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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2005
Stephen Cowan, New South Wales, AU;
Dean Wright, New South Wales, AU;
Stephen Cowan, New South Wales, AU;
Dean Wright, New South Wales, AU;
Paltronics Australasia Pty Limited, New South Wales, AU;
Abstract
Gaming apparatus including a plurality of gaming machines () for providing respective players with a respective primary game and for providing primary game information to a gaming server () in communication with each of the gaming machines. The gaming server is responsive to the primary game information for providing a secondary game in which prizes are allocated to gaming machines selected from among the plurality of gaming machines, the probability of a prize being allocated to a gaming machine being dependent upon gaming activity at that gaming machine. The value of any prize allocated to a gaming machine is also dependent upon gaming activity at that gaming machine.