of-operations storage means is displayed, the player can visually observe that the number of operations performed on the input means increases with the progress of the game, and thus the probability of winning increases. The interest in games has increased, the ability to attract customers to hall machines has increased,
Amusement park revenues increase.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A hall game machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 1, the hall gaming machine according to the present embodiment has a start switch 1, a stop switch 2, a piece driving device 3, a stop position determining device 4, an LED driving device 5, an LED 6 (31
), The number-of-operations storage device 7, and the hit probability determining device 8
, A lottery device 9, an image processing device 10, a liquid crystal image display device 11, and a storage device (not shown) storing a game program. As shown in FIG. 2, on the game board of the hall game machine according to the present embodiment, a sugoroku path from a start mesh (mesh number 1) to a goal mesh (mesh number 31) is drawn. The LED 6 is provided in each cell. Movement of the piece on the Sugoroku route is a fixedly lit LED
Is displayed by changing. In the Sugoroku game played in this hall gaming machine, the piece moves on the Sugoroku route, and when the piece stops at the mesh numbers 5, 12, and 21, the piece jumps to the next five mesh, and the mesh Numbers 8, 15, 23, 30
When the piece stops at the next square, the piece jumps to the next five squares, and when the piece reaches the goal square, a winning lottery is performed. The lottery result is displayed on the liquid crystal image display device 11 arranged adjacent to the grid of the goal.

When the player inserts a medal into a medal slot (not shown) and then presses the start switch 1, a start signal is sent to the frame driving device 3. The piece driving device 3
When the start signal is received, 1 is added to the current position of the piece (mesh number) stored in the built-in memory, that is, the current position of the piece (mesh number) when the player presses the start switch 1. The temporary current position of the piece (mesh number)
The temporary current position information is sent to the LED driving device 5 and the current position (mesh number) of the frame stored in the built-in memory is updated to the temporary current position (mesh number). LED
The driving device 5 receives the provisional current position information from the frame driving device 3, turns off the LED 6 which is fixed and lit at the time when the player presses the start switch 1, and sets the next L on the two-six route.
The ED 6 is turned on to move the piece from the current position to the temporary current position. Next, the piece driving device 3 adds 1 to the temporary current position of the piece (mesh number) to obtain a new temporary current position of the piece (mesh number), and uses the new temporary current position information of the piece as LE.
The temporary current position (mesh number) of the piece sent to the D drive device 5 and stored in the built-in memory is updated to a new temporary current position (mesh number). The LED driving device 5 receives the new temporary current position information from the piece driving device 3, turns off the lit LED 6, turns on the next LED 6 on the path, and moves the piece from the temporary current position to the new position. Is moved to the temporary current position.

The new temporary current position of the frame is determined by the frame driving device 3, the temporary current position of the frame stored in the memory incorporated in the frame driving device 3 is updated, and the LED driving device 5 is turned on. Turn off LED6 and the next LE on the path
After repeating the movement of the piece on the path to the new temporary current position indicated by the lighting of D6 five times, the piece driving device 3 sets the temporary current of the piece stored in the built-in memory. Add -5 to the position to create a new temporary current position for the piece,
The new temporary current position information is sent to the LED driving device 5. L
The ED driving device 5 receives the new provisional current position information from the frame driving device 3, turns off the LED 6 that is turned on, turns on the LED 6 that is located before the fifth cell on the path, and turns on the LED on the path. Move the piece to a new temporary current position.

The frame driving device 3 and L described in the preceding paragraph
The operation of the ED drive device 5 is repeated, and on the six-six tracks, L of six cells from the LED 6 of the next cell at the current position of the piece at the time when the player presses the start switch 1
The ED 6 repeats lighting sequentially. If the number of cells from the current position of the piece to the goal at the time when the player presses the start switch 1 is less than 6, the pieces of the piece at the time when the player presses the start switch 1 are commanded by the piece driving device 3. All the LEDs 6 from the LED 6 of the next cell at the current position to the LED 6 of the cell of the goal repeat lighting sequentially.

While watching the lighting status of the LED 6 on the six-way route, the player can stop the stop switch 2 at an appropriate timing.
push. When the player presses the stop switch 2, a stop signal is input to the stop position determination device 4. The stop position determination device 4 determines the stop position (mesh number) of the piece based on the timing at which the stop switch is pressed and the temporary current position information of the piece input from the piece driving device 3 and outputs a stop position signal. To the frame driving device 3. The frame driving device 3 receives the stop position signal from the stop position determination device 4, sends the stop position (mesh number) designated by the stop position signal to the LED driving device 5 as current position information, and outputs the stop position (mesh number). ) Is fixedly lit.
As a result, the piece moves along the grid on the Sugoroku route. The frame driving device 3 sends the stop position specified by the stop position signal to the LED driving device 5 as the current position information, and sets the current position of the frame stored in the built-in memory to the stop position specified by the stop position signal. Update and store as the current position of the piece.

Next, when the player presses the start switch 1, when the player presses the start switch 1, the LE of the next cell of the cell fixedly lit at the time when the player presses the start switch 1 is selected.
LED of 6 squares from D6 to the square of the goal
6 sequentially repeats lighting (when the number of cells from the cell which is fixedly lit to the goal cell when the player presses the start switch 1 is less than 6, the player operates the start switch 1 When the player presses the stop switch 2, the LEDs 6 of all the cells from the next cell of the cell that is lit at the time of pressing to the LED 6 of the goal cell are sequentially turned on. One of the LEDs 6 which are sequentially turned on is fixedly turned on. As a result, the piece moves further along the mesh on the Sugoroku route.
If the numbers of the cells where the pieces stopped are 5, 12, and 21,
The piece jumps to the next five meshes, and if the number of the square where the piece stopped is 8, 15, 23, or 30, the piece jumps to the fifth previous mesh.

The player repeats the operation of the start switch 1 and the stop switch 2 to advance the pieces on the path to the goal. Player has stop switch 2
The number of times of pressing is stored in the operation number storage device 7. The medals inserted by the player are consumed according to the number of times the player has operated the stop switch 2.

When the player repeats the operation of the start switch 1 and the stop switch 2 and the piece on the path of the path reaches the goal cell, the LED 6 of the goal cell is fixedly lit. The hit probability determining device 8 which detects that the piece has reached the goal cell based on the stop position signal 8
Determines the probability of winning in the lottery performed by the lottery device 9. The number of times the player has pressed the stop switch 2, that is, the number of times the player has pressed the stop switch 2 is sent from the operation number storage device 7 to the hit probability determining device 8, and the hit probability determining device 8 receives the information from the game program stored in the storage device (not shown). Extract the algorithm for probability determination. The game program describes an algorithm for determining a winning probability, which is configured to increase the winning probability as the number of operations increases. The hit probability determining device 8 determines the hit probability in accordance with the algorithm such that the hit probability increases as the number of times the player presses the stop switch 2 increases.

A hit probability signal is sent from the hit probability determining device 8 to the lottery device 9. The lottery device 9 takes out a random number value from a built-in random number generator (not shown), takes out a lottery probability data table from a game program stored in a storage device (not shown), and determines a hit probability determining device described in the lottery probability data table. 8. Compare the hit determination value corresponding to the hit probability determined by 8 with the random value,
Determine the hit or miss.

A lottery result signal is sent from the lottery device 9 to the image processing device 10. If the lottery result is a hit, the image processing apparatus 10 displays the slot machine game that will eventually be won on the liquid crystal image display device 11, and if the lottery result is out, the slot machine that finally wins. When the lottery result of displaying the game on the liquid crystal image display device 11 is a hit, a predetermined number of medals are paid out from a medal payout opening (not shown). The piece driving device 3 sends the start mesh position as the current position information to the LED driving device 5 to move the pieces on the path to the start mesh, and stores it in the memory incorporated in the piece driving device 3. The current position of the open piece is updated to the start mesh position. The operation count storage device 7 that has detected that the piece has reached the goal cell based on the stop position signal clears the stored operation count data.

If the game can be continued with the medals already inserted by the player, the player presses the start switch 1 to restart the sugoroku game. If all medals already entered by the player have been consumed,
The player inserts a medal into a medal slot (not shown),
Then, by pressing the start switch 1, the sugoroku game is restarted.

In the hall gaming machine according to the present embodiment, a lottery is performed when the piece reaches the goal cell based on the number of times the player presses the stop switch 2 until the piece reaches the goal cell. Since a hit probability determining device 8 for determining a hit probability in the game is provided, and a hit probability determining algorithm is determined so that the hit probability increases as the number of times the player presses the stop switch 2 increases. Unfairness between the player who pressed the stop switch 2 many times before the piece reached the goal cell and the player who pressed the stop switch 2 a few times before the piece reached the goal cell Does not occur. Therefore,
The interest of the game is not lost, the customer attraction of the hall game machine does not decrease, and the profit of the amusement park is not lost.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. A clear switch that clears the data stored in the operation count storage device 7 manually by the player may be provided in the hall gaming machine according to the above embodiment. A player who stops the Sugoroku game on a grid in the middle before the piece reaches the goal grid will feel unfair when the player who plays the next game will benefit from his play. If the player who stopped the Sugoroku game at the grid on the way before the piece reached the goal grid can operate the clear switch to clear the data stored in the operation count storage device 7, the player has played. Since the number of times the stop switch 2 has been accumulated in the game is not carried over to the game played by the next player, there is no possibility that the player playing the next game will benefit from his or her own play, so the game is stopped halfway. Players do not feel unfair. Therefore, the interest of the game is not spoiled, the customer attraction of the hall game machine does not decrease, and the profit of the game hall is not spoiled.

The number-of-operations display device for displaying the data stored in the number-of-operations storage device 7 may be provided in the hall game machine according to the above embodiment. If the data stored in the number-of-operations storage device 7, that is, the number of times the player has pressed the stop switch 2 is displayed on the number-of-operations display device, the number of times the player has pressed the stop switch 2 increases with the progression of the game. Further, since the increase in the probability of winning can be visually observed, the interest of the game increases, the customer attraction of the hall game machine increases, and the profit of the game hall increases.

When the piece is stopped at a predetermined intermediate cell, a lottery of small hits may be performed, and when the piece is stopped at the cell of the goal, a large lottery may be performed. In this case, the number of times the player has pressed the stop switch 2 and the number of wins in the small win lottery are stored in the operation count storage device 7, and the number of times the player has pressed the stop switch 2 during the big win lottery Based on the number of wins in the small hit lottery, and based on the number of medals consumed and the number of medals paid out in the small hit lottery, determine the probability of winning at the big hit lottery It is desirable to do. If the algorithm for determining the probability of winning at the time of a jackpot lottery is determined so that the probability of winning increases as the difference between the number of consumed medals and the medal paid out in the small jackpot lottery increases, There is no unfair feeling between the players.

Instead of displaying the Sugoroku game with the LED 6, the game may be displayed on the liquid crystal type image display device 10. Instead of the liquid crystal image display device 10, any other electronic display may be used.

[0023]

As described above, in the hall game machine according to the present invention, the hit probability is determined based on the number of operations performed by the player on the input means before the piece reaches the goal cell. Since it has a probability determination means,
If the algorithm for determining the hit probability is determined so that the probability of hit increases as the number of operations performed by the player on the input means increases, the number of times the piece is input to the input means many times before the piece reaches the goal cell. There is no unfair feeling between the player who has performed the above operation and the player who has performed a small number of operations on the input means until the piece reaches the goal cell. Therefore, the interest of the game is not spoiled, the customer attraction of the hall game machine does not decrease, and the profit of the game hall is not spoiled.

In the case where the hall game machine has means for manually clearing the data stored in the operation number storage means by the player, the game is played in the middle of the square before the piece reaches the goal square. The player who has stopped the game can manually clear the data stored in the operation count storage means, and can eliminate the possibility that the next player playing the game will benefit from his or her own play. Don't be fair. Therefore, the interest of the game is not spoiled, the customer attraction of the hall game machine does not decrease, and the profit of the game hall is not spoiled.

When the hall game machine has data display means for displaying data stored in the number-of-operations storage means, the data stored in the number-of-operations storage means is displayed, so that the player can play the game. As the game progresses, the number of operations performed on the input means increases, and as a result, the probability of hitting can be visually observed, thereby increasing the interest in the game, increasing the attracting power of the hall game machine to the customer, and increasing the profit of the amusement arcade. Increase.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a device configuration of a hall game machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the game board of the hall game machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Start switch 2 Stop switch 3 Piece driving device 4 Stop position determining device 5 LED driving device 6 LED 7 Number of operation times storage device 8 Hit probability determining device 9 Lottery device 10 Image processing device 11 Image display device

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A display device for displaying a route of a Sugoroku game, wherein a mesh to which a piece is moved is determined by an operation applied by a player to an input means, and a hit is made when the piece reaches a goal mesh. In the gaming machine where lottery is performed, the number of operations stored by the player to store the number of operations performed by the player on the input means, and the number of operations performed by the player on the input means until the piece reaches the goal cell And a hit probability determining means for determining a hit probability based on the game. 2. The hall game machine according to claim 1, further comprising means for manually clearing the data stored in the operation number storage means by a player. 3. The hall game machine according to claim 1, further comprising data display means for displaying data stored in the operation number storage means.