Patent ID: 6224482
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
A random prize awarding system comprising: a gaming console the gaming console being arranged to play a first game and a second game, the first game being a standard game normally offered on the console and the second game being a jackpot game offered for play when a player has achieved a trigger condition, and trigger means arranged to test for the trigger condition and to initiate an instance of the second game when the trigger condition occurs, the second game being divided into a plurality of sub-games, each sub-game when played, producing a sub-game outcome selected from a plurality of possible sub-game outcomes and at least one possible sub-game outcome of each sub-game having an incremental prize such that a sum of un-won incremental prizes of the second game associated with it, equals a total currently available jackpot prize value of the second game, the player being awarded each sub-game after the first, only if the incremental prize was won in a previous sub-game and the jackpot prize value being decremented by the incremental prize value awarded with an occurrence of each prize winning sub-game.