Multi-Stage Game System with Segmented Drawing Events

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current game systems for lottery-type games typically involve a single drawing event where all winning numbers determine a common jackpot, limiting player engagement and opportunities for multiple winning instances.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system that allows players to participate in multiple drawing events with different number pools and game modes, determining winning results in real-time, and recording a portion of the jackpot for players with matching selections across multiple events.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single drawing event is used with a common jackpot, then the game structure is simple, but player engagement and winning opportunities are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplayer engagementVSAvoidgame structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the single drawing event into multiple sequential drawing events (first, second, third, fourth, and fifth drawing events). Each drawing event has its own set of winning numbers and prize opportunities. This segmentation allows players to win at different stages rather than requiring a single all-or-nothing outcome, thereby enhancing player engagement while maintaining a manageable game structure through systematic division of the gaming process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple drawing events are introduced with different number pools, then winning opportunities increase, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewinning opportunitiesVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a universal game-operating computer system that performs multiple functions: it manages different number pools for various drawing events, tracks player selections across events, determines winning results for each event, and calculates jackpot distributions. This multi-functional system handles the complexity of multiple drawing events with different number pools (first pool of P numbers, second pool of S numbers, third pool of U numbers, fourth pool of X numbers, and fifth pool of Z numbers) through a single integrated platform, thereby increasing winning opportunities without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Speed

If real-time processing of multiple drawing events is implemented, then player feedback is immediate, but computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing speedVSAvoidcomputational power
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-generating and storing multiple sets of winning numbers for all five drawing events before the game actually begins. The system also pre-establishes the rules for determining winners and distributing jackpots across different events. This preliminary preparation allows the game-operating computer system to process player selections and determine winning results in real-time during the game without performing complex calculations on the fly, thereby achieving immediate player feedback while managing computational power requirements through advance preparation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9959712B2Types of games having multiple stages and their applications utilizing game-operating computer systems and computer-implemented methods
Publication Date: 2018.05.01 INTRALOT
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AI summary

In some embodiments, the present invention provides for a computer-implemented method for conducting a game, having at least steps of: electronically receiving, by at least one specifically programmed computer processor, in real-time, game entries data representing game entries of players to participate in the game; where each game entry identifies a single playing instance of the game, having a plurality of drawing events; electronically determining, by the processor, in real-time, based on a game mode, a plurality of winning results for the plurality of drawing events respectively; electronically determining, by the processor, in real-time, a winning game entry, having selections which win each drawing event of the plurality of drawing events; and electronically recording, by the processor, in real-time, a portion of a jackpot to be distributed to a particular player associated with the winning game entry.