Finite Outcome Pools for Gaming Volatility and Cold Streak Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Casino-style games often experience prolonged cold streaks without payouts, leading to player frustration and loss of interest, which negatively impacts operator revenue.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that uses successive finite pools of winning and losing outcomes, resetting the finite pool after exhaustion to control the maximum number of consecutive losses, thereby managing the Return to Player (RTP) and reducing cold streaks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a random number generator is used to determine game outcomes, then payouts are based on probabilities with greater odds yielding greater payouts, but prolonged cold streaks occur causing player frustration and loss of interest
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the game outcome determination by switching between two different finite pools (first pool with higher payout probability, second pool with lower payout probability) based on a trigger condition. This dynamic switching mechanism allows the system to adapt between maintaining player engagement through frequent payouts and ensuring operator profitability through controlled payout frequency, thereby resolving the contradiction between reliability of payouts and player engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of payout probability by selecting from two distinct finite pools with different probability characteristics. The first finite pool provides higher payout probability to maintain player engagement during normal operation, while the second finite pool provides lower payout probability to control overall payout frequency. This parameter switching resolves the contradiction by allowing the system to operate in different modes depending on game state.
2Ease of operation
If the finite pool is reset after exhaustion to control maximum consecutive losses, then cold streaks are limited, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The outcome determination system is segmented into two distinct finite pools with different payout probability characteristics. Each pool is independently managed and can be exhaustively consumed before switching to the other. This segmentation allows the system to control cold streaks by ensuring that even in the worst case (depleting the more restrictive pool), the maximum consecutive losses are limited, while maintaining relatively simple individual pool structures that don't overly complicate the overall system.
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AI summary
A system and method involving a finite pool database containing a plurality of finite pools populated with winning and non-winning outcomes. Once a random finite pool is selected, a random winning or non-winning outcome is selected therefrom. Depending on the selection of a winning outcome or a non-winning outcome a first or second award database is contacted and used to identify the winning or non-winning award. The system and method may be used with class II, III and pull tab games.