Gaming System Guaranteed Wild Reel Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Players in gaming systems are not adequately informed about how their wager levels affect their chances of better outcomes, leading to uncertainty in maximizing awards.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that allows players to make qualifying wagers, highlighting reels based on wager levels, and determining a wild reel through probability to enhance winning opportunities, providing a guaranteed wild reel with increased wagering.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If players make higher wagers, then their chances of receiving better outcomes improve, but players are not made aware of this relationship
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides visual feedback by highlighting reels that are eligible to be WILD reels based on the player's wager level. This feedback mechanism makes the relationship between higher wagers and better outcomes (higher chance of WILD reels) visible and understandable to players, resolving the information loss problem while maintaining statistical reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses visual highlighting (color changes) to indicate which reels are eligible to be WILD reels. This visual indication communicates the benefit of higher wagers to players without altering the underlying statistical probabilities, thus maintaining reliability while improving information transparency
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system highlights multiple reels as eligible for WILD, then player engagement increases, but determining which reel becomes WILD becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of reel eligibility based on wager level. Different wager levels result in different numbers of highlighted reels, providing adaptability while maintaining a straightforward determination process where any highlighted reel can become WILD with equal probability
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AI summary
A system apparatus and method which provides a player of a gaming system the ability to increase their wager for a guaranteed wild reel. The system apparatus and method may increase the number of reels that may become a wild reel based on the player increasing their wager. A system apparatus and method which provides a player of a non-wagering or social gaming system the ability to increase their virtual wager for a guaranteed wild reel is also contemplated.