Patent ID: 8328617

Claim:
A game system for providing a wheel game to a plurality of players, comprising: a wheel; a plurality of gaming machines, each of which accepts a wager from a player and provides a primary game to the player; a controller, which initiates a secondary game using the wheel when a predetermined condition is met, and which allows a plurality of players who have played the primary games to join the secondary game and determines a winner of the secondary game from the players who have joined the secondary game; a plurality of indicia placed on the wheel, each of the indicia representing one of the players; and an indicator, which points to one of the indicia; wherein the controller relatively moves the indicator to the indicia and stops the relative movement so that the indicator points to one of the indicia in the secondary game; wherein the controller makes a player the winner of the secondary game when the indicator points to the player indicium; and wherein the controller changes a number of indicia representing one player based on an amount of wager this player has bet in the primary game.