Gaming System Wager Allocation Across Linked Games
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems lack the ability to allow players to strategically allocate wagers across multiple linked games, limiting player engagement and excitement.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that enables players to select a single wager level for multiple linked games, allowing allocation of portions of the wager amount across games, with automatic adjustments to maintain a total wager amount across all games, enhancing strategic wagering and player experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If players place multiple independent wagers on multiple games, then each game can be played with optimal wagering, but the system complexity and number of inputs required increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent wager inputs into a single wager input that automatically distributes funds across multiple linked games. This merging approach maintains the ability to play multiple games with flexible wager allocation while eliminating the need for separate wager inputs for each game, thus reducing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The single wager input mechanism serves multiple functions simultaneously: it places wagers on multiple different games, allows flexible allocation of wager amounts across games, and provides a unified interface for player interaction. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making the wager placement system both versatile and simple.
2Adaptability or versatility
If players can allocate wagers strategically across multiple games, then player engagement and excitement increase, but the ease of operation decreases due to additional allocation controls
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides self-service wager allocation where the player's single wager input automatically distributes funds across multiple games according to predetermined or dynamically determined allocation ratios. This eliminates the need for players to manually adjust multiple controls while still enabling strategic wagering decisions, thus maintaining ease of operation while providing allocation flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes wager allocation rules and ratios before the player places their wager. This preliminary configuration allows strategic wager allocation to be implemented automatically without requiring complex real-time adjustments during gameplay, preserving operational simplicity while enabling strategic depth.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system allows flexible wager allocation across linked games, then player excitement and engagement improve, but ensuring consistent total wagers across all games becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor and adjust wager allocations across linked games to ensure the total wager amount remains consistent with the player's input. The system provides real-time feedback on allocation status and automatically corrects any discrepancies, maintaining reliability while allowing flexible distribution.
Solution Approach 2:
The wager allocation system dynamically adjusts distribution ratios across games while maintaining the total wager amount constant. This dynamic capability allows flexible reallocation in response to game outcomes or player preferences while ensuring the sum of all wagers always equals the original player input, thus preserving consistency through adaptive control.
Data Source
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In various embodiments, the gaming system and method disclosed herein enables a player to allocate portions of a selected predetermined wager amount amongst a plurality of linked games. In one such embodiment, the player selects allocation percentages such that the total of the allocated portions according to the allocation percentages equals the selected predetermined wager amount. For each of the plurality of linked games, the gaming system determines and displays a game outcome, and determines and displays an award associated with the determined game outcome. The gaming system further provides the determined award for each of the plurality of linked games to the player.