Gaming Machine Wild Symbol Persistence Across Outcome Events
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional video slot games lack a feature that allows a particular symbol to persist and move across multiple outcome events, providing players with additional opportunities to win and increasing game excitement, which is not effectively addressed by existing technologies.
Innovation Solution
A method and system where a particular symbol selected during a first outcome event can persist and move to new positions during subsequent outcome events, enhancing player engagement by allowing the symbol to remain visible and potentially create winning combinations across multiple spins.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If wild symbols are randomly selected and displayed for each outcome event, then the game follows conventional rules, but player excitement and additional winning opportunities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-determines which wild symbols will persist before the outcome event concludes. The processor identifies wild symbols in the first outcome event and pre-arranges their persistence into the second outcome event, allowing players to benefit from these persistent symbols without complex real-time management during gameplay.
Solution Approach 2:
The wild symbol system transitions from a static, event-by-event selection to a dynamic, multi-event persistence mechanism. Wild symbols are no longer confined to single outcome events but dynamically carry over to subsequent events, changing their lifespan and functional scope within the game.
2Duration of action of moving object
If all symbols are removed after each outcome event, then the game resets cleanly, but opportunities for continuous winning combinations across multiple events are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains continuous useful action by allowing wild symbols to persist across outcome events. Instead of removing all symbols after each event, the processor selectively retains wild symbols and incorporates them into subsequent events, creating continuous winning opportunities and extending the useful action of these high-value symbols.
3Adaptability or versatility
If wild symbols are confined to single outcome events, then the game structure remains simple, but player engagement and excitement are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates copies of wild symbols from the first outcome event and places them in the second outcome event. The processor identifies wild symbols and generates their persistent versions, allowing the same symbol instances to appear across multiple events without requiring complex physical symbol manipulation.
Data Source
AI summary
An example method includes determining, for a first outcome event, a first symbol set to display within a symbol-display-portion of a display of the machine; displaying, by the display for the first outcome event, the first symbol set; determining, by the machine for a second outcome event occurring after the first outcome event, a second symbol set to display within the symbol-display-portion of the display; determining, by the machine for the second outcome event, for each instance of the particular symbol in the first symbol set, a corresponding second symbol position in the symbol-display-portion of the display; and displaying, by the display for the second outcome event, each instance of the particular symbol in the first symbol set randomly selected for the first outcome event at the corresponding second symbol position and each symbol of the second symbol set within the symbol-display-portion of the display.