Variable Win-Boost Symbol for Dynamic Payout Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming systems face challenges in balancing yield and randomness to create a feeling of luck, improving processing speed and efficiency, and providing attractive high-paying awards while adhering to payout limits, which affects player engagement and operational complexity.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for conducting a wagering game that includes displaying symbols to indicate a randomly selected outcome, determining award amounts based on wagers, and utilizing a 'win-boost' symbol to enhance payouts up to a maximum award, thereby addressing the balance of yield and randomness and simplifying payout handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the gaming apparatus offers attractive high-paying awards to create a feeling of luck, then player engagement and participation are improved, but the system may exceed jurisdictional payout limits and create overpayment issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic award determination system where the win-boost symbol's value is not fixed but varies based on the initial award amount. The symbol adapts its value in real-time to ensure the final award equals the maximum permissible award, dynamically adjusting to comply with payout limits while maintaining player engagement through attractive awards.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of the win-boost symbol's value based on the initial award amount. By calculating the difference between the maximum award and the initial award, the system dynamically adjusts the symbol's value parameter to achieve compliance with payout limits while still offering attractive awards to players.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the gaming apparatus provides complex bonus features and multiple random outcome determinations to enhance entertainment, then player excitement is improved, but processing speed and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary determination of the maximum award amount and the win-boost symbol value before the actual award payout. By pre-calculating these values and determining the relationship between the initial award and maximum award upfront, the system reduces processing complexity during the actual payout execution, thereby improving processing speed while maintaining complex game features.
3Device complexity
If the gaming apparatus uses fixed value symbols for award determination, then game rule simplicity is maintained, but the ability to adapt to payout limits and optimize awards is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the traditional fixed-value symbol into a dynamic symbol whose value changes based on game conditions. The win-boost symbol's value is determined by the difference between the maximum award and the initial award, allowing the system to optimize awards while adapting to payout limits without significantly increasing game rule complexity.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a system and method of conducting a wagering game including displaying a plurality of symbols to indicate a randomly selected outcome of a wagering game in a display area and determining one or more award amounts for the randomly selected outcome. The one or more award amounts are based on the wager and the symbols of the randomly selected outcome. Upon the appearance of a variable “win-boost” symbol, which has no predetermined value, in the randomly selected outcome, the method further includes determining an initial amount based on the one or more award amounts, comparing the initial total award to a maximum award associated with the win-boost symbol and assigning the difference to the win-boost symbol. The initial total award and the difference are summed to create a final award equivalent to the maximum award.