Linked Gaming Machines Competitive Bonus Pool
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming venues face challenges in attracting customers with new and varied games that comply with regulations and provide a return on investment, while players need to quickly understand game operations to maximize entertainment, and there is a need for innovative ways to offer special prizes on gaming machines.
Innovation Solution
A method for providing a competitive bonus game on linked gaming machines, where players compete based on occurrences of specific outcomes, with scores determined by the number of occurrences, and awards are given to machines that progress through rounds, allowing continued play and displaying animations to represent progressing or eliminated machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If gaming venues introduce new variations and types of games to attract customers, then customer attraction and entertainment value improve, but device complexity and regulatory compliance difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming system is divided into multiple independent gaming machines, each capable of operating autonomously while contributing to a shared competitive bonus pool. This segmentation allows venues to offer diverse games without increasing individual machine complexity, as each machine follows the same modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming machines are designed with universal functionality to participate in both standard gameplay and competitive bonus modes using the same hardware and software platform. This multi-functionality enables venues to offer varied game experiences without requiring separate specialized equipment for different game types.
2Ease of operation
If players need to quickly understand game operations to maximize entertainment, then player engagement improves, but game complexity and learning curve increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures all gaming machines with identical interfaces, controls, and display formats. This preliminary standardization ensures players encounter familiar operational patterns across different games and machines, reducing learning time while maintaining game variety through software rather than interface changes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If designers offer special prizes separate from pay table to increase entertainment, then player engagement improves, but prize distribution fairness and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the prize management of individual gaming machines with a centralized competitive bonus pool. Special prizes are awarded through a unified competition mechanism that combines outcomes from multiple machines, simplifying prize distribution logic while enabling complex prize structures through the aggregation of multiple independent gaming events.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple linked gaming machines compete for special prizes, then entertainment value and prize value improve, but determining fair winning mechanisms and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
All linked gaming machines are equipped with identical hardware specifications, software versions, and random number generator algorithms. This equipotentiality ensures that each machine has an equal probability of winning competitive bonuses, providing a fair competition mechanism without requiring complex adjustment mechanisms for different machine characteristics.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is gaming apparatus, which may be a gaming system and a method of gaming implemented on gaming apparatus. A plurality of linked gaming machines are monitored for the occurrence of a first event. The number of occurrences of the first event for each gaming machine is recorded. On the occurrence of a second event, a bonus is awarded on each said gaming machine on which at least one monitored occurrence of the first event has occurred, the bonus award being dependent on the number of occurrences of the first event.