Gaming System Spin-Match Feature with Dynamic Prize Registers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming systems face challenges in balancing yield versus randomness and volatility to create a feeling of luck, while also improving processing speed and efficiency to enhance gameplay experience with advanced graphics and animations, and providing new levels of player engagement.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine and method that utilize a presentation assembly to present reels and a prize board, with game-logic circuitry that spins and stops reels, updates registers for landed prize symbols, and implements spin-hold-match features to award prizes, including increasing prizes for excess symbols, to create engaging gameplay experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the gaming system uses complex animations and advanced graphics to improve player engagement, then player participation increases, but processing speed and efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system determines all game outcomes using the random element generator before any animations are displayed. All reel stops, prize awards, and animation sequences are pre-determined, allowing the rendering system to process animations independently without blocking game logic execution.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming system is divided into separate functional modules: a game logic module that handles random outcome determination, a rendering module that processes animations, and a display module that presents visual output. This segmentation allows each module to operate independently at its own speed without bottlenecking the others.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the gaming system increases randomness and volatility to create a feeling of luck, then player appeal increases, but long-term yield decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the composition of the symbol pool based on game state and historical outcomes. When players experience losing streaks, the system increases the probability of awarding symbols in the random outcome determination, creating a feeling of luck without fundamentally altering the long-term mathematical expected value.
Solution Approach 2:
The system modifies parameters such as symbol frequency weights and reel strip compositions in real-time based on game conditions. These parameter changes create short-term volatility and luck perceptions while maintaining the overall programmed return-to-player percentage over extended play sessions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the gaming system implements multiple bonus features and game formats to improve entertainment value, then player engagement increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A single random element generator and outcome determination system serves multiple bonus features and game formats. The same core engine that determines base game outcomes also determines bonus trigger conditions, bonus feature outcomes, and special game modes, eliminating the need for separate random number generators for each feature.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple bonus features and game formats are merged into a unified bonus system architecture. Common functions such as prize determination, symbol selection, and outcome animation are combined and shared across all bonus features, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining feature diversity.
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AI summary
A gaming machine and method utilize a presentation assembly configured to present a plurality of reels, an array, and a prize board. The reels bear prize symbols. The prize board includes prizes and associated collection registers. The prize symbols are associated with respective ones of the prizes. Game-logic circuitry is configured to spin and stop the reels to land symbols from the reels in the array and update the register for the prize that is associated with any landed prize symbol. If none of the updated registers are filled, the game-logic circuitry repeats the above operations until any of the updated registers are filled, at which time the prizes associated with the filled registers are awarded. Landed prize symbols in excess of those required to fill a register may increase the prize associated with the excess prize symbols.