METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRIZE EXCHANGE, GAME MEDIUM COUNTING DEVICE, AND PRIZE MANAGEMENT DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce handling of fractional prizes corresponding to the fractions less than an exchange value of a minimum prize, whose demand for exchange is low for both a player and a game parlor. SOLUTION: A game medium counting device 30 has a lottery part 35 for executing a lottery for selecting a win or failure. A lottery process part 322 actuates a lottery by the lottery part 35 if the count value of game media counted by a game medium counting process part 321 according to the pulse output from a game medium counting part 36 has a fraction less than the exchange value of the minimum prize, and updates the count value of the game media to a value without the fraction by rounding up or down the fraction according to the result of the lottery. A recording medium issuing control part 323 controls a recording medium issuing part 37 to issue recording media correlated to the updated count value of game media. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI