Gaming Machine Win Chains Bonus Feature Play
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current slot machines do not allow continuous game play beyond initial losses and do not award cumulative credits during bonus feature play, limiting player engagement and entertainment value.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine with a standard game play mode and bonus feature play mode, where 'Win Chains' are awarded upon achieving a predetermined number of scatter symbols, enabling uninterrupted series of winning spins and cumulative credits, allowing bonus feature play to continue until all 'Winning Seasons' are exhausted.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of moving object
If bonus feature play is triggered in conventional slot machines, then players receive additional game opportunities, but the game terminates after initial losses without cumulative credits
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements Win Chains that allow bonus feature play to continue indefinitely through continuous winning spins, rather than terminating after initial losses. The system awards cumulative credits for each winning spin in the chain, enabling the bonus feature to persist as long as winning combinations occur, thus providing continuous useful action and resolving the contradiction between bonus duration and game continuity
2Quantity of substance
If conventional bonus games award fixed payouts, then players receive immediate rewards, but cumulative credits are not awarded upon termination
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by awarding cumulative credits during each winning spin in the Win Chain before the bonus feature terminates. Rather than providing only a fixed payout at the end, the system accumulates and awards credits progressively throughout the bonus play, ensuring players receive quantity of substance (credits) continuously while the gameplay extends through the chain of wins
3Adaptability or versatility
If slot machines offer standard reel play only, then game rules are simple and easy to understand, but entertainment value and player engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the gaming experience into distinct modes (standard reel play and bonus feature play) with clearly defined transition triggers. The bonus feature itself is segmented into individual Win Chains, each with its own rules for continuation and credit accumulation. This segmentation allows the system to offer diverse game features while maintaining simplicity within each segment, resolving the contradiction between feature variety and rule complexity
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AI summary
A gaming machine having a standard game play mode and a bonus feature play mode that include winning and non-winning reel set spins. The gaming machine includes a housing having a user interface and a display attached to the housing to enable games having standard and bonus game play modes. Standard game play mode displays a matrix of symbols including scatter symbols. The gaming machine evaluates scatter symbols in the matrix, whereby appearance of a predetermined number of scatter symbols in the matrix triggers bonus feature play mode and initializes a win chain counter. During bonus game play mode a winning reel set spin enables a new reel set spin while leaving the value of the win chain counter unchanged and a non-winning reel set spin decrements the win chain counter. When the win chain counter reaches a threshold value then bonus game play mode terminates.