Roulette Layout Fourth Column Non-Adjacent Betting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional Roulette Gaming Layouts limit betting combinations to physically adjacent numbers, restricting the types of bets that can be placed, as chips can only cover numbers that are next to each other.

Innovation Solution

A modified Roulette Gaming Layout with an additional column of boxes allows for bets on non-adjacent numbers by numbering boxes on one side with the same numbers as those on the opposite side, enabling new betting combinations such as split and corner bets between opposite ends of rows and columns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If chips are placed only on physically adjacent numbers, then the layout maintains simplicity and ease of operation, but the variety of betting combinations is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebetting combinationsVSAvoidlayout structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a fourth column that wraps around to repeat numbers from the first column, effectively adding a dimensional wrap-around feature to the traditional 3-column layout. This allows chips placed on the fourth column to bet on numbers that are not physically adjacent in the traditional sense, thereby increasing betting versatility without significantly complicating the overall layout structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the layout includes only traditional betting areas, then the layout remains simple and familiar, but new betting opportunities are restricted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebetting opportunitiesVSAvoidchip placement
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The layout is segmented into traditional betting areas and the additional fourth column wrapping area. This segmentation allows players to continue using familiar chip placement methods for traditional bets while enabling new betting combinations through the fourth column, thereby increasing versatility without compromising ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP2640480B1Roulette gaming layout
Publication Date: 2014.09.24 CHI FAT AU YEUNG
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AI summary

A Roulette Gaming Layout having a matrix of boxes having four columns of twelve rows, the boxes in three adjacent columns being numbered 1 to 36 consecutively across the rows, the boxes in the fourth column being numbered to repeat the numbers in the column on the opposite side of the matrix.