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A symbol display device for a gaming machine has a display window wherein any of a plurality of different symbols is stopped. An outer reel is rotatable behind the display window. The symbols are spaced peripherally about the outer reel. Each of the symbols is transparent with an opaque portion disposed inside and/or outside the transparent symbol. The peripheral face of the outer reel is opaque outside the transparent symbol. An inner reel is rotatable inside the outer reel. A plurality of different colored patterned portions are disposed in a peripheral series about the inner reel. Any of the patterned portions can be stopped in the display window. One of the patterned portions stopped in the display window becomes observable through the transparent portion when the transparent symbol is stopped in the display window, and is combined with the transparent symbol, to constitute a compound symbol. The inner and outer reels may instead be inner and outer endless belts.\!