Patent ID: 8968069
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming machines, each including a controller; a control device including a processor; a network enabling communication between said plurality of gaming machines and said control device; and a storage device which stores a plurality of individual cumulative values, wherein the plurality of individual cumulative values are associated with a plurality of predetermined percentages and a plurality of specific values, respectively, each of the plurality of predetermined percentages differs from the other predetermined percentages, each of the plurality of specific values differs from the other specific values, each controller is programmed to execute processing of: (a) transmitting number-of-game media information relating to a number of betted game media to said control device, said processor is programmed to execute processing of: (A) cumulatively counting a part of the number of betted game media according to the plurality of predetermined percentages, as the plurality of individual cumulative values, triggered by a receipt of said number-of-game media information from one of said plurality of gaming machines; (B) determining whether or not any one of said plurality of individual cumulative values cumulatively counted in said processing (A) has reached an associated one of the plurality of specific values; and (C) transmitting a common-game execution signal to said one of said plurality of gaming machines to execute a common game, after it is determined in said processing (B) that said one of the plurality of individual cumulative values has reached the associated one of the plurality of specific values, each controller is further programmed to execute processing of: (b) executing the common game after receiving said common-game execution signal from said control device; and (c) transmitting common-game result information determined based on a result of the common game executed in said processing (b), to said control device, and said processor is further programmed to execute processing of: (D) selecting a single gaming machine out of the plurality of said gaming machines, based on said common-game result information; and (E) paying out game media, in a number corresponding to said one of the plurality of individual cumulative values, from the single gaming machine selected in said processing (D).