Patent ID: 7845640

Claim:
A medal game device that is provided with a medal inserting portion into which a medal is inserted, and a winning prize port formed to be able to receive the inserted medal, and that is configured so as to give a prescribed privilege to a player at least on a condition that the medal has entered the winning prize port, comprising: a chucker provided with a disk-shaped bottom portion having in a central portion thereof an opening communicating with the winning prize port and formed to allow insertion of the medal, a first region having a plurality of first slits having a first width larger than a thickness of the medal and formed along a peripheral edge of the disk-shaped bottom portion on a portion of the peripheral edge, and a second region having a plurality of second slits having a second width differing from the first width and formed along the peripheral edge of the disk-shaped bottom portion on another portion of the peripheral edge, a rotating mechanism that rotates the chucker about the opening, and control means for controlling the rotating mechanism so that one of either the first region and the second region is arranged in opposition to a direction of movement of the medal inserted into the medal inserting portion and so that the chucker moves reciprocally within a prescribed angular range about the opening, and controlling the rotating mechanism so that, when a prescribed condition is satisfied, the other region of the first region and the second region is arranged in opposition to the direction of movement of the medal and so that the chucker moves reciprocally within a prescribed angular range about the opening.