JP2008099831A5 - - Google Patents

Claims (3)

A game board having a game area and into which a game ball is driven toward the game area;
A starting port capable of accepting a game ball that has flowed down the predetermined distance from a place where the game ball is driven in the game area;
Start determination means for determining whether or not a game ball has entered the start opening;
An internal lottery means for performing a lottery process for winning a jackpot and a winning combination based on the fact that the starting judgment means judges that a game ball has entered the starting port;
Between a closed state in which it is difficult to receive a game ball that has flowed down a distance shorter than the predetermined distance from a place where the game ball is shot in the game area, and an open state in which the game ball is more easily received than the closed state. An opening and closing device capable of opening and closing;
A first special game execution means for performing a game per combination in which the opening / closing device is opened and closed only for a predetermined period based on the winning of the combination by the internal lottery means;
Whether a game ball is distributed to the special area among a plurality of receiving areas including a special area and a loss area when a game ball enters the opened / closed opening / closing device A machine lottery device for performing the lottery of
In response to the game balls distributed and drawn in the special area by the mechanical lottery device flowing into the opening / closing device and then flowing down through the mechanical lottery device for a first distance, the game balls in the special area First distance determining means for determining that has been selected by lottery,
In response to satisfying one of the conditions that the first distance determining means determines that a game ball has been assigned to the special area, and that the internal lottery means wins the jackpot A second special game execution means for performing a jackpot game that is more advantageous to the player than the games per said game;
When the game balls distributed and drawn to the lost area by the mechanical lottery device flow into the opening / closing device and then flow down through the mechanical lottery device for a second distance longer than the first distance, Second distance determining means for determining that the game ball has flowed down by a second distance longer than the first distance since the game ball has entered the opening and closing device;
An internal lottery prohibiting means for prohibiting the lottery process from being newly performed by the internal lottery means, at least during a period from when the game ball enters the opening / closing device until the lottery is selected and distributed;
The internal lottery restart for releasing the prohibition by the internal lottery prohibition unit when at least the second distance determination unit determines that all the game balls entering the opening / closing device have flowed down by the second distance And a gaming machine comprising: means.   The game progress stopping device stops the game balls allocated to the lost area among the game balls that have entered the open / close device within the predetermined period, by stopping the game balls in the open / close device. Is prohibited from being discharged from the switchgear.
  The game progress permission device releases the prohibition of the discharge of the game ball by canceling the stop of the game ball by the game progress stop device.
  The gaming machine according to claim 1.   The starting port is formed as a lateral hole of the game board.
  The gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2.