Multi-Dimensional Gaming Grid With Expanding Wild Symbols
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines often frustrate players when they 'almost win' but miss a symbol or configuration for a winning combination, leading to a need for enhanced features that increase excitement and award opportunities.
Innovation Solution
A multi-dimensional symbol game with expanding wild symbols, where symbols are generated across multiple grids of different depths, allowing wild symbols to expand into adjacent or non-adjacent positions, creating additional winning combinations and increasing volatility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional single-grid symbol games are used, then the game structure is simple and easy to understand, but players experience frustration when they almost win but miss a symbol or configuration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a traditional single two-dimensional grid to a multi-dimensional grid system with multiple depths. This dimensional expansion allows wild symbols to function across multiple layers, enabling players to complete winning combinations by collecting symbols across different depth levels rather than requiring perfect alignment in a single grid, thereby reducing frustration while maintaining conceptual simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The game grid is segmented into multiple depth layers, each containing symbol display positions. This segmentation allows the wild symbol feature to operate independently across different segments (depths), enabling flexible combination strategies where symbols from different segments can contribute to a single winning evaluation, enhancing adaptability without overwhelming complexity.
2Productivity
If multiple symbol display position grids at different depths are implemented, then multiple award opportunities are provided for a single wager, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By adding the depth dimension to the traditional grid, the system creates multiple symbol display position grids stacked in three-dimensional space. This allows a single wager to evaluate winning combinations across multiple depth levels simultaneously, increasing award opportunities without requiring multiple separate games or complex multi-stage processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The multi-depth grid structure serves multiple functions: it provides additional symbol display positions, enables wild symbol expansion across depths, allows independent evaluation of each depth level, and creates multiple pathways to winning combinations. This universal structure handles various game states and award scenarios within a single unified system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If wild symbols expand into adjacent and non-adjacent positions across multiple grids, then winning combinations are increased, but the rules and evaluation complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
Wild symbol expansion is extended into the depth dimension, allowing symbols to expand not only horizontally and vertically within a grid but also across different depth levels. This dimensional expansion increases winning possibilities while maintaining consistent expansion rules that can be systematically evaluated.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements consistent copying of wild symbol behavior across all depth levels. The same expansion rules and evaluation logic applied in traditional single-grid games are copied and applied uniformly across multiple depth grids, allowing the system to handle increased complexity through rule consistency rather than requiring fundamentally new evaluation mechanisms.
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Gaming systems and methods for providing a multi-dimensional symbol game with expanding wild symbols.