Gaming Machine Dynamic Yield Adjustment via Model Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The gaming industry faces challenges in striking a balance between yield and randomness in gaming machines to create a feeling of luck for players, which is essential for prolonged and frequent player participation, as existing technologies lack flexibility in adjusting yield percentages and fail to provide a dynamic and engaging gaming experience.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system with game-logic circuitry that provides two yield percentage variants, allowing operators to select a desired yield percentage between the low and high variants, computing relative probabilities, and generating a weighted table to randomly select the mathematical model for each play, ensuring a dynamic and engaging gaming experience while meeting regulatory standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed yield percentage is used in the gaming machine, then the game operation is simple and reliable, but the flexibility to adjust yield is limited and player engagement decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic yield adjustment by allowing the gaming machine to switch between multiple mathematical models (low variant, medium variant, high variant) during gameplay. The system dynamically selects which variant to apply based on random determination, enabling the yield percentage to change over time rather than being fixed, thus improving adaptability while maintaining manageable complexity through predefined models.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the yield parameter by providing multiple mathematical models with different yield percentages (low, medium, high variants). The system can alter the effective yield by selecting different models, allowing operators to adjust the overall yield expectation without modifying the underlying game logic structure, thereby achieving parameter flexibility with minimal complexity increase.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple mathematical models with different yield percentages are provided, then yield flexibility is improved, but the complexity of computing and selecting models increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the mathematical models into distinct variants (low, medium, high yield percentages) with predetermined characteristics. Each variant is independently defined and stored, allowing the system to select among them without complex real-time calculations. This segmentation simplifies the selection mechanism while maintaining yield flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary preparation by pre-defining multiple mathematical models with different yield characteristics before gameplay begins. The system prepares the variant selection mechanism in advance, so during actual gameplay, the selection process is straightforward rather than requiring complex real-time computation, thus reducing operational complexity while maintaining adaptability.
3Ease of operation
If the gaming machine uses a single mathematical model, then the game operation is consistent and reliable, but player engagement and feeling of luck are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic variation by cycling through different mathematical model variants during gameplay sessions. The system periodically determines which variant to apply, creating variability in the gaming experience over time while maintaining operational consistency within each variant. This periodic switching enhances player engagement without compromising the reliability of individual game outcomes.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a gaming system, a regulated gaming machine and a method primarily dedicated for use in playing at least one regulated casino wagering game in which the gaming machine randomly determines which of a plurality of mathematical models of the casino wagering game to apply to a given play in order to achieve a selected game yield which may be different from the game yield of any one of the plurality of mathematical models defined for the casino wagering game.