To provide a game machine capable of keeping a player's expectation to pattern variation even when performing a variable display with a variation pattern shortened in at least the time of high-speed pattern variation, compared with a general variation pattern.

When the number of retaining balls exceeds a specified number, a specified variation pattern which takes a low-speed variable state successively to the high-speed variable state of a shortened variation pattern is selected when a lottery result is out and the lottery of generating a next-to-win or not is won, or when the lottery result is a hit, and after the specified variation pattern is performed, the next-to-win is generated.