Patent ID: 8579704

Claim:
A method, comprising: via a series of gaming machines linked via a local area network and a series of gaming machines linked via a wide area network, wherein each gaming machine includes at least a display and user interface, and is in communication with a local and/or remote processor: enabling a player an opportunity to win at a time corresponding to a game play session a first progressive award based on wagers collected from machines associated with game play, an amount of the first progressive award augmented with data corresponding to the wagers, the data received over a wide area network; enabling the player an opportunity to win at a time corresponding to the game play session a second progressive award based on wagers collected from machines associated with game play, an amount of the second progressive award augmented with data corresponding to the wagers, the data received over a local area network; presenting on a primary game display a graphics user interface including game graphics, game symbol matrix, said amount of the first progressive award and said amount of the second progressive award; and presenting on said primary game display one or more progressive symbols relative to each column within said game symbol matrix and respective amounts of progressive awards including said amount of the first progressive award and said amount of the second progressive award.