To provide an excess ball tray for a pachinko machine, which can almost evenly distribute and house game balls discharged from the excess ball tray into a ball box without concentrating at a part.

This excess ball tray 31 for a pachinko machine has ball extracting holes 52, 53 opened in a retaining part 35 for retaining game balls and a shutter plate 36 to open/close the ball extracting holes 52, 53 equipped reciprocatively movable. Game balls are downward discharged by moving the shutter plate 36 toward the opening direction. At least a part of the inside circumferential faces of the ball extracting holes 52, 53 is made to be a slope downward sloping inside so as to disperse game balls discharged from the excess ball tray 31 to a ball box B.