Gaming Machine Random Common Game Trigger Logic
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming machines lack a mechanism to enhance the entertainment value of common games by making it difficult for players to predict when a common game will start, leading to reduced player engagement and excitement.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine system where a center controller randomly sets and determines the common game start condition based on base game information from each terminal, ensuring that the common game can initiate at any terminal that meets the condition, thereby surprising players and maintaining their interest.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the common game start condition is determined in advance, then players can easily predict when the common game will start, but player engagement and entertainment value decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic determination of common game start conditions by comparing real-time base game information (bet amounts, game counts) from multiple terminals against randomly set thresholds. This dynamic approach prevents players from predicting common game start times, thereby maintaining high engagement and entertainment value while still providing clear operational feedback when conditions are met.
2Reliability
If the common game start condition is randomly set and determined for each terminal, then player anticipation and entertainment value increase, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the system into independent terminal controllers, each autonomously determining whether its local base game information meets the common game start condition. This segmentation allows parallel processing of condition checks across multiple terminals without requiring complex centralized coordination, thus managing system complexity while maintaining randomised condition determination for enhanced player engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The center controller pre-sets the common game start condition thresholds before gaming sessions begin. These predetermined thresholds are then used by terminal controllers to evaluate real-time base game information, eliminating the need for complex real-time condition calculation while maintaining the element of randomness and player anticipation.
3Measurement precision
If base game information from each terminal is continuously monitored to determine common game start, then accurate and timely common game initiation is achieved, but communication data volume and processing load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential base game information elements (bet amounts, game counts) needed for common game start determination from each terminal. By focusing on these specific data points rather than transmitting complete game state information, the system achieves accurate condition assessment while minimizing communication data volume and processing requirements.
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AI summary
A gaming machine: determines, for each slot machine 10, whether a common game start condition is met, based on an accumulated value relative to bet amount information transmitted from each slot machine 10 for each unit base game; and when the common game start condition is met at any one of the slot machines 10, executes a common game at each of the slot machines 10.