Skill Game Side Wagering Collusion Detection System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Casino gaming establishments face challenges in providing engaging and cost-effective wagering opportunities that minimize resource usage and overhead, particularly in offering exciting skill-based challenges that encourage player participation while preventing collusion and manipulation in side wagering systems.
Innovation Solution
A wagering gaming system that allows bettors to place wagers on players in skill-based challenges, with a processor-driven system for determining outcomes, awarding monetary prizes, and detecting collusion, incorporating features like fixed and pari-mutuel odds, public displays, and player-specific performance values.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If side wagering systems are implemented in casino gaming, then new wagering opportunities and player engagement are created, but the system becomes vulnerable to manipulation and collusion between players and bettors
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous monitoring and feedback mechanisms that track player actions, wagering patterns, and game outcomes. The gaming system receives information about player actions and wagering activities, processes this data through collusion detection algorithms, and adjusts game parameters or alerts operators when suspicious patterns are detected, creating a closed-loop system that maintains integrity while enabling side wagering
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary gaming system that acts as a trusted third party between players and bettors. This system receives wagering information, validates player actions independently, determines game outcomes through controlled processes, and distributes payouts according to verified results. The intermediary prevents direct player-bettor communication that could lead to collusion while maintaining the side wagering functionality
2Productivity
If traditional wagering systems are used, then operational simplicity is maintained, but player engagement and revenue generation are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming system performs multiple functions within a single integrated platform: it manages traditional casino gaming operations, processes side wagering transactions, monitors player actions, detects collusion, determines game outcomes, and distributes payouts. This multi-functional approach enables revenue growth through side wagering without requiring separate complex systems for each function
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically receives wagering information, validates player actions, determines game outcomes, calculates payouts, and distributes winnings without requiring manual intervention for each transaction. The automated processing of side wagers based on verified player actions reduces operational complexity while handling increased transaction volumes
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AI summary
A gaming system offers players the opportunity to play a skill-based challenge and bettors to place wagers based on events or outcomes in the skill-based challenge. A gaming system includes a processor, a display device, an input device and a memory device storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the display device and the input device, for a play of a wagering game, to perform operations. Operations include receiving, from a bettor, a wager that corresponds to a selected player of a plurality of players in a skill-based challenge, determining that the selected player has achieved a threshold outcome in the skill-based challenge, awarding a bettor monetary prize to the bettor in response to the selected player achieving the threshold outcome in the skill-based game, and awarding a player monetary prize to the selected player.