Patent ID: 8608554

Claim:
A gaming system for awarding a jackpot that accumulates responsive to play signals from gaming devices and that generates a chance to determine a number that awards the jackpot when the determined number corresponds to a predefined trigger number, the chances being generated responsive to the play signals, the gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming devices; and a server connected to the plurality of gaming devices via a network, the server including: a first memory to store the predefined trigger number, a second memory to store a current jackpot amount, a third memory to store allotted chances, and a processor configured to activate one of the stored chances responsive to a chance activation signal and to determine if a number determined responsive to an activated chance coincides with the predefined trigger number, wherein the server is configured to award the current jackpot amount stored in the second memory when the processor determines that an activated chance coincides with the predefined trigger number and to provide for a jackpot amount based schedule for using chances.