To provide a gaming machine allowing a player to always feel the possibility of winning to sufficiently enhance the sense of expectancy for the winning.
The game machine includes a lower image display panel 141 having a symbol display area 4 composed of a plurality of polygonal symbol display blocks; an RAM 73 for storing identification data of symbols to be displayed in the symbol display area 4; and a main CPU 71. Symbols corresponding to identification data of various symbols read from the RAM 73 are displayed in the symbol display area 4, and whether or not the identification data of the same symbol are consecutively displayed in an adjacent symbol display block with at least one of a plurality of sides constituting the polygonal symbol display block adjacent to one another is determined. If it is determined that the identification data of the same symbol are displayed in the adjacent symbol display block as the result of determination, a prize corresponding to the number of the same symbols consecutively displayed in the adjacent symbol display block is given to the player.
ARUZE GAMING AMERICA INC
Iwa Saki Kokuni
Kawamata Sumio
Masakazu Ito
Shunichi Takahashi
Toshio Takamatsu