Progressive Card Game Tournament Prize Pool Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current jackpot gambling games lack a mechanism to combine land-based and online platforms effectively, resulting in limited opportunities for large winnings and reduced attraction for players, as they do not offer progressive jackpots that can grow significantly.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method for a progressive card game tournament where a portion of the fees collected from players contributes to a growing jackpot, which can be won by meeting specific qualifying criteria such as consecutive wins or high rankings, allowing the jackpot to increase until someone wins it, thereby offering a larger and more attractive prize.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a traditional jackpot structure is used in gambling games, then the prize pool remains limited to what is collected from a single game session, but the opportunity for large winnings and player attraction is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines land-based and online gaming platforms into a unified progressive jackpot system. Multiple game devices from different platforms contribute to a shared prize pool, allowing the jackpot to grow across both physical and digital environments. This merging enables significantly larger prize pools while maintaining system versatility across platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The progressive jackpot system is designed to function universally across multiple game types and platforms. The same jackpot mechanism can be applied to various card games, slot machines, and other gambling games, allowing a single system to serve multiple functions and platforms simultaneously while building a cumulative prize pool.
2Quantity of substance
If progressive jackpots are implemented across multiple platforms, then the prize pool can grow significantly larger, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central controller or server as an intermediary that manages the progressive jackpot across multiple platforms. This intermediary handles the complexity of tracking contributions from land-based and online games, calculating prize allocations, and coordinating between different systems, thereby enabling large prize pools without requiring each individual game device to handle the full system complexity.
3Ease of operation
If traditional fixed prize structures are used, then the game rules are simple and easy to understand, but player engagement and attraction are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic prize structure where the jackpot amount continuously grows as more players participate and more games are played. Unlike fixed prizes, the progressive jackpot adapts its size based on player activity and contributions, creating an ever-changing incentive that maintains player engagement while keeping the basic gameplay simple and familiar.
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AI summary
A method for playing a game tournament having a progressive prize of an initial value, a minimal required number of players, at least one qualifying criteria, and a predetermined number of consecutive results complying with the at least one qualifying criteria required in order to win the progressive prize or part thereof, said method comprising: the required number of players providing payment including an ante to be added to the progressive prize; playing at least one tournament of the game until an at least one player achieves an at least one qualifying criteria; the at least one player winning the progressive prize or part thereof if he or she met the at least one qualifying criteria for at least the predetermined number of consecutive tournaments.