Patent ID: 8795058

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming devices, each of said gaming devices including: at least one processor, at least one input device, at least one display device, and at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device and the at least one input device to: (a) enable a player to play a primary game upon a wager; (b) if a bonus event eligibility point accumulation event occurs, accumulate at least one bonus event eligibility point; (c) for each of a designated quantity of accumulated bonus event eligibility points, generate a random number from a predefined range of numbers; and (d) if one of any of said generated random numbers is a designated random number: (i) display a bonus event to the player, and (ii) display and provide a bonus event award to the player; and a controller configured to communicate with each of said gaming devices, said controller and said plurality of gaming devices configured to operate to determine if a bonus event triggering condition occurs, wherein if the bonus event triggering condition occurs, said controller is configured to operate to determine which of said generated random numbers is the designated random number, wherein said determination is based on comparing a selected one of the generated random numbers for each of any of said gaming devices that provided at least one bonus event eligibility point to a selected one of the generated random numbers for each of the other gaming devices that provided at least one bonus event eligibility point.