Bonus Wheel Layout for Individualized Multi-Player Awards
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing casino table game systems lack a mechanism to provide unique bonus events that offer individualized benefits to multiple players based on predetermined triggering outcomes, often resulting in shared progressive jackpots among all participants.
Innovation Solution
A bonus providing element (BPE) that includes multiple concentric wheels or virtual indicators, providing at least three individual random outcomes for each player, such as identification of player positions, absolute amounts, and multipliers, activated by community or individual triggering events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single wheel with a single bonus event indicator is used, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ability to provide unique benefits to multiple players is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The bonus wheel is divided into multiple independent segments or sections, each capable of displaying different bonus events or outcomes. This segmentation allows the single wheel structure to provide differentiated benefits to multiple players simultaneously, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity by organizing information spatially rather than requiring multiple separate wheels
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces additional dimensional capabilities to the wheel system, such as multiple concentric wheels or a wheel with multiple independent indicator sections. This dimensional expansion enables the wheel to present multiple bonus outcomes in different spatial layers or dimensions, allowing unique benefits to be provided to multiple players without proportionally increasing perceived complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple concentric wheels with multiple segments are used, then the ability to provide individualized bonus awards is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bonus wheel system is segmented into multiple concentric wheels or independent indicator sections, with each segment capable of displaying different outcomes. This segmentation enables individualized bonus awards for multiple players while managing complexity through modular organization, where each wheel segment functions independently but contributes to the overall bonus determination
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs nested concentric wheels where smaller indicator wheels are positioned within larger wheel structures. This nesting arrangement allows multiple levels of random indicators to be integrated into a compact configuration, enabling complex bonus determination logic while minimizing the overall spatial footprint and perceived complexity of the device
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AI summary
A bonus providing device, including a bonus providing element, distinct from underlying game play that enables a plurality of players unique benefits to an underlying game winning outcome or triggering outcome is provided. The bonus providing element provides indications of at least three individual random indicators, wherein at least two of the at least three individual random indicators are linear, each one of the plurality of players being associated with a player station, the player stations being divided into a plurality of groups, with a predetermined number of player stations being associated with each of the groups, The three individual random indicators including an identification of a randomly selected one of the groups, an identification of a randomly selected one of the player stations associated with the randomly selected one of the groups, and an identification of a randomly selected parameter associated with a bonus award.