Patent ID: 8206211

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming machines each including a controller; a control device including a processor; and a network enabling communication between said plurality of gaming machines and said control device, 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) determining whether the number of said gaming machines counted in the processing (B) is lower than a predetermined number, (D) executing a common game to be played concurrently in 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) based on the determination in the processing (C) is equal to or more than a specific number, (E) determining, without executing the common game, 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, when the number of said gaming machines counted in said processing (B) based on the determination in the processing (C) is less than the specific number, 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).