Multi-Array Symbol Placement in Wagering Games
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines lack features that enhance player entertainment and perceived chances of winning, leading to a need for innovative enhancements that differentiate them from competitors.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that displays multiple symbol arrays, where a triggering symbol in one array determines the placement of symbols in another array, providing additional opportunities for winning combinations and enhancing player engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple symbol arrays are displayed with symbol placement features, then player entertainment and perceived chances of winning are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming system is divided into multiple symbol arrays (first symbol array and second symbol array) that operate semi-independently. Each array can be configured and triggered separately, allowing the system to provide enhanced entertainment through multiple winning opportunities while managing complexity by modularizing the symbol evaluation and award determination processes.
Solution Approach 2:
Symbols are placed in the second symbol array in advance based on triggering symbols from the first symbol array, before the final award determination. This preliminary symbol placement creates predetermined winning opportunities that enhance player entertainment while the system manages complexity by pre-calculating and storing the symbol placements.
2Quantity of substance
If symbols are placed in multiple positions based on triggering symbols, then the number of winning opportunities increases, but the time required for game resolution increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs symbol placement in the second array as a preliminary action before final award determination. By pre-placing symbols based on triggering events from the first array, the system creates multiple winning opportunities in advance, and the subsequent award evaluation simply needs to assess the pre-configured second array, reducing overall resolution time.
Solution Approach 2:
The second symbol array is configured to evaluate its own winning combinations based on the symbols placed from the first array. The array essentially serves itself by maintaining its own symbol configuration and enabling independent award determination, which streamlines the process of evaluating multiple winning opportunities without requiring extensive external processing time.
Data Source
AI summary
A gaming system includes one or more display devices, one or more processors, and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices store instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming system to (i) display, on at least one of one or more display devices, a first symbol array and a second symbol array, (ii) in response to a triggering symbol appearing in the first symbol array, place a first symbol into a number of symbol positions within the second symbol array, the number being defined by a quantifier associated with the triggering symbol, (iii) provide an award based on one or more winning symbol combinations in the second array with the first symbols placed in the symbol positions.