Patent ID: 8628407

Claim:
A method of conducting a community-event on a plurality of gaming machines disposed adjacent a movable member, the method comprising: providing the movable member adjacent the plurality of gaming machines, the movable member bearing a plurality of award indicia; providing a plurality of indicator positions disposed adjacent the movable member, each of the indicator positions being related to one of a plurality of potential outcomes for the community-event; using at least one of one or more processors, assigning at least one indicator to each of the plurality of gaming machines that is eligible to play the community-event such that at least a first indicator is assigned to a first one of the plurality of gaming machines and a second indicator is assigned to a second one of the plurality of gaming machines; associating the first indicator assigned to the first one of the plurality of gaming machines with a first one of the plurality of indicator positions; associating the second indicator assigned to the second one of the plurality of gaming machines with the first one of the plurality of indicator positions; using at least one of the one or more processors, determining a community-event elimination result; first moving the movable member relative to the assigned indicators to associate the community-event elimination result with one or more of the assigned indicators; eliminating the one or more of the assigned indicators associated with the community-event elimination result; sequentially performing the determining, the first moving, and the eliminating acts until a last one of the assigned indicators remains; determining a random community-event award outcome for the community-event; transmitting the community-event award outcome to a controller configured to control movement of the movable member; second moving the movable member relative to the last one of the assigned indicators; and stopping the moveable member such that the last one of the assigned indicators is associated with at least one of the plurality of award indicia.