Patent ID: 7396013

Claim:
A lottery device having a table provided with a plurality of openings, balls to be rolled on the table, and lottery means for detecting the ball that has fallen into the opening, said lottery device comprising: ball detecting means combined with the openings, respectively, to provide a detection signal upon detection of the ball that has fallen into the opening; light-emitting means combined with the openings, respectively, to emit light of different colors; a ball identifying mechanism for identifying the balls by type; and control means including a storage unit storing control programs and controlling lottery operations according to the control programs; wherein the control means includes: color determining means for determining a color of light indicating the type of the ball identified by the ball identifying mechanism to be emitted by the light-emitting means according to the control program; and light-emitting means driving means for driving the light-emitting means when the ball rolling on the table falls into the opening combined with the light-emitting means such that the light-emitting means emits light in the color determined by the color determining means.