Card reading device and tabletop game system

A tabletop game system comprising a plurality of cards, a card reading device, a transmission setting section, and a wireless output part, wherein the plurality of cards each have codes representing information on the cards attached thereto,

• wherein the card reading device comprises
• a card shoe part having a card container portion that contains the plurality of cards, a detachable cover disposed at the top of the card container portion, and an opening through which the cards can be taken out one by one from the card container portion,
• a card reading part in which information on the cards, which is attached to the cards drawn out from the card container portion onto a game table, is read from each of the cards,
• a control part that determines an outcome of a card game based on the information on the cards read in the card reading part wherein the outcome of the card game is a win or draw result of the card game;
• a display part that outputs the game outcome determined by the control part, and
• a battery that supplies electric power to the control part and the display part,
• wherein the wireless output part has
• a function of transmitting the information on the cards at least successively read in the card reading part or information on the game outcome determined by the control part,
• wherein the transmission setting section determines a transmission timing so that at a stage when a result of the outcome of the card game is obtained, the information on the cards read in the card reading part and the outcome of the card game are transmitted according to the timing determined by the transmission setting section, and
• wherein the card reading device further comprises
• a detection notification part that detects that the cover is opened and transmits a notification that the cover is opened to an external device via the wireless output part.