Random Terminal Selection for Ball Launch Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multiplayer gaming systems for ball games, such as roulette, face challenges in ensuring secure and unpredictable ball launching, which can lead to manipulation and reduced excitement, as players can anticipate the starting process, thereby affecting the game's unpredictability and volatility.
Innovation Solution
A multiplayer gaming system that randomly selects one of multiple gaming terminals to initiate the ball launch procedure, using a random number generator or logical functions to vary the terminal selection, ensuring each terminal has an equal chance of being selected over a predetermined number of games, and incorporating a display signal to inform players of their selection, while preventing unselected terminals from accidentally starting the game.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a fixed terminal is always used to start the ball launch, then the operation is simple and reliable, but the game becomes predictable and manipulative
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically changes which terminal can start the ball launch by using a random number generator to select a different starting terminal for each game. This dynamic selection prevents players from anticipating which terminal will be active, eliminating the predictability that enables manipulation while maintaining secure automated launching.
Solution Approach 2:
Before each ball launch, the system performs a preliminary action by generating a random number and selecting which terminal will be enabled to start the game. This preliminary selection is displayed to players before they place their bets, ensuring transparency while preventing manipulation by establishing the starting terminal in advance through a unpredictable process.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If random terminal selection is implemented, then game unpredictability increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical switching mechanisms with an electronic random number generator and display system. Instead of physically reconfiguring which terminal can start the ball, the system uses software-based random selection and visual display to indicate the active terminal, significantly reducing mechanical complexity while maintaining the unpredictability needed to prevent manipulation.
3Ease of operation
If all terminals are always enabled to start the game, then player choice is maximized, but the ability to control game timing and excitement is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of uniformly enabling all terminals or disabling them all, the system applies local quality by selectively enabling only one specific terminal at a time based on random selection. This creates localized access rights that maintain player engagement while controlling game timing and volatility, as players know exactly which terminal will be active for each game.
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AI summary
The present invention generally relates to gaming systems for playing ball games where a hall is launched into a gaming area. More particularly, the present invention relates to a multiplayer gaming system comprising a ball game device having a launching mechanism for launching a ball into a gaming area to start a game, the gaming system further comprising a start control means for controlling start of the launching mechanism and a plurality of gaming terminals for a plurality of players, said gaming terminals including an input device for inputting a prediction and/or a bet for the outcome of a game. In accordance with the present invention, the input device of each gaming terminal includes start signal input means for inputting a start signal for starting the launching mechanism, wherein the start control means of the gaming system includes a random signal generator for randomly selecting one of the plurality of gaming terminals for each game to generate the start signal and a display signal generator for generating a display signal indicative of the gaming terminal selected for the generation of the start signal.