Patent ID: 8075380

Claim:
A roulette apparatus comprising: a roulette wheel having a rolling region where a ball rolls; a ball reception member provided contiguously to the rolling region to receive the ball and having a plurality of reception portions arranged in a circumferential direction of the roulette wheel and to receive the ball in one of the plurality of reception portions, each of the reception portions being provided with a symbol that identifies each reception portion of the plurality of reception portions from one another; 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 game is repeatedly performed; an illumination unit configured to illuminate the roulette wheel with a plurality of light emission colors; and an illumination control unit that controls the illumination unit to turn on and off and to change the light emission colors in accordance with a progression time frame of the game performed by the game providing unit, wherein the progression time frame includes a betting time and a ball rolling time; wherein the illumination control unit controls the illumination unit in a first mode during the betting time and controls the illumination unit in a second mode during the ball rolling time; the roulette apparatus further comprising: a betting unit that allows a player to bet a chip on which of the reception portions the ball is received in each game; a chip payout unit that pays out chips to the player in accordance with a result of the game, wherein the game providing unit selectively provides a bonus gaming state in which a more advantageous condition than that in a base gaming state for the player under predetermined conditions is provided, and wherein the illumination control unit controls the illumination unit to emit light during the ball rolling time in a mode different from that in the base gaming state when the bonus gaming state occurs.