Gaming system and method

Abstract

A computer implemented system for providing customers of retail outlet(s) with a transaction based gaming reward. There is a point of sale at a retail outlet (2) such as a supermarket check-out. There is a POS device (3) which runs POS software which also runs the application for production of a ticket, coupon or receipt with a reward to be offered to the customer making the transaction. To this end, the POS device (3) and its software stores text and image(s) required for production of a required reward via the ticket, coupon or receipt. The application software for the reward may control what is displayed on the pole display. There is a scanner (4) at the point of sale 1 which scans the or each item (5) purchased, which scanner (4) triggers the application to inspect the text being sent to the POS screen (6). The point of sale (1) also includes a printer (7) which is a dedicated printer device which prints out a ticket, coupon or receipt bearing the reward offered to the customer, which reward is determined by the application and which can be triggered to activate the dedicated printer (7) to print out the ticket, coupon or receipt at any time during the POS transaction. The reward can be offered at a first characteristic of a transaction, all characteristics of a transaction, or at any number of characteristics between one and all characteristics.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to gaming systems and methods, and more particularly to computer-implemented systems and methods for providing retail outlets with gaming rewards-based transactions for customers. Background technique [0002] Customers at a retail location typically complete the transaction at the point of sale (POS) at that location. Transactions are usually done electronically and details of the transaction (including its overview) are stored in a central database, but are often not used thereafter. There is also the fact that games played by gaming devices are especially in places such as casinos (although other places such as airports, train stations, bus stations, ferry terminals and concourses of gaming parlors are also conceivable) games are becoming more and more popular. These games are played for rewards, but there is often no initial incentive for potential players of such devices to operate the gaming devices. This is the c...

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In other words, there is usually no standard as to what level of stimulation can be given

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