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1. A gaming system for awarding a jackpot to one of a plurality of players that accumulates responsive to play signals from gaming devices played by the players and that generates a chance to determine a number that awards the jackpot to one of the players when the determined number corresponds to a predefined trigger number, the chances being generated responsive to the play signals and allotted to the player playing the gaming device that generated the chance, the gaming system comprising:
an actuator for generating a chance activation signal each time a player chooses to actuate it; a plurality of gaming devices; at least one of a currency acceptor, a ticket acceptor, and a coin acceptor operatively connected to each gaming device for receiving credits from a player for placing wagers on games played on the gaming devices; a server connected to the plurality of gaming devices via a network, the server including:
a first memory to store the predefined trigger number,a second memory to store a current jackpot amount,a third memory to store allotted chances in response to receiving a player preference submitted by the player via an actuator to store at least one chance allotted to the player; a processor; a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing programing code executable by the processor configured to activate one of the stored chances responsive to one of the chance activation signals and to determine if a number determined responsive to an activated chance coincides with the predefined trigger number, wherein the server is configured to update the current jackpot amount stored in the second memory when a jackpot contribution is received from a connected gaming device, to generate the chance when a jackpot contribution is received from a connected gaming device, to allot the generated chance to a player playing the connected gaming device from which the jackpot contribution was received, to receive the player preference to store the at least one allotted chance in the third memory or to automatically determine a number if the player preference is not received, and to award the current jackpot amount stored in the second memory when the processor determines that an activated chance coincides with the predefined trigger number; at least one of a ticket printer operatively connected to each gaming device and a coin hopper operatively connected to each gaming device; and at least one actuator operatively connected to the gaming device that when actuated by a player of the gaming device initiates at least one of printing a ticket and dispensing coins. |
