Patent ID: 8152170

Claim:
A roulette apparatus, comprising: a roulette wheel comprising a rolling region where a ball rolls; a ball reception member provided contiguously to the rolling region to receive the ball and comprising a plurality of reception portions arranged in circumferential direction of the roulette wheel and receive the ball in one of the reception portions, each of the reception portions being provided with a symbol that identifies each of the reception portions from one another; a banked passageway that is provided on an outer circumferential edge of the roulette wheel and on which the ball rolls in a circular orbit; a compressor that compresses air; a launching discharge nozzle that is provided in the ball reception member and discharges the air compressed by the compressor toward the banked passageway; a first rotating discharge nozzle that is provided in the banked passageway and discharges the air compressed by the compressor in a first direction along a circumferential direction of the banked passageway; a second rotating discharge nozzle that is provided in the banked passageway and discharges the air compressed by the compressor in a second direction along a circumferential direction of the banked passageway and opposite to the first direction; a discharge switching unit that switches the discharge of the air compressed by the compressor between the first rotating discharge nozzle and the second rotating discharge nozzle; and a game providing unit that provides to a user a roulette game in which one game is performed by allowing the ball to be received in one of the ball reception members after rolling the ball on the roulette wheel for a predetermined time period, and the roulette game is repeatedly performed, wherein the discharge switching unit switches the discharge of the air between the first rotating discharge nozzle and the second rotating discharge nozzle in accordance with a number of times the games is performed by the game providing unit.