Patent ID: 8277313

Claim:
A gaming device, comprising: a plurality of gaming terminals, each of the gaming terminals configured to run a base game and a chance game at the same time, to determine and award a payout according to a result of the base game, to determine a number of chance flags to be awarded according to a result of the chance game, and to award the determined one or more chance flags and output a chance signal; a special game offering a chance of winning a higher payout than the base game, which offers a chance of winning a payout according to a predetermined combination; a center storage unit configured to store the number of one or more chance flags awarded in each of the gaming terminals and to store a time of obtaining the one or more chance flags based on the chance signal from each of the gaming terminals, each of the chance flags qualifying a player to join the special game; a shared display which displays an image of the special game; and a center controller which performs the steps of: (b1) obtaining the number of chance flags from each of the gaming terminals; (b2) accumulatively storing the number of the one or more chance flags and that are obtained from each of the gaming terminals in the center storage unit; (b3) associating the time of obtaining the one or more chance flags with the number of the one or more chance flags; (b4) running the special game at a predetermined timing, when the number of chance flags of at least one gaming terminal stored in the center storage unit equals or surpasses a first predetermined number; (b5) determining whether a jackpot is established for a single chance flag in the special game each time the single chance flag is sequentially consumed from among all chance flags of gaming terminals running the special game, wherein the chance flags are sequentially consumed in order of a time of obtaining each of the chance flags; and (b6) determining a regular payout of each of the gaming terminals participating in the special game according to a result of repeating the (b5) step.