Keno Gaming System With Repeated Number Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional Keno games lack variations that enhance player engagement and excitement, as the number of selections does not significantly impact the expected returns, leading to a relatively constant and unchanging gameplay experience.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that allows numbers to be selected more than once, providing an additional award opportunity based on the gaming system's selection of multiple instances of the same number, which increases the potential for more matches and additional rewards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional Keno games use unique number selections without replacement, then the game follows standard lottery mechanics, but player engagement and excitement remain constant and unchanging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of number selection by allowing replacement (selecting the same number multiple times) instead of without replacement. This parameter change creates gameplay variations where players can select fewer unique numbers but achieve more matches through repeated selections, fundamentally altering the game dynamics and excitement level
2Quantity of substance
If players select fewer unique numbers in traditional Keno, then the wager amount decreases, but the expected return remains constant
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamics to the Keno game by allowing the composition of the drawn number set to change between games through replacement selection. This enables the same drawn numbers to yield different match quantities across games, creating dynamic gameplay where players can achieve more matches with fewer unique selections, thereby improving expected return efficiency
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AI summary
The present disclosure is directed to a gaming system and method providing a game in which symbols can be selected more than once. In one embodiment, the gaming system initiates a play of the game, displays a plurality of different symbols, and receives a selection of at least one of the symbols to form a player symbol set. The gaming system randomly selects a designated quantity of the symbols to form a gaming system symbol set. Each of the symbols can be selected more than once. The gaming system determines any awards based on a comparison of the player symbol set with the gaming system symbol set, and provides any determined awards. If an additional award opportunity triggering event associated with the gaming system symbol set including a plurality of instances of a same one of the symbols occurs, the gaming system provides an additional award opportunity.