Gaming Device Modification Symbol Display Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming devices lack innovative features to enhance player enjoyment and excitement by providing new and varied award opportunities, as existing systems primarily rely on single symbol combinations and limited modifier options.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a modification symbol display area, indicated by an indicator or designator symbol, which can change appearance, position, or shape to designate specific areas for enhanced awards, allowing for multiple symbol display areas to be marked for increased winning potential and award modification through mathematical operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple symbol display areas are designated for enhanced awards, then player enjoyment and excitement are increased, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display area is divided into multiple symbol display areas, with specific areas designated for enhanced awards. This segmentation allows the gaming device to provide different award enhancement opportunities in different regions of the display, increasing player engagement without requiring a completely new device architecture
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming device pre-designates certain symbol display areas as enhanced award areas before the game round begins. This preliminary designation allows players to understand the enhanced award opportunities in advance, increasing excitement while maintaining clear device functionality
2Quantity of substance
If modifiers are applied to enhance awards in designated areas, then award amounts are increased, but game scheme complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Modifiers are applied selectively to specific symbol display areas rather than uniformly across the entire display. This local application of quality enhancement allows certain areas to have increased award potential while keeping other areas standard, creating variety without requiring complex game-wide modifications
Solution Approach 2:
The same modifier mechanism is used across multiple symbol display areas, allowing a single game scheme to handle award enhancement in different regions. This multi-functional approach enables the gaming device to provide enhanced awards in various areas using a unified system rather than requiring separate mechanisms for each area
Data Source
AI summary
Gaming devices and methods of operating gaming devices are provided that include indicator or designator symbols. When an indicator or designator symbol is generated and displayed, the indicator or designator symbol indicates at least one symbol display area as a modification symbol display area. Upon at least one subsequent generation of symbols displayed in the symbol display areas, awards associated with symbols displayed in the modification symbol display areas are modified.