Dynamic Odds Adjustment for Gaming Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines often disadvantage players who wager more than the minimum required amount for designated awards, as the awards do not scale with the wager, and establishments face challenges in changing the odds of winning without modifying the base game or obtaining regulatory approval.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that makes additional independent random determinations based on the player's wager, allowing for increased winning probabilities without altering the base game's paytable, ensuring that players wagering more have a higher chance of winning, while maintaining the average expected payback percentage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the gaming machine uses a fixed paytable for designated awards regardless of wager amount, then the award structure remains simple and predictable, but players who wager more than the minimum are disadvantaged as they do not receive scaled awards
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic odds adjustment where the probability of winning designated awards changes based on wager amount. Players who wager more receive enhanced odds or bonuses, making the system adaptive rather than static. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining simple award displays while dynamically adjusting win probabilities to reward higher wagers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of win probability based on wager amount. Instead of changing award values (which would complicate the paytable), the system modifies the odds parameter - higher wagers trigger better odds or bonus opportunities. This allows the award structure to remain simple while providing scaled benefits for higher wagers through parameter adjustment.
2Reliability
If the gaming establishment changes the base game's paytable or math model to adjust winning odds, then the winning probabilities can be adjusted, but regulatory approval is required and the base game must be modified
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the gaming system into two independent parts: the base game with its fixed paytable and the designated awards system with adjustable odds. By separating these functions, the establishment can modify winning odds for designated awards without changing the base game math model or requiring full regulatory re-approval. This segmentation allows independent adjustment of odds while maintaining the integrity of the approved base game.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism - a separate odds adjustment layer that operates between the player's wager and the designated award determination. This intermediary system modifies win probabilities without altering the base game itself, acting as a buffer that allows odds adjustment while preserving the approved base game structure and avoiding complex modifications.
3Productivity
If the gaming machine offers higher wager denominations, then players can wager more for a chance at designated awards, but players are discouraged from wagering more as they do not receive increased benefits or enhanced odds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by monitoring wager amounts and automatically adjusting odds or providing bonuses for higher wagers. When players choose higher wager denominations, the system responds with improved win probabilities or additional benefits. This feedback loop creates a positive incentive structure that encourages players to wager more, directly linking higher wagers to enhanced returns and resolving the lack of player incentive.
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AI summary
A gaming system and method that enables the odds of obtaining a winning outcome or a designated outcome for a play of a game to change without modifying the paytable of the game. The gaming system makes a first determination using a first processor based on a paytable of a game. The gaming system makes a second determination using a second processor, where the second determination may be based, at least in part, on the wager amount. The gaming system displays a single game outcome to the player and either provides the player with the highest award resulting from the determinations or any awards resulting from the determinations.