Patent ID: 8657676

Claim:
A system comprising: a base game apparatus operative to send a bonus result and to send a signal; a bonus game apparatus coupled to the base game apparatus, the bonus game apparatus to receive the signal from the base game apparatus, the bonus game apparatus further to receive a bonus result from the base game apparatus, the bonus game apparatus including: (a) a first clock hand, (b) a second clock hand, (c) a face, the face having a generally planar surface, the face having indicia arranged in a generally circular pattern on a first surface of the face, the first clock hand arranged to rotate about the first surface of the face and the second clock hand arranged to rotate about the first surface of the face, (d) an interface to the base game apparatus, and (e) a controller coupled to the first clock hand and the second clock hand and to the interface, the controller being operative to rotate the first clock hand and the second clock hand in relation to the signal received through the interface, wherein the bonus game apparatus is operative to produce a gaming result based on indicia of the face in relation to the first clock hand and the second clock hand, the controller being operative to simultaneously spin the first clock hand and the second clock hand multiple times with multiple results such that each time the first clock hand and the second clock hand are simultaneously spun they are stopped in a two-step sequence to provide a visual tease by first stopping the first clock hand at a first indicia and subsequently second stopping the second clock hand at a second indicia, the controller being operative to accumulate the multiple results to produce a gaming result corresponding to the bonus result received from the base game apparatus and the controller being further selectively operative to modify a base game for play at the base game apparatus based on the gaming result by providing through the interface at least one of i) a bonus back to the base game apparatus and ii) a message to the base game apparatus to enable options for play of the base game; a housing for the base game apparatus and the bonus game apparatus; and a network interface operative to communicate with a network external to the system.