Patent ID: 8137184
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
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; a reach portion indicative of a target position to reach; and a coupling illuminated line provided for each of said gaming machines and including a plurality of illuminants arranged from said reach portion to said gaming machine, wherein said controller is programmed to execute processing of (a) accepting a bet of a game medium, and (b) transmitting number-of-game-media information indicative of a number of betted game media as the bet accepted in said processing (a) to said control device, said processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of the number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on said number-of-game-media information received from said gaming machine, (B) counting a number of said gaming machines joining a game among all of said gaming machines connected by said network, when said cumulative value has reached a predetermined value, (C) transmitting a common-game execution signal at least to said gaming machines joining the game among all of said gaming machines connected by said network, when the number of said gaming machines counted in said processing (B) is equal to or more than a specific number, (D) extracting a random number from a predetermined numerical range, when the number of said gaming machines counted in said processing (B) is less than the specific number, (E) determining a single or a plurality of said gaming machines out of said gaming machines joining the game among all of said gaming machines connected by said network, based on the random number extracted in said processing (D), and (F) paying out a fixed number of game media to the single or the plurality of said gaming machines determined in said processing (E), said controller is further programmed to execute processing of (c) executing a common game after receiving said common-game execution signal transmitted from said control device, and (d) transmitting common-game result information determined based on a result of the common game executed in said processing (c) to said control device, and said processor is further programmed to execute processing of (G) lighting said plurality of illuminants included in said coupling illuminated line provided for the gaming machine as a transmission source of the common-game result information, based on the common-game result information transmitted in said processing (d), in an order starting from said illuminant provided at a position closest to the gaming machine, (H) determining whether or not the coupling illuminated line with all of said illuminants having been lighted in said processing (G) is present, and (I) paying out a predetermined number of game media, when determining that the coupling illuminated line with all of said illuminants having been lighted is present in said processing (H), to said gaming machine provided with the coupling illuminated line.