Abstract: A gaming environment with the use of polyhedrons is described. Three reels may be variably displayed. Each of reels may be constructed from polyhedrons. Nine polyhedrons may be stopped and displayed with 3×3 matrix on a display. If a predetermined symbol is displayed on any of front surfaces of the polyhedrons, only polyhedron having the predetermined symbol may be rotated. If a combination of the symbols displayed on front surfaces of the polyhedrons located at middle row of the 3×3 matrix is any winning combination, an award will be provided to a user.

Abstract: A gaming environment with the use of polyhedrons is described. Three reels may be variably displayed. Each of reels may be constructed from polyhedrons. Nine polyhedrons may be stopped and displayed with 3×3 matrix on a display. If a predetermined condition is met, each of the polyhedrons may be rotated without the reels being spun. If a combination of the symbols displayed on front surfaces of the polyhedrons located at middle row of the 3×3 matrix is any winning combination, an award will be provided to a user.

Abstract: A gaming machine uses a trading card 20. The trading card 20 stores character data concerning a character and has a surface printed with a detail of the character data. A trading card handling device 60 writes changed character data into the trading card 20 in response to a change in character data according to a state of proceeding with a game. A printing device 49 prints detail of the changed character data onto the surface of the trading card 20. A heating device 68 is for erasing the detail of the character data printed previously at the time of printing. A player can grasp details of character data stored in the trading card and changes thereof without depending on the gaming machine to read the trading card.

Abstract: A gaming environment having plural jackpots in which plural jackpot value storages arranged is described. When a bet operation is conducted, one or more jackpots to be accumulated a portion of a bet value may be randomly selected among the plural jackpots, and then the bet value may be accumulatively stored in a jackpot value storage area corresponding to selected the one or more jackpots. When a condition is satisfied, an outcome corresponding one or more accumulated jackpot values stored in one or more selected jackpot value storages may be provided.

Abstract: A gaming environment having plural jackpots in which plural jackpot value storages arranged is described. When a bet operation is conducted, one or more jackpots to be accumulated a portion of a bet value may be selected among the plural jackpots based on a predetermined rule, and then the bet value may be accumulatively stored in jackpot value storages corresponding to selected the one or more jackpots. When a condition is satisfied, an outcome corresponding to one or more accumulated jackpot values stored in one or more selected jackpot value storages may be provided.

Abstract: The gaming machine has the game result display means including the reels (3L, 3C, 3R) and the liquid crystal display device (31) arranged at a more front side than a display area of the reels (3L, 3C, 3R), and the liquid crystal display device (31) displays the specific image (91) over the substantially whole liquid crystal display area (2b) including the symbols display areas (21L, 21C, 21R) through which the reels (3L, 3C, 3R) can be seen and recognized.

Abstract: There is provided a gaming machine which enhances interest in the entire game by diversifying the contents of the game, such as an RPG, and enables players to play a game adjusted to the individual players. When an object for ring customization is determined to be able to change a ring type, the ring type can be changed from a normal ring to another ring in accordance with an operation input. Moreover, when an ally character is in an Anomalous Status upon sustaining attacks or the like from an enemy character, the ranges of timing areas, the preset rotational speed and the preset number of revolutions of the rotary bar, and the size of a judgment ring are corrected in accordance with the type of a cause which has brought the ally character into the Anomalous Status.

Abstract: A gaming machine comprises a game board 3 formed from a light-transparent member; a projecting device 42 for projecting a game medium onto the game board; a plurality of entrances 10 adapted to receive the game medium projected onto the game board; a display device 4 having a game proceeding/result display area 18 for displaying a plurality of first identification information items in a predetermined mode and entrance number display areas 17a to 17p adapted to display respective second identification information items corresponding to the entrances 10a to 10p, the display device being disposed such that the display areas are viewable through the game board 3; an online number arrangement changing button 7 for making an instruction to change the display of the display areas; and online number arrangement determining means 58 for receiving the instruction from the online number arrangement changing button 7 for a predetermined period, and changing the display of the display areas according to thus received inst

Abstract: A gaming machine includes a display, an input device and a processor. The display has a plurality of variable display portions, each of which variably displays a plurality of symbols. The processor determines the symbol to be displayed in a stopped state on each of the variable display portions of the display, and sets a plurality of activated lines constituted by some of the variable display portions aligned in a straight line among the plurality of the variable display portions. The input device outputs input operation information in accordance with an input operation by a player, and the processor sets a specific line constituted by the plurality of the variable display portions and more profitable than each of the activated lines, based on the input operation information.

Abstract: A gaming machine is for executing character competition in which a plurality of characters compete with each other. The gaming machine comprising a processor specifying and invalidating a loser character which has become a loser in the character competition. A gaming server is connected to the gaming machine and comprises a processor invalidating the loser character when receiving loser information indicating the loser character from the gaming machine.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes a display and a processor. The display has a plurality of variable display portions for displaying a plurality of symbols. The processor determines the symbol to be displayed in a stopped state on each of the variable display portions of the display, and sets a plurality of activated lines constituted by some of the variable display portions aligned in a straight line. The processor also determines an amount of a game award to be provided to a player based on a combination of the symbols to be displayed in a stopped state, and sets a specific line more likely to provide the game award than each of the activated lines. The processor determines an amount of specific game award based on the symbol to be displayed in a stopped state on at least one of the variable display portions arranged along the specific line set.

Abstract: The present invention provides a game information device or a system which allows even users having mobile phones of different types from each other to receive a uniform service respectively. A game information device which is configured to include a plurality of communication devices which respectively correspond to various types of mobile communication terminals, a memory which stores information on a game and an information providing modes for respective communication devices, and a controller which executes a control to transmit the same game information to respective mobile communication terminals via the communication devices with an information providing mode corresponding to types of the mobile communication terminals and a game information system which includes the game information device.

Abstract: A system providing greatly improved monitoring against wrong or fraudulent acts. A game facility monitoring system includes game machines or game-related devices provided with detectors that detect the state of a device and the operation of the device resulting from wrong or fraudulent acts, detects the state of the device and the operation of the device possibly resulting from wrong or fraudulent acts, and gives out a notification. The system may also include an anomaly warning unit that operates, when any of the detectors is triggered, a warning operation determined by an anomaly level corresponding to the detected contents of multiple anomaly levels.

Abstract: A gaming machine disclosed includes a rotary reel having a plurality of symbols on an outer periphery thereof, a group of sheet members disposed in front of the rotary reel, the sheet members being laminated each other and each having an opening, a liquid crystal panel disposed in front of the sheet members, wherein the plurality of symbols are recoginizable through the opening on each of the sheet members, from a front side of the gaming machine, and wherein each of the sheet members includes; a light guiding material, and a light diffusion material disposed in front of the light guiding material and having a larger opening than an opening of the light guiding material, or each of the sheet members includes a light reflecting material, and a light transmitting material disposed in front of the light reflecting material and having a larger opening than an opening of the light reflecting material.

Abstract: A conventional game program involves the risk of the player losing interest in the game. A computer-readable program product which enables a beginner player to sufficiently enjoy interest in a game is provided. A character to be subjected to ring customization is selected. If a technical ring is selected as a ring type after the subject has been determined to be change of a ring type, an ally character makes attacks only when the player has performed operation input with a rotary bar situated in any of timing areas. When a gamble ring is selected as the ring type, only one timing area is available. In a case where a practice ring is selected as the ring type, determination of operation input timing is continuously made in all the remaining timing areas even when the operation input has been performed with the rotary bar not situated in any timing area.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal panel and a light guiding plate placed at the rear of the liquid crystal panel and formed with a light deflection pattern for guiding light emitted from illumination means into the liquid crystal panel, and a variable display device placed at the rear of the liquid crystal display and having a plurality of reels provided in a row. Parts of the light guiding plate to which the reels are opposed are made light transmission areas. The light guiding plate is formed with a first light deflection pattern on the periphery of the light transmission areas and is formed with a second light deflection pattern in a portion more distant from the light transmission areas than the first light deflection pattern. The first light deflection pattern is denser than the second light deflection pattern.

Abstract: During a slot machine game, game effects are also displayed on a liquid crystal panel 39d provided in a reel display window unit 39, and thus the liquid crystal panel 39d serves as a new machine component for performing game effects. Therefore, new effects for the game can be performed on the liquid crystal panel 39d, which facilitates maintaining the novelty of game effects. Further, the openings 5b, 6b and 7b are formed corresponding to the rows of the variable displays of the symbols. Accordingly, by means of the light guiding plates 39g also located between the opening 5b and the opening 6b, and between the opening 6b and the opening 7b, the light from the cold-cathode tubes 40a is guided toward the liquid crystal panel 39d. Consequently by means of the liquid crystal panel 39d in areas between the respective display windows 5-7, light luminance can be obtained.

Abstract: To return a predetermined answer in a predetermined order, even in the event that user utterance contents differ from an original objective.

Abstract: The gaming machine comprises: backup means (96) capable of storing information concerning with a game substantially at the same time as the gaming machine is powered off; backup restoration means (97) for restoring the gaming machine in a state that the game control means (91) is able to conduct control concerning with games based on the information stored in the backup means (96) when the gaming machine is powered on again; the liquid crystal display device (31) which notifies based on operation of the backup restoration means (97); and backup restoration notifying control means (98) for controlling the liquid crystal display device (31) based on the information concerning with games.