Multi-Player Wheel Bonus Game with Characteristic Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming systems lack features that allow multiple players to differentiate themselves and increase the opportunities for awards, leading to a desire for new gaming systems and methods that enhance player enjoyment and excitement.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system with a symbol display device, such as a wheel, where players can select characteristics associated with sections, leading to modified awards based on multiplier values or colors, providing a shared experience and element of competition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single display is used for multiple players, then device complexity is reduced, but player differentiation capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The wheel is segmented into multiple sections, each associated with different characteristics (colors, modifiers). Players differentiate themselves by selecting different sections/characteristics, allowing individual player identity and strategy within a shared display system.
Solution Approach 2:
Different sections of the wheel have different characteristics (colors, award modifiers) assigned to them. Each player's selection of specific sections creates unique local qualities for each player, enabling differentiation while using a single shared display.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple award options are provided, then player engagement increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wheel serves multiple functions: it displays award symbols, shows characteristic selections (colors), indicates modifiers, and determines player awards. This multi-functionality increases award opportunities without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters by associating different characteristics (colors) and modifiers with wheel sections. These parameter changes create multiple award pathways and increase engagement while using the same physical wheel structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If characteristic selection is added to the wheel game, then player strategy and engagement increase, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Characteristics (colors, modifiers) are pre-associated with wheel sections before the game is played. Players make selections based on these predetermined associations, adding strategic depth without requiring complex real-time generation or management of characteristics.
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AI summary
In an embodiment, a gaming system includes a multi-player wheel game. The game includes a wheel having a plurality of sections. Each of the sections is associated with an award symbol. Each of the sections is also associated with a characteristic independent of the award symbol, such as a color. The gaming system enables each of a plurality of active players to select at least one of the characteristics associated with the wheel. The gaming system activates the wheel and indicates at least one section of the wheel. The gaming system and at the gaming devices associated with the gaming system provide an award associated with the award symbol of the indicated section. For each active player that selected the characteristic associated with the indicated section, the gaming system and the gaming devices associated with the gaming system provide a modified award.