Wager Gaming Machine Logic System for Discounted Ticket Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for providing discounted wager gaming tickets face challenges in efficiently managing ticket validation, enabling appropriate wagering game themes, and accurately accounting for player wins and losses, particularly in ensuring the casino's cost is accurately reflected in financial reporting.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a wager gaming machine with a ticket reader and logic system that reads ticket codes, determines group identification codes, and matches them with enabled wagering game themes, allowing for the provision of specific games and accurate accounting of player wins and losses based on ticket costs and values.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If discounted wager gaming tickets are provided with group identification codes and theme matching, then the gaming experience is enhanced and operational efficiency is improved, but the device complexity and accounting system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments ticket information into distinct components: ticket codes, group identification codes, and theme identifiers. This segmentation allows the logic system to process and match each component independently, improving operational efficiency while managing complexity through modular processing
Solution Approach 2:
The logic system acts as an intermediary between the ticket reader and the wagering game selection apparatus. It receives group identification codes, determines matching themes, and controls the selection process, thereby enhancing gaming experience while centralizing complex accounting functions
2Measurement precision
If the logic system determines group identification codes and matches wagering game themes, then accurate accounting of player transactions is achieved, but the measurement precision requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The logic system performs preliminary determination of group identification codes and theme matching before the actual wagering game is played. This preliminary action ensures accurate accounting of ticket costs and player wins/losses from the outset, establishing precise financial records before transactions occur
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where the logic system continuously monitors ticket validation, theme matching results, and player transactions. This feedback mechanism ensures accounting precision by verifying each transaction against the predetermined ticket cost and theme parameters
Data Source
AI summary
Many implementations of the invention involve discounted wager gaming. Some such implementations involve discounted tickets, which may or may not be “guaranteed play” tickets valid for at least a predetermined number of plays of a wagering game. Some implementations associate a code, sometimes referred to as a Group ID code or the like, with one or more types of contracts for guaranteed play tickets. Other implementations of the invention involve determining a discounted ticket cost C and wagering game value V and determining a coin in amount for a wagering game according to a function of C and V. Still other implementations of the invention provide solutions to accounting challenges relating to discounted tickets.