Gaming Machine Outcome Combination for Player Attraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machine operators face challenges in attracting frequent play due to the perceived equal likelihood of winning across competing machines, necessitating the enhancement of entertainment value and excitement in gaming experiences.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine design that includes a value input device, display for multiple location formations, and a processor to select and combine outcomes, providing awards based on combined results, with features like bonus games to enhance player engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional gaming machines are used with equal winning likelihood across competing machines, then the gaming experience is simple and straightforward, but player attraction and entertainment value are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming machine divides the outcome generation process into multiple independent segments: a first formation of locations is selected, then a second formation of locations is selected, and these are combined to produce the final outcome. This segmentation creates multiple layers of randomness and complexity, making each gaming session more engaging and unpredictable, thereby increasing player attraction without requiring the entire system to be overly complex.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a dimensional transformation by mapping outcomes from a first formation to a second formation through a combination process. This dimensional change creates additional complexity in the outcome space, allowing for more varied and exciting gaming experiences while maintaining manageable system architecture through structured transformation rules.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple location formations are used to generate outcomes, then entertainment value and excitement are enhanced, but the complexity of outcome generation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the first formation of locations and the second formation of locations through a combination process to generate the final outcome. This merging approach allows the system to leverage multiple sources of randomness and complexity while consolidating them into a single outcome generation process, thereby enhancing entertainment value without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The outcome generation mechanism is designed with multi-functionality, where the same processor and selection logic can handle various formations and combinations. This universal approach allows the system to generate diverse and exciting outcomes using a standardized process, reducing the need for separate complex subsystems for each outcome type.
3Productivity
If bonus games and outcome combinations are added to enhance excitement, then player engagement increases, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining multiple formations of locations and their associated outcomes before the actual gaming session. This allows bonus games and complex outcome combinations to be prepared in advance, enabling them to execute quickly and engagingly during play without requiring complex real-time computation, thus increasing frequent play while managing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary combination process that acts as a mediator between the first and second formations of locations. This intermediary layer simplifies the interaction between multiple complex components by providing a structured way to combine outcomes, thereby enabling bonus games and exciting features without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
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AI summary
A gaming machine (10) for conducting a wagering game comprises a value input device (16) for receiving a wager from a player and a display (26) for displaying a first plurality of locations in a first formation and a second plurality of locations in a second formation. The second plurality of locations is associated with the first plurality of locations. A processor is operative to select at least one first location from the first plurality of locations to yield a first outcome, select at least one second location from the second plurality of locations to yield a second outcome, combine the first and second outcomes to yield a combined outcome, and provide an award based on the combined outcome.