Persistent Wild Spot Sets in Keno for Progressive Reward Play
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing keno games lack engaging features that enhance player interaction and reward potential, leading to diminished player interest and satisfaction.
Innovation Solution
Implementing persistent progressive wild spot sets in keno games, where the quantity of wild spots increases based on matches and can activate to provide additional hits, multipliers, or other benefits, enhancing gameplay dynamics and rewards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional keno gameplay is used, then the game structure remains simple, but player engagement and reward potential are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic wild spot sets that change during gameplay based on matches achieved. The wild spot set is not static but evolves progressively, allowing the game to adapt its dynamics while maintaining a manageable structural framework through predefined progression rules.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent pre-establishes multiple wild spot sets with different quantities and configurations before gameplay begins. These predetermined sets are prepared in advance and selected based on game progress, allowing complex gameplay dynamics to emerge from simpler pre-configured elements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If fixed wild spot quantities are used, then the game structure remains simple, but player satisfaction and engagement diminish over time
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from fixed wild spot quantities to dynamic quantities that progress based on player achievements. Each match can trigger an increase in wild spot quantity, creating escalating reward potential while the progression follows predetermined rules that maintain structural manageability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of wild spot quantity from a static value to a dynamic variable that increases based on game events. This parameter change enables adaptive reward potential while the change follows defined thresholds and progression rules that prevent unmanageable complexity.
3Ease of operation
If progressive wild spot sets are implemented, then player engagement increases, but tracking and managing wild spot quantities becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple wild spot sets are pre-configured with different quantities and characteristics before gameplay. This preliminary preparation allows the system to manage complexity by having all possible states defined in advance, reducing the need for complex real-time calculations during player interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the wild spot system into discrete, manageable sets rather than treating it as a continuous variable. Each wild spot set is a distinct unit that can be independently tracked and activated, simplifying the management of what would otherwise be a complex progressive system.
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AI summary
Gaming systems and methods that provide a play of a keno game that employs one or more persistent wild spot sets, and during the plays of the keno game, the gaming systems and methods increase respective progressive quantities of wild spots in each of the persistent wild spot sets, and during the plays of the keno game, the gaming systems and methods activate zero, one, a plurality, or all of the persistent wild spot sets. When a wild spot set is activated, each wild spot of that wild spot set is associated with one of the spots of the keno card and can provide a feature such as a hit, an extra hit, a multiplier, and/or another benefit.