Gaming system and method for providing a progressive award multiple times before resetting the displayed value of the provided progressive award

摘要

In various embodiments, the gaming system and method disclosed herein maintains a progressive award that is associated with a plurality of different progressive award trigger values or progressive award hit values. In such embodiments, the displayed value of the progressive award does not reset to a reset value or reset amount until the displayed value of that progressive award has incremented to each of the plurality of progressive award hit values associated with that progressive award. In these embodiments, the gaming system provides a plurality of displayed incremented values of a progressive award a plurality of times before the displayed value of that progressive award is reset to the reset value. Such a configuration provides that after the gaming system provides a currently displayed value of a progressive award to a player at least a first time, the displayed value of that progressive award continues incrementing from the provided value. Maintain a progressive award 102 FIG. 3 Randomly determine a plurality of progressive award hit values 104 Enable a player to place a wager 122 on a play of a primary game 110 Reset the Provide the player any incremented 108 award for any primary value of the game winning outcome progressive award to a Did a reset value progressive award NO 10 120 increase event/ +YES 112 Maintain the value of the Increment the value of the progressive award progressive award Is the current value of the progressive NO award one of the randomly determined progressive award hit values? Provide the current value of the progressive award to the player Is the value of the progressive award NO less than at least one of the YES randomly determined progressive award hit values?