Digital Transaction Card Gameplay With Electronic Ledger Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional board games for educational purposes often lack unpredictability and fail to teach real-world financial principles effectively.

Innovation Solution

An electronic game system and method that utilizes digital transaction cards, virtual wheel features, and electronic ledgers to simulate business transactions, allowing players to record and validate transactions based on real-world bookkeeping principles, with winning criteria determined by financial performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional board games are used for educational purposes, then they provide a structured learning environment, but they lack unpredictability and fail to teach real-world financial principles effectively

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveeducational effectivenessVSAvoidunpredictability and real-world applicability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical board game system with an electronic game manager and digital transaction cards that simulate real-world business transactions. The electronic system uses digital ledgers, virtual wheels for random card selection, and automated transaction validation to create unpredictable scenarios while maintaining educational structure, thereby resolving the contradiction between reliability and adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameters of the game system by introducing dynamic elements such as random digital transaction card selection through virtual wheels, variable transaction amounts, and evolving business scenarios. These parameter changes create unpredictability while the electronic game manager maintains structured learning objectives, achieving both reliability and adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If digital transaction cards and electronic ledgers are used to simulate business transactions, then real-world financial principles are taught effectively, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefinancial principle accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic game manager automatically validates transactions against accounting rules, generates financial statements, and determines game outcomes without requiring complex manual processing. The system serves itself by automatically comparing digital transaction card data with ledger entries and applying accounting principles, thereby maintaining financial accuracy while reducing operational complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The electronic game manager acts as an intermediary that simplifies the interaction between players and the complex accounting system. It handles the complexity of transaction validation, ledger management, and financial statement generation behind the scenes, presenting a simplified interface to players while ensuring accurate application of financial principles

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If automated transaction validation is implemented, then accurate bookkeeping is ensured, but the ease of operation decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetransaction recording accuracyVSAvoidoperation simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic game manager provides immediate feedback to players when transactions are recorded, automatically validating entries against accounting rules and notifying players of errors. This feedback mechanism ensures accurate bookkeeping while guiding players through the process, making the system easier to operate by preventing and correcting mistakes in real-time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20260027456A1Method and system for managing an electronic game based on recording electronic transactions

Publication Date: 2026.01.29 SAUDI ARABIAN OIL CO

AI summary

A method may include obtaining various user requests to participate in an electronic game. The method may further include determining a selection of digital transaction cards for the electronic game based on a business game type. The method may further include obtaining a digital transaction card among the digital transaction cards for a game round of the electronic game. The method may further include presenting an electronic ledger in a graphical user interface that is displayed on a user device in response to obtaining the digital transaction card. The method may further include recording, in response to a user input to the graphical user interface, a digital transaction in an electronic ledger based on the digital transaction card. The method may further include determining whether a player associated with the user device satisfies a winning criterion based on an electronic business statement.