Patent ID: 8235792

Claim:
A method for playing a game comprising: accepting a wager at a first play station; playing an individual game at the first play station; accepting a wager at a second play station; playing an individual game at the second play station; entering a community group play mode to cause a common reel display of the first and second play station to spin responsive to a bonus signal from one of the first play station or the second play station, the bonus signal resulting from a bonus awarded in the individual game of the first play station or the individual game of the second play station, wherein a first set of one or more reel lines of the reel display are reserved for the first play station and a second set of one or more reel lines of the reel display are reserved for the second play station, and wherein the common reel display is entirely covered by the first set of reel lines, and wherein the common reel display is entirely covered by the second set of reel lines, and wherein the first set of reel lines are played in a left-to-right orientation and the second set of reel lines are played in a right-to-left orientation on the common reel display, and wherein a third set of one or more reel lines are available as community reel lines to the first play station and the second play station, and wherein a player of the first play station is enabled to wager on lines of the first set and lines of the third set and a player of the second play station is enabled to wager on lines of the second set and lines of the third set; and awarding a community group play mode bonus to both the player of the first play station and the player of the second play station responsive to any win on a line of the third set of lines.