Dynamic Reel Strip Selection for Gaming System Variability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems have fixed reel strips with stacks of symbols, which lack variability and do not adapt to player inputs or preferences, limiting the gaming experience and compliance with different regulatory requirements.
Innovation Solution
A dynamic gaming system that randomly selects reel strips sets from a memory, each with unique characteristics, allowing for adjustable weightings based on player inputs and wagers, enabling the selection of symbols and updating a meter accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fixed reel strips with stacks of symbols are used, then the gaming system structure is simple, but the gaming experience lacks variability and adaptability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic reel strip configuration where the system randomly selects from multiple pre-configured reel strip sets during gameplay, rather than using fixed static configurations. This allows the gaming experience to vary dynamically while the physical hardware remains unchanged, resolving the contradiction between variability and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of reel strip configuration by selecting different sets with varying characteristics (such as different symbol distributions, stack configurations, or payout structures) based on game state or random selection, thereby achieving gaming experience variability without hardware modification.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple reel strips sets with different characteristics are stored and randomly selected, then gaming experience variability is improved, but the memory and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of physically implementing multiple different reel strip configurations in hardware, the system creates virtual copies of reel strip data in memory and randomly selects among them during operation. This allows multiple configurations to be stored and switched between without requiring duplicate physical components, efficiently resolving the memory versus flexibility contradiction.
3Adaptability or versatility
If fixed reel strips are used, then the system is easier to comply with regulatory requirements, but the system cannot adapt to different RTP requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts its configuration by selecting from multiple pre-approved reel strip sets that correspond to different RTP (Return to Player) requirements. This allows the gaming system to adapt to different regulatory requirements without physical reconfiguration, maintaining compliance flexibility while managing complexity through software-based selection.
Data Source
AI summary
Method and systems of gaming are provided herein. One method includes storing in a memory of the gaming system a plurality of reel strips sets, each reel strips set including a characteristic that is different from the other reel strips sets. The method may further include initiating a play of the game. The method may include selecting, at random, via the game controller, a reel strips set from the plurality of reel strips sets. The method also includes displaying, via the game controller, symbols in symbol display positions on the display of the gaming system. The method further includes evaluating, via the game controller, the selected symbols. The method further includes updating, via the game controller, a meter stored in the memory in accordance with the evaluation.