Multilevel Gaming System With Symbol Comparison And Adaptive Prize Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems lack a dynamic and engaging multilevel game structure that allows players to progress through levels based on symbol comparisons, with decreasing success probabilities, and provide a rewarding prize allocation mechanism.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that selects player symbols at each level, compares them to reference symbols, and allocates prizes based on successful outcomes, allowing players to advance through levels with decreasing success probabilities, using a symbol selector, comparator, and prize allocator, and optionally incorporating function symbols and varying symbol sets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a multilevel game structure with symbol comparison is implemented, then player engagement and challenge are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The game is divided into multiple levels, each with its own symbol comparison mechanism. The system segments the gaming experience into discrete stages (levels) where players progressively advance by successfully comparing symbols at each level, creating a structured yet engaging multilevel gameplay experience
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a temporal dimension to the game by implementing progressive levels that unfold over time. Players move through levels sequentially, with each level adding complexity and reducing success probability, thereby creating engagement through dimensional progression rather than spatial complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If success probability decreases with each level, then challenge and engagement increase, but player retention decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The success probability is made dynamic rather than static. The system automatically adjusts the difficulty and success probability at each level based on the player's progression, creating a balanced challenge that maintains engagement while managing retention through adaptive difficulty scaling
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides continuous feedback to players about their performance and progression through levels. By monitoring player responses and outcomes at each level, the system can adjust future level designs and probabilities to optimize both challenge and retention, creating a responsive gameplay experience
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple symbols are selected and compared at each level, then game outcomes become more varied, but measurement precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Different symbol comparison rules and precision requirements are applied at different levels of the game. Early levels may use simpler comparison criteria while higher levels implement more stringent precision requirements, allowing outcome variety to increase progressively without overwhelming the player or system at any single level
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AI summary
A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a symbol selector arranged to select at least one player symbol at each level of a multilevel game from a set of symbols, an outcome generator arranged to determine at each level of the multilevel game a successful or unsuccessful game level outcome based on a comparison of the at least one selected player symbol with at least one reference symbol such that the player proceeds to a succeeding game level if the game outcome is successful and the player does not proceed to a succeeding game level if the game outcome is not successful. The gaming system also comprises a prize allocator arranged to allocate a prize to a player based on the game level the player has successfully completed. A corresponding method is also disclosed.