Patent ID: 8747217

Claim:
A method of wagering in a gaming system including a plurality of gaming machines, via a controller, the method comprising: determining via the controller for a first of said gaming machines an amount of residual credit being held within said first gaming machine and being indispensable by said first gaming machine; determining via the controller for a second of said gaming machines an amount of second residual credit being held within said second gaming machine and being indispensable by said second gaming machine; determining via the controller a residual prize; contributing said first residual credit and said second residual credit toward said residual prize; determining via the controller a first winnable outcome value dependent on said first residual credit indispensable by said first gaming machine, and determining via the controller a second winnable outcome value dependent on said second residual credit indispensable by said second gaming machine; allocating via the controller said first winnable outcome value of said first gaming machine, and allocating via the controller said second winnable outcome value of said second gaming machine; randomly generating via the controller an outcome; comparing via the controller said generated outcome in relation to said first winnable outcome value and said second winnable outcome value; and awarding said residual prize to said first gaming machine if said generated outcome relationally matches said first winnable outcome value and awarding said residual prize to said second gaming machine if said generated outcome relationally matches said second winnable outcome value; and wherein said determining a first winnable outcome value further comprises determining a plurality of first winnable outcome values; and wherein said determining the plurality of first winnable outcome values includes determining a range of said winnable outcome values dependent on a relationship between 1) said first residual credit indispensable by said first gaming machine and 2) a denomination used by said first gaming machine, wherein the relationship defines a number of said winnable outcome values within said range of winnable outcome values; and wherein said determining the plurality of first winnable outcome values includes determining a number of first winnable outcome values, the number of first winnable outcome values being based on the residual credit of said first gaming machine divided by said denomination of the first gaming machine.