To provide a game machine which can enhance the interest in a game by a method wherein whether or not a special prize condition occurs cannot be easily predicted, thereby maintaining expectations for the occurrence of a special prize condition.

When a random number generating unit 32 generates a ready- for-winning random number or a special prize random number, a display element, which stops the display of a variable display unit 40, displays each of segments of a numeral to be displayed one by one according to a predetermined order, and each of the segments has such a versatility as to be used in forming more than one numeral, and hence when several segments have been decoded, which numeral is formed is not easily found out so that a numeral to be displayed cannot be easily determined until a last segment is displayed.