GAME BALL COUNTER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To be provided in a ball delivery passage, a ball throw-in passage, or other ball passages in a game machine such as a Pachinko machine, count the number of balls passing through the ball passages, and surely detect abnormality due to fraud, trouble or the like. SOLUTION: This game counter comprises a single electric actuator such as a stepping motor 10 actuating a ball braking means such as a screw 12 and alternately passing game balls in a plurality of rows of ball passages one by one, ball detecting sensors 11a and 11b provided in respective ball passages, and a means determining whether or not the ball detecting sensors alternately detect the game balls. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI