Patent ID: 8851979

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming devices, each gaming device including: at least one display device, and at least one input device; and a controller configured to communicate with each of the gaming devices, for a play of a cooperative community game, said gaming devices and said controller programmed to: (a) display: (i) a path of a plurality of symbol display positions, said path associated with a single chain of symbols including a plurality of different symbols having a plurality of different symbol attributes, and (ii) at least one of the symbols at at least one of the symbol display positions, (b) enable at least one player of at least one of the gaming devices to make at least one input to place at least one of a plurality of different eliminators at at least one eliminator display position, said plurality of different eliminators having a plurality of different eliminator attributes and each eliminator display position being associated with at least one of the symbol display positions, (c) if any of the symbols are displayed at any of the symbol display positions associated with any of the eliminator display positions, for each symbol displayed at each symbol display position associated with at least one of the eliminator display positions, determine if the eliminator displayed at the eliminator display position eliminates the symbol displayed at the associated symbol display position, said determination being based on the symbol attribute of the symbol and the eliminator attribute of the eliminator, (d) determine an award based on a quantity of eliminated symbols, (e) display the determined award, and (f) cause a plurality of the gaming devices to each provide at least part of the determined award.