Patent ID: 8851969

Claim:
A gaming system in which a payout occurs by reaching a target position, comprising: a plurality of gaming machines each including a controller; a control device including a processor; a network enabling communication between said plurality of gaming machines and said control device; a single reach portion indicative of the target position to reach; a plurality of coupling illuminated lines that are provided for said gaming machines, each coupling illuminated line including a plurality of illuminants and connected between the single reach portion and a corresponding gaming machine, wherein at least a part of said plurality of coupling illuminated lines are different in a number of the illuminants provided and are different in a length; and a storage device storing number-of-lighting determination data for determining a number of illuminants to be lighted based on each gaming machine and a game result executed in each gaming machine, the number of illuminants to be lighted being different for a same game result in the gaming machines, wherein said controller is programmed to execute processing of (a) transmitting information indicative of the game result executed in a corresponding gaming machine to said control device, said processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) determining the number of illuminants to be lighted corresponding to the game result indicated by the information transmitted in said processing (a) and the gaming machine being a transmission source of the information, based on the game result indicated by the information transmitted in said processing (a) and the number-of-lighting determination data, and (B) lighting illuminants that have not been lighted from among the illuminants of the coupling illuminated line provided for the gaming machine being the transmission source of the information by the number of illuminants determined in the processing (A).