To provide a game machine capable of inhibiting the imbalance in identification information stopping modes.

The pachinko machine includes a first initiator corresponding unit 33, an ornament symbol display device 42, a special display device 43, or the like in a game board 30. A jackpot lottery is executed based on the entrance of a game ball into the first initiator corresponding unit 33, and the result of the lottery is displayed in the special display device 43, etc. At the same time, ornament symbols are variably displayed in the ornament symbol display device 42. Three upper/middle/lower symbol lines are set in the ornament symbol display device 42, and a plurality of kinds of ornament symbols are variably displayed in the respective symbol lines. In case of a failure combination, stop symbols to be stopped/displayed in the respective symbol lines are determined by alternately referring to the values of two kinds of failure symbol counters to be updated in two different updating processes with different updating systems.