Patent ID: 8636586

Claim:
A gaming system providing a progressive jackpot feature, and including at least two gaming consoles wherein one gaming console provides to a player a main game for play which has a mathematical definition different than a main game of the other gaming console, said one gaming console receiving any one of a plurality of different predetermined wager amounts and having a prize awarding feature to provide a feature game, said one gaming console being arranged to offer the feature game when a trigger condition has occurred based on a preprogrammed range as determined from an average turnover value, said trigger condition having a probability of occurrence dependent on the amount of the wager made on the main game, said one gaming console including a trigger sensor arranged to test for the trigger condition and to initiate the feature game when the trigger condition occurs, said one gaming console being arranged to play the main game, during which testing for the trigger condition occurs, and wherein the feature game initiated by the trigger sensor is the awarding of at least one feature game, said one gaming console and said other gaming console being connected to a gaming network, and wherein each of said two gaming consoles includes a signal output mechanism arranged to produce an output signal in response to operation of its respective gaming console, such that the progressive jackpot feature is implemented using a central feature jackpot which increases in response to a said signal from a connected said gaming console, and when a feature game is played on a connected said gaming console, the feature game results in a feature game outcome selected from a plurality of possible feature game outcomes, wherein at least one of the possible feature game outcomes is an award of a jackpot prize from said central feature jackpot.