Keno Game Bonus Ball Draw Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic gaming systems face challenges in providing a fair and engaging keno game experience, particularly in simulating keno game outcomes that are equivalent to non-keno game outcomes, such as bingo, while maintaining regulatory compliance and player engagement.
Innovation Solution
The system introduces feature keno numbers and bonuses that are dependent on player wagers, allowing for a simulated keno game outcome to be predetermined and presented as equivalent to a non-keno game outcome, such as bingo, using a networked gaming environment with central determination servers to manage game outcomes and rewards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If keno game outcomes are determined randomly using RNG, then game fairness and regulatory compliance are improved, but player engagement and excitement are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-determines feature keno numbers and bonus outcomes before the main game draw, then reveals them during play. This preliminary action allows the system to guarantee exciting bonus events while maintaining random appearance for the core keno game, resolving the contradiction between fair randomness and engaging outcomes.
Solution Approach 2:
Feature keno numbers act as an intermediary element between the random main draw and the bonus award system. These special numbers mediate the interaction by triggering bonuses when matched, allowing the system to maintain random game fairness while introducing structured engagement opportunities through the bonus feature.
2Adaptability or versatility
If feature keno numbers and bonuses are introduced, then player engagement and rewards are improved, but game complexity and regulatory compliance difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The keno game is segmented into distinct functional layers: the random main draw mechanism, the pre-determined feature keno numbers, and the bonus award system. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently with clear rules, reducing overall system complexity while enabling sophisticated player engagement through the interaction of these simplified segments.
3Adaptability or versatility
If simulated keno outcomes are made equivalent to non-keno game outcomes, then player engagement across game types is improved, but system complexity and operational difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The feature keno number system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides random game outcomes for fairness, pre-determines bonus triggers for engagement, and can be configured to match various game types including bingo and other keno variants. This multi-functionality allows a single system to handle diverse game equivalences without increasing operational complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic gaming machine, system, and method are disclosed for conducting a keno game. The keno game may be conducted alone or in conjunction with a bingo game. The electronic gaming machine may receive a wager from a player, and conduct the bingo game and/or keno game in response to the wager. Based on the wager, a quantity of numbered keno balls may be designated as feature numbered keno balls. The electronic gaming machine may conduct the keno game using the feature numbered keno balls, and display a bonus if and/or when one or more feature numbered keno balls match one or more player selected keno numbers.