Patent ID: 7934984

Claim:
A system for providing a plurality of games including: a plurality of user-operable terminals for providing respective players with a primary game and for generating primary game information messages; a secondary game controller responsive to the primary game information messages for providing the players with a linked secondary game having an associated prize and for generating a tertiary game trigger message when the secondary game is won; and a tertiary game controller responsive to the tertiary game trigger message for offering the secondary game winning player an opportunity to play a tertiary game using all or a portion of the secondary game prize as a stake and is further responsive to the tertiary game being won for offering a further opportunity to play the tertiary game, the tertiary game controller including: memory for storing counter data indicative of the number of times the tertiary game has been played; a processor for incrementing the counter data each time the tertiary game is played; and a comparator for comparing the counter data with at least one predetermined value, wherein the at least one predetermined value includes a predetermined limit value and the tertiary game controller offers the tertiary game if the counter data is less than the predetermined limit value.