Multiplayer Gaming System with Shared Prize Pool
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multiplayer gaming systems do not effectively combine the immediacy of single-player casino games with the community aspects of multiplayer poker games, limiting the ability to play single-player games in a multiplayer environment.
Innovation Solution
A multiplayer gaming system that allows multiple players to play separate instances of single-player games, with an administration facility determining outcomes and managing wagers, creating a shared prize pool, and awarding prizes based on combined results, while enabling players to participate in a community-style game environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If multiple players play separate instances of single-player games, then the immediacy of single-player game results is maintained, but the community interaction and shared experience of multiplayer games are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate single-player game instances into a unified multiplayer game framework. Each player's separate game instance is merged through the administration facility that collects results from all players and determines a unified outcome based on combined results, thereby creating community interaction while preserving the immediacy of individual game results.
Solution Approach 2:
The administration facility serves multiple functions: it collects game results from individual players, aggregates these results to determine a unified multiplayer outcome, manages the shared prize pool, and coordinates bonus results. This multi-functional system enables both individual game play and collective multiplayer experience simultaneously.
2Productivity
If players compete in separate single-player instances, then individual game speed is maintained, but the ability to share prizes and create a common jackpot is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual wagers from multiple players into a single shared prize pool managed by the administration facility. This consolidation allows the prize pool to grow with each participating player while maintaining fast game play, as the pooling process occurs automatically after individual game results are determined.
Solution Approach 2:
The system preliminarily collects and accumulates wagers from all players before determining the final winner. This preliminary accumulation of funds in the shared prize pool ensures that the jackpot is fully funded before the outcome is resolved, enabling both rapid game completion and substantial shared prizes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If an administration facility determines outcomes based on combined results, then community aspects are enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The administration facility acts as an intermediary between individual players and the multiplayer outcome. It receives game results from each player's separate instance, processes these results according to predetermined rules to determine a unified outcome, and manages the shared prize pool. This intermediary approach enables multiplayer integration without requiring direct complex interactions between players.
Solution Approach 2:
The administration facility automatically determines the multiplayer outcome based on predetermined rules and combined player results, without requiring manual intervention. The system self-manages the complexity of aggregating results, calculating winners, and distributing prizes from the shared pool, thereby enhancing multiplayer capability while keeping operational complexity manageable through automation.
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AI summary
A multiplayer gaming system that is usable by a number of participating players to play a multiplayer game, comprises a plurality of player stations, each player station enabling a respective participating player to place a wager on an outcome of the multiplayer game and to play a separate instance of a same single-player game having a plurality of possible results, and an application web server communicable with each one of the plurality of player stations.The application web server is operable to determine an outcome of the multiplayer game as a function of the combined results of the separate instances of the single-player game played at the plurality of player stations. The outcome of the multiplayer game is either a favourable outcome if one or more participating players are determined by the application web server as being a winner of the multiplayer game, or an unfavourable outcome in which none of the participating players is determined as being a winner.A single turn of the multiplayer game includes at least one turn of an instance of the single-player game at each one of the plurality of player stations in use by a participating player. The application web server determines an outcome of a turn of the multiplayer game only after completion of at least one turn of an instance of the single-player game for each participating player, respectively, and awards a prize to the winning player when the outcome of the turn of the multiplayer game is a favourable outcome.