Patent ID: 7896734

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming machines, each gaming machine including at least one display device, each gaming machine configured to enable a player of said gaming machine to play a game upon placement of a wager by the player at the gaming machine and generate an outcome for each played game, said outcomes including designated outcomes; a plurality of pointers, a different pointer associated with each of the gaming machines and each of said pointers configured to point to sections of the shared display; at least one shared display device including a plurality of sections displaying a plurality of outcomes; at least one processor; and at least one memory device storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the gaming machines and the at least one shared display device to: (a) receive communications from the gaming machines indicating that designated game outcomes have randomly been generated; (b) in response to the receipt of at least a designated number of said communications, cause the at least one shared display device to move to simultaneously associate and display a separate one of the sections for each of the gaming machines based at least in part on locations of the pointers associated with the gaming machines; and (c) provide the player of each of the gaming machines that provided one of said designated number of communications an award.