Patent ID: 8038528

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a gaming terminal for playing a special-event game, the gaming terminal having a display; and a signage that is related to the special event game and is coupled to a plurality of gaming terminals including the gaming terminal and is located proximate to the gaming terminal, the signage having a signage display that displays images from any of the plurality of gaming terminals; wherein an identical first image of the special-event game having a plurality of image elements is simultaneously displayed on the display of the gaming terminal and the signage display, and after receiving a player input related to one of the image elements, changing one of the plurality of image elements to an alpha-numeric element on the display of the gaming terminal, wherein a second image of the special-event game having the identical plurality of image elements as the first image except for the alpha-numeric element is displayed on the display of the gaming terminal and the signage display simultaneously displays an altered version of the second image of the special-event game including the identical plurality of image elements identical to the first image except that the changed one of the plurality of image elements corresponding to the alpha-numeric element displayed on the gaming terminal is changed to a non-alpha-numeric format.