Patent ID: 7857317

Claim:
A game machine, comprising: a player identification device including a card reader, said player identification device being configured to identify participant players who are to participate in a game on the game machine by reading each of the player identification from ID cards of said participant players set to the card reader; a target against which the participant players throw darts in turn; a detector configured to detect which regions of the target have been hit by the darts thrown by the participant players; a control unit configured to control the game performed by the participant players, said game being configured with a plurality of play rounds during each, of which, the participant players throw darts in turn against the target and are given a certain score based on the regions on the target which the participant players have hit with the darts, respectively; and a display monitor controlled by said control unit to show information relating to results performed by said participant players; wherein said control unit is configured to control the game, while the participant players perform the game in front of the target, so as to: (a) determine a playing order of throwing darts for the first play round among the participant players; (b) determine the score for the first play round performed by each of the participant players based on the results detected by the detector; (c) determine a new playing order of throwing darts among the participant players for the second play round, and for every play round after said second play round, if any, such that a one of said participant players who has marked the lowest score among said participant players in the play round immediately preceding the current play round is placed first in the playing order of the current play round; and (d) determine the winner for the current game among the participant players when all of the play rounds have finished.