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US 8,998,696 B2Granted
Gaming system and a method of gaming
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorsColin Fong, Peter Woodlock
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Abstract
A gaming system comprising a plurality of linked gaming devices each individually operable to play a main game and a group game, whereby the group game is played by at least two teams of players of the linked gaming devices; and a group game controller arranged to conduct the group game upon initiation for the at least two teams and to determine which team is to be awarded a prize at completion of the group game.
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A gaming system comprising:
- a plurality of linked gaming devices each individually operable to play a main game and a group game, whereby the group game is played by actions of at least two teams of players of the linked gaming devices;
- an event evaluator configured to evaluate whether said group game is to be initiated based on at least one of a plurality of predefined game rules, and to determine when contributions from the at least two teams reach a designated value of contributions to a first prize and a second prize;
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- a group game controller configured to
- 1) conduct the group game for the at least two teams when said event evaluator determines that contributions from the at least two teams have reached said designated value of contributions to said first prize and said second prize, by associating a first of the at least two teams with the first prize and a second of the at least two teams with the second prize, and by incrementing a value of the first prize and a value of the second prize in response to respective actions of the first and second teams of players, said incrementing of a value of the first prize causing a corresponding decrement to the value of the second prize and said incrementing of a value of the second prize causing a corresponding decrement to the value of the first prize, and
- 2) determine which team is to be awarded a group game prize based on which of the first prize and second prize first reaches a predefined value.
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A gaming system comprising:
- a plurality of linked gaming devices each individually operable to play a main game and a group game, each linked gaming device comprising a cabinet, a display mounted within the cabinet, and a game play mechanism mounted to the cabinet incorporating at least one input device, the game play mechanism operable by the player to place wagers in the main game and/or the group game, and a group game controller in data communication with the linked gaming devices comprising a processor and a memory storing game control instructions which enable the group game controller to operate, the group game controller configured to:
- evaluate whether said group game is to be initiated based on at least one of a plurality of predefined game rules;
- determine when contributions from the at least two teams reach a designated value of contributions to a first prize and a second prize;
- conduct the group game for at least two teams of players of the linked gaming devices when said event evaluator determines that contributions from the at least two teams have reached said designated value of contributions to said first prize and said second prize, wherein said conducting includes associating a first of the at least two teams with the first prize and a second of the at least two teams with the second prize, and incrementing a value of the first prize and a value of the second prize in response to respective actions of the first and second teams of players, said incrementing of a value of the first prize causing a corresponding decrement to the value of the second prize and said incrementing of a value of the second prize causing a corresponding decrement to the value of the first prize;
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- determine which team is to be awarded a group game prize based on which of the first prize and second prize first reaches a predefined value.
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A gaming system comprising:
- means for operating a plurality of linked gaming devices to play a main game and a group game, whereby the group game is played by actions of at least two teams of players of the linked gaming devices;
- means for evaluating whether said group game is to be initiated based on at least one of a plurality of predefined game rules;
- means for determining when contributions from the at least two teams reach a designated value of contributions to a first prize and a second prize;
- means for conducting the group game for the at least two teams when said event evaluator determines that contributions from the at least two teams have reached said designated value of contributions to said first prize and said second prize, wherein a first of the at least two teams is associated with the first prize and a second of the at least two teams is associated with the second prize, and wherein a value of the first prize and a value of the second prize increment in response to respective actions of the first and second teams of players;
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- means for determining which team is to be awarded a group game prize based on which of the first prize and second prize first reaches a predefined value, wherein an increment to the first prize causes a corresponding decrement to the second prize and an increment to the second prize causes a corresponding decrement to the first prize.
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A method of gaming comprising:
- providing a plurality of linked gaming devices operable to play a main game and a group game, the group game being played by at least two teams of players of the linked gaming devices;
- evaluating whether said group game is to be initiated based on at least one of a plurality of predefined game rules;
- determining when contributions from the at least two teams reach a designated value of contributions to a first prize and a second prize;
- conducting the group game for the at least two teams when said event evaluator determines that contributions from the at least two teams have reached said designated value of contributions to said first prize and said second prize, by associating a first of the at least two teams with the first prize and a second of the at least two teams with the second prize, and incrementing a value of the first prize and a value of the second prize in response to respective actions of the first and second teams of players, said incrementing of a value of the first prize causing a corresponding decrement to the value of the second prize and said incrementing of a value of the second prize causing a corresponding decrement to the value of the first prize;
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- determining which team is to be awarded a group game prize based on which of the first prize and second prize first reaches a predefined value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.