Centralized Jackpot Drawing System for Payout Ratio Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
In game systems with multiple token-operated machines, managing payout ratios becomes challenging when jackpot winners concentrate on specific machines or groups, leading to temporary imbalances and difficulties in securing stable profits, as the total actual payout ratio can significantly increase, causing management issues for both individual machines and gaming arcades.
Innovation Solution
A game system that includes a drawing machine for jackpot games, which performs group drawings to select winning groups based on predetermined conditions, ensuring that only groups with sufficient jackpot balance and maximum loss amounts can provide jackpot awards, thereby preventing temporary deficits and maintaining balanced payout ratios across groups and machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If jackpot awards are paid out from individual token-operated game machines based on their own pool ratios, then each machine can independently manage its payouts, but jackpot winners may concentrate on specific machines causing temporary payout ratio imbalances and profit instability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual machine pools into a unified jackpot pool that spans across multiple game machines. The central control unit aggregates pool ratios from all connected machines and manages a single jackpot pool, ensuring that payouts are distributed across the entire system rather than concentrating on individual machines. This combining approach stabilizes overall payout ratios while maintaining system manageability through centralized control.
2Productivity
If the pool ratio is increased to provide larger jackpot awards and maintain player interest, then jackpot attractiveness improves, but the total preset payout ratio increases causing gaming facilities to be unable to secure profits
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the jackpot pool into multiple contribution sources from different game machines, each contributing according to their individual pool ratios. The central control unit manages these segmented contributions separately before combining them for jackpot payouts. This segmentation allows the system to offer attractive jackpot awards while maintaining control over the total payout ratio, as each machine's contribution is clearly defined and accounted for, preventing excessive profit erosion.
3Reliability
If a unified jackpot pool is managed across multiple game machines, then jackpot wins are dispersed and profit stability improves, but the system complexity and control requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central control unit as an intermediary between individual game machines and the jackpot management system. This intermediary collects pool ratio data from all connected machines, manages the unified jackpot pool, and controls award distributions. The central control unit simplifies the overall system architecture by providing a single point of coordination, reducing the complexity that would otherwise arise from direct peer-to-peer machine interactions while ensuring stable profit management through centralized oversight.
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AI summary
In a game system or a drawing machine for a jackpot game, a drawing unit of the drawing machine for a jackpot game performs jackpot drawing in a manner that a player who plays a particular game apparatus among a plurality of game apparatuses is not determined as a winning player of a jackpot award, when a sum of an apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount indicated by game apparatus's own apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount data stored in an apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount storage unit and an apparatus-specific maximum loss amount indicated by a game apparatus's own apparatus-specific maximum loss amount data stored in the apparatus-specific maximum loss amount storage unit, is equal to or more than a payout amount indicated by payout amount data stored in a payout amount storage unit.