Patent ID: 8157639

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of slot machines each including a symbol display capable of variably displaying symbols including a special symbol, and a controller; a control device including a processor; and a network enabling communication between said plurality of slot machines and said control device, wherein said controller is programmed to execute the processing of (a) accepting a bet of a game medium, and (b) transmitting number-of-game-media information about the number of game media betted as the bet accepted in said processing (a), to said control device, said processor is programmed to execute the processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of the number of betted game media, as a cumulative value, based on said number-of-game-media information received from a slot machine, and (B) transmitting cumulative-value information based on said cumulative value, to said plurality of slot machines, and said controller is programmed to execute the processing of (c) determining the number of special symbols that can be displayed to said symbol display, based on said cumulative-value information received from said control device, and (d) variably displaying and thereafter stop-displaying, to said symbol display, said symbols including said special symbol in number equal to or less than the number of said special symbols determined in said processing (c).