To provide a gaming machine which can increase an entertainment aspect by changing a disposition of a plurality of symbols and payout lines displayed on a display portion provided in the gaming machine, thus providing a visual change.
Symbol column data, in which an order of a plurality of symbols configured of a plurality of kinds of symbol image is fixed, corresponding one to each of display areas disposed in a three row by three column matrix formation on a lower image display panel of a slot machine, an image of a symbol based on one symbol data, among the corresponding symbol column data, is displayed in each display area. Then, in the event that a prescribed condition is met, a correlation relationship between the display areas, and the symbol column data corresponding one to each of them, is changed.