Patent ID: 7850519

Claim:
A game machine comprising: a reel display module having plurality of reels and providing a changing display state of a plurality of types of symbols in a plurality of regions, the changing display state showing a spinning of the plurality of reels, and a static display state of said changingly displayed symbols in said regions, at least one of said symbols being a special symbol, said reel display module causing the display to go from displaying spinning reels to the display of static reels at a predetermined time or after a predetermined duration; a measuring module measuring a count that is a number of times said special symbol in each of said reels of said reel display module passes through at least one of said regions while the reel display module is in the changing display state showing the spinning of the reels between the starting and stopping of the spinning reels; a game points determining module determining game points to be awarded to a player based on said measured count; and count display modules, each of which correspondingly display said count for one of said plurality of said reels, said count being measured by said measuring module in association with each of said plurality of regions.