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Game with a user alterable prize distribution

a prize distribution and user technology, applied in the field of games with user alterable prize distribution, can solve the problems of cumbersome and costly replacement processes, inability to change the result identifying arrangement, and inability to offer special promotional prizes. , to achieve the effect of convenient offering special promotional prizes

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-12-02
MULTIMEDIA GAMES
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Benefits of technology

Enables game operators to offer promotional prizes and modify prize distributions conveniently, maintaining constant probability for each result level, thus enhancing operational flexibility and reducing costs associated with replacing result identifying arrangements.

Problems solved by technology

Prize distributions implemented through result identifying algorithms, lottery game sets, sweepstakes game sets, and bingo games have previously been unalterable.
All of these processes for replacing the result identifying arrangement are cumbersome and costly.
Also, these prior processes do not allow for temporary changes in a result identifying arrangement to accommodate various promotional prizes that could be desirable to a game provider or operator.

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[0037]In the following disclosure, FIGS. 1 through 5 will be used to describe basic aspects of the present intention. FIGS. 6 through 9 will be used to describe specific implementations of the invention in connection with various gaming systems. FIGS. 10 and 11 will be used to describe an implementation of the invention in which result level values may be modified without changing the overall payout of the game.

[0038]As shown in FIG. 1, a result level structure 100 embodying the principles of the invention may be represented as a data table including two columns, column 101 and column 102. The data included in the remaining columns shown in FIG. 1, namely, columns 103, 104, 105, and 106 contain information associated with result level structure 100. Result level structure 100 includes a number of result levels each represented by a row 109 in the table shown in FIG. 1. For each result level 109, result level structure 100 includes a result level identifier under column 101 and a res...

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Abstract

A game, system, apparatus, and method are disclosed with an updatable prize result structure. The result structure having several first level result identifiers and an additional second level result. First level results are each associated with an expected number of plays per game. As with each first result level, the additional second result levels are each associated with a respective number of results per given number of plays. In contrast to first level results, the second level results correlate to a player or operator assigned value which may be modified during game play to change results provided in subsequent games.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 447,389, filed Jun. 6, 2006.[0002]The entire content of this application is incorporated herein by explicit reference in their entirety for all purposes.COPYRIGHT NOTICE[0003]A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent files or records, but otherwise reserves all rights of copyright whatsoever.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]1. Field of the Invention[0005]This invention relates to games, gaming systems and to gaming machines. More particularly, the invention relates to a game, gaming machine, gaming system and related methods which provides a player or game operator the ability to alter the prize distribution...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63F9/24
CPCG07F17/32G07F17/3232
Inventor LIND, CLIFTON E.LIND, JEFFERSON CRAIGWATKINS, BRIAN ALEXANDER
Owner MULTIMEDIA GAMES