JPH11253626A - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine giving a new interest by fluctuating pattern display during a special value imparting operation owing to the big hit of a main lottery and, moreover, adding a game state being advantageous to a game player in accordance with the display state of patterns which are displayed after a fluctuation. SOLUTION: A control part 150 for executing a main lottery and permitting a special value state to occur in a Pachinko (Japanese pinball game) machine is provided with an additional lottery means for executing an additional lottery to decide which one of plural additional value states is added to a special value state when the result of the main lottery is a hit and provided with an additional lottery display means for displaying the additional value state which is decided to be added by the additional lottery by fluctuating the patterns constituting a combination which indicates the hit of the main lottery displayed in a variable display part 20 by the arrangement of the patterns after the fluctuation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention comprises a starting winning port, a variable display section capable of displaying various symbols on a game board, and a variable winning port, and one pachinko ball to the starting winning port. The main lottery is performed based on one lottery right that is generated each time a winning is made, and a main lottery result display operation of displaying a result of the main lottery after changing a display symbol on the variable display section is performed. A pachinko machine comprising: a control unit configured to control the variable winning opening to generate a predetermined special value state advantageous to a player corresponding to the winning when the result is a winning.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional gaming machine, a variable display portion capable of displaying a plurality of symbols and a starting winning port are provided on a game board, and a ball hit on the gaming board wins a starting winning port. Each time, on a variable display unit, for example, a symbol matching game that is similar to a slot machine is executed, a number such as “777” is prepared, and when a big hit comes out, a special value advantageous to a player is generated. is there. As special value,
In a normal state, it is common practice to repeatedly open and close a large variable winning opening that is closed a predetermined number of times (for example, 16 times) to increase the winning probability of a ball.

[0003] In such a gaming machine, once a big hit occurs in the symbol matching game, usually, a special value based operation (opening / closing operation of a variable winning opening) based on the big hit is finished on the variable display means. The jackpot symbol is continuously displayed. Alternatively, there is a game that displays an image irrelevant to the game in order to provide a time until the operation of giving a special value (opening / closing operation of a variable winning opening) at the time of a big hit is completed.

[0004] In the gaming machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-10399, when a ball wins in the starting winning opening during the occurrence of a big hit, the pattern matching is performed until the operation of giving the special value is completed. Without suspending the game, the variable display portion is changed to execute the symbol matching game, and if a big hit occurs again, the special value for the big hit is given after the operation of giving the special value to the first big hit is completed. It is configured to provide.

[0005]

However, when the ball wins the starting winning opening during the operation of giving the special value by the jackpot as in the prior art, the right is reserved and the symbol matching game is not immediately executed. Therefore, even if an image irrelevant to the game is displayed during the operation of adding the special value, the game itself does not change, so that the player is forced to simply digest the jackpot game, The problem of having fun was occurring.

Further, when a ball is awarded to a starting winning opening during a special value providing operation based on a jackpot as in a gaming machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-10399, the variable display section is changed. If the match game is executed, and if the jackpot is regained, the special value addition operation based on the previous jackpot is terminated, and then the special value is further added.
There was no change in the game itself and it did not provide a new interest.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional technology, and changes the symbol display during the operation of giving special value due to the jackpot, and displays the symbol displayed after the change. In some aspects, it is an object of the present invention to provide a gaming machine capable of further adding a gaming state advantageous to a player, thereby having a new game characteristic and bringing a new interest.

[0008]

Means for achieving the object are as follows.

[1] A starting winning port (13) on a game board (11) and a variable display section (11) capable of displaying various symbols.
0) and a variable winning port (30), the main lottery is performed based on one lottery right generated for each win of a pachinko ball in the starting winning port (13), and the variable display is performed. The unit (110) performs a main lottery result display operation for displaying the result of the main lottery after changing the display symbol, and when the main lottery result is a hit, the variable winning opening (30) A pachinko machine (10) comprising: a control unit (50) for controlling the generation of a predetermined special value state advantageous to a corresponding player; In this case, an additional lottery is further performed, and when the additional lottery is a win, a value-added state corresponding to the win is determined among a plurality of types of value-added states in a special value state based on the result of the main lottery. Value-added lottery means, When the addition of the value-added state is determined by the lottery, after the symbol constituting the combination indicating the winning of the main lottery displayed on the variable display section (110) is changed, the addition is added by the arrangement of the stopped symbols. A pachinko machine (10), comprising: additional lottery display means for specifying and displaying a value state.

[2] The value-added state includes a number-of-openings addition mode for adding the number of times the variable winning opening (30) is opened to the special value state, and the number of releases is determined according to a hit by the additional lottery means. Item 1 characterized in that
Pachinko machine (10).

[3] The pachinko machine (10) according to item 1 or 2, wherein the value-added state is provided with a probability variation mode for increasing a probability of winning in a subsequent main lottery.

[4] The pachinko machine (1) according to item 3, wherein a plurality of values are set as the probabilities of the probability variation mode according to the hit by the additional lottery means.
0).

[5] In the display of the result of the additional lottery, the additional lottery display means displays on the variable display section (110) only the symbols constituting the combination indicating the winning of the main lottery among the symbols. The pachinko machine (10) according to item 1, 2, 3, or 4, wherein the pachinko machine performs an operation.

Next, the operation will be described.

When a pachinko ball hit on the game board surface (11) wins in the starting winning opening (13), a predetermined number of prize balls are paid out for each winning ball. The control unit (50) performs one main lottery based on the one winning. The result of this lottery is a so-called "big hit", which is a win that causes the variable winning opening (30) to perform a predetermined operation to provide a special value state which is a game state advantageous to the player, and a variable winning opening (3).
0), which is a so-called "losing" in which a game state advantageous to a player such as an action is not brought, and "losing" which is substantially "losing" but is one step closer to "hit" on the variable display unit (110). There is "reach".

According to the result of the lottery, the control unit (50)
Causes the variable display unit (110) to stop the display after changing the display of the symbol for a certain period of time, and to perform a main lottery result display operation of displaying the result of the main lottery in a combination of the symbols. For example, if the result of this lottery is a so-called "fever" jackpot, after operating the variable display unit (110) for a predetermined time, all the symbol displays are stopped at the same number "7" or the like. It is.

If the result of the lottery is a "big hit", the control unit (50) opens the variable winning opening (30) for a predetermined time, closes the variable winning opening (30) for a short time and then opens it again for a predetermined time, for example, 16 times. A special value state is generated by repeatedly increasing the chances of winning a prize for the player and enabling a large number of prize balls to be acquired in a short time. When a pachinko ball is won in the variable winning opening (30), a number of pachinko balls multiplied by a predetermined number per one winning ball are paid out as prize balls.

If the result of the main lottery is a hit, the control unit (50) further performs an additional lottery by an additional lottery means. If the result of the additional lottery is a win, the addition of a special value state based on the result of the main lottery corresponding to the win from any of a plurality of types of added value states is determined.

When the value-added state to be added is determined by the additional lottery, the control unit (50) causes the additional lottery display means to display the value-added state added to the variable display unit (110) in order to display what value-added state is to be added. ), The positions of the symbols that constitute the combination indicating the winning of the lottery are changed to correspond to the value-added state determined to be added among the individually arranged symbol arrangements so as to indicate each value-added state. Stop the symbol at the position.

The value-added state includes a number-of-openings addition mode for adding the number of times the variable winning opening (30) is opened to the special value state. The number of times is determined by an additional lottery.

The value-added state has a probability variation mode for increasing the probability of a jackpot in a predetermined number of final lotteries after the special value state is completed, and a plurality of values of the probability are set. The value may be determined by an additional lottery.

Further, the value-added state may include both the number-of-openings addition mode and the probability variation mode.

As described above, since a value-added state that is more advantageous to the player can be added after the occurrence of the "big hit", a new interest arises, and the monotonous game performance during the occurrence of the special state due to the "big hit" is improved. The game can be continued with the thrill and excitement maintained.

[0024]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 5 show one embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the gaming machine 10 according to the present embodiment is a pachinko machine in which a ball hit on a game board surface 11 is awarded and the player can enjoy obtaining the ball to be paid out. In the pachinko machine 10, the launched ball has a starting winning opening 2
When the player wins 0, the symbol matching game, which looks like a slot machine, is executed on the display device 100 arranged at the center of the game board surface 11, and the control unit 150 performs a lottery (final lottery) to win a big hit. "777" when it becomes
For example, the symbol display is stopped by aligning predetermined numbers, and the variable winning opening 30 is opened and closed a predetermined number of times to give a special value state advantageous to the player.

Below the front of the pachinko machine 10, there is provided a handle 12 for performing an operation of hitting a pachinko ball on the game board surface 11. When the player operates the handle 12, pachinko balls can be driven one by one from the front plate 13 provided on the front surface of the gaming machine 10 onto the game board surface 11. Further, 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 jackpot or the like. Have been.

The game board surface 11 is provided with a firing rail 15 for guiding a pachinko ball fired by operating the handle 12 into a substantially circular shape and leading it to the upper center of the game board surface 11 or the like. The display device 100 is disposed substantially at the center of the game board surface 11. Further, below the display device 100, a starting winning opening 20 is arranged, and further below the variable winning opening 30 is arranged.

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

The display device 100 has a variable display section 110 composed of a liquid crystal screen capable of displaying an arbitrary symbol.
And a reserved ball display unit 12 that notifies the user that the number (4) of pachinko balls won in the starting winning port 20 is stored on the LED display unit.
0 and an opening / closing plate opening number display section 130 for displaying the number of times the opening / closing plate 31 of the variable winning opening 30 is opened.

The variable display section 110 is formed in three columns and three rows in order to display a symbol change in the process of executing the symbol matching game and a symbol determined as an execution result.
It has two display areas.

The opening / closing plate open count display section 130 has a display area of two upper and lower stages, and one (for example, upper stage) displays the total number of times of opening / closing plate opening due to a big hit and the number of additional opening / closing plate opening times described later. Display section 131
The other (for example, the lower part) is an additional opening number display section 132 for displaying the added opening / closing number. Further, the probability that the probability has been changed may be displayed alternately with the number of times of additional opening / closing, or may be displayed alone in the lower part.

The start winning port 20 is a trigger port for starting the execution of the symbol matching game, and in a normal state,
The symbol matching game is executed on the variable display unit 110 by the ball winning in the start winning port 20.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of a circuit configuration of the gaming machine 10. The gaming machine 10 is provided with a control unit 150 for controlling various devices as the game progresses.
The 50th stage includes a game control unit 160 for controlling main lottery, additional lottery, game operation, and the like, and a display control unit 1 for controlling various display devices.
70.

In addition to the main lottery performed by winning a pachinko ball into the starting winning opening 20, the game control unit 160 performs a jackpot or the like in the main lottery, and further generates a pachinko to the starting winning opening 20 during a special value state based on the winning. Additional lottery to be performed when a ball is awarded, the detection status of a winning detection switch provided in various winning ports (a starting winning port 20, a variable winning port 30, etc.), and the number of prize balls to be paid out to a player upon winning. And various controls relating to the progress of the game, such as the number of times the opening and closing plate 31 of the variable winning opening 30 is opened.

The display control section 170 includes a variable display section 110,
This is a circuit part for controlling the display states of the retaining ball display unit 120, the open / close plate open count 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 have CPUs (Central Processing Units) 161, 171 and a RAM 1
62, 172 and ROMs 163, 173 as main components. The CPU 161 of the game control unit 160 controls the execution of the symbol matching game performed on the variable display unit 110 by the symbol matching game execution unit 1.
64, and functions as a special value generation control unit 165 that controls the operation of the variable winning opening 30 to generate a special value state. In the ROM 163, when the result of the lottery is a hit, a program for performing an additional lottery for determining which of a plurality of types of added value states should be added to the special value state based on the result of the main lottery Is stored. The special value generation control unit 165 also has a function of generating an added value state determined by an additional lottery.

The CPU 17 of the display control unit 170
1 has an additional lottery display means which is a program stored in the ROM 173. The additional lottery display means performs the display of the result of the additional lottery by the symbols constituting the combination indicating the winning of the main lottery displayed on the variable display unit 110, and when the result of the additional lottery is a winning, the type of the winning is individually determined. The design is stopped at the corresponding arrangement, and in the case of a loss, the design is stopped at random.

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

The variable winning opening 30 has a winning detecting switch 33 for detecting a winning pachinko ball when the opening and closing plate 31 is open, and a winning counter 34 for counting the detection result.
And a V winning detection switch 36 for detecting a winning pachinko ball in a V winning opening 35 formed in the center of the opening and closing plate 31.

The variable winning opening 30 is opened and closed by the opening / closing plate 31 for a fixed time (for example, 30 seconds) when a big hit state occurs or when a predetermined number (for example, 10) of pachinko balls are won. Open, V when open
It is configured to be opened continuously for a predetermined number of times on condition that the winning opening 35 is won. That is, the winning counter 34 counts to determine the closing timing of the variable winning opening 30, 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 and closing plate 31 is opened and closed a predetermined number of times.

The infinity counter 40 performs a function of paying out prize balls. The infinity counter 40 counts the number of pachinko balls to be paid out by a built-in prize ball payout counter 41, and counts a predetermined number of pachinko balls for each winning port. It is configured to pay out pachinko balls.

The operation will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 3 shows the transition of the display state of the variable display section 110, and FIG. 4 shows the flow of processing performed by the pachinko machine according to one embodiment of the present invention from the start of the game to after the occurrence of the big hit. Is shown.

First, when the pachinko ball hit on the game board surface 11 wins in the starting winning opening 20, the control means 50 performs one main lottery based on one winning and the symbol matching game execution section. The execution of the symbol matching game is started by 164, and the symbol on the variable display section 110 starts to change (FIG. 3A) (steps 401 to 404).
After scrolling for a certain period of time,
The lottery is sequentially stopped, and when the result of the lottery is a big hit, the symbols (execution results) are stopped with the same symbol such as "777" as shown in FIG. 3B (step 405). In FIG. 3B, “7” is displayed so as to be arranged on a diagonal line from the lower left to the upper right, but three identical symbols are displayed so as to be arranged on a diagonal line from the lower right to the upper left, upper, middle, or lower. You may.

After the jackpot is displayed, the control unit 15
0 starts an opening / closing operation to generate a special value state in the variable winning opening 30 (step 406). When the lottery result is lost, the game is stopped at random so that the same symbol does not line up at any of the two diagonal lines and the three rows in the horizontal direction (step 4041).

If the result of this lottery is a big hit, the additional lottery display means further controls the CPU of the display controller 170.
The symbol 171 deletes the symbols other than the symbol (777) indicating the jackpot from the symbols displaying the lottery result shown on the variable display unit 110 (FIG. 3C), starts the variable display by the remaining symbols, and at the same time, starts the game control unit 160. In the CPU 161, an additional lottery is performed by the additional lottery means (steps 407 and 40).
8). The symbol changing operation is performed on the variable display unit 110 for a predetermined time. 3C to 3H show display examples when the result of the additional lottery is a hit.

FIGS. 3A to 3C show the "777", which is the jackpot display of this lottery, displayed side by side in the upper, middle, or lower rows. FIGS. What is displayed in one center column and one right column is shown. Further, in FIG. 3g, three “7” s are arranged on the diagonal line from the lower left to the upper right, and in FIG. 3h, the same display as the display of the jackpot result of the lottery is made (step 409).

Each of these hit indications specifies the type of the added value state to be added. The types of added value states include a number-of-openings addition mode in which the number of times of opening the variable winning opening 30 is added and a probability variation mode in which the probability is increased. In the number-of-openings addition mode, for example, an additional number of times of opening and closing is one. At this time, the symbols are arranged in the upper row as shown in FIG. 3a or the lower row as shown in FIG. 3c, and when the number of additional opening / closing is two, the symbols are arranged in the middle row as shown in FIG. 3b. In addition, when the number of additional opening / closing is two, the symbols are arranged in one row on the left side as shown in FIG. 3D or one column on the right side as in FIG. 3e. When the number of additional opening / closing is three, as shown in FIG. The symbols are arranged in the central row. When the number of additional opening / closing is five, they are arranged diagonally as shown in FIG. 3g or FIG. 3h.

When the result of the additional lottery is a probability variation mode in which the probability of winning in the subsequent main lottery is increased, the result display is the same as the main lottery result display, that is, in the case of FIG. , As shown in FIG. 3h.

It is to be noted that 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 numbers of the number of times of opening need not be limited to the above, and various values can be set. is there. Further, the display of entering the probability variation mode is not the same as the hit display of the main lottery as described above, and a symbol arrangement irrelevant to the main lottery result display is specified and displayed. Good.

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

The added number of times of opening / closing is displayed in the lower stage of the opening / closing plate opening times display section 130. Opening / closing plate open count display 1
In the upper part of 30 is a variable winning opening 30 given by this lottery
The total number of times that the total number of opening / closing operations and the number of times added according to the result of the additional lottery are displayed. Note that when the result of the additional lottery is a hit in the probability variation mode, the probability of the variation may be displayed in the lower part of the open / close plate open count display unit 130 or may be lit or blinked. A plurality of values of the probability in the probability variation mode may be prepared.

When the total number of open / close operations has been exhausted, the game returns to the normal game state, and if there is a win of a pachinko ball in the start winning opening 20, the main lottery is performed. When the hit of the additional lottery is in the probability variation mode, the probability of the big hit in the next lottery is maintained at a value higher than that in the normal game.

When the additional lottery is lost, the variable display section 1
The three numbers are arranged so as not to be arranged in any row, column or diagonal line of 10, and when the jackpot game in which the special value state based on the jackpot by this lottery is completed is completed, the game returns to the normal game (step 411). ~ 41
3).

As described above, when a big hit is achieved in the lottery, a special value state is generated and a symbol matching game in which an added value can be added is played, so that a new interest is brought.

[0056]

Since the pachinko machine according to the present invention has a novel game property, it is possible to provide the player with a new game pleasure.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of a pachinko machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing the pachinko machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing transition of display contents of a variable display unit of the pachinko machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing performed by the pachinko machine according to one embodiment of the present invention from the start of the game to after the occurrence of a big hit.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing performed after the pachinko machine according to the embodiment of the present invention enters a jackpot game.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Pachinko machine 11 ... Game board 12 ... Handle 13 ... Front plate 14 ... Lower plate 20 ... Starting winning opening 21 ... Starting winning detection switch 30 ... Variable winning opening 31 ... Opening / closing plate 32 ... Solenoid 33 ... Winning detection switch 34 ... Winning Counter 35 V winning opening 36 V winning detection switch 40 Infinity counter 41 Prize ball payout counter 100 Display device 110 Variable display unit 120 Retained ball display unit 130 Opening / closing plate open count display unit 131 Total Number of open times display unit 132 ... Additional open times 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 (5)

[Claims] 1. A winning winning opening on a game board, a variable display section capable of displaying various symbols, and a variable winning opening, wherein the game is generated each time one pachinko ball wins the starting winning opening. A main lottery is performed based on one lottery right, a main pattern is displayed on the variable display section, and then a main lottery result display operation for displaying the main lottery result is performed. A pachinko machine comprising: a control unit configured to control the variable winning opening to generate a predetermined special value state advantageous to a player corresponding to the win, wherein the control unit determines that the result of the final lottery In the case of, an additional lottery is further performed, and if the additional lottery is a win, an added value state corresponding to the win is determined among a plurality of types of added value states in a special value state based on the result of the main lottery. Value-added lottery means When the addition of the value-added state is determined by the additional lottery, after the symbol constituting the combination indicating the winning of the main lottery displayed on the variable display unit is changed, the addition is added by the arrangement of the stopped symbols. A pachinko machine comprising: additional lottery display means for specifying and displaying a value state. 2. The method according to claim 2, wherein the added value state includes an opening number addition mode for adding an opening number of the variable winning opening to the special value state, and the opening number is determined according to a hit by the additional lottery means. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: 3. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein the value-added state includes a probability variation mode for increasing a probability of winning in a subsequent main lottery. 4. The pachinko machine according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of values are set as the probabilities of the probability change mode in accordance with a hit by the additional lottery means. 5. An additional lottery display means, when displaying the result of the additional lottery, performs a display operation while leaving only the symbols constituting the combination indicating the winning of the main lottery among the symbols on the variable display section. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, 2, 3, or 4, wherein