Patent ID: 8192279

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a first input for a wager from a player on an occurrence of a primary game at an input device of a gaming unit; subtracting the amount of the wager on an occurrence of the primary game from credit available to the player at the gaming unit in response to receiving the first input; receiving a second input for a progressive jackpot wager amount from the player on an occurrence of a secondary game at the input device, wherein the occurrences of the primary and secondary games are parts of an occurrence of a wagering game, wherein the secondary game is associated with a progressive jackpot, wherein said receiving the second input is performed via the input device; subtracting the progressive jackpot wager amount from the available credit in response to receiving the second input; adding the progressive jackpot wager amount to a progressive jackpot pool for the progressive jackpot when the progressive jackpot wager amount is subtracted from the available credit, wherein said subtracting the amount of the wager, said subtracting the progressive jackpot wager amount, and said adding the progressive jackpot wager amount are performed by a gaming unit controller of the gaming unit, wherein the wagering game is a multi-player game, wherein the player has a unique game array of game indicia for the occurrence of the wagering game and individual game indicia are sequentially selected from a range of game indicia, wherein the player wins the occurrence of the primary game by matching a predetermined game winning pattern of game indicia on the unique game array with the sequentially selected game indicia, and wherein an outcome of the occurrence of the secondary game is a predetermined progressive jackpot winning outcome when a pattern on the unique game array formed by game indicia on the unique game array matches a predetermined progressive jackpot winning pattern.