Patent ID: 8052524

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming machines each including a controller; a control device including a memory device and a processor; a network enabling communication between said plurality of gaming machines and said control device; wherein said memory device is capable of storing a plurality of types of winning-machine determination programs for determining the gaming machine to which payout of a game medium is conducted, out of said plurality of gaming machines, said winning-machine determination programs respectively determining the gaming machine by methods different from each other, 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, and (B) counting a number of the gaming machines joining the game among the gaming machines connected by said network, when said cumulative value has reached a predetermined value, (C) determining the gaming machine to which the payout of the game medium is conducted, by reading the winning-machine determination program of the type specified based on the number of the gaming machines counted in said processing (B) from said memory device and executing the winning-machine determination program, and (D) paying out a predetermined number of game media to the gaming machine determined in said processing (C).