Patent ID: 6905408

Claim:
A symbol display device for a game machine, in which a win or a loss of a game is determined in accordance with a kind of a symbol combination completed on a winning line extending across a display window, said symbol display device comprising: plural reel units disposed across said winning line, at least one of said reel units having a double reel structure constructed of a first reel and a second reel which are coaxially and independently rotated; plural first symbols formed at a predetermined pitch on a periphery of said first reel; plural second symbols formed on a periphery of said second reel, each of said second symbols indicating at least one of a speed, direction and amount of a second rotation of said first reel; and a reel unit driving control unit for rotating and stopping said first reel and said second reel, and for re-rotating and stopping said first reel in accordance with the indication of one of said second symbols stopped in said display window.