Patent ID: 8758124

Claim:
Apparatus for determining the award of a prize, the apparatus including: memory for storing prize data indicative of a prize value for the prize; an input device being responsive to input signals from a respective plurality of gaming terminals for providing an increment signal; an increment device that is responsive to the increment signal for incrementing an accumulating value towards the prize value; a comparator configured to periodically compare the accumulating value with the prize value, and, for each such comparison: in the case that the accumulating value has incremented to or beyond the prize value, determining that the prize is to be awarded; and in the case that the accumulating value has not incremented to or beyond the prize value, providing an instruction to define a new prize value; and a processor that is responsive to the instruction for defining the new prize value, such that the increment device is then responsive to the increment signal for incrementing the accumulating value towards the new prize value.