Patent ID: 9087433
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming system for awarding a jackpot to one of a plurality of players that accumulates responsive to play signals from gaming devices played by the players and that generates a chance to determine a number that awards the jackpot to one of the players when the determined number corresponds to a predefined trigger number, the chances being generated responsive to the play signals and awarded to the player playing the gaming device that generated the chance, the gaming system comprising: an actuator for generating a chance activation signal each time a player chooses to actuate it; a plurality of gaming devices; and a server connected to the plurality of gaming devices via a network, the server including: a processor configured to activate one of the stored chances responsive to one of the chance activation signals and to determine if a number determined responsive to an activated chance coincides with the predefined trigger number,