Patent ID: 8795062

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming devices; a common physical group game display comprising a an object arranged to travel on a path relative to the plurality of gaming devices, wherein the object is comprised of a plurality of sub-objects; and a group game controller in data communication with the plurality of gaming devices and the group game display, the group game controller including a processor configured to: determine a game outcome of a group game; control movement of the object relative to the plurality of gaming devices based on the game outcome; and stopping the object on the path in a random manner such that the plurality of sub-objects each align with respective ones of the plurality of gaming devices, each sub-object comprising indicia that is indicative of a prize awardable to a respective player of the gaming device that is aligned with that sub-object, wherein the object is a train comprising at least one item of rolling stock and the position of at least one item of rolling stock indicates the game outcome, wherein there are a plurality of items of rolling stock and the front of the first item of rolling stock and the rear of the item of rolling stock are separated from one another by a gap corresponding to a width of at least one gaming device, such that the train is not continuous.