Hybrid Jackpot Game System Merging Skill and Chance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional gaming machines primarily offer gambling games that lack interactivity and sophisticated graphics, failing to integrate elements of skill and entertainment effectively, limiting player engagement and interaction.

Innovation Solution

A bonus jackpot hybrid game system that combines a gambling game with an entertainment game, using a real world engine for gambling and a game world engine for entertainment, where players can earn and wager game world credits and real world credits, integrating elements that trigger gambling wagers and provide a rich, interactive experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional gambling games are used, then the game is simple to operate, but the interactivity and graphics are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidinteractivity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines a gambling game with an entertainment game into a hybrid game system. The gambling game provides simple operation and chance-based outcomes, while the entertainment game adds interactivity, skill elements, and sophisticated graphics. Players can switch between game modes, allowing the system to maintain ease of operation while significantly enhancing interactivity and visual appeal.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Device complexity

If traditional gambling games are used, then the game rules are simple, but the player engagement and interaction are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegame rules complexityVSAvoid player engagement
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The hybrid game system dynamically adjusts between gambling and entertainment modes based on player actions and game state. The entertainment portion introduces dynamic elements such as skill-based challenges, interactive narratives, and varying difficulty levels that adapt to player performance, thereby significantly increasing player engagement while maintaining clear, manageable rules through the integrated gambling framework.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If an entertainment game is added to create a hybrid game, then interactivity and graphics are improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveinteractivityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The hybrid game system is segmented into distinct gambling and entertainment portions, each with its own ruleset and mechanics. This segmentation allows the complex entertainment elements to be modularly integrated with the simpler gambling framework, managing overall system complexity by treating each portion as a separate, manageable subsystem with defined interfaces between them.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8657675B1Bonus jackpots in enriched game play environment
Publication Date: 2014.02.25 GAMBLIT GAMING LLC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for a providing a jackpot bonus in a gaming system A jackpot bonus element is generated in an entertainment game portion of a hybrid game and a gambling game in a gambling game portion of the hybrid game is triggered when a player initiates an encounter in the entertainment game with the bonus element. It is then determined if the player wins the gambling game triggered by the player's encounter with the bonus element in the entertainment game a payout is provided to the player when it is determined that the player has won the gambling game.