Patent ID: 9257008
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing a game on a gaming system having a jackpot controller and a plurality of gaming machines, each gaming machine having a display, an electronic game controller, a credit input mechanism configured to accept a physical item associated with a monetary value for providing a credit for placing of a wager, the wager being placeable at one of a plurality of wager options, and, a payout mechanism configured to cause a payout representing a monetary value, the method comprising: placing a wager option at a gaming machine; facilitating via said electronic game controller the play of a game in response to said placing of a wager option; providing via said jackpot controller a plurality of jackpot prizes available to be won by play of the game, each of the jackpot prizes being funded by at least one of a plurality of progressive pools contributed to through play of the game based on a wager option, and each of said progressive pools being associated with a numerical value; facilitating a play of the game including presenting at least one symbol on said display to represent at least one outcome from a plurality of possible outcomes, at least one of which is a jackpot prize winning outcome; awarding via said electronic game controller one of the plurality of jackpot prizes on the occurrence of a jackpot prize winning outcome in a play of the game; receiving via said jackpot controller one of a plurality of different wager options on the at least one outcome, the wager options comprising a plurality of distinct wager options for which the probability of occurrence of the jackpot prize winning outcome per unit wager is different, wherein each of the plurality of distinct wager options is associated with one of the plurality of jackpot prizes, and wherein each of said distinct wager options is associated with at least one of the plurality of progressive pools; and wherein when the jackpot prize winning outcome occurs in a game play: awarding via said electronic game controller apparatus the jackpot prize associated with the wager option made in that game play, and determining via said jackpot controller for the awarded jackpot prize, a fixed new amount that cannot be varied once initially seeded to reduce differences in return-to-player between the jackpot prizes available to be won, said determining including determining the fixed new amount in response to the amounts in progressive pools having a corresponding numerical value being lower than or equal to said wager value of the winning jackpot prize.