Wheel Display Linked Wedges Single Spin Awards
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Solution Overview
Problem
In regulated electronic gaming machines, the current wheel display apparatus requires multiple operations of the random outcome generator to generate multiple spins, leading to increased usage of processing and memory resources.
Innovation Solution
A wheel display apparatus with a linking element that combines awards from multiple wedges, allowing the game-logic circuitry to operate the random outcome generator only once to determine multiple awards, by linking a subset of wedges and designating a wedge with an indicator.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple spins of the wheel are permitted to yield multiple awards, then the game provides multiple awards, but the random outcome generator must be operated multiple times, increasing usage of processing and memory resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple award determinations into a single random outcome generation event. The wheel is divided into wedges with different numbers of occurrences, and a single spin determines outcomes for multiple awards simultaneously. This merging of operations reduces the number of times the random outcome generator must be operated, thereby decreasing processing and memory resource usage while still providing multiple awards to the player.
2Quantity of substance
If the wheel is spun multiple times to generate multiple awards, then multiple awards are obtained, but the operational efficiency decreases due to repeated random outcome generation
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple award outcomes are determined in a single wheel spin operation rather than requiring separate spins for each award. The wedge configuration with varying occurrence numbers allows one random event to simultaneously determine multiple awards, significantly improving operational efficiency by eliminating repeated random outcome generation and wheel spinning operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The wheel wedges are pre-configured with different numbers of occurrences before the game is played. This preliminary arrangement of the wheel segments allows the system to determine multiple awards from a single spin, as the distribution of award types is already established in the physical structure of the wheel, eliminating the need for multiple separate determination operations.
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AI summary
An apparatus comprises a wheel and an indicator. The wheel includes a plurality of wedges and a linking element. The plurality of wedges bear respective awards, and the linking element is configured to link a subset of at least two wedges of the plurality of wedges. The indicator is configured to designate a wedge within the plurality of wedges. In response to the designated wedge being within the subset, a combination of the awards associated with the at least two wedges of the plurality of wedges are awarded.