Central Determination Poker Game With Backfill Algorithms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing poker games that provide predetermined outcomes lack player interaction and engagement, as they often result in inconsistencies between the player's card selections and the final hand, leading to a diminished skill element and reduced appeal for players who enjoy the strategic aspect of poker.
Innovation Solution
A central determination gaming system that selects a predetermined game outcome before the player initiates a game, allowing the player to hold or discard cards, and uses backfill algorithms to ensure a final hand with a payout equal to the predetermined outcome, maintaining player interaction while ensuring a predetermined result.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a predetermined game outcome is selected before player interaction, then the payout is guaranteed to match the predetermined outcome, but player engagement and strategic element are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary selection of a predetermined game outcome and identifies the playing cards that will result in that outcome before the player initiates the game. This ensures the payout is guaranteed while setting up the conditions for subsequent player interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to the player by displaying held playing cards that are determined to result in the predetermined outcome. This creates a feedback loop where the player's decisions are informed by the system's predetermined outcome, maintaining engagement while ensuring the guaranteed payout.
2Reliability
If the system forces consistency between player card selections and predetermined outcome, then the payout is guaranteed, but player autonomy and skill element are diminished
Solution Approach 1:
The system preliminarily identifies which playing cards will result in the predetermined outcome and designates them as held cards. This preliminary action ensures payout consistency while allowing the player to interact with these pre-determined held cards, maintaining a sense of autonomy within the constrained framework.
3Ease of operation
If random determination is used for game outcomes, then player interaction and strategic element are maintained, but the payout cannot be guaranteed and casino profitability is uncertain
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary selection of the predetermined outcome and identification of required playing cards before the game begins. This preliminary action guarantees the payout while the subsequent player interaction with held and discarded cards maintains the strategic element and player engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback mechanisms to display held playing cards that align with the predetermined outcome, allowing players to make strategic decisions based on this information. This maintains player interaction and strategic thinking while the predetermined outcome ensures guaranteed payout and casino profitability.
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An poker game which provides a predetermined outcome to a player. In one embodiment, a plurality of playing cards are provided to a player wherein one or more of the provided playing cards are based on the predetermined game outcome. The player is enabled to select one or more of the initially dealt playing cards to hold or to discard. If a poker hand with an associated payout equal to the value associated with the predetermined game outcome may be obtained based on the held cards, the gaming device utilizes one or more backfill algorithms, to determine which card or cards, if any, need to be dealt to the player. The determined cards are provided to the player to replace the playing cards designated by the player to discard and the selected predetermined game outcome which is associated with a value equal to the payout of the player's poker hand is provided to the player. If a poker hand with an associated payout equal to the value associated with the selected predetermined game outcome cannot be obtained by the player based on the playing cards held by the player, a subset of the held cards is selected and one or more backfill algorithms are used to determine which cards need to be dealt to the player. The discarded playing cards and at least one held playing card are replaced with the determined card. The selected predetermined game outcome which is associated with a value equal to the payout of the player's poker hand is then provided to the player.