Rotating Wild Feature Gaming Machine Bonus
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines lack innovative bonus games that enhance entertainment value and player appeal, leading to a need for new types of bonus features that offer increased winning potential and excitement.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine with a rotating wild feature that includes a special symbol and a chain of adjacent symbols, which progressively moves and stops at various locations, evaluating for winning combinations and triggering bonus games, such as the 'Wild & Loose' game with Rotating Wild and Double Rotating Wild bonuses, to enhance player engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a bonus game is added to enhance entertainment value, then player appeal increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bonus game is nested within the basic game framework, where the bonus game mode is activated by specific symbols (e.g., wild symbols) that appear during normal play. The bonus game uses the same reel structure and symbol set as the basic game, creating a nested configuration where the bonus functionality is contained within the existing game architecture without requiring a completely separate system.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming machine is designed to operate in multiple modes (basic game mode and bonus game mode) using the same hardware infrastructure. The controller can switch between different game modes and the same reels and symbol array serve both the basic game and bonus game functions, making the device universal and reducing the need for separate dedicated systems for each game type.
2Productivity
If a rotating wild feature is implemented with multiple locations, then winning opportunities increase, but evaluation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The controller pre-determines all possible winning combinations and evaluates them in advance based on the initial symbol arrangement before the rotating wild feature activates. This preliminary evaluation allows the system to quickly identify potential wins and prepare evaluation criteria beforehand, enabling rapid assessment when the rotating wild feature occurs without requiring time-consuming real-time analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The evaluation process continues seamlessly through multiple rotation cycles without interruption. The controller continuously monitors the symbol array and evaluates winning combinations at each rotation step, maintaining continuous useful action rather than stopping between evaluations. This ensures that winning opportunities are captured in real-time as the rotating wild feature progresses through its multiple locations.
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AI summary
A gaming machine for conducting a wagering game includes a value input device for receiving a wager, an array of positions for displaying respective randomly selected symbols, and a controller. The displayed symbols include a special symbol and a chain of adjacent symbols at least partially encompassing the special symbol. The controller is operative to progressively move and stop the chain of adjacent symbols at each of a plurality of locations and evaluate the array for any winning combinations of the displayed symbols when the chain of adjacent symbols is stopped at each location.