Slot Machine Strategic Game Features and Payout Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing slot machine devices lack strategic elements and fail to provide players with actual or perceived advantages, leading to a need for innovative game play modes that enhance player engagement and casino profitability.
Innovation Solution
An electronic slot machine with a data processor, display, and user interface that includes features like the Notice feature for predicting wins or losses, the Flush feature for discarding losing cycles, and the Do-Over feature for replaying unsatisfactory cycles, along with optional skill-based and social features, which can be activated and adjusted to maintain a constant payout rate.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional slot machine game play is used, then the game is simple to operate, but the game lacks strategic elements and player engagement is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-determines results for future game cycles in advance and stores them in memory. The Notice feature displays information about predetermined future results to players, allowing them to make strategic betting decisions based on advance knowledge without adding physical complexity to the slot machine hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
A computerized system with data processor and memory acts as an intermediary between the random number generator and the player. This intermediary pre-calculates, stores, and selectively reveals future results through the Notice feature, enabling strategic play without requiring complex mechanical modifications to the slot machine.
2Ease of operation
If the Notice feature is added to inform players of next cycle results, then player engagement increases, but the game becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates and stores digital copies of future game results in memory before they occur. The Notice feature displays these copied results to players, providing advance information without requiring additional physical reels, symbols, or mechanical components beyond standard electronic display capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces potential mechanical complexity with electronic/software-based solutions. The Notice feature uses computerized data processing, memory storage, and electronic display to provide strategic information, substituting what could have been complex mechanical modifications with programmable electronic systems already present in modern slot machines.
3Adaptability or versatility
If results are predetermined and stored in memory, then player strategy is enhanced, but the randomness of slot machine game play is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
Results for future game cycles are pre-determined using the Random Number Generator and stored in memory before the player makes betting decisions. This preliminary determination of outcomes allows players to develop strategies based on known future results while the randomness is maintained through proper RNG implementation during the actual game execution.
Solution Approach 2:
The game process is segmented into distinct phases: result determination phase (where randomness is applied via RNG), result storage phase (in memory), and result disclosure phase (through Notice feature). This segmentation allows the system to maintain randomness where needed while providing strategic information where beneficial, without compromising the fundamental random nature of slot machine outcomes.
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AI summary
A slot machine device providing a unique operation, payout scheme, and structure. This slot machine provides optional, unique game play features. These features may include a Notice feature which informs a player if the next cycle will be a win or a loss; a Flush feature allowing a player to discard a losing cycle; a Do-Over feature, allowing a player to replay a cycle if they do not like the results of the prior cycle; a skill-based feature that requires the player to display an element of skill; and a social feature that requires the player to perform a social task. These features may be turned on and off, and the slot machine may be configured to automatically adjust a payout option depending on what features are activated.