There is provided a prize management system of a game machine in which a
plurality of kinds of prizes (3, 5, . . . ) are accommodated in a case
(1), a player operates from the outside of the case to select and catch
his/her favorite prize, and the selected prize is discharged to a
taking-out port, comprising a non-contact detection section (41) provided
with each one of the prizes for specifying a kind of each prize, chute
sections (25) and (27) for passing the prize in a path leading to the
taking-out port of the prizes, reading sections (29, 31) for reading with
non-contact the detection section of the prizes passing through the chute
section. The prizes are managed on the basis of a result read by the
reading section.