US20020068623A1 - Replacement of symbols displayed by a gaming machine to create a winning symbol combination - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to an electronic slot machine as claimed in the preamble of claim 1 .
- the journal Muenzautomat 4/1984, page 12 discloses a coin-operated electronic slot machine with a symbol game means composed of three reels located next to one another. When the reels stop the winning symbol combination is displayed in a viewing window. When three identical winning symbols are displayed, the prize assigned to them is awarded. Instead of one of these three symbols which are included in the winning combination a specially identified replacement symbol, a joker, can also be used.
- the object of the invention is to develop a generic electronic slot machine such that a winning value can also be assigned even to an incomplete winning symbol combination.
- the electronic slot machine as claimed in the invention has the advantage that the varied use of a joker which completes the winning combination increases the entertainment value on the electronic slot machine. Since at the same time there are several different possible applications of the joker, the playing pleasure is especially high with long-lasting encouragement to use the electronic slot machine.
- FIG. 1 shows the front of a coin-operated entertainment machine.
- the coin-operated electronic slot machine which is labeled 1 in FIG. 1 comprises a front side 2 with a viewing window 3 behind which there is a display device for display of symbols.
- the display device preferably consists of a TV monitor.
- the TV monitor displays five reels, located next to one another, with winning symbols. Three winning symbols at a time are displayed simultaneously by each stopped reel.
- Underneath the display device there is a control panel 4 .
- On the control panel 4 there is a plurality of operational controls 5 .
- Adjacent to the operational controls there is a coin acceptance opening 6 .
- the coin-operated electronic slot machine 1 comprises a control unit which is not shown, with a microcomputer.
- the control unit controls of the order of events in the electronic slot machine 1 . If a balance meter has a play, the control unit causes a symbol combination, which is to be displayed, to be determined by a pseudorandom generator.
- the displayed reels with the TV monitor are caused to spin and are stopped such that predetermined symbol combinations are displayed.
- the symbols of the reels are displayed in a matrix form in the display device.
- the matrix comprises five columns and three rows. A total of nine win lines are evaluated. On each win line it is checked how often the same symbol is displayed. For a display of the same symbol five times, the highest winning value for this symbol is awarded.
- each reel comprises a specially identified symbol.
- the specially identified symbol has the function of a joker and replaces any displayed symbol for the required winning symbol.
- One or more of the winning symbols on each virtual reel are made as the specially identified winning symbol (joker).
- the specially identified winning symbol causes all winning symbols adjoining to the left and/or right of it in a horizontally running win line to be replaced for the outer left or right displayed winning symbol and thus a win line with up to five winning symbols to be formed.
- the specially identified winning symbol is in the fourth display position from left to right and in the first display position.
- the control unit spins the virtual reels and stops them in predetermined positions.
- a winning symbol matrix consisting of three lines and five columns appears to the user.
- a joker for example on the third reel in the second line, the bordering symbols are recognized a joker symbols in the evaluation of winning.
- the win recognition program now detects the symbol arrangement for each of the nine win lines and compares it to the winning pattern. If several win lines have a winning combination, the highest prize is warded and it is credited in the balance storage of the control unit.
- a specially identified winning symbol is displayed by the virtual reels on the second reel in the middle position, it is subsequently determined pseudorandomly how many other specially identified winning symbols are displayed and which position they are to occupy in the display field.
- the winning value is subsequently determined, for example a specially identified winning symbol on the fourth reel in the first line and on the fifth reel in this third line will be displayed.
- the special symbols are taken into account according to the winning pattern.
- symbols can be replaced by higher-value symbols, if they have already been identified as such beforehand.
- the specially identified symbols on the virtual reels there are symbols which assume the same function of the specially identified symbols to the extent that, of the displayed symbol combinations, there is at least one symbol as the specially identified winning symbol.
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