Electronic Gaming Machine Bonus Window RTP Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic gaming machines (EGMs) struggle to achieve a designated game Return to Player (RTP) while providing additional opportunities to enhance winning combinations, which can lead to increased potential payouts and regulatory compliance issues.
Innovation Solution
The EGM includes a processor configured to display a base game window with a matrix of symbol positions, evaluate symbols to trigger bonus game windows, and modify the base game outcome based on the outcomes of the bonus game windows, thereby improving winning combinations while managing RTP within regulatory limits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If additional bonus game windows are added to enhance winning combinations, then player engagement and potential winnings are improved, but Return to Player (RTP) control deteriorates and regulatory compliance becomes difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-determines the base game outcome using the RNG before the player initiates the spin. This preliminary determination of the base outcome allows the system to later use bonus game windows to enhance this fixed outcome without actually changing the fundamental game result, thereby maintaining RTP control while providing gameplay enhancement.
Solution Approach 2:
The game display is segmented into multiple independent windows: a base game window showing the predetermined outcome and additional bonus game windows showing enhanced versions of the same outcome. This segmentation allows the system to display multiple enhancing outcomes simultaneously while the base outcome remains fixed and compliant with RTP requirements.
2Productivity
If the base game outcome is modified based on bonus game window outcomes, then winning combinations are improved, but game fairness and RTP regulation are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The base game outcome is predetermined and locked in before the bonus game windows are displayed. The modification of the display based on bonus windows does not actually change the predetermined outcome used for RTP calculations, maintaining game fairness while providing visual enhancement.
Solution Approach 2:
The bonus game windows display copies of the base game outcome with enhanced symbols or combinations. These are visual copies used for entertainment and engagement purposes, but they do not alter the actual predetermined outcome that determines the real payout and maintains fairness.
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AI summary
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) includes a processor that provides opportunities to improve a winning combination in a base game window by copying the winning combination into one or more bonus game windows. The EGM achieves a designated game's Return to Player (RTP) while providing the opportunities. When a round of a game provided by the EGM generates an outcome in a base game window with a winning combination that includes one special symbol, the winning combination is copied to one or more bonus game windows. The bonus game windows are then played out to randomly determine whether to modify or improve the copied winning combination of the base game.