Patent ID: 7666094

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: at least one central controller configured to: (i) maintain a plurality of progressive awards which increment based, at least in part, on a plurality of wagers placed on a plurality of plays of a plurality of primary games, and (ii) maintain a plurality of supplemental awards, wherein for each one of the supplemental awards, said supplemental award is associated with a different one of the progressive awards; and a plurality of gaming machines, each one of the gaming machines including: at least one gaming machine processor configured to communicate with the at least one central controller; 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 gaming machine processor for a play of a secondary game, cause the at least one gaming machine processor, after an occurrence of a triggering event, to: (i) enable a player of one of said gaming machines to play for one of the plurality of progressive awards, (ii) determine whether to provide the progressive award to the player, (iii) if the determination is to provide the progressive award, provide the progressive award and the supplemental award associated with the progressive award to the player, (iv) if the determination is not to provide the progressive award, for each of a plurality of the other progressive awards which were not played for by the player, modify said progressive award based, at least in part, on the supplemental award associated with said progressive award.