Gaming machine

Provided is a gaming machine (1) that presents a prediction of the start of free games provided in bonus games to be easily noted by the player, to attain the player's expectation for the free games. When a free game trigger or retrigger is established (S20), the gaming machine (1) 5 controls selection and implementation of predictive effects for indicating that free games are to be started (or retriggered) depending on the positions of the symbols to stop, before displaying stopped symbols. P139435/9742189 FREE GAME PROCESSING NUMBER-OF-FREE-GAMES DETERMINATION PROCESSING FREE-GAME-STARTING EFFECTS IMPLEMENTATION S212 AT-ONE-GAME-END INITIALIZATION PROCESSING _ 21 START-CHECK PROCESSING SYMBOL LOTTERY PROCESSING NUMBER-OF-PAYOUTS DETERMINATION PROCESSING S PREDICTIVE EFFECTS DETERMINATION PROCESSING PREDICTIVE EFFECTS IMPLEMENTATION PROCESSING PAYOUT EFFECTS IMPLEMENTATION PROCESSING PAYOUT PROCESSING SUBTRACTS 1 FROM THE NUMBER OF FREE GAMES S221 REE GAME TRIGGER IS ESTABLISHE ? NUMBER-OF-ADDITIONAL-FREE-GAMES S223 DETERMINATION PROCESSING RETRIGGER EFFECTS IMPLEMENTATION PROCESSING ADDS THE NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL FREE GAMES TO THE S225 NUMBER OF FREE GAMES AND STORES RESULT INTO FREE GAME COUNTER NUMBER OF FREE GAMES > 0 ?-YE FREE-GAME-ENDING EFFECTS IMPLEMENTATION -S227