To provide an information grasping system by which a player easily grasps information of the number of times of appearing in a prescribed desirable state such as a big win and which requires no burden on a saloon side about utilization of the information of the number of times of appearing in an IC card utilization system utilizing an IC card in a game machine.

The system consists of: the game machine for grasping game information; an IC card for receiving the game information from the game machine; and a display apparatus provided with a display part for displaying the information by receiving the game information of the IC card from the IC card to its storage part or with the IC card itself as its storage part. The game machine is provided with: a detection means for detecting appearance of the prescribed state of a game; a game information storage means for storing information of an appearance situation in the detected prescribed state in the game in its storage medium; an IC card reader/writer (R/W); and a time instruction part for carrying out temporal instruction of reading and writing.