Patent ID: 8342937

Claim:
A method of administering a game within a gaming network comprising a number of electronic gaming machines, the method including: (a) initiating a single-station game for a player at a first electronic gaming machine; (b) in the absence of a request for the player at the first electronic gaming machine to participate in a multi-station game, causing a gaming processor associated with the first electronic gaming machine to display a station changing prompt on an electronic display at the first electronic gaming machine, the station changing prompt presenting the player at the first electronic gaming machine with (i) an option to continue play in the single-station game at the first electronic gaming machine, and (ii) an option to participate in the multi-station game, the multi-station game requiring the player to move to a second electronic gaming machine within the gaming network; and (c) causing the gaming processor to produce a multi-station game result for the player after accepting a player input from the player at an electronic input device at the second gaming machine.