PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pachinko machine pattern starter making it needless to suspend temporarily and resume the operation of shooting balls and to whose prize-winning media themselves a playing variation is given. SOLUTION: This pattern starter 5 consists of a reserve space 26 to reserve the pachinko balls temporarily; a maximum reserved balls detector 30 to detect them in the reserve space 26; a discharging device 27 to discharge them out of the reserve space 26; and a detector 29 to detect the overflowed balls to be discharged out through others than the reserve space 26. Since detecting any overflowed ball starts a variable display of the variable image display unit, requiring such processes as reserving them in the reserve space 26 to make it impossible to let them enter into the reserve space 26 to detect any overflowed ball, can give a variation to plays. Based on the detection signal of the maximum reserved balls detector 30 and a number of start memory, discharging them in the reserve space 26 by the discharging device 27 allows the number of pachinko balls in the reserve space 26 to be adjusted.
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