Skill-Based Progressive Jackpot Gaming System
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Solution Overview
Problem
The gaming industry faces challenges in creating gaming apparatus and games that balance yield versus randomness and volatility to encourage prolonged and frequent player participation, while maintaining a feeling of luck and potential for large returns.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system with game-logic circuitry that detects physical items for monetary value, initiates casino wagering games, increments progressive jackpots, and conducts skill-based bonus games based on player inputs, allowing players to win portions of the jackpot through skillful interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a gaming apparatus relies upon random element generation to create luck, then players can feel they can get lucky and win in the short run, but the apparatus yields a negative return on investment in the long run
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between luck-based and skill-based modes. The base game uses random element generation for luck-based play, while the bonus game transitions to skill-based play where player actions directly influence outcomes. This dynamic switching allows the system to maintain negative expected value overall while creating engaging skill-based moments that increase player participation.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming system is segmented into two distinct modes: a luck-based base game and a skill-based bonus game. The base game handles routine play with random outcomes, while the bonus game provides skill-based engagement. This segmentation allows each mode to serve its specific function without compromising the other, resolving the contradiction between long-term yield control and player engagement.
2Productivity
If a skill-based bonus game is introduced to increase player engagement, then player participation and frequent interactions are encouraged, but the game complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The skill-based bonus game is extracted as a separate, self-contained mode from the base game. It has its own triggering conditions, gameplay mechanics, and outcome determination system. This extraction allows the skill-based elements to be added without fundamentally restructuring the entire gaming system, thereby limiting the increase in overall complexity while still providing enhanced player engagement.
3Quantity of substance
If progressive jackpots are incremented during play, then players are attracted by the potential for large returns, but the volatility and risk increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different quality characteristics to different parts of the gaming experience. The base game maintains consistent, predictable random outcomes with controlled house edge. The bonus game, triggered under specific conditions, provides skill-based play where player skill can influence outcomes. The progressive jackpot is structured so that skill-based play in the bonus game provides a mathematical advantage, creating localized high-value opportunities without compromising overall return predictability.
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AI summary
A gaming system comprising a regulated gaming machine primarily dedicated to playing at least one casino wagering game. The gaming machine includes an electronic display device and one or more electronic input devices and game-logic circuitry configured to detect, via at least one of the one or more electronic input devices, a physical item associated with a monetary value that establishes a credit balance. The game-logic circuitry is further configured to initiate the casino wagering game in response to an input indicative of a wager covered by the credit balance. The game-logic circuitry is further configured to increment a progressive jackpot associated with the wagering game. The game-logic circuitry is further configured to conduct a skill-based bonus game that awards portions of the incremented progressive jackpot based on skillful inputs of a player in response to a triggering event occurring during the wagering game. The game-logic circuitry is further configured to receive, via at least one of the one or more electronic input devices, a cashout input that initiates a payout from the credit balance.