Gaming Replay Feature for Strategic Wager Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Gaming devices lack mechanisms to enhance player control over wagers and awards, limiting the gaming experience and encouraging shorter play sessions.

Innovation Solution

A gaming system that allows players to place a replay wager for a group of plays, activating a replay feature that redisplay previous plays and awards, with options to vary wagers and use the replay feature strategically across multiple plays.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a replay feature is added to allow players to replay previous plays, then player control and engagement are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer controlVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The replay feature is nested within the existing wagering game framework. The replay functionality is integrated as a sub-feature that operates within the same game interface and control structure, allowing players to access replay capabilities through the existing game menu system without requiring a separate complex system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The system records and stores previous play outcomes in advance, preparing replay data before the player requests it. This preliminary action of capturing and storing game state information allows the replay feature to execute quickly and smoothly when activated, reducing the perceived complexity for the player.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Duration of action of moving object

If players are allowed to place wagers before seeing outcomes, then player engagement and session duration are improved, but loss of time increases due to waiting for outcomes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplay session durationVSAvoidwaiting time

Core Design Contradiction:

Duration of action of moving objectVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Players place their wagers in advance before the game outcomes are determined. This preliminary wagering action allows the game to proceed immediately without requiring players to wait for wager confirmation, thereby reducing waiting time while maintaining extended play session duration through strategic replay planning.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuous game flow by processing outcomes immediately after wager placement. The replay feature ensures that useful action continues throughout the session as players strategically select which previous plays to replay, maximizing engagement while minimizing idle waiting periods.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS10121316B2Gaming system, gaming device, and method for enabling a current bet to be placed on a future play of a wagering game

Publication Date: 2018.11.06 INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INC

AI summary

The gaming system, gaming device, and gaming method disclosed herein provide an opportunity for a player to place a replay wager for a group or set of a plurality of plays of a wagering game. In one embodiment, the replay wager activates a replay feature which the player can use a designated number of times (such as one time) over the plurality of plays of the wagering game. The player's use of the replay feature causes the gaming system to redisplay the previous play of the wagering game, and provide any awards associated with the previous play of the wagering game. After the player uses the replay feature over each of the designated number (such as one) of the plurality of plays of the wagering game, the player cannot use the replay feature for any of the remaining plays of the plurality of plays of the wagering game.