EA000233B1 - Method of a wagering game (options) and apparatus for its implementation - Google Patents

Abstract

1. A wagering game method which comprises forming a wagering field of N>2 informative elements by means of generation of a set of N non-repeating informative codes in computer memory, propagation through communication lines among game participants signals carrying information about the wagering field elements, selection by every game participant one of the wagering field elements as a wager, forwarding through feedback communication lines signals, which identify the game participants and carry information about the wagers, identification and registration of the signals received through the feedback communication lines, forming wagers payment data, wagers drawing within playing-rounds which differs in that the signals carrying wager information are being registered as a sequence of signals in the order of signals arrival through the feedback communication lines, said sequence has been kept hidden from game participants until the playing-round is completed, and the wagers drawing is carried out by means of an iterative-analytical process of forming a quantitative wagers distribution among the wagering field elements, said process has been kept hidden from game participants until the playing-round is completed, and within every iteration of the said process a regular signal of the registered signals sequence is being correlated with the informative code of the wagering field element selected as the wager by the game participant, the number of signals correlated with the informative code of every wagering field element within the current playing-round is being determined, observation of wagers drawing end condition is being checked, and the wagers drawing is completed as soon as the said condition is observed, and in that case in the presence of registered wager information signals not worked up by the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process before the completion of the current playing-round said signals are worked up by the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process within one of the next rounds. 2. The method of Claim 1 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the N-th iteration, the informative codes, with which no signal has been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process is completed with processing the signal containing information about a wager corresponding to the only wagering field element, with whose informative code no signal has been correlated by the iterative-analytical process within the current playing-round before processing this signal. 3. The method of Claim 1 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the (2N-1)-th iteration, the informative codes, with which only one signal has been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process is completed in the presence of only one said informative code and in the absence of informative codes, with which no signal has been correlated within the current playing-round. 4. The method of Claim 1 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the 2N-th iteration, the informative codes, with which the minimum and the maximum numbers of signals have been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process is completed in the presence of only one informative code, with which the minimum number of signals has been correlated within the current playing-round, of only one informative code, with which the maximum number of signals has been correlated within the current playing-round, and with the absence of informative codes, with which no signal has been correlated within the current playing-round. 5. A wagering game method which comprises forming a wagering field of N>2 non-repeating informative elements, propagation among the game participants playing-coupons, which contain information about the wagering field informative elements contents, entering identification data onto the coupons, marking one of the wagering field informative elements by every player as a wager selected, return of the coupons with the said wager marks on them for the wagers drawing, registration of the returned coupons with the wager marks on them and the wagers drawing within playing-rounds, which differs in that the coupons with the wager marks on them are being registered as a sequence of coupons in the order of their return arrival, said sequence has been kept hidden from game participants until the playing-round is completed, and the wagers drawing is carried out by means of an iterative-analytical process of forming a quantitative wagers distribution among the wagering field elements, said process has been kept hidden from game participants until the playing-round is completed, and within every iteration of the said process a regular coupon of the registered coupons sequence is being correlated with the wagering field informative element selected as the wager by the game participant, the number of coupons correlated with every informative element of the wagering field within the current playing-round is being determined, observation of wagers drawing end condition is being checked, and the wagers drawing is completed as soon as the said condition is observed, and in that case in the presence of registered coupons carrying wager marks and not worked up by the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process before the completion of the current playing-round those coupons are worked up by the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process within one of the next rounds. 6. The method of Claim 5 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the N-th iteration, the wagering field elements, with which no coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the wagers drawing is completed with iterative-analytical processing the coupon containing a wager mark corresponding to the only wagering field element, with which no coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round before processing this coupon. 7. The method of Claim 5 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the (2N-1)th iteration, the wagering field elements, with which only one coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the wagers drawing is completed in the presence of only one said element and in the absence of wagering field elements, with which no coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round. 8. The method of Claim 5 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the 2N-th iteration, the wagering field elements, with which the minimum and the maximum numbers of coupons have been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the wagers drawing is completed in the presence of only one element, with which the minimum number of coupons has been correlated within the current playing-round, of only one element, with which the maximum number of coupons has been correlated within the current playing-round, and with the absence of wagering field elements, with which no coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round. 9.The method of Claims 1-8 which differs in that on request of a game participant he is presented to accumulated information about current quantitative wagers distribution among the wagering field elements relating to unfinished playing round and said information is presented to him in exchange for a wager, which is placed without his participation and is processed by the wagers drawing process out of turn. 10. The method of Claims 1-8 which differs in that on request of a game participant, before the completion of a playing round, signals or coupons with wager information, received from said game participant, are being withdrawn from the wagers drawing process in the order, which is opposite to the order of their registration. 11. A wagering game apparatus for implementation of the method of Claim 1 comprising a wagering field forming unit (1), via the data propagation unit (2) connected with one of processor (3) inputs, whose informational output is connected with consecutively linked up a recognition and identification unit (4), a wagers payment unit (5), a wagers registration unit (6), a controller (7), a playing-logic unit (8), and a report unit (9), a playing-round counter (10), connected to the second input of the wagers registration unit (6) and to the second output of the controller (7), the second input of said controller coupled to the forming unit (1) output, a long-term memory unit (14) interconnected with the recognition and identification unit (4) and with the wager payment unit (5), a timer (17), connected with the controller (7), with the recognition and identification unit (4), with the wagers payment unit (5) and with the report unit (9), which differs in that it includes a wagers distribution processor(11), interconnected with the controller(7), a wagers registration confirmation unit (12), coupled to an input of the processor (3) and to the second output of the wagers registration unit(6), payment registration (15) and results review (16) units, interconnected with the long-term memory unit (14) and with the processor (3), both also coupled to corresponding outputs of the recognition and identification unit (4), at that the outputs of the report unit (9) and of the wagers registration confirmation unit (12) coupled to corresponding inputs of the long-term memory unit (14). 12. The apparatus of Claim 11, which differs in that it includes a wagers generator (13) interconnected with the recognition and identification unit (4) and coupled to the output of the wagering field forming unit (1).

Description

The invention relates to the industry of mass games and entertainment, in particular to methods and systems for conducting games and lotteries, which are based on the principle of betting on information elements from a given game set.

Mass games and lotteries are attractive both for their organizers and participants. Organizers receive financial resources from participants that significantly exceed the costs of conducting games, and participants are given the opportunity to be among the winners, each winning many times more than a very reasonable participation fee.

In the well-known television lottery game Russian Lotto, a gaming set of N = 90 information elements is set as a set of natural numbers from 1 to 90 and before each prize pool, numbered lottery tickets are sold with a printed information block containing an individual game combination of 30 for each ticket information elements of the game set. The specified game combination is recorded in 6 lines of 5 elements in each line, and these lines are divided into 2 groups of 3 lines in each group. During the television broadcast, the process of drawing, in which only tickets sold are taken into account under computer control, randomly sequentially select elements — numbers from the game set and inform the game participants about them, which correlate the selected number elements with the numbers of the information block contained in their tickets, and mark the numbers in the tickets that match the selected numbers, if there are matches. Winning tickets are determined in the process of drawing in several rounds: in the 1st round wins the ticket in which earlier than in other tickets all 5 elements of any row will be marked, in the 2nd round wins the ticket in which earlier than in others tickets, all 1 5 elements of one of the groups will be marked, in the 3rd and subsequent rounds the ticket wins, in which earlier than in other tickets all 30 numbers of the game combination will be marked (Internet resource http://www.rusloto.ru ).

The prize fund drawing process, similar to the Russian lotto, is the basis of the well-known lottery game Bingo and its various television versions (http://www.dux.ru/enpp/tv/bingo/rules.htm).

The disadvantage of these games is the absolute deprivation of their participants of the opportunity to make their own bets and influence the results of the draw, because Each player's bets are actually predetermined by a unique gaming combination of information elements of a purchased ticket and the results of the draw are completely dependent on the actions of the game organizer. This disadvantage reduces the interest in such games of potential participants.

The famous Russian lottery game Sportloto consists of setting a game set with a table of N = 45 information elements - natural numbers from 1 to 45 (game variant 6 of 45) or a table of N = 36 information elements - natural numbers from 1 to 36 (game variant 5 from 36), distribution among potential participants of the game of lottery coupons with gaming sets printed on them in the form of the specified tables and unique identification data for each coupon, each participant entering the game into the table of the lottery gaming set The second coupon has 6 betting marks for 6 arbitrary informational elements of the game set for a game of 6 out of 45 or 5 marks for a game of 5 out of 36, returning coupons with betting marks to the game organizer by a given time, registering returned coupons with betting marks and a betting bet at a predetermined time by means of a broadcast on television process of randomly selecting a winning combination of elements from a given game set with the assignment of cash winnings depending on the total number of guessed lementov a winning combination (RF Patent № 2023307).

In this lottery, the participants of the game make their own bets, however, a huge number of possible winning combinations provide an extremely low chance of winning, which also reduces the interest in participating in the game. Indeed, in the lottery 6 out of 45 the total number of different winning combinations is 8.145.060, while the 1st category prize (all 6 numbers of the winning combination are guessed) only one of them can win, the 2nd category prize (5 numbers guess winning combination) - 234 of them, the prize of the 3rd category (4 numbers of the winning combination are guessed) - 11,115 of them. In the lottery 5 of 36, the total number of different winning combinations is 376.992, while the prize of the 1st category (all 5 numbers of the winning combination are guessed) falls on one of them, the prize of the 2nd category (4 numbers of the winning combination are guessed) - 155 of them prize of the 3rd category (3 numbers of the winning combination are guessed) - for 4,650 of them. In addition, the bets of the game participants do not affect the drawing process in any way, which is not conducive to the gaming appeal of the lottery.

Another disadvantage of the Sportloto lottery is the organizational complexity of its implementation, which is caused by the need to manufacture a large number of lottery coupons, their sale to the public, mailing coupons for significant distances, sorting by circulation, recognizing handwritten symbols, the risk of spreading false coupons and / or individual actions of individual employees from a significant number of people involved in this process.

The impact of these factors on the organizational complexity of the process of holding a lottery like Sportloto is reduced in state lotteries held in the USA and Canada, where essentially the same principle of betting and drawing is realized through the distribution of lottery coupons and registration of rates using special electronic terminals at remote points of sale of coupons using which, via telephone channels, signals are transmitted to the central computer identifying sold coupons and containing information about the notes on the bets made (US Pat. No. 5,186,463). Similar technical means are used in the Russian lottery Lotto-Million, the weekly draws of which are held on the channel of the Public Russian Television.

To simplify the lottery process and, in particular, to reduce paper workflow, a computerized gaming telephone system was invented based on telephone sets with push-button tone dialing and a central computer node, which, by means of a branching algorithm and a set of voice messages, which are recorded and reproduced as necessary, provides each Called the subscriber registration as a participant in the game with the appointment of an individual identification code, okupku with credit card gaming credit, input and registration with payment rates associated with each virtual gaming coupon rate (US Pat. US number 5,415,416). This solution also provides for the inclusion in the central computer hub of devices for automatically determining the number of callers with the billing program for the identified telephone number, which makes the system available for use by game participants who do not have credit cards. According to the description of the invention, the system is designed to hold lotteries with registration as bets of combinations of numbers from predetermined numerical ranges until the winning combination is randomly drawn by the organizer of the game, while at the player’s request the system can choose the bet by itself.

There is also a known method of playing with stakes in the telephone lottery Index 10 out of 10, which consists in registering the game by phone before the drawing of an index consisting of non-recurring numbers (RF Patent No. 2053827). In this method, the rally is made by the organizer of the game at a predetermined time according to a random law of a winning sequence of 10 non-recurring numbers. The prize fund is distributed among players whose registered indices, in whole or in part (at least 6 digits), coincide with the winning sequence, while the rates are covered by the same procedure for paying for long-distance telephone calls. In this game, the total number of different combinations, equal to 3,628,800, determines its high potential profitability for the organizers, but does not increase the interest of potential participants, leaving this lottery game play level on a par with Sportloto type lotteries.

Compared to lotteries that use lottery coupons, computerized phone games are not only easier from the point of view of gameplay organization, but also more attractive to potential participants due to the general availability of telephone service.

The closest to the subject of the present invention is adopted as a prototype method of playing with bets, implemented in the state lottery of Canada 6 of 49, participation in which (besides buyers of lottery coupons through remote electronic terminals) can take any user of the worldwide computer network Internet, having at least one of the internationally recognized credit cards for paying your bids and receiving possible winnings (Internet resource http://www.cimltd.com/lotto). In this game, a game set of N = 49 elements is set in the central gaming computer by a set of N non-repeating information codes, each of which is a binary representation of one of the natural numbers from 1 to 49. Each person who wants to participate in the game receives to his computer through channels Internet communication signals that carry information about the registration form as a participant in the game and options for paying bets. Completed registration forms with marked payment options are returned as a set of signals via Internet channels to the central gaming computer and, after verification, are stored in long-term memory for subsequent identification of the game participants and making payment for bets. After that, signals are transmitted from the central gaming computer to the personal computer of the registered participant in the game, carrying information about all elements of the game set and information about the schedule of game rounds in which the game is played. From this information, each participant of the game chooses a combination of 6 elements as his bets and, before the start of the next game round, sends via the Internet communication channels to the central gaming computer signals that identify this participant of the game and contain information about his bets. Signals with information about bets received in the central gaming computer from the participants of the game are identified, recorded and remembered with the payment for their processing from the accounts of the players who sent these signals. When the time of the beginning of the next game round arrives, the registration of signals with stakes for participation in this round stops and the game organizer selects 6 elements from the game set randomly, which constitute the winning combination. After that, the previously stored signals with wagers correlate with the information codes of the elements from the winning combination, as a result, signals containing information about 4 or more bets on the elements from the winning combination are determined, and the participants of the game who have made these wagers are identified, between which according to with the accepted rules of the game and the prize fund is distributed, which is a part of the game budget payments received from the payment.

Despite the technical attractiveness of the game with the stakes, implemented in the prototype, in terms of the principles underlying the betting game, the prototype is similar to the Sportloto lottery and, therefore, has the same fundamental flaws.

As a result of consideration of the current state of the mass games and lotteries industry with bets on information elements of a game set, their common drawbacks can be recognized as an excessive number of possible winning combinations, causing the rare possibility of a big win, and the absolute exclusion of game participants from the process of creating winning information elements. These shortcomings reduce the playfulness of the games, cause a manifestation of mistrust of their organizers from the part of potential participants and, moreover, cause the considered mass games lack the properties of sports and intellectual competition.

The present inventions solve the problem of expanding the arsenal of technical solutions relating to methods and devices for conducting betting games.

Compared with the known methods and devices of similar purpose, the claimed inventions qualitatively increase the level of gaming entertainment and ensure the dependence of the results of the draws on the actions of the game participants, which increases the attractiveness of games for their potential participants and, moreover, gives such games the properties of sports and intellectual competitiveness.

This result is achieved in the game with bets, which consists in forming a game set of N> 2 information elements by generating in the computer memory a set of N non-repeating information codes, distributing among the participants of the game via communication channels signals that carry information about the elements of the game set, each choosing the participant of the game as a bet of one of the elements of the game set, the direction through the channels of feedback of signals identifying the participants of the game and containing information about the stakes, identification and registration of signals received via the feedback channels, generation of data on betting and betting in game rounds, in which signals containing information about the stakes are recorded in the sequence of their receipt through the feedback channels hidden from the game participants until the end of the game round communications, and the betting is carried out by means of an iterative and analytical process of forming a quantitative distribution of bets The game set elements, at each iteration of which the next signal from the sequence of registered signals is associated with the information code of the game set element selected by the participant in the game as a bet, determine the number of signals correlated with the information code of each game set element in this game round, and verify that the completion of the betting draw, and the betting draw finishes if this condition is fulfilled, while there are registered information about the rates of signals not processed in the iterative-analytical process of betting before the end of this game round, these signals are processed in the iterative-analytical process of the betting of one of the following rounds.

The peculiarities of the iterative-analytical process of betting, which distinguish one from the other particular cases of implementing the claimed method of playing with bets and which consist in completing the iterative-analytical process of playing the bets, provide a different degree of attractiveness and profitability of the game for both its participants and the organizers.

The simplest variation of the betting method described above is the way in which, at each iteration of the betting process, starting with the Nth iteration, information codes are revealed that are not associated with a single signal in this game round, and complete the iterative analysis process of betting with processing the signal containing information about the bet on a single element of the game set, with the information code of which in the iterative-analytical process of this game round prior to processing this signal was not correlated single signal.

This particular case of the method of betting, called Force Zero, when designated as the only element of the game set as the winner in the completed game round, allows you to identify the winner immediately after processing his bet, i.e., from the participants' point of view is a game with an instant draw result their bets, and ensures the profitability of the game for its organizer when assigning winnings up to an amount equal to the cost of N bets.

The next type of betting method is the way in which, at each iteration of the betting process, starting with the (2N-1) -th iteration, information codes are identified that are associated with only one signal in this game round and complete the iterative analysis the process of betting in the presence of only one such information code and the absence of information codes with which no signal is associated with this round.

This particular case of the method of betting, called the Minimum Force, when it designates the only element of the game set for which only one bet is won in the completed game round, does not always allow to identify the winner immediately after processing his bet, since the bet on the winner an element of a game set can be fixed in a quantitative distribution of the current round several iterations before the completion of the iterative-analytical process, as a result of which For the participants, such a game is a game with a delayed result of their betting. However, due to the random nature of the flow of signals with the stakes, the budget of each round of the Minimum Strength game can not be less than the cost of 2N-1 bets, so the game organizer has the opportunity to assign a fixed amount of winnings in the amount of payment for N bets to the only winning bet, providing himself with This level of profitability of the game is not lower than 50% (1-0.5 / N) of the total amount of payment for the bets participating in the game.

From the point of view of gaming entertainment and profitability, both for the participants of the game and for its organizer, the following particular case of implementing the game of betting is the most attractive, in which, at each iteration of the betting process, starting with the 2N ^ iteration, information codes with which in this game round, the minimum and maximum number of signals is correlated, and the iterative-analytical process of betting is completed with only one information code with which in this game round minimum quantity correlated signals, only one information code by which a round in the game correlated maximum number of signals and the absence of information codes, which in this game round is not correlated single signal.

This particular case of the method of playing with bets, called the Minimax Force, is designated as the winner in the completed game round of the identified only element of the game set, for which the minimum number of bets was made and / or the only element of the game set for which the maximum number of bets was made, not always allows to identify the winner immediately after processing his bet, since the bet on the winning element of the game set can be fixed in a quantitative distribution the current round is several iterations before the completion of the iterative-analytical process, as a result of which, from the point of view of the participants, such a game is a game with a deferred result of playing their stakes. However, in the case of assignment of the global minimum of the final distribution of bets as the only winning element of the game set, several winning bets can appear simultaneously, while the game organizer has the opportunity to assign a guaranteed minimum amount of winnings to each winning bet in the amount of payment for N bets, ensuring the level the profitability of the game is not lower than 50% of the total amount of payment for the bets participating in the game.

The solution of the above problem with the achievement of the overall result is also provided when implementing another variant of the above game with bets, which consists in forming a game set of N> 2 non-recurring information elements, distributing coupons to the participants of the game that carry information about the content of the game elements of the game set. identification data, each participant of the game on the coupon marks the choice of one of the information elements as a bet and of the groove set, return of coupons with marks for stakes made on them, registration of returned coupons with stakes marks and betting in game rounds, in which coupons with stakes marks are recorded in the sequence of their return return hidden from the game participants , and the betting is carried out by means of an iterative-analytical process of forming a quantitative distribution of bets on elements The ntam of the game set, at each iteration of which the next coupon is assigned from the sequence of registered coupons to the information element of the game set selected by the participant in the game as a bet, determines the number of coupons correlated with each information element of the game set in this game round, and checks the completion condition if the condition is fulfilled, and if there are registered, containing packs not processed in the iterative-analytical process of betting before the end of the game round, these coupons are processed in the iterative-analytical process of playing the stakes of one of the following rounds.

Special cases of the implementation of this variant of the game with bets are respectively:

- a method of playing with bets, called Zero Force, in which, at each iteration of the betting process, starting with the Nth iteration, elements of the game set are revealed with which no coupon is assigned in this game round, and the betting is completed when processing iteratively -analytical process of a coupon containing a mark on a bet on a single element of the game set with which no coupon was associated with in this game round before processing this coupon;

- a method of playing with bets, called the Minimum Strength, in which at each iteration of the betting process, starting with (2N-1) ^ iteration, elements of the game set are identified with which only one coupon is assigned in this game round, and the betting is completed if there is only one such element and there is no set of elements in the game, with which no coupon has been assigned to this round;

- a game of betting, called the Minimax Power, in which, at each iteration of the betting process, starting from the 2nd iteration, elements of the game set are identified with which the minimum and maximum number of coupons are correlated in this game round, and the drawing of the rates ends when there is only one element with which the minimum number of coupons in this game round, only one element with which the maximum number of coupons in this game round, and the absence of sets in the game elements, which in this game round is not correlated single coupon.

The given special cases of the implementation of this variant of the method of playing with bets provide the same advantages as the corresponding special cases of realization of the method according to the previously described variant.

The degree of influence of a participant in the game on its process and results increase in the case of the realization of both variants of the game with stakes, where at the request of the participant of the game he is provided with accumulated information about the quantitative distribution of bets among the elements of the game set in an unfinished game round in exchange for a bet assigned without his participation and registered and processed by the process of the betting out of turn. This allows for massive interactive games with the properties of sports and intellectual competition.

The attractiveness of games with bets in particular cases of their implementation. Minimum and Minimax Strengths increase due to the fact that, at the request of a game participant, before the end of the game round, the betting information received from this game participant carries information about bets or coupons in the reverse order their registration.

The task is solved with the achievement of the overall result when using the device for the game with the stakes, intended for the implementation of the first of the above-described variants of the method, containing (see. FIG. 1) the formation unit (1) of the game set, through the data distribution unit (2), connected with one of the processor inputs (3), the information output of which is connected with a series-connected recognition and identification unit (4), a payment unit (5) rates, a registration unit (6) rates, a controller (7), a game logic unit (8) and a logging unit (9), a round counter (10) connected to the second input of the registration unit (6) rates and the second output of the controller (7), the second input of which is connected to the output of the forming unit (1), long-term memory unit (1 4) interconnected with the recognition and identification blocks (4) and payment (5) rates, the timer (17) associated with the controller (7), recognition and identification blocks (4), payment (5) rates and logging unit (9), which has a rate distribution processor (11) interconnected with a controller (7), a confirmation block (12) registration, connected to the input of the processor (3) and the second output of the registration unit (6) of the rates, the registration of payment (15) and review results (16), interconnected with the long-term memory (14) and processor (3), also connected to the corresponding outputs of the recognition and identification unit (4), while the outputs of the logging unit (9) and the block (12) for confirming the registration of bids are connected to the corresponding inputs of the long-term memory unit (14).

For the implementation of the first of the above-described variants of the game with bets, which provides for the participants of the game the opportunity not to assign bets themselves, but to assign this function to the device, the device is supplemented with a bet generator (13) interconnected with the recognition and identification unit (4) and connected to the output block formation (1) game sets.

For the implementation of the first of the above-described variants of the game with bets, which provides the possibility of providing the game participants with information about the current quantitative distribution of bets among the elements of the game set, the device is complemented by the display unit between the additional controller output (7) and the additional processor input (3) draw (18).

For the implementation of the first of the above-described variants of the game with bets, which stipulates the possibility of participants withdrawing their bets from the process of playing the Minimum Force and Minimax Force in games, the device is complemented by a rate return unit (19) interconnected with the controller (7) and the long-term memory unit ( 1 4) and connected to one of the outputs of the recognition and identification block (4) and one of the inputs of the processor (3) input-output.

In the particular case of the implementation of the device for implementing the first variant of the method of playing with bets in its modification, the Zero Force, the rate distribution processor (11) comprises (see FIG. 2) a decoder (20) whose outputs are connected with trigger inputs (21), outputs which are connected to the inputs of the valve (22) A logical AND, the output of which is connected to the initializing inputs of the trigger (21).

A variety of devices with such a processor of bet distribution (11), fully complying with the Zero Power game, is easy to implement, but does not allow to accumulate in the processor (11) data on the exact quantitative distribution of bets on the elements of the game set.

Additional possibilities of accumulating data on the exact quantitative distribution of bets on the elements of the game set in the processor (11) of this particular case of implementing the device for implementing the first variant of the method of playing with bets in its modification Zero Force, as well as transferring this data to the controller at any time (7 ) is solved in the case when the rate allocation processor (11) interconnected with the controller (7) contains (see FIG. 3) a decoder (20) whose outputs are connected to the counter inputs (23), whose outputs through the blocks are comparable connections (24) are connected to the converting inputs of the valve (25) Logic AND, the output of which is connected to the initializing inputs of the counters (23).

In the particular case of the device implementation for implementing the first variant of the game with bets in its modification, the Minimum Power interconnected with the controller (7) the rate distribution processor (11) contains (see Fig. 4) a decoder (20), to each of the N one-bit outputs which is connected to the cascade from the counter (23) and the comparison unit with zero (24) and the comparison unit with the unit (27) connected in parallel with it, the valve (25) with N converting inputs Logical AND, each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding comparison unit with zero (24), N inlet oh valve (28) Logical OR, each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding unit of comparison with the unit (27), 2-input valve (29) of logic AND, whose inputs are connected to the outputs of the valves (25) and (28), and N- an input encoder (30), each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding comparison unit with a unit (27), and the output of the valve (29) is connected to the initialization inputs of counters (23) and the control input of the encoder (30).

In the particular case of the implementation of the device for the implementation of the first variant of the game with bets in its modification, the Minimax Power interconnected with the controller (7), the rate distribution processor (11) contains (see Fig. 5) a decoder (20), to each of the N one-bit outputs which is connected to the cascade of the counter (23) and the comparison unit with a zero with parallel (24), a comparison unit with a minimum (31) and a comparison unit with a maximum (32), a valve (25) with N converting inputs Logical AND, each input which is connected to the corresponding output a block of comparison with zero (24), the first N-input valve (28-1) Logical OR, each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding comparison unit with a minimum (31), the first 2-input valve Logical AND (29-1), inputs which are connected to the outputs of the valves (25) and (28-1), the second N-input valve Logical OR (28-2), each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding comparison unit with a maximum (32), the second 2-input valve Logical AND (29-2), the inputs of which are connected to the outputs of the valves (29-1) and (28-2), the first N-input coder (30-1), each input of which connected to the output of the co13 matching unit with a minimum (31), the second N-input encoder (30-2), each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding comparing unit with a maximum (32) connected to the output of the valve (29-1) minimum counter (33), the output of which is connected to the input of each of the comparison units with a minimum (31), and a maximum counter (34) connected to the output of the valve (28-2), the output of which is connected to the input of each of the comparison units with a maximum (32), moreover, the output of the valve (29-2) is connected to the initializing inputs of the counters (23), (33), (34), output valve (29-1) is connected to the control input of the first encoder (30-1), the output of the valve (28-2) is connected to the control input of the second encoder (30-2).

The invention is illustrated with graphic materials in FIG. 1-5.

FIG. 1 shows a functional diagram of the device for the game with stakes.

Figure 2 shows the functional scheme of the processor (11) of the betting betting for the particular case of executing a device implementing a modification of the Zero Power method, without accumulating in the processor (11) absolute quantitative data on the distribution of bets among the elements of the game set.

Figure 3 shows the functional scheme of the processor (11) of the betting betting for the particular case of executing a device implementing a modification of the Zero Power method, with the accumulation in the processor (11) of absolute quantitative data on the distribution of bets among the elements of the game set.

Figure 4 shows the functional scheme of the processor (11) of the betting for the particular case of a device that implements a modification of the Power Minimum method.

Figure 5 shows the functional scheme of the processor (11) of the betting for the particular case of the device that implements the modification of the Minimax Power method.

Figure 6 shows an example of the chart of the quantitative distribution of bets on the elements of the game set, formed by the iterative-analytical process of the betting in the unfinished game round of modifying the Minimax Power method.

Figure 7 shows an example of the chart of the quantitative distribution of bets on the elements of the game set, formed by the iterative-analytical process of the betting in the completed game round of modifying the Minimax Power method.

In the following description of the device for the implementation of the first of the above variants of the method of playing with the stakes and modifications of the device, specific narrow terms and symbols are used to characterize the functional blocks, elements and descriptions of their work, due to the applied problems they solve. Structural elements and the description of the work of iterative-analytical processor units are presented at a more detailed level in terms of functional-logic circuits adopted in digital electronics, with auxiliary, system-wide and utility tasks (conversion of data formats and commands, communication protocols, memory addressing, generation of system messages and commands, etc.) are mentioned only as necessary to clarify the functions of the blocks when solving applied problems by them.

However, the invention is not limited to the framework of the accepted terminology, so that every term or designation used covers all equivalent elements and functional blocks that work in the same way and are used to perform the same functions.

Functional diagram of a device for playing with bets, shown in FIG. 1, contains a unit for generating a game set (1) of N> 2 game elements, via a data distribution unit (2) connected with an input-output processor (3). The information output of the processor (3) is connected with the consecutively connected recognition and identification unit (4), the rate payment unit (5), the rate registration unit (6), the controller (7), the game logic unit (8) and the logging unit (9). The round counter (10) is connected to the second input of the rate-recording unit (6) and to the second controller output (7), which is interconnected (hereinafter referred to as interconnected means the availability of communication channels for data exchange) with the rate distribution processor (11). The second output of the registration block (6) of bids is connected to the processor (3) through the block of registration confirmation (12).

The output of the game set generation unit (1) is also connected to the third input of the controller (7) and to the bet generator (13) interconnected with the recognition and identification unit (4). The block of long-term memory (14) is interconnected with blocks: recognition and identification (4), payment (5) rates, registration of payments (15), review of results (16), in turn interconnected with the processor (3) and connected to the output of the recognition block and identification (4), the other output of which is connected with the input of the payment registration unit (15) interconnected with the input-output processor (3). The outputs of the logging unit (9) and the bid confirmation block (1 2) are connected to the corresponding inputs of the long-term memory block (1 4).

Synchronization in the operation of the device is ensured by introducing a timer (17) into its circuit and connecting it to the blocks and elements requiring synchronization (not shown on the black), in addition, the timer output (17) is connected to the controller (7), to the recognition blocks and identification (4), payment rates (5) and logging (9).

Providing participants of the game with their requests for information about the current distribution of bets on the elements of the game set is carried out by the display unit of the play (18) connected between the additional controller output (7) and the additional input of the input / output processor (3).

Returning to the game participants at their request of the rates from the uncompleted game rounds is performed by the bet return unit (19) connected between the recognition and identification unit (4) and the input-output processor (3), which is interconnected with the controller (7) and the long-term memory unit (14) ( these two links in Fig. 1 are shown by dotted lines).

The game begins with the formation by the organizer of a game of a game set of N> 2 information elements by inputting from the console through a software interface into the electronic memory of a game set forming unit (1) N non-repeating information codes, each of which corresponds to one of the elements of the game set. The information codes of the elements of the game set are transmitted to the data distribution unit (2), where they are converted into the format of the message about the content of the game set and the invitation to assign a bet that goes to the processor (3).

The input-output processor (3) converts the received internal signals of the device into signals for transmission over external communication channels and transmits these signals to the registration-game terminals (not shown) of registered and potential participants of the game via external communication channels (not shown) ), which can be computer interface channels, analog and digital telephone channels, communication channels of local and global computer networks and online services, asynchronous channels of communication cable television networks, and so on. Obtained from the registration-gaming terminals for external communication channel signals input-output processor (3) converts into signals suitable for the types and sizes for distribution and handling functional device blocks.

At the stage of the formation of the game set, the processor (3) converts the message about the content of the game set from the data distribution unit (2) into data transmission signals in accordance with the standards and protocols adopted in the channels and networks used, and then transmits these signals via communication channels registration game terminals with a given repetition rate and / or upon their requests.

A computer terminal with a console and RAM, for example, a personal computer, can be used as a gaming set generation unit (1), as a data distribution unit (2) a dedicated area of the operating memory of this terminal under control of a special program, and as an input / output processor (3) Depending on the types of interfaces, channels and communication networks used, serial and parallel computer ports, network interface cards, modems and modem pools, control panels can perform Temperature and adapters digital telephone networks with integrated services (ISDN), asynchronous controllers, cable television networks, specialized telecommunication processors, converters Internet Protocol - in conjunction with the corresponding hardware and software drivers.

Registration and gaming terminal is used to register the participants of the game, enter data about the stakes and display the results of the draws. These functions can be performed by touch-tone telephones, electronic terminals for sale of lottery coupons, credit, bank card and smart card service terminals, including ATMs, discount card service terminals, video terminals of asynchronous cable networks, personal computers of corporate and global computer users. networks and online services, etc.

A special case of the registration and gaming terminal is a telephone set with pulse dialing, the use of which in combination with the device in question will be described separately.

Having received signals about the content of the game set and game rules from the processor (3) to the registration-gaming terminal, the registration-gaming terminal operator selects one of the three data distribution units offered by the data distribution unit (2) modes of interaction with the device - payment registration mode, results review mode or placing bets, sending the appropriate signal through the feedback channels to the processor (3). The input / output processor (3) received via the feedback channels (after conversion of types and formats) transmits to the recognition and identification unit (4), which first of all adds the readings of the system timer (17) to the format of this signal and recognizes one of the three above modes device interaction with the registration and gaming terminal.

The mode of registration of payments, providing, as a rule, pre-registration of personal data of participants and coordination with them of access codes to this mode in order to protect against unauthorized access, depending on the type of registration-gaming terminal used and the method of payment of bets, can be implemented differently. If a city or corporate network telephone or cable network video terminal is used as a registration game terminal, then by prior agreement between the game organizer and the network administration the personal data of the network subscriber can be transferred from the network subscriber database to the processor (3) to register as a game participant In this case, the method of payment of bets and winnings can be chosen either the same as in the case of payment for network services, either by credit cards or by a discount bonus scheme (with .nizhe). If a credit, bank or smart card servicing terminal acts as a registration and gaming terminal, then all participants of the game necessary for registering payments can be read directly from the card, and in the case of a smart card, including the amount of virtual money remaining in the card’s electronic circuit , if only the same card will be used as a means of payments in the game. If the organizer of the game is the administration of the discount system and the discount card servicing terminal acts as the registration and gaming terminal, then the registration data of the participant of the discount program can be used to register the game participant and make payments according to the discount bonus scheme. If the organizer of the game is the administration of a corporate computer network or an online service, for example, an Internet service provider, then the registration data of a user of a corporate network or an online service can be used to register a game participant using a discount bonus scheme and / or a previously agreed upon payment scheme. If the organizer of the game is the holder of the Internet server, the participants of the game fill in the registration form transmitted from the processor (3) to their personal computers and choose one of the acceptable credit cards for the game organizer. Finally, if the electronic terminal for selling lottery coupons is used as a registration and gaming terminal, then a unique alphanumeric coupon code is used as registration data, replacing the personal data of the game participant, and the payment for the bet is charged directly by the registration and gaming terminal operator. Payment registration mode is combined with rate placement mode. The type of registration and gaming terminal used is determined by the processor (3) independently by one of the known methods during connection establishment.

In any case, after the recognition and identification unit (4) recognizes the payment registration mode, the signals received via the feedback channels from the registration and gaming terminal contain the address data of the registration and gaming terminal, the identification data of the game participants, personal access codes to the registry account and payments, are converted in the processor (3) from transmission formats via external communication channels to internal signal formats used in the device, and are transferred to the long-term memory block (14) via gistration of payments (15), which conducts a dialogue with a specific registration and gaming terminal through a processor (3) and a connection established via communication channels. In this case, the payment registration unit (15) assigns each new player a personal database address and, using this address, enters the long-term memory block (14) with the personal identification data of the player with the access code and opens his personal gaming account register. During the player’s initial registration, the initial amount of payment units used by the player to measure the cost of bets in the case of playing games with different prices (for example, the game organizer can change the bet price depending on the power of the game set N) is paid into the balance of his registry account. non-monetary forms of payment.

One of the possible non-monetary forms of payment for participation in the game is the discount bonus scheme widely used in discount programs, when for each purchase of a product or service to a program participant a certain amount of bonus points are determined on a personal account, which can later be exchanged for new goods and / or services or used to obtain certain discounts. It is natural to use the discount-bonus scheme in games organized by the administration of discount programs (see below example 7), but a similar scheme can be used in cases of organizing mass games with rates by the administrations of telephone and asynchronous television networks, corporate networks and online services - in all these and in such cases, payment of bets and winnings can be measured by certain quanta of the services provided (see examples 2, 4, 6 below).

In the future, the game player’s personal gaming balance may change many times, again selecting the payment registration mode and interacting with his account register from the registration and gaming terminal through communication channels, input / output processor (3) and payment registration unit (15) for depositing into the account- register of new payment units or withdrawing them from the registry account for use outside the framework of the game. The actual composition of the player’s identification data, the type of payment and the payment equivalent are determined by the organizer of the game and recorded upon registration of the participant of the game, and this data can be further specified as needed in the mode of registration of payments.

In the results review mode, the results review unit (16) communicates with registered and potential participants of the game through the processor (3) and communication channels, providing them with information about the results of completed game rounds from the long-term memory block (14).

If a game participant chooses a betting mode, then in response to the above-mentioned message of the data distribution unit (2), containing an invitation to make a bet, the game participant enters his identification data into the virtual gaming coupon form offered to him, notes the rate assigned by him in this form information code of the corresponding element of the game set, and sends this form as a signal of a certain type and format via feedback channels to the input / output processor (3). The signal received and transformed by the processor (3) is recognized by the recognition and identification unit (4) as a signal containing the player’s identification data and the rate information code, after which the unit (4) identifies the participant of the game when interacting with the long-term memory unit (14). address of the database and checking the balance status of the personal account registry.

An important identification feature associated with the specifics of this game method is the fact that in case of identification failure, the block (4) transmits the received signal to the long-term memory block (14), freeing itself to identify the next signal, while the block (14) initializes through payment registration unit (15) and processor (3) via communication channels a dialogue session with the registration and gaming terminal to clarify the identity of the participant in the game and / or make additional payments to his personal account register.

To enable participants to play, not to assign bets themselves, but to assign this function to the device, the participant of the game, using the registration and gaming terminal, enters in the rate field the signal sent to the device in the betting mode a special rate request code, which after successful identification of the signal is interpreted by the recognition unit and identification (4) as a betting code without a player’s participation, as a result of which the recognition and identification block (4) sends a request for a bet to the bet generation block (13) and receiving from the generating rate unit (13) bet in the form of an information code corresponding to the plurality of game element replaces that code a code request signal at the identified rate. The rate generation block (13) can be implemented on the basis of one of the methods of generating pseudo-random integers known in computer technology.

In case of successful completion of identification, a signal with a bet is transferred from the recognition and identification block (4) to the bet payment block (5), which, interacting with the personal account-registry of the identified player in the long-term memory block (14), generates a message for the account register writing off the price of one bet by sending this message to the block of long-term memory (14) for correcting the balance of the identified account of the registry.

Before adjusting the balance, the long-term memory unit (1 4) can request, through the payment registration unit (15), the input-output processor (3), communication channels and the registration game terminal, the participant of the game to access its account-registry if such a request is provided for by the game rules and / or the need for such a request is marked by the participant in the game in his personal registration data when registering as a participant. If it is necessary to request the access code to the account-register, the signal containing the bet is also reloaded from the rate payment block (5) to the long-term memory block (14) in order to release the rate payment block (5) for subsequent signals with rates, as stipulated in the block recognition and identification (4) in case of unsuccessful identification. In case of unsuccessful confirmation of the access code, the payment registration unit (15) through the input / output processor (3) conducts a dialogue with the registration and gaming terminal to clarify the access code. After confirming the access code, the signal with the rate is returned to the rate payment block (5), where data from the system timer (17) about the current time of the rate payment is entered into its format.

If a game participant uses the cash register terminal of a lottery coupon sales point as a registration and gaming terminal, the input signal to the input / output processor (3) contains a unique alphanumeric identification code of the lottery coupon and the bet value in the form of the information code of the corresponding game set element or Special request code for generating a bet on behalf of the player. By processing such a signal, the recognition and identification unit (4) for this signal together with the long-term memory unit (14) uniquely associates with the identification code of the lottery coupon paid by the participant in the lottery coupon game and receives the database address of the received signal, which is generated in the long-term memory unit (1 4) the account is a register of a paid coupon, and sends a signal to the rate payment unit (5), where this signal is assigned the value of the system time.

As a result, in all cases, the signal at the exit from the betting block (5) contains 3 filled data fields - the address of the registry account database, the bet value in the form of the information code of the game set element and the system time for the signal to exit the betting block (5).

The recognition and identification blocks (4), payment rates (5), payment registration (15) and review results (16) can be implemented as specialized executable software modules that are placed in computer memory.

The block of long-term memory (14) is a database management system and the database itself, which are implemented using high-speed disk drives of the required capacity.

The output signal of the betting block (5) enters the rate registration block (6), where two data fields are added to its format — the current round number field and the current number round field. To fill these fields, the betting registration unit (6) uses the readings of the round counter (10) and the readings of its internal counter for the number of bets in a round, which is reset every time the readings of the round counter (10) change. A full copy of the signal registered in this way is transmitted to the registration confirmation block (12), which generates a rate registration message from this copy and sends this message to the long-term memory block (14) for entering the registration data of the rate into the registry account at the address specified in the copy database, and also transmits this message through the input-output processor (3) and communication channels to the registration-gaming terminal, from which the registered rate was assigned. After that, the registered signal is truncated in format to the signal containing only the database address and rate information code, and transmitted to the controller (7).

Thus, the message transmitted by the registration confirmation block (12) to the long-term memory block (14) and to the processor (3) for subsequent transmission to the registration and gaming terminal contains 5 filled data fields - database address, rate value, system time value, ordinal the number of the current game round and the ordinal number of the bet in the current game round, while the signal having a higher system time value has a greater value of the cumulative indicator round number – bet number.

The functions of the controller (7) are loading the informational rates contained in the signals into the processor of the distribution of bets (11), making decisions about the beginning and end of game rounds and transferring data on the quantitative distribution of bets in the completed round to the winning logic block (8). In this case, the controller (7) interacts with the bet distribution processor (11), which implements an iterative-analytical process of forming a quantitative distribution of bets among the elements of the game set.

In the case of an iterative analytical game with a delayed result, such as Minimum Power or Minimax Power, the controller (7), until the end of the game round, sequentially fills with a variable-length buffer of temporary length stored in its internal memory with signals coming from the recording unit (6), which in practice can be carried out by the dynamic distribution of RAM (see, for example, J. Walkerly. Architecture and programming of micro-computers. Trans. from English. - M .: Mir, 1984). At the end of the current round, the controller (7) sequentially unloads this buffer into the winning logic block (8) until the beginning of the next round, expanding the format of signals unloaded from the buffer with data on the ordinal number of the completed round and the registered ordinal of the bet in this round, determined by the ordinal number of the signal in the buffer.

Upon receipt of the next informational rate code from the controller (7), the rate distribution processor (11) iterates its processing and updates the accumulated rate distribution, correlating this code with the information code of the corresponding element of the game set formed by the game generation unit (1) and loaded into the processor the distribution of bets (11) by the controller (7) during the initialization of the game, while determining the number of bets correlated with this element of the game set in the current game round de, and checks the condition of the end of the round by the updated quantitative distribution of bets, indicating at the end of the iteration to the controller (7) a sign of the end of the game round as a one-bit signal flag F = 0 (the round is not completed) or F = 1 (the round is completed). When F = 0, the controller loads the next signal into the buffer, and the information code of the rate contained in it is loaded into the rate distribution processor (11). When a signal F = 1 arrives, the controller (7) unloads the data about the quantitative distribution of rates and the identified specific points of this distribution (last zero, absolute minimum, absolute maximum, etc.) from the distribution rate processor (11) and transmits them to the block of winning logic (8) together with the system timer reading about the time of the end of the round, sending simultaneously to the round counter (10) a command to increase the number of the round by 1.

The same operations of completing the game round are carried out by the controller (7) and in the case of implementing an iterative-analytical game with an instant result, such as Force Zero, however, in this case, a buffer of signals in the controller's memory (7) may not be created, as output to the controller (7) the bet allocation processor (11) at the end of the next iteration of the signal-flag F for completing the game round is also a sign of a win for the last processed bet (F = 1 - the bet won, F = 0 - the bet is lost). For this reason, for the case of implementing the method of an iterative-analytical game with an instant result, the device provides for the block to issue a confirmation of registration (12) of its signal until the rate distribution processor (11) processes the rate corresponding to that signal and complements this signal with sign F (see the dotted connection between the blocks (7) and (12) in FIG. 1) in order to ensure instantaneous play. As a result, in the case of an iterative-analytical game with an instant result, a registration confirmation block (12) issues a long-term memory block (14) and to an input-output processor (3) for transfer to the game participant who has made a bet, a signal about winning or losing their assigned bet . At the same time, in order to preserve the generality of the presentation, we can assume that a buffer of signals of variable length is formed in the controller (7) in the device for games with instant results.

The block of winning logic (8), having obtained from the controller (7) quantitative data on the final distribution of bets in the completed round, along with data on special points, in accordance with the accepted rules of the game determines the winner in the completed round element (or elements) of the game set, calculates the budget and the prize fund of the completed round and the quantitative distribution of the prize fund among the winning bets, after which the signals to the protocol block are sequentially passed through the controller (7) tion (9), comparing the information contained in them rate codes with codes winning game elements and assigning the plurality of rules corresponding to the winning game statuses unloaded from the buffer controller (7) when the coincidence signal codes.

The logger (9) creates from the received signals with winning statuses the summary protocol-register of the completed round, which contains both the general data of the game round (start time, end time, number of bets, numbers of winning elements, size of the prize pool and its distribution among the winning elements, addresses of the database of winning bets and the size of their winnings) and detailed data on each bet (database address, bet value, sequence number in the round, winning sign, win amount). The logger (9) can also be implemented on the basis of a variable length buffer, which in the dynamic memory allocation mode can use for its expansion the memory resources released by the controller buffer (7) when it is unloaded.

The summary protocol-register of the results of the completed game round is transmitted to the long-term memory unit (14) for subsequent storage and presentation via the data review unit (16) and processor (3) via communication channels to everyone. Upon receipt of the consolidated registry protocol in the long-term memory unit (14), the account registers of the participants of the game, whose bets were played in the completed round, are corrected in accordance with this protocol, while the difference between the accounts of individuals and game coupons, the rates from which were entered into the game through registration and cash terminals, it does not matter.

At this, the processing of the results of the completed game round ends, and a new round begins with the arrival of the first signal with a new round number from the betting registration unit (6) to the controller (7), and this particular time is fixed by the controller (7) by the system timer (17) as the starting time of a new game round.

The considered variant of the structure and operation of the device is called everywhere below the basic device.

In the aforementioned special case of using as a registration and gaming terminal of a telephone set with pulse dialing, the processor (3) is a mini-PBX for at least N telephone numbers with an automatic caller ID of the caller (AON) and a voice message generator according to a given program. In this case, the N processor numbers (3) are used to receive signals about the bets made, so that when a connection is made to the subscriber who called one of these N numbers, a signal is generated in the processor (3) that contains the telephone number of the caller as an identification number. data and information code element of the game set, which corresponds to the dialed telephone number of the input / output processor (3).

The number of numbers in the PBX to play on the set with a capacity of N can be increased by the numbers on which the game participants are provided with additional services. For example, (N + U-th phone number of the processor (3) can be used to receive requests for generating bets from participants in the game, (N + 2) and telephone number of the processor (3) can be used to buy credit for the right to place bets, U + 3) -th phone number can be used to inform about the results of participation of players in completed rounds for a certain period of time, (N + 4) ^ telephone number can be used to return bids from uncompleted game rounds - and so on, so that establishing a connection with the caller by calling them the phone number of additional services in the processor (3) generates a signal containing the telephone number the caller and the special code of the service.

The output signal of the processor (3), containing the telephone number of the caller as identification data and the information code of the game set element or supplementary service code, which corresponds to the dialed telephone number of the input / output processor (3), is recognized and identified in the recognition and identification unit (4 ), while identifying the signal, the telephone number of the caller is associated with the database address in the long-term memory block (14), which stores the personal account register the subscriber, if there is one already, or the caller is given a voice message about the need to dial U + 2) -th phone number to open a registry account and purchase a minimum loan for the right to assign rates. After identifying the signal containing the rate value, this signal is processed according to the scheme described above, and the data issued to the processor (3) by the registration confirmation block (12) is converted by a voice message generator and delivered to the caller in response to his call, and by identifying the rate assignment code without participation of the player, the bet is set by the bet generator (13). Upon recognition of the special purchase code of the gaming credit, the payment registration unit (15) makes the appropriate correction of the balance of the account of the caller in the long-term memory (14) and provides the processor (3) with the data on the adjusted account balance, which after conversion in the processor (3) the generator of voice messages are given to the subscriber in voice form in response to his call. By identifying a special review code of the game rounds, the results review unit (16) analyzes the account of the caller’s subscriber and issues to the processor (3) data on the results of the betting of the subscriber’s rates for a certain period of time, which, after being converted in the processor (3), generate a voice message generator subscriber in voice form in response to his call, etc. The actual payments for participation in the game using the described type of device are made according to one of the well-known telephone payment schemes communication.

To implement the present invention, a special case of the method of betting games, which provides for the possibility of providing the game participants with information about the current quantitative distribution of bets among the game set elements, the basic device is supplemented connected between the additional controller output (7) and the additional processor input (3) block drawing display (18). To obtain information about the current quantitative distribution of bets among the elements of the game set, i.e., about the current status of the betting game, the game participant sends a signal from its terminal to the processor (3) that carries, along with the player's identification data, a request for data about the current status of the game. When the recognition and identification unit (4) in the received from the processor (3) signal is detected by the request of an identified participant in the game for information about the current betting bet, the recognition and identification unit (4) requests the bet from the rate generator (13) and complements it with the value received from processor (3) signal, after which it transmits the signal thus converted to the rate payment unit (5) for withdrawing from the account of the identified participant in the game the price of one bet. After that, the signal containing information about the bet assigned without the player’s participation is processed by subsequent functional blocks, while processing the signal with the indication of a request to provide information, the controller (7) outputs to the draw display unit (18) data on the quantitative distribution of bets on the game elements. the sets and data on the detected singular points of this distribution, which the block (18) converts into the format of a message on the current state of the betting game and sends this message to the processor (3) for ne reductions via communication channels to the participant in the game who sent the request.

Refunds at the request of the participants of the game can only be held in games with a delayed result of drawing from the uncompleted game rounds.

For the implementation of the present invention, another special case of the method of betting, which allows participants to withdraw their bets from the betting process in the games with a delayed draw result, the basic device is supplemented with a block between the recognition and identification unit (4) and the processor (3) return rates (19), which is additionally interconnected with the controller (7) and the block of long-term memory (14) (these two links in figure 1 are shown by a dotted line). In order to return from the incomplete gaming round of registered bets, the participant of the game sends a signal from his registration and gaming terminal to the processor (3), which, along with the player's identification data, carries the sign of the bid return application. In the recognition and identification unit (4), such a signal is identified and recognized as a signal of an identified participant in the game to return its bets and is transmitted to the rate return unit (19), which first of all checks with the help of the long-term memory block (14) the player of the game data on the registered stakes in the current game round. If the check is negative, the return rate signal is ignored, and if the result is positive, the rate return block (19) initiates data exchange with the controller (7), passing it the address of the game participant’s database that sent the request for rate return, which is transmitted by the controller (7) via block of game logic (8) in the block of logging (9) for entering into the protocol of the current game round. The controller (7) interrupts reception of signals with rates from the rate-recording unit (6) and switches to interaction with the rate-returning unit (19). The block of bets return (19) receives from the block of long-term memory (14) and transfers to the controller (7) information codes of bets made by this player in the current round. Codes of these bets are transmitted to the controller (7) in the sequence inverse of the registration numbers of these bets in the current game round, and the code of each bet is supplemented with a special sign of return. Having received the information code of the next bet requested for return, the controller (7) transfers this code to the processor of the distribution of bets (11) for processing. The processor (11) processes the bet code received from the controller (7) with a return sign in the usual way, except that when correlating the bet code with the code of the corresponding element of the game set, the number of bets accumulated in the processor (11) correlated with this element does not increase by 1, and decreases by 1. As a result of processing the next bet with a return flag, the processor (11), as usual, sends to the controller (7) a signal-flag F about the completion of the betting in the current round, which is transmitted by the controller (7) to the rate return block (11).

After receiving the signal F = 0 from the processor (11) after processing the next bet code with a return sign, the controller (7) sends this bet code through the game logic block (8) to the logging unit (9) to record the current return mark in the protocol of the current round bets to the participant in the game whose database address was previously entered in the minutes. At the same time, the F = 0 flag is for the refund block (19) confirmation of the return of the next bet and an indication of the transfer to the controller (7) of the next bet with a return sign, while the participant’s register in the long-term memory block (14) A mark on the return of the rate with a correction of the account’s account balance is made. Having received the signal F = 1 from the processor (11) after processing the next bet code with a return sign, the controller (7) ends the current game round in the usual way, unloading the buffer through the game logic block (8) into the result logger (9), while returning The stakes are not taken into account when calculating the budget of the completed round and distributing the prize fund. At the same time, the signal F = 1 completes the interaction of the controller (7) with the rate return unit (19), so that no bet from the completed game round is returned. After the return of the betting session, the block (19) issues, through the processor (3), to the participant in the game who sent the request for the return of bets, a message about which of his bets registered in the game were withdrawn from the drawing.

To implement the Zero-force game method proposed by the present invention, the controller (7) interacts with the bet allocation processor (11), which is constructed in accordance with the functional diagram shown in FIG. 2

The controller (7) sends to the processor (11) an informational rate code in the form of a set of bits of a binary number, which is fed to the input of a decoder (20) containing N single-bit outputs. The input binary number corresponds to the number i of the element of the game set on which the bet is made, so that the decoder (20) sets a single bit at its i-th output, leaving all other outputs zero. Each decoder output (20) is the trigger trigger input (21), so a single bit at the ith output of the decoder sets the Q output of the flip-flop (21-i) to the state Q = 1. The output signals of all N flip-flops (21) are fed to an N-gate Logic AND (22), the output of which produces a single bit, if and only if the processor (11) processes the rate placed on the last unoccupied element of the game set. The output signal of the valve (22) is fed to the initialization inputs of all the triggers (21), and also as the output of the processor (11) to the controller (7). Thus, the signal F = 0 does not change the states of the triggers (21) and serves for the controller (7) as evidence that the processed bet was not winning, so the controller must continue the current game round, while the signal F = 1 resets all the triggers (21) to zero, preparing the processor (7) to process the bets in the next round, and instructs the controller (7) to indicate the end of the current round.

In the scheme of FIG. 2, for each element of the game set, only the fact that there is at least one bet made on this element in the game round is remembered, which is already sufficient for the implementation of the Minimum Strength game method.

However, if, depending on the rules used to distribute the prize pool, for blocks of winning logic (8) and logging (9), data are needed on the exact quantitative distribution of bets among the elements of the game set, then to ensure this, the rate distribution processor (11) to be built according to the functional scheme presented in figure 3. Here, instead of a set of triggers, N binary counters (23-1), ..., (23-N) with comparison blocks with zero (24-1), ..., (24-N) are used, with each 1-bit the output of the decoder (20) is the input of the binary counter (23), which accumulates the number of bets made in the current round to the corresponding element of the game set. The reading of each counter (23) is fed to the input of the comparison unit with zero (24), so that when the input coincides with zero, the output signal of the comparison unit (24) is set to one, with a mismatch - to zero. The output signals of the comparison units (24) are fed to the N-input gate with converting the inputs Logic AND (25), the output signal F of which is the output of the processor (11) to the controller (7). In this case, F = 1, if and only if the processor processes the code of the bet made on the last unoccupied element of the game set. In addition, the signal F is fed to the initializing inputs of the counters (23) for their resetting to the initial zero state. Thus, in the case of F = 0, the states of the counters (23) do not change and the controller must continue the current round. The signal F = 1 resets all the counters (23) to zero, preparing the processor (11) for processing the bets in the next round, and is for the controller (7) indicating the end of the current game round. To meet the need for complete information on the current quantitative distribution of bets on the elements of the game set, the data of the counters (23) are output to the controller (7) via the controller-controlled data bus (26).

The processor of the distribution of bets for a device that implements the game according to the Minimum Strength method can be constructed according to the scheme in FIG. Here, each element of the game set also corresponds to a binary counter (23), the indication of which is additionally compared with the unit in the comparison unit (27). If the input binary number coincides with the unit, the output bit of the comparison unit (27) is set to one, if it does not, it is set to zero. The outputs of the blocks (27) are fed to the N-input valve Exclusive OR (28), the output signal of which F1 takes the value 1 if and only if exactly one input signal equals 1. In addition, the output signals of all units of comparison (27) are fed to the N inputs of the address generator coder (30). The signals of the zero-comparison blocks (24) are processed, as in the circuit in FIG. 3, N-input valve with converting inputs Logical AND (25), the output F0 of which signals the absence of zeros in the distribution of rates (with F0 = 1) or their presence (with F0 = 0). To detect the presence of the first non-zero global minimum in the current rate distribution, the signals F0 and F1 are fed to a 2-input gate Logical AND (29), whose output F takes the value F = 0 if and only if there is no non-zero global minimum and the value F = 1 if available. The signal F is fed to the control input of the encoder (30), so that when the transition from F level F = 0 to F = 1 level, the encoder (30) outputs the binary number corresponding to the number of the only non-zero input, on the reverse transition all encoder output bits ( 30) are set to zero. In addition, the F = 1 signal resets the counters (23) to the initial zero state, preparing the processor to process the bets in the next round. Thus, the appearance of the signal F = 1 at the output of the bet distribution processor (11) is for the controller (7) a sign of the end of the current gaming round, while the encoder output (30) contains the binary number of the only element of the game set, for which the minimum number of bets was made, signal F = 0 is for the controller (7) a sign of the continuation of the current round. As in the diagram in figure 3, the controller (7) has the ability to read data about the current distribution of rates from the data bus (26).

The function of removing bets from the current round of the Minimum Power can be taken into account when using the modified decoder (20) and counters (23) by supplying a refund code R from the controller (7) as an additional control signal, so that at R = 0 the circuit works as described above, and at R = 1, the decoder (20) sends a signal to the corresponding counter (23) not to increase, but to decrease the accumulated amount by 1.

The processor of the distribution of bets for a device that implements the game according to the Minimax Power method can be constructed according to the scheme in FIG. 5, which is a further development of the scheme in FIG. Here, as in FIG. 4, an element counter (23) corresponds to each element of the game set, however, the output of each such counter is processed by 3 comparison units - (24), (31) and (32). The block (24) compares with zero, the block (31) compares with the output of the minimum counter (33), the block (32) compares with the output of the maximum counter (34). All counters are initialized by the output signal of the processor F = 1 at the end of the next round; all N elemental counters (23) are set to zero, the initial sum of the minimum counter (33) is set equal to 1, the initial sum of the maximum counter (34) is equal to 3. Thus, at the beginning of each round, the comparison unit (31) compares the readings of the elemental counters (23) with the number 1 (the value of the first non-zero global minimum), the comparison unit (32) with the number 3 (the value of the first global maximum in the presence of a non-zero global minimum). The outputs of comparison blocks with zero (24), as before, are processed by an N-input gate with converting inputs Logical AND (25), the output F0 of which takes the value F0 = 1 in the absence of zeroes in the rate distribution and the value F0 = 0 in the case of availability. The output signals of the comparison blocks with a minimum (31) are fed to the corresponding inputs of the first encoder (30-1) and, in addition, are processed by the first N input gate XOR (281). The output signals of the comparison units with a maximum (32) are fed to the corresponding inputs of the second encoder (30-2) and, in addition, are processed by the second N-input gate XOR (28-2). As a result, the output F1 of the first valve (28-1) takes the value 1 if and only if exactly one match is recorded in the comparison blocks with the minimum (31), and the output F2 of the second valve (28-2) takes the value 1 if and only if exactly one match was recorded in comparison blocks with a maximum (32). The signals F0 and F1 are fed to the first 2-input valve Logic AND (29-1), whose output F3 takes the value F3 = 1 if there is a single non-zero minimum in the rate distribution and the value F3 = 0 in its absence. The signals F3 and F2 are fed to the inputs of the minimum (33) and maximum (34) counters, respectively, which are triggered when the input signal changes from a single bit to a zero, adding one to the accumulated sums and fixing, therefore, the next levels for the global minimum (counter output (33)) and the global maximum (the output of the counter (34)). In addition, the F3 signal goes to the control input of the first encoder (30-1), and the F2 signal goes to the control input of the second encoder (30-2), on the output buses of which, when the control signal passes from zero to one, a binary number occurs, corresponding to the number of the only non-zero bit in the data input; during the reverse transition of the control signal, all bits on the output buses of the encoders (30) are set to zero. Thus, a nonzero binary number at the output of the first encoder (30-1) corresponds to the number of the element of the game set, which is the global minimum of the distribution of bets, a nonzero binary number at the output of the second encoder (30-2) corresponds to the number of the element of the game set, which is the global maximum. Finally, signals F3 and F2 are analyzed by the second 2-input gate Logic AND (292), the output F of which takes the value F = 1 if and only if there is exactly one non-zero minimum and exactly one maximum in the rate distribution.

As a result, the rate allocation processor (11) sends to the controller (7) as its output a binary number on the output bus of the first encoder (30-1), a binary number on the output bus of the second encoder (30-2), a binary number on the output bus counter (33), the binary number on the output bus of the counter (34) and the signal-signal (flag) F. The value of the flag F = 1 is an indication to the controller of the completion of the current round, the output of the first encoder (30-1) contains the binary element number the game set, which is the global minimum of the distribution of sta k, the output of the second encoder (30-2) contains the binary number of the element that is the global maximum of the distribution of bets, the output of the counter (33) contains the number of bets placed on the global minimum, the output of the counter (34) is the number of bets made on the global maximum. The value of the flag F = 0 is an indication to the controller to continue the current game round, while the binary number on the output bus of the counter (33) corresponds to the checked value of the global minimum, the binary number on the output bus of the counter (34) corresponds to the checked value of the global maximum, a nonzero binary number on the output bus of the first encoder (30-1) corresponds to the element number found in the current rate distribution, the global minimum of the rate distribution, a zero binary number on the output bus of the first encoder ( 30-1) means there is no global minimum in the current distribution, a non-zero binary number on the output bus of the second encoder (30-2) corresponds to the element number found in the current rate distribution — the global maximum of the distribution of rates, a zero binary number on the output bus of the second encoder (30 2) means there is no global maximum in the current distribution of rates. In addition, as before, through the bus (26), the controller can receive from the processor (11) data on the current distribution of bets among the elements of the game set.

The function of removing bets from the current round of the game. The Minimax Power can be taken into account using the modified decoder (20), element counters (23) and counters (33) and (34) by feeding from the controller (7) to the decoder (20) as an additional control. of the return code signal of the rate R. In this case, in the case of R = 0 (the rate is being paid), the scheme works as described above, and when R = 1 (the rate is withdrawn), the decoder (20) sends the corresponding counter (23) to indicate not reducing the accumulated amount by 1 and sets the signal R = 1 to additional directs counter inputs (33) and (34) (these inputs not shown in Figure 3), so that when switching the input signals of the counters 1 to 0 counters accumulated amount will not be increased, and to decrease by 1.

The described types of processor distribution rates (11) can be implemented in various ways - in the form of custom and semi-custom integrated circuits, specialized computer boards from standard components, based on the use of specially selected areas of personal computer memory under the control of an application program, etc.

Further examples are considered some particular cases of application of this variant of the game with bets, which in no way cover the whole range of possible applications. At the same time, the games implemented according to the claimed method are called iterative-analytical games everywhere for short, which reflects the principle of the betting process that is the basis for them.

Example 1. Games in the halls of slot machines.

Iterative-analytical games can be conducted using gaming terminals in casinos and in specialized gambling halls. Traditionally, one-on-one games with random outcomes, formed by the machine gun independently of the player’s actions (777, Dr. Black Jack, etc.), are implemented in slot machines, which can be considered by potential players to be a drawback that prevents them from participating in the game. When using the inventive method, the gaming machine performs the function of a registration terminal with respect to the device discussed above.

Several devices implementing various iterative and analytical games (Zero Power, Minimum Force, Minimax Force) on gaming sets of various power N, several gaming machines and electronic cash terminals for registering players and paying bets can be combined using a local computer network managed by a computer game server in a gaming system that offers players a wide choice. Moreover, in such a system, games that are identical in terms of the iterative-analytical process and the power N of the game set can differ in the price of the bets placed. In this case, with respect to each device, the game server will act as an input / output processor (3), and the server database will act as a block of long-term memory (1 4) (see Fig. 1).

Before entering the game, the player informs the cash terminal operator the necessary personal data for registration, pays the necessary amount of gaming credit and receives a registration card with a machine-readable information carrier containing a unique code for each card through the cash register terminal. At the same time, the player’s personal data file is created in the central database of the gaming system and its consolidated (for all games) personal gaming account registry, whose number (database address see above) is one-to-one corresponding to the individual registration card issued and the balance of which is paid gaming loan amount. During the registration of personal data, game participants can set a personal identification number (PIN) to further protect their personal files and game accounts from unauthorized access.

The slot machine reads the individual card code to check the player’s personal game balance in the database, while the cardholder is prompted to enter a personal PIN code in order to open access to the use of the registered player’s personal account register. After successfully completing these operations, the player selects the type of game, the type of game set, the price of one bet from the proposed menu and assigns bets and / or requests information about the current status of the betting game, which are sent by the computer server for processing to the appropriate device that implements the selected type games.

For convenience, gaming machines can be equipped with printers, issuing players help on their bets, and information and reference terminals can be included in the local network, through which anyone can get information about completed game rounds. Through the operators of cash terminals, any player who has submitted his registration card can receive the cash equivalent of the value of the remaining game credit from his consolidated account register or pay an additional amount of game credit, which will be credited to his account. In addition, through the operators of point-of-sale terminals, a player who is unable to wait for the ends of rounds in the Minimum and Minimax Strength games can apply for a refund of his bets from unfinished game rounds. Upon receipt of such an application, the game server blocks the further acceptance of bets and requests associated with the individual card code of this player, and dispatches a request to return bets between the devices in the game system, crediting the cost of the returned bets to the player’s personal account, after which the player is given a cash equivalent total balance of gaming credit on his account.

In the minimum configuration, the local area network of the gaming machine hall may contain only 1-2 gaming terminals, however, an input / output communication processor can be added to the network, which enables the gaming server to communicate with remote gaming terminals via circuit-switched communication lines (telephone communication in direct mode). connections) and / or packets (TCP / IP Internet). In this case, the player who leaves the slot machine has the opportunity to participate in the game from any other place where there is a telephone and a computer with a modem or, at a minimum, a telephone with tone dialing. If a player has access to the Internet, the I / O communication processor provides him with a full range of slot machine hall services with the ability to replenish his personal gaming account using credit cards, without Internet access and having a computer with a modem, the same services can be provided via a direct telephone connection BBS mode (electronic bulletin board), if there is only a telephone with tone dialing - by direct connection in the telephone lottery mode (see example 4) .

Building hierarchical structures and clusters of gaming systems of different levels allows you to create corporate gaming networks that unite players from different gambling halls and different cities in one game round at a virtual gaming table and allow you to quickly complete game rounds of iterative and analytical games on gaming sets of high power N (N> 1.000), thus providing the winners with large winnings in a short time.

Example 2. Games in hotels and cable television systems.

Iterative-analytical games can be quite simply implemented in hotels whose guest rooms are equipped with a cable system for broadcasting paid television programs or an intra-cable cable channel providing information services in an interactive mode. The guest of the hotel through the remote control and the menu displayed on the TV screen, which in this case serves as the registration and gaming terminal, conducts a dialogue with the gaming system as if it happened in the above-described slot machine hall, identifying itself as the room number and personal PIN code. At the same time, the cost of the bets made is added to the guest’s account, the won bets are materialized by the hotel in cash or in some form (souvenirs, free services, free meals, upgrading of living standards, etc.).

Upon check out, the lodger has the opportunity to apply for a refund of his bets from the unfinished game rounds and receive compensation for the bets removed from the game. In the absence of such an application and the occurrence of a prize from a guest after his check-out from the hotel, the administration will be able to find him by the registration book.

The gaming systems of several hotels using the same brand name and / or belonging to a hotel holding can be combined into clusters and hierarchical structures in the same way as described in Example 1.

Similarly, it is possible to conduct iterative and analytical games among subscribers of cable television networks with interactive services, which are becoming increasingly common due to the widespread introduction of asynchronous data transfer modes, audio and video ATM (Asinchronous Transfer Mode - see A.N. Nazarov, M .V. Simonov. ATM: Technology of high-speed networks. Ecotrends, Moscow, 1998.). Each user of such a network is a registered consumer of its services with a personal network address, registration number and debugged payment system, so opening a personal gaming account and correcting its balance during the game is a trivial procedure for such networks. At the same time, instead of playing for money, the organizer of the game can set prices for bets in units of information resources supplied by the network, paid by consumers (for example, in minutes of sports or entertainment program broadcast by choice), and it is in these units to keep all calculations with players using part resources released as a result of the game (but already paid with lost bets) for providing free or preferential access to network services to certain categories of the population.

Example 3. State electronic lottery. The existing organizational and technical infrastructure for conducting traditional state electronic lotteries, containing points of sale for numbered lottery coupons (such as LottoMillion — see above) located in different cities of the country, with electronic terminals for registering bets, can be used without any significant changes37 tic games. At the same time, only the design and layout of the information fields of lottery coupons will undergo minor changes, in which the game type selection field appears, the game set selection field from a given set of sets and the bet setting field (such a set of sets can be integers from 0 to 9, from 10 to 99, from 100 to 999, from 1000 to 9999, etc., so that the belonging of a given bet to one of such sets is uniquely determined by the numerical value of this bet), as well as the hardware and software of the central game server, which must be adapted to the mode of registration of bets with time separation for the formation of queues and supplemented by devices that implement iterative-analytical games. While ensuring the required speed of the central game server and sufficient bandwidth of the communication channels, the electronic terminal of the lottery coupon sales point prints the player’s coupon when registering his bet with the date and time of registration, the discount number of the bet in the current game round and the round number. According to this data, the player will be able to later check his coupon rate for winnings through the lottery information service. In the case of playing the Force Zero Instant Lottery, the electronic terminal prints the result on the player's coupon immediately after reading the bet from the coupon and registering it with the central server in the corresponding device that implements the selected game.

To simplify operations for issuing winnings and technical implementation of rate registration procedures in real time, state electronic iterative-analytical lotteries can be conducted according to a multi-level hierarchical connection scheme for game servers, when each level corresponds to a certain power range N game sets, so that, for example, games N power 1 00 are processed by servers covering areas with a population of up to 20-30 thousand people, games with a capacity of N <1000 - servers serving the territory RIs with a population of up to 100-150 thousand people, games with a capacity of N <10,000 -servers serving territories with a population of up to 1.5-3.0 million people, etc. Moreover, the addition of electronic terminals for registering rates at points of sale lottery coupons with screens to display the current state of game rounds allows you to implement a full-fledged interactive mode of conducting iterative-analytical games and thereby make them even more attractive to the mass consumer compared to existing state lotteries.

Example 4: Phone Lottery and Broadcast TV Games.

The organizational and technical infrastructure of telephone lotteries and polling systems that exist in many countries using tone-dialing telephones and computer servers registering players and accepting bets by sequentially generating voice messages to the caller and receiving his responses to these messages in the form of digital codes, generated by the server when recognizing those sent by a subscriber from a tone-dialing telephone can be successfully used for iterative-analytical games. At the same time, technical changes affect only the game server and include the adaptation of voice message generation programs to the specifics of iterative and analytical games (choosing the type of game, choosing the game set, setting a bet, confirming a bet with its number in the queue and the number of the game round, etc. .d.), introduction to the hardware and software of the server of the mode of registration of bets with time separation for the formation of queues and the addition of it with iterative-analytical processors, as well as adaptation using Available database of lottery participants.

In this case, the bets are paid by traditional methods for telephone lotteries, i.e., either by credit cards, the numbers of which are recorded in the player’s personal file when registering as a participant in the game, or billed to the subscriber’s phone number, or by pre-payment. Under a special agreement with the telephone network, another option for the participants in the game and its organizer is to set prices for the rates in the units of service provided by the telephone network (for example, in minutes of a telephone conversation within the same telephone zone, so that game credits accumulated by participants are local long-distance or international calls for which a player is not charged), while the telephone network has the opportunity to send its share of income from conducting games for providing preferential and free services to certain categories of subscribers.

The implementation of iterative-analytical games in the form of phone lotteries allows us to offer players various options for the implementation of an interactive betting mode. The most comfortable online access to information about the current state of the game round is provided to players who have a computer with a modem at home that can interact with the game server via the Internet or in direct connection mode. Players who do not have a computer with a modem, but are subscribers of paging networks, can order the transfer of information about the current state of game rounds to their pagers.

Finally, by agreement with television broadcasting stations, the course of the betting process can be periodically broadcast live to the receiving antennas of televisions, and during registration during such broadcasts of each player’s bet, the server can withdraw the price of two bets from the player’s personal game account placed without the participation of the player as compensation for the provision of information.

Conducting periodic short-term broadcasts of the course of iterative-analytical games at different times of the day will help both accelerate the formation of the results of each broadcast game round and attract additional orders for advertising to such TV shows.

With a special construction of an input-output processor (3) of devices for the implementation of iterative-analytical games in telephone games, those subscribers of the telephone network who use telephone sets with pulse dialing can take part (see above).

Example 5. Promotional lottery e-mail.

In 1997, Harris Online Gaming, Inc. from the state of Arkansas, USA, announced the beginning of a subscription to a free advertising lottery held by e-mail (Internet resource http://www.emaillotto.com). The sponsors of this lottery pay the cost of numbered virtual lottery tickets, which are advertisements of these sponsors, which are automatically sent to lottery subscribers by e-mail. Each lottery ticket, in addition to the individual number and advertisement, contains several winning numbers, which are randomly assigned by the organizer and comparing them with the individual ticket number allows the subscriber to immediately determine whether the ticket he received is a winner. In addition, when subscribing to the lottery, each subscriber can specify an arbitrary 9-digit index to participate in periodically held (as funds accumulate) grand prize drawings in the jackpot. Sponsor financial resources attracted by the lottery organizer are divided into two equal parts, one of which is used to pay out the current winnings on lottery tickets, the other - to pay for the grand prize.

The purpose of the organizer of this lottery is to attract sponsorship advertising funds by offering services for sending sponsors' advertisements to subscribers, therefore the organizer and sponsors are interested in increasing the number of subscribers and the number of sent advertisements. But the only proposed subscriber factor for such a lottery is only the hope of free winnings in the absence of any gaming entertainment, despite the fact that the jackpot can win only one combination of 362,880 possible, and the lottery ticket organizer’s method is completely hidden. from participants and unknown to them.

At the same time, the application of the claimed method, ensuring an increase in interest in the free lottery by increasing its playability and confidence in the results of the rally with the presence of elements of competition, will be equally useful both for the organizers of the game and for the sponsors. Indeed, when using this method, lottery subscribers, as before, receive free numbered coupons with advertisements from the organizer by e-mail, each coupon will additionally contain a special form, the filling of which by the player uniquely determines the choice of game type, game set and game bet. Filled out forms with data about bets are sent by players to the game organizer's server, where in real time they are registered and processed by the corresponding device. In this case, the server sends the player a bet registration message containing the next advertisement, which will be surely seen by the player, since each such message is used by him to check the results of the round that has ended. Players can accumulate game coupons so that they can later be used online in the game, sending part of the coupons as requests to the game organizer for receiving information about the current state of the game round, while the information messages sent to players can also be accompanied by advertisements they are sure to be seen, because the received messages are used by players for the purposeful placement of their bets. Thus, in addition to increasing interest in the game, in this application, the iterative-analytical method provides an increase in the advertising return of each lottery ticket, at least twice.

Example 6. Games on the Internet.

From the previously mentioned Canadian state lottery version of 6 out of 49 on the Internet and previous examples, it is clear that the smooth functioning of the electronic payment system through credit cards and the ability to quickly exchange both textual and graphical information make the Internet a promising environment for widespread and full implementation. iterative analytical games. Technically, such an implementation does not present any difficulties, however, in countries with a legal restriction of cash lotteries organized by individuals or companies, the possibility of conducting iterative and analytical games on Internet service providers' servers (Internet providers) with payment of rates in units provided service provider (for example, minutes of Internet access time). In the latter case, during the game, the Internet provider redistributes the Internet access time paid by the players between them and themselves in accordance with the outcomes of the game rounds and the announced rules for awarding the prize fund, as a result of which it is possible to offer its services to certain categories of the population and organizations for free. or preferential basis. This circumstance can contribute to attracting additional participants to the game and makes the conduct of iterative-analytical games by Internet providers a socially useful event.

Example 7. Games in discount and payment systems.

In the 1990s, discount systems designed to attract loyal customers to large suppliers of goods and services by offering flexible pricing schemes and other various privileges on the basis of accrual were widely used in the consumer markets of many countries. to each client of a certain number of bonus points for each payment received from him (or the amount of payments for a certain period of time) with the subsequent realization of the accumulated points through mentioning This is a discount and privilege scheme.

The realization of the discount idea became possible thanks to the introduction by suppliers of goods and services of hierarchical corporate computer networks, covering every cash register through which goods or services are sold, and containing terminals for registering new customers at all points of interaction between a supplier and customers. When registering in a discount system, each client receives a personal identification number, which is applied to the personal discount card issued to the client and with which the client's personal data file generated by the system and its personal account-register for the historical accounting of all customer payments, accrued bonus points and used customer discounts and other privileges (see, for example, the Internet resources http://www.gb.be Belgian supermarket chain GB SA, http://www.fina.com US-European network benzokolo Nok FINA, http://www.transaero.ru of the Russian airline Transaero). Internet discount system servers not only give detailed information about discounts and privileges, but also begin to provide the client with access via PIN-code to his personal account-register of bonus points and personal data file (see, for example, Internet resources http: // www .swissair.com / qualiflyer / index.htm Swiss airline Swissair, http://www.delta-air.com/skymile/index.htm US airline Delta Airlines).

The existing organizational and technical infrastructure of discount systems is not only a promising environment for conducting iterative and analytical games, but can itself receive additional benefits from their implementation. At the same time, an important factor in the success of such an introduction is the pricing of rates in bonus points. Indeed, if an application with iterative-analytical games is installed on the Internet server of the discount system, then any participant of the discount system without additional registration and, most importantly, without new financial expenses can join the game, paying rates with bonus points from his personal account in the discount system , bearing in mind that winnings will also be transformed into bonus points on a personal account. Thus, in the course of the game, there will be a redistribution of bonus points accrued to participants of the discount system between them and the supplier of goods / services. As a result, the game makes the discount system even more attractive to participants, and the organizer can, using the bonus points earned from the game, save their own financial resources and / or provide their goods and services to certain categories of the population on a charitable basis.

If iterative-analytical games are introduced into airline discount programs, passengers can also take part in games during the flight, paying rates with bonus points accumulated on their personal accounts previously and / or charged for the flight. The use of iterative-analytical games will expand the circle of passengers registering as participants of the discount program in flight, while the technical implementation of games in airplanes will be determined by the technical equipment of a particular aircraft - these can be lotteries with paper coupons (see the second variant of the method), or telephone lottery with the reception of bets through the telephone sets installed in each row of seats and a periodic television broadcast of the course of game rounds on the onboard cable television network and broadcast (see. Example 4), or full interactive games using chairs embedded in personal video monitors asynchronous interactive network board information service (see. Example 2 and Swissair Gazette magazine, June'98, p. 103).

Similar in terms of organizational and technical infrastructure to discount systems are numerous bank payment systems for plastic debit and credit cards, as well as for cards with an integrated microchip (so-called smart cards), in memory of which the amount of electronic or virtual money loaded with real money is loaded ( see the Internet resource http://www.protonworld.com Proton e-money systems). Payment operations using debit and credit cards are widespread in medium-sized and large retail and service businesses, smart card payments are used to pay for everyday small expenses - travel in public transport, car parking time, conversations in pay phones, buying newspapers etc. The owners of such cards are identified in the system by their card numbers, PIN codes and personal bank account numbers, and issuing cash (and downloading new electronic money to smart cards) is supported by a network ATMs, each of which is a personal computer with a graphic controller, in addition, networks of additional electronic terminals with interactive alphanumeric displays that are embedded in public telephone telephones with tone dialing or can be purchased by the owner cards are separate and connected to a home phone for making electronic money transactions without leaving home.

Iterative-analytical games as one of the applications of electronic payment systems through debit, credit and smartcards due to their gaming entertainment and sports competitiveness of the interactive mode are a promising direction for the development of state and municipal electronic lotteries, attracting to participate the broad masses of the population.

The second variant of the game with stakes can be carried out as follows. The game organizer assigns a game set as a table of N different elements (for example, 33 letters of the Russian alphabet) and distributes game coupons with tear-off duplicates to potential participants, each of which has a unique identification index and information block with data about the elements of the game set.

The participant of the game acquires a game coupon from the distributor, marks in its information block an element of the game set on which he is betting, and sends the coupon with a note about the bet made through the delivery channels to the game organizer, leaving himself a duplicate coupon. As the channels of coupon delivery to the organizer of the game, the state postal service, corporate postal service of the game organizer, coupon distribution network can be used. The coupons entering the game organizer via delivery channels are recorded in the order of their receipt (simultaneously received coupons can be registered in any order) and in the order of registration numbers under the control of the counting commission are placed according to the table of the game set according to the elements marked in the coupons as stakes. In this case, after placing the next coupon with a bet, the total number of bets placed on each element of the game set is calculated, and the observance of the end condition of the game round is checked. If this condition is not met, the process of drawing continues. If the condition of the completion of the draw process is met, then this game round is completed, the prize fund is calculated and the winning coupons are determined according to the rules of the prize fund distribution, which are registered as such in the protocol of the completed betting draw. Coupons with bets that are not in the queue in the draw of this round, participate in the draws in the next game rounds.

An example of the chart of the quantitative distribution of bets in an unfinished game round of the game. The Minimax Power is shown in FIG. 6, where the game set consists of integers from 1 to 20. Figure 7 shows an example of the final quantitative distribution of bets in the completed game round of this game, where the number 1 3 (1 bet) is fixed as the global minimum, number 1 9 (6 bets). The total number of bets in this round was 63, so with a 50% prize fund the bet on the number 13 won the cost of paying 32 bets.

When implementing this variant of the method of playing with bets, computer equipment can be used, in particular, special computer programs and data readout systems from paper carriers, which allow fairly quickly to read identification data and marks about bets made from coupons, and to process these data and marks by the algorithm, realizing the declared method of betting. With such a realization, it is possible to organize the mode of access of the game participants to information about the current state of the betting draw, as well as the mode of returning bets from the uncompleted game rounds.

An example of the use of the game with the stakes on the second variant of the method may be conditional-free lotteries. Such lotteries are held, as a rule, by the editorial offices of the mass media and the directorates of cultural and entertainment and sports establishments in order to increase the circulation of their publications and the occupancy of the halls. In the case of the media, a coupon issued as a print publication serves as a lottery ticket, the filling of which uniquely identifies the participant of the game (see Moskovsky Komsomolets N 96-B dated May 25, 1998, p. 1), in the case of entertainment events - a copy of license plate a ticket indicating the date and time of the event, as well as the address of the seat occupied by the spectator (sector, row, chair number). The cost of each gaming coupon is included in the retail price of the print edition or admission ticket and is known only to the lottery organizer. In the traditional lottery, participants are not able to make any bets, they only have to transfer their game coupons to the game organizer by a certain date, which determines the winners by randomly selecting one or more coupons from among all the received coupons, distributing the prize money determined by the total circulation among the winners. implicitly sold coupons.

In the case of an iterative-analytical game, an information block is applied to each gaming coupon, enabling the participant to specify one of the elements of a given game set with power N (for example, a table of natural numbers from 1 to 1 00, or a stencil a block of 3 fields for recording any number from 0 to 999). Coupons with betting received from players, the organizer of the game, in the order of the order of receipt, includes in the iterative-analytical process of the coupon drawing, registering for each coupon the number of the bet in the current game round and the number of this round. Usually, the purpose of shareware lotteries does not provide for receiving direct profits from their conduct, therefore the size of the prize fund of the game coincides with the budget size of each game round, which guarantees winners with prizes worth at least N coupons for the game Zero and at least 2N coupons for the game The minimum, while with N> 50-60 in the overwhelming majority of outcomes, the size of the prize pool of each round of the Minimax Power will exceed the cost of 3N coupons.

Various design options and layouts of information blocks on gaming coupons can provide participants of an iterative-analytical game with a choice of either the type of game (Zero Force, Minimum Force, Minimax Force), or the gaming set of several predetermined sets differing in capacity N. For forming a queue of coupons-bets and performing the iterative-analytical process of the raffle can use various methods and means - from manual sorting and layout of incoming coupons according to the elements of the table of the game sets and, under the control of the counting commission, before using gaming systems equipped with automated computer terminals for reading, recognizing and recording data, with the realization of drawing processes through an application package or special processing devices similar to those proposed by this invention. In the case of using computer systems, it is advisable to display the results and processes of betting on screens or electronic scoreboards during breaks and at the end of public events to increase interest in the game of potential participants.

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A method of playing with bets, which consists in generating a game set of N> 2 information elements by generating in a computer memory a set of N non-repeating information codes, distributing to the participants of the game via communication channels signals carrying information about the elements of the game set, each participant choosing as bets of one of the elements of the game set, direction through feedback channels of signals identifying game participants and containing information on bets, identification and register and signals received through the feedback channels, generating data on payment of bets and drawing bets in game rounds, characterized in that the signals containing information on bets are registered in a sequence of their receipt through the feedback channels hidden from the game participants until the end of the game round, and betting is carried out by means of an iterative and analytical process of forming a quantitative distribution of bets among the elements of the game multiplier that is hidden until the end of the game round At each iteration, the next signal from the sequence of registered signals is correlated with the information code of the element of the game set selected by the game participant as a bet, the number of signals correlated with the information code of each element of the game set in this game round is determined, and compliance with the conditions for completing the drawing is checked bets, and complete the raffle if this condition is met, while in the presence of registered bids containing information on bets the signals that were not processed in the iteratively analytical process of betting before the end of this game round, these signals are processed in the iteratively analytical process of betting in one of the following rounds. 2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that at each iteration of the betting process, starting from the Nth iteration, information codes are identified that are not associated with any signal in this game round, and the iterative and analytical process of betting is completed when processing a signal containing information on betting on a single element of the game set, with the information code of which in the iteratively analytical process of this game round, not a single signal was correlated before processing this signal. 3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that at each iteration of the betting process, starting from (2N-1) ^ iterations, information codes are identified with which only one signal is associated in this game round, and the iterative-analytical the betting process in the presence of only one such information code and the absence of information codes with which no signal is associated in this round. 4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that at each iteration of the betting process, starting from the 2nd iteration, information codes are identified with which the minimum and maximum number of signals are associated in this game round, and the iterative-analytical drawing process is completed bets if there is only one information code with which the minimum number of signals is associated in a given game round, only one information code with which the maximum number of signals are associated in this game round, and from the absence of information codes with which no signal is correlated in this game round. 5. A method of playing with bets, which consists in forming a game set of N> 2 non-repeating information elements, distributing among the game participants coupons carrying information about the content of information elements of the game set, entering identification data on the coupons, entering each selection on the coupon as a bet of one of the information elements of the game set, return coupons with marks made on them for drawing bets, registering returned coupons with marks on bets and betting in game rounds, characterized in that coupons with bets are recorded in a sequence of their return receipt that is hidden until the end of the game round from the participants of the game, and the betting is carried out by means of an iterative and analytical process hidden from the participants of the game until the end of the game round the formation of a quantitative distribution of bets on elements of the game set, at each iteration of which the next coupon from the sequence of registered coupons with an information element of the game set selected by the participant in the game as a bet, determine the number of coupons associated with each information element of the game set in this game round, and verify compliance with the conditions for completing the raffle, and complete the raffle if this condition is met, while if there are registered coupon rates containing notes that have not been processed in the iterative and analytical process of drawing bets before the end of this game round, these upons are processed in the iterative and analytical process of drawing bets in one of the following rounds. 6. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that at each iteration of the betting process, starting from the Nth iteration, elements of the game set are identified with which no coupon is associated in this game round, and the betting process is completed iteratively -analytical process of a coupon containing a mark on betting on a single element of the game set with which no coupon was assigned in this game round prior to processing this coupon. 7. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that at each iteration of the betting process, starting from (2N-1) ^ iteration, elements of the game set with which only one coupon is associated in this game round are completed and the betting is completed in the presence of only one such element and the absence in the game of a plurality of elements with which not a single coupon is assigned in this round. 8. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that at each iteration of the betting process, starting from the 2nd iteration, elements of the game set are identified with which the minimum and maximum number of coupons are related in this game round, and completion of the betting process if any only one element with which the minimum number of coupons is associated in this game round, only one element with which the maximum number of coupons is associated in this game round and the absence in the game set of elements with which th round of the game is not correlated single coupon. 9. The method according to claims 1-8, characterized in that upon request of the game participant they are provided with accumulated information on the quantitative distribution of bets on the elements of the game set in the incomplete game round in exchange for a bet that is assigned without his participation and is recorded and processed by the betting process out of turn. 10. The method according to claims 1 to 8, characterized in that, at the request of the game participant, before the end of the game round, the signals coming from the game participant from the game participant that carry information about bets are excluded from the betting process in the reverse order of registration. 11. A device for playing with bets for implementing the method according to claim 1, comprising a unit for generating (1) a game set through a data distribution unit (2) connected to one of the inputs of the processor (3), the information output of which is connected to the recognition unit connected in series and identification (4), a payment unit (5) of bets, a registration unit (6) of bets, a controller (7), a game logic unit (8) and a logging unit (9), a round counter (10) connected to the second input of the registration unit (6) rates and the second output of the controller (7), the second input of which is connected to the output of the formation unit (1), a long-term memory unit (1 4), interconnected with recognition and identification units (4) and payment (5) bets, a timer (17) connected to the controller (7), recognition units and identification (4), payment of bets (5) and a logging unit (9), characterized in that it has a processor (11) for the distribution of bets, interconnected with the controller (7), a block (1 2) for confirming the registration of bets connected to the input processor (3) and the second output of the registration unit (6) rates, registration blocks p Latvia (15) and a review of the results (16), interconnected with the long-term memory unit (14) and the processor (3), also connected to the corresponding outputs of the recognition and identification unit (4), while the outputs of the logging unit (9) and block (12) ) confirmations of registration of bets are connected to the corresponding inputs of the long-term memory unit (1 4). 12. The device according to claim 11, characterized in that it has a bet generator (13), interconnected with the recognition and identification unit (4) and connected to the output of the formation unit (1) of the game set. 13. The device according to claims 11, 12, characterized in that it has a draw display unit (18) connected between the controller (7) and the input-output processor (3). 14. The device according to claims 11, 12, characterized in that it has a bet return unit (19) interconnected with the controller (7) and the long-term memory unit (14) and connected to one of the outputs of the recognition and identification unit (4) and one of the inputs of the processor (3) I / O. 1 5. The device according to paragraphs. 11-1 4, characterized in that the betting processor (11) comprises a decoder (20), the outputs of which are connected to the trigger inputs of the triggers (21), the outputs of which are connected to the inputs of the gate (22) Logical AND, the output of which is connected to the initializing inputs triggers (21). 1 6. The device according to paragraphs. 11-1 4, characterized in that the betting processor (11) comprises a decoder (20), the outputs of which are connected to the inputs of the counters (23), the outputs of which are connected to the converting inputs of the valve (25) Logic AND, through the comparison blocks (24), the output of which is connected to the initializing inputs of the counters (23). 1 7. The device according to paragraphs. 11-1 4, characterized in that the betting processor (11) comprises a decoder (20), to each of the N single-bit outputs of which a cascade is connected from the counter (23) and the parallel unit with zero (24) and the comparison unit with unit (27), a gate (25) with N converting inputs A logical AND, each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding unit of comparison with zero (24), an N-input gate (28) A logical OR, each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding block comparisons with unit (27), 2-way valve (29) Logic AND, the inputs of which are connected to the outputs of the valves (25) and (28), and the N-input encoder (30), each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding unit of comparison with unit (27), and the output of the valve (29) is connected to the initializing inputs of the counters ( 23) and the control input of the encoder (30). 1 8. The device according to paragraphs. 11-1 4, characterized in that the betting processor (11) comprises a decoder (20), to each of the N single-bit outputs of which a cascade is connected from the counter (23) and the parallel comparison unit with zero (24), the comparison unit with a minimum (31) and a comparison unit with a maximum (32), a gate (25) with N converting inputs A logical AND, each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding comparison unit with zero (24), the first N-input gate (28-1) Logical OR, each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding comparison unit with a minimum mind (31), the first 2-input logic gate AND (29-1), the inputs of which are connected to the outputs of the valves (25) and (28-1), the second N-input logic gate OR (28-2), each input of which connected to the output of the corresponding comparison unit with the maximum (32), the second 2-input logic gate I (29-2), the inputs of which are connected to the outputs of the gates (29-1) and (28-2), the first N-input encoder (30 -1), each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding comparison unit with a minimum (31), the second N-input encoder (30-2), each input of which is connected to the output of the corresponding a comparison lock with a maximum (32), a minimum counter (33) connected to the output of the valve (29-1), the output of which is connected to the input of each of the comparison blocks with a minimum (31), and a maximum counter connected to the output of the valve (28-2) (34), the output of which is connected to the input of each of the comparison units with the maximum (32), and the output of the valve (29-2) is connected to the initializing inputs of the counters (23), (33), (34), the output of the valve (29-1 ) is connected to the control input of the first encoder (30-1), the output of the valve (28-2) is connected to the control input of the second encoder (30-2). 19. The device according to claims 11-18, characterized in that the input-output processor (3) comprises a telephone exchange for at least N telephone numbers with the function of automatically determining telephone numbers of callers and a controlled voice message generator.