Integrated Reel-Bingo Bonus Grid for Dynamic Re-Bingo Play
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming machines that combine slot and bingo games lack novel features, failing to provide sufficient stimulation and excitement for players, as the games are essentially independent and lack integrated rules that enhance player engagement.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine that integrates elements of bingo and slot games by randomly displaying predetermined symbols in a matrix, allowing for a bingo-like win condition, where symbols are held or released based on game states, and includes features like multipliers and jackpots that are activated upon achieving a bingo state, providing dynamic game progression and new rules for re-bingo or cancellation of near-win states.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If slot game and bingo game are linked as independent games, then the games can be provided separately, but the games lack novel features and fail to provide sufficient stimulation and excitement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges slot game and bingo game into a single integrated game by combining slot reels with a bingo card display. The slot game determines symbol outcomes that simultaneously populate bingo card cells, creating a unified gaming experience where both game types operate together rather than as separate independent games.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming machine performs multiple functions through a single integrated system: it operates as both a slot machine and a bingo game simultaneously. The same reel spins and symbol displays serve dual purposes - determining slot game outcomes and filling bingo card cells, thereby providing universal functionality across both game types.
2Reliability
If all cells are filled with predetermined symbols, then bingo win condition is achieved, but the game ends and no further awards can be obtained
Solution Approach 1:
The patent ensures continuous gameplay by preventing the game from ending when a bingo win condition is achieved. Instead of terminating the game, the system maintains the bingo card and allows continued reel spins, enabling players to potentially achieve additional bingo wins or other winning combinations, thereby extending the duration of useful gaming action.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares for continued gameplay by maintaining the bingo card state and preserving symbol positions even after a win condition is met. This preliminary preparation allows the game to seamlessly continue without interruption, enabling players to pursue additional awards without the game ending.
3Reliability
If predetermined symbols are held in cells, then bingo patterns can be formed, but the number of blank cells decreases reducing future bingo possibilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic symbol management where symbols are held temporarily to form bingo patterns but can be released and replaced. The system dynamically adjusts which cells contain held symbols versus blank cells, allowing flexibility to both form current bingo wins and preserve opportunities for future bingo patterns through strategic symbol release and replacement.
Data Source
AI summary
A gaming machine for displaying a computer-animated reel game is described herein. The gaming machine includes a graphical user interface (GUI) and one or more processors programmed to execute an algorithm to display an animated sequence of computer-generated images including the steps rendering a bonus feature game grid including a 5×5 matrix on the GUI, animating a bonus feature symbol to appear in a center cell displaying a initial credit amount, and initially displaying a plurality of independent unisymbol reels the bonus feature game grid displaying a null symbol. The one or more processors then spin and stop the plurality of independent unisymbol reels to display a group of credit prize symbols arranged along a winning line extending through the bonus feature symbol, animate the group of credit prize symbols to collapse into the bonus feature symbol, and modify the bonus feature symbol to display an updated credit amount.