Gaming System Symbol Modifier for Optimum Win Outcomes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems lack alternatives to maintain or increase player enjoyment, as they rely on traditional symbol displays and outcomes without innovative mechanisms to enhance win possibilities.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that includes a symbol selector, outcome generator, and symbol modifier to automatically modify symbols, allowing for optimum win outcomes by moving symbols within or into the display area, incorporating function symbols like wild, scatter, or multiplier functions, and operating in normal and special game modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional random symbol display is used, then game simplicity is maintained, but player enjoyment decreases due to lack of innovation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary evaluation of all possible symbol arrangement outcomes before the game round concludes. The symbol modifier pre-calculates which symbol positions should be modified to achieve optimal win outcomes, and then applies these modifications automatically. This preliminary action allows the system to offer enhanced gameplay variety without requiring complex real-time decision-making during game play.
Solution Approach 2:
The symbol modifier automatically modifies symbols to achieve optimal win outcomes without requiring player intervention or complex control mechanisms. The system serves itself by autonomously determining and applying symbol modifications based on predefined optimization criteria, thereby enhancing gameplay variety while maintaining system simplicity.
2Reliability
If symbols are automatically modified to achieve optimum win outcomes, then player reward increases, but game fairness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The symbol modifier applies modifications selectively rather than universally. It only modifies symbols when such modification can achieve an optimal win outcome, and leaves other symbols unchanged. This partial action approach ensures that the system enhances win reliability through targeted modifications while preserving game fairness by not excessively interfering with all symbol outcomes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously evaluates the current symbol arrangement and feedback from game outcomes to determine when and how to modify symbols. The symbol modifier uses feedback from the random symbol display and existing symbol positions to intelligently determine which modifications will achieve optimal win outcomes, thereby improving win reliability while maintaining fairness through informed, rather than arbitrary, modifications.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple game modes are implemented, then player engagement increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The symbol modifier is designed as a universal component that can operate across multiple game modes (normal mode and special game mode) without requiring separate control systems for each mode. The same symbol modifier logic applies in both modes, adapting its behavior based on the current mode's rules. This multi-functionality approach allows the system to offer varied gameplay modes while avoiding the complexity of implementing separate modification systems for each mode.
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AI summary
A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a symbol selector arranged to select a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols for display in a display area, an outcome generator arranged to determine a game outcome based on the displayed symbols and to provide a player reward when the displayed symbols correspond to a win outcome, and a symbol modifier arranged to automatically modify at least one symbol so that the displayed symbols after modification of the at least one symbol correspond to an optimum win outcome. A corresponding method is also disclosed.