FR2860986A1 - Game of chance e.g. lottery game, simulating device, has information processing unit controlling gain of simulated game of chance, for each trial, when cookie object is generated by source node and transmitted to receiver node - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a playing space (1) with a network of nodes having source nodes and receiver nodes of a cookie object. A digital keyboard (12) selects a receiver node for each trial. An information processing unit (5) controls a gain of part of the simulated game of chance that is a function of number of trials and receiver nodes, for each trial, when the object is generated by the source node and transmitted to the targeted receiver node.

Description

The present invention relates to a game simulation device

chance of the lottery type.

  Classically, lotto type lottery gaming systems consist of randomly drawing balls marked with a number that are brewed in a ball tank. This is the system used for example in the draw of the lottery numbers of the French Games.

  Computer systems now make it possible to simulate this type of system and there exist, for example, computer programs that fulfill this function. However, the hardware simulation systems gambling lottery type are few.

  Basketball game systems are known which include throwing a ball into a basketball basket with a spring or piston and water jet systems that project in a fashionable manner. predetermined by means of hydraulic pumps of the water masses towards collecting funnels.

  This type of game is more particularly intended to simulate a game of skill or skill of the player.

  An object of the present invention is the implementation of a lottery-type gambling simulation from a hardware part, having a particularly playful aspect.

  The subject of the present invention is a lottery-type gambling simulation device, characterized in that it comprises: a playing area provided with a network of nodes, said network of nodes comprising a plurality of source nodes of a control object and a plurality of receiver nodes of said control object; means for random selection of at least a first source node; - Wagering means by selection by a player of at least one receiver node recipient of said control object; control means for generating a control object at at least one source node, for random aiming of a receiving node from said at least one source node and for transmitting said control object to said target source node; gain of the simulated game of chance being a function of the number of selected source nodes and the number of selected target nodes reached and reached by the control object.

  Thus, by replicating the projectile sources and the receivers thereof, we obtain a network of sources and projectile receivers and it is then possible to produce a lottery-type gambling simulation device by betting on at least one receiver. projectiles capable of receiving a projectile.

  The present invention will be better understood on reading the description which will follow, given by way of example, with reference to the appended drawings, in which: FIG. 1 represents a schematic view of a first embodiment of the device according to FIG. FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of the operation of the first embodiment of the device according to the invention, and FIG. 4 represents a flowchart of the operation of a second device. embodiment of the device according to the invention.

  The present invention consists mainly of two sets. The first set consists of a playground equipped with a set of sources of control objects and receivers control objects and the second set consists of the control means of the first set.

  FIG. 1 represents a schematic view of a first embodiment of the device according to the invention. This figure will also be used for the description of a second embodiment as will be detailed later. This second embodiment differs mainly from the first by the particular arrangement of sources and receivers as will be described in detail below.

  Sources S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 of control objects, that is to say hydraulic pumps for ejecting liquid masses, and receivers R1, R2, .., R10 to collect these control objects, that is to say, funnels for collecting these bodies of water, are arranged under a playing area 1, so that the orifices of the sources S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and the orifices of the receivers R1, R2, ..., R10 are flush with the surface of the game area 1. The set of sources and receivers then form a network of nodes comprising a plurality of source nodes and a plurality of receiving nodes.

  The pumps and the funnels are connected to a hydraulic network 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4 which supplies the pumps S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 in liquid and recycles the liquid collected by the funnels R1, R2, .. ., R10.

  This hydraulic network is, for example, consists of a set 2b of supply lines connected to the hydraulic pumps S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and connected via a supply pump 3b to a tank 4 of liquid. This hydraulic network also consists of an assembly 2a of collection pipes connected to the funnels R1, R2, ..., R10 and connected via a collection pump 3a to the tank 4 of liquid.

  Each hydraulic pump S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 comprises a hydraulic pump control circuit (not shown) for controlling rotation parameters around a first axis perpendicular to the game area 1 so as to adjust its direction. for aiming, rotating about a second axis orthogonal to said first axis so as to adjust its aiming inclination, ejection power so as to adjust the ejection distance of the liquid and ejection duration so as to generate a discrete liquid mass, that is to say a discrete control object. Controlling the parameters of a hydraulic pump thus makes it possible to generate a liquid mass reaching at least one funnel R1, R2,..., R10.

  Each of the hydraulic pump control circuits is further connected to an information processing unit 5 for controlling and synchronizing the ejection of the liquid masses.

  This information processing unit 5 comprises a unit 6 for generating control signals for the hydraulic pump control circuits, a unit 7 for pseudo-random generation of pseudo-random generator type numbers, a clock 8, a unit 9 data storage system comprising among others a multi-input correspondence table 10 and a central information processing unit 11 for managing all the units of the information processing unit 5.

  Each source S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 is uniquely identified by an absolute address of source representative of its position in the game area 1 and chosen from the set of natural numbers between 0 and Ns-1, where Ns is the total number of sources.

  Each of the receivers R1, R2, ..., R10 is also uniquely identified by a receiver absolute address representative of its position on the game area 1 and chosen from the set of natural numbers between 0 and Nr- 1, where Nr is the total number of receivers.

  Thus, in the example of FIG. 1, the sources Si, S2, S3, S4, S5 are denoted by the integers 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 and the receivers R1, R2,

  ., R10 by the integers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 ... DTD: For each source SI, S2, S3, S4, S5 we also associate a set of relative addresses representative of the sighting directions of the receivers R1, R2, ..., R10. A relative address associated with a source is formed by the concatenation of the source absolute address of that source and the receiver absolute address of a target receiver. For example, the relative address 38 is representative of the direction of view of the receiver absolute address receiver 8 by the source absolute address source 3 and is therefore representative of the direction of aim of the absolute address receiver of the receiver. receiver 8 by the source absolute address source 3. Thus, for each relative address, a source and a receiver are uniquely defined.

  The relative addresses are stored in the correspondence table of the information processing unit 5 and form the entries of said correspondence table.

  At each of the entries of the correspondence table 10, that is to say at each relative address, is associated a set of control parameter sets intended to control the corresponding source absolute address source to send a liquid mass to the corresponding receiver receiver address receiver. This is the set of values representative of the angle of rotation, inclination, power and ejection duration of the source absolute address pump defined by the relative address to send a liquid mass at the receiver absolute address funnel defined by the relative address.

  The pseudo-random generator 7 pseudo-randomly selects an integer As between 0 and Ns-1 and an integer Ar between 0 and Nr-1. The central information processing unit 11 then forms the relative address AsAr that it provides to the correspondence table 10 for interrogation. In response, the central information processing unit 11 receives the set of parameters corresponding to the relative address AsAr and sends it to the control unit 6 with the source absolute address As.

  The control unit 6 then generates the control signal corresponding to the set of parameters and sends it to the hydraulic pump control circuit of the source absolute address source As. This hydraulic pump control circuit then controls the pump. associated hydraulics depending on the control parameters received. This hydraulic pump then ejects a liquid mass accordingly.

  With the help of the elements described above it is possible to simulate a game of chance of the lotto type.

  A player makes his bet by selecting a number Pr of receivers greater than or equal to one and a number of tests Pe greater than or equal to 1. He can do this, either by directly selecting the receivers on the playground 1, by for example by surrounding their flush holes on the surface of the playing area with hoops, either by filling the game grid of the lotto type of FIG.

  This grid has a first and a second line arranged in columns. The first line includes the numbers of the tests, in the example of Figure 2, from 1 to 6. On the second line, below a test number, the player enters a relative address and therefore bet on a transmitter and a receiver. It can thus register a maximum of 6 relative addresses in the example of Figure 2 and selects the number of tests by registering Pe relative addresses.

  Once the selection is complete, the number of tests Pe is transmitted to the information processing unit 5 via an input device, for example using a keypad 12 or by optical reading of the gate by an optical reader 13 and is stored in the data storage unit 9.

  The simulation of the lottery game is now described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In a step 30, the pseudo-random generator 7 randomly selects an integer As of between 0 and Ns-1, that is to say an absolute address of source. At a step 31 this same generator selects an integer Ar between 0 and Nr-1, that is to say a receiver absolute address. The central information processing unit 11 then forms the relative address AsAr and interrogates the correspondence table 10 by supplying it with the relative address AsAr and receives in response the corresponding set of control parameters. In a step 32, this set of parameters is sent, with the source absolute address As, to the control unit 6 which generates a control signal in return which it sends to the control circuit of the hydraulic pump of the In response, this pump then generates a liquid mass.

  In a step 33, the central information processing unit 11 compares the value of a brewing counter (not shown) of the information processing unit 5 with a predetermined brewing counter threshold value. If the value of this counter is greater than or equal to this brew counter threshold value, in step 34, a sound device 14 is sounded and the last selected relative address is displayed on a display device. If the value of the stirring counter is lower than the stirring counter threshold value, in a step 35, the stirring counter is incremented by an increment step of one. The output of step step 35 is then connected to the input of step 30.

  In a step 36, the central information processing unit 11 tests whether the value of a test counter (not shown) of the information processing unit is equal to the value Pe of the number test selected by the player. If the value of the test counter is greater than or equal to Pe, the game is over. The end of the game can be appropriately signaled by the sound device 14 and the display device 15, the set of relative addresses displayed on the display panel thus constituting the winning numbers of the game of chance.

  In the opposite case, the stirring counter 30 is reset in a step 37 and the test counter is incremented by an increment step of one. The output of step 37 is then connected to the input of step 30.

  The purpose of the test loop on the value of the brew counter is to simulate the mixing of numbers, and for example simulates the step of brewing the lotto balls of the lotto game in a ball tank.

  It goes without saying that the threshold value of stirring meter can be equal to one, in which case there is no stirring.

  As can be seen the embodiment of the device according to the invention just described simulates the draws of the lottery numbers of the French Games. Indeed, by filling the boxes of the grid of Figure 2, with relative address values between 0 and 49, the player bets on lotto numbers. The draw is then performed in a particularly attractive manner by the embodiment of the device according to the invention described above.

  Similarly, this test loop can be replaced with the value of the stirring counter by a polling loop which observes the state of a push button actuated, for example, by a player of the game to stop the stirring and thus proceed to the final selection of a receiver or replace this test loop on the value of the stirring counter by a scan loop of the value of the clock 8 and stop the stirring after a certain predetermined time.

  Likewise, the fact that a certain number of receivers and not the whole is targeted by a source is part of the scope of the invention. This is made possible, for example, by using a plurality of hydraulic pumps per source. These hydraulic pumps are, for example, arranged so that each has a fixed direction of view which corresponds to a direction of sight of a receiver. The operating principle of the devices described above remains the same, unlike the number of relative addresses more restricted.

  A second embodiment of the device according to the invention consists in grouping the sources and the receivers two by two to form a network of source-receiver nodes. The description of this embodiment is therefore made in relation to FIG. 1 for the elements of the information processing unit.

  Unlike the first embodiment, the number of sources is equal to the number of receivers. The sources, which are also composed of a hydraulic pump, and the receivers, which are also formed by a funnel, are arranged adjacent two by two and then form a set of source-receiver nodes. These pumps and these receivers are also connected to a hydraulic network which may be of the same type as that previously described in connection with FIG.

  Thus the ejection and the collection respectively of a liquid mass by the source and the receiver of the same source-receiver node seem visually to be realized visually at the same orifice. This is made possible, for example, by tangentially associating the ejection ports of the hydraulic pump and the collection port of the associated receiver. One can also imagine a type of pump whose ejection orifice also serves to collect liquid.

  The hydraulic pumps are similar to that of the first embodiment, are controlled in the same way as described in the first embodiment and connected in the same way to an information processing unit identical to that of FIG. their control units.

  It is possible with this embodiment to define absolute addresses of sources and relative addresses in the same way as that described with reference to FIG.

  We can then apply the operation described above. We will however describe below an operation associated with this embodiment, made possible by the combination of sources and receivers.

  Each source-receiver node is uniquely represented by an absolute address representative of its position on the game area and selected from the set of natural numbers between 0 and Nsr-1, where Nsr is the total number of source nodes. -receiver.

  Each pair of absolute addresses A1A2, where A1 represents a first absolute address and A2 a second absolute address, with A1 different from A2, is stored in the correspondence table 10 of the information processing unit 5 and forms an input of this table.

  At each of the inputs of said correspondence table 10, that is to say at each pair A1 A2 as defined above, is associated a set of control parameters intended for the control of the source of the source-receiver node of absolute address A1 for sending a liquid mass to the receiver of the source-receiver node A2 absolute address. This set of parameters is that described in the description relating to the first embodiment.

  Each pair of absolute addresses A1A2, as defined above, is furthermore associated with the time required for a liquid mass to travel the distance separating the source-receiver node Al address and the source-receiver node A2 address absolute , which will be noted later t (A1A2).

  The storage unit 9 further comprises a source management table 16 arranged in two columns. The first column includes the absolute addresses of the selected source-receiver nodes for ejecting a liquid mass and the second column of the time values used for the ejection timing, these address and time values being associated with the source-receiver nodes. selected, as will be described in more detail later.

  Using all of these elements, it is possible to simulate a game of chance of the lottery game type by the random and continuous displacement of a single liquid mass for each test.

  A player makes his bet by selecting a number Pr of receivers greater than or equal to one and a number of tests Pe greater than or equal to one. It can do this by directly selecting the receivers on the playing area, for example by surrounding with hoops their hole flush on the surface of the playing area.

  It can also do this by filling the game grid of the lotto type of FIG. 2 or by filling a second game grid of the lotto type. This second grid is arranged in an array, the boxes containing the absolute addresses of the source-receiver nodes.

  To make the game easier to read, it is possible for the grid to be a graphical representation of the game area 1 and / or for the source-receiver nodes to be arranged in a matrix of rows and columns on the game area 1.

  The player bets by ticking the boxes corresponding to the sourcerececepteur nodes he wishes to select. He also chooses a number of tests that he can enter in a box specially provided for this purpose. The number of tests Pe is transmitted to the information processing unit 5 via an input device, for example using the keypad 12 or by optical reading of the gate by the optical reader 13 and is stored. in the data storage unit 9.

  The operation of the simulation of the game of chance of the second embodiment of the device according to the invention is described in relation to the flowchart of FIG. 4. By virtue of the operation of this embodiment described below, Pe essays go on. perform simultaneously.

  Each test is represented by the displacement of a liquid mass on the playground 1.

  At a step 50, the source management table 16 is initialized by randomly selecting Pe absolute addresses of sourcerececept nodes by the pseudo-random generator 7. Each of these selected absolute addresses is associated with a time equal to 0 in the source management table 16. Moreover, at the same step, the clock 8 is set to zero.

  At a step 51, the central information processing unit 11 tests whether the value of the clock 8 is equal to a time of the source management table 16. If the result of this test is negative, such an event is scanned by returning to the beginning of step 51.

  If the result of this test is positive, in step 52 a pair of absolute addresses, designated Al A2, is formed. This pair is constituted by the absolute address which is associated with the time of the management table 16 equal to the value of the clock, that is to say the absolute address lying on the same line as the selected time. , designated Al, and by an absolute address randomly selected by the pseudo-random generator among the absolute addresses different from A1, designated A2.

  Also in step 52, the central information processing unit 11 then interrogates the correspondence table as a function of A1 A2, receives in response the corresponding set of control parameters and the corresponding travel time t (AIA2) and sends said set of parameters and the address Al to the control unit 6.

  At a step 53, the control unit 6 generates in response the corresponding control signal and sends it to the control circuit of the pump of the source node-address receiver A1 which then ejects a liquid mass accordingly.

  At a step 54, the source management table is updated by replacing the value of the selected absolute address A1 in step 51 by the address A2 and adding to the associated time, that is to say the time of the same line, the value t (A1A2).

  In a step 55, the central information processing unit 11 tests whether the value of the clock 8 is equal to or greater than a clock threshold value. If this is the case, the absolute addresses of the source management table 16 are displayed on the display device and the sound device 14 sounds to indicate that the game is over.

  Indeed, each absolute address of the source management table 16 also corresponds to the source-receiver node that has last received the representative representative test mass. If the result of the test is negative, the output of step 55 is then connected to the input of step 51. It should be noted that it is possible, once the threshold value of the clock has been reached, to proceed to the ejection of a liquid mass by each source of the source management table 16, as described above. The source-receiver nodes that receive the liquid masses are then the receivers finally selected for the lottery game.

  With this embodiment, it is possible to simulate random and substantially continuous paths of liquid masses, each of these trajectories corresponding to the simulation of a random and continuous trajectory of a single liquid mass representative of a test. Indeed, thanks to the polling loop of the time events implemented in step 51, as soon as a liquid mass is received by a receiver, a subsequent liquid mass is immediately generated by the associated source. It is then possible to follow visually the evolution of each test.

  This is indeed made possible by the arrangement of the information processing unit 5 and the central information processing unit 11 which synchronize the ejections of the liquid masses.

  Thanks to the operation described above, it is also possible to simulate a stirring step. As for the first embodiment, the stirring step can be interrupted by the actuation of a push button by an actor of the game.

  Similarly, it is possible to associate only a small number of source-receiver nodes at each receiving source node and not all of them. It should also be noted that it is possible to replace the time event polling loop for a signal scanning loop from the receivers which would each be provided with a liquid mass reception detector and connected to the unit. information processing.

  It is also possible to provide a loop for each line of the source management table, that is to say for each test. Similarly to differentiate the liquid masses, it is possible to provide a plurality of hydraulic networks which allows to use liquids of different colors and / or to implement an illumination of each of the nodes to indicate which are ultimately targeted. Finally, it is possible to carry out each of the tests successively and not simultaneously.

  The description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings considers the case of a hydraulic network comprising hydraulic pumps and funnel systems. It is possible to choose as a system for ejecting discrete control objects from ball or balloon projection systems and receptacles such as basketball hoop, golf hole, target, football goal net or other, the principle of simulation of the game of chance of the lottery type remaining the same.

  The information processing unit may be implemented by a personal computer equipped with a communication interface with the control units of the source ejection means or by a microcontroller system specifically designed for the device according to the invention.

Claims (12)

  1. Device for simulating a game of chance of the lottery type, characterized in that it comprises: - a game area (1) provided with a network of nodes (Si, S2, S3, S4, S5, R1 , R2, ..., RIO), the node network comprising a plurality of source nodes (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5) of at least one control object and a plurality of receiver nodes (R1, R2 , ..., R10) of control object; - Betting selection means of a predetermined number of tests; means (12, 14) for selecting, by wager, at least one recipient node receiving a control object for each test, and control means (5) adapted to control for each test at least once the generation of a control object by a source node (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5), random target of a receiving node (R1, R2, 15 ..., RIO) by the source node (S1, S2, S3) , S4, S5) and transmission of the target object to the receiving node (RI, R2, ..., RIO) referred to, the gain of the simulated game of chance being a function of the number of tests and the number of receiving recipient nodes that are ultimately targeted and hit by a witness object.   2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that each source node (Si, S2, S3, S4, S5) is identified by an absolute address representative of its topographic position on the playing area (1), and in that that each receiving node (R1, R2, ..., RIO) is identified by a relative address representative of the direction of sight from the source node (Si, S2, S3, S4, S5).   3. Device according to claim 2, characterized in that the relative addresses of the receiving nodes (R1, R2, ..., RIO) are organized according to a first type of game grid of the Lotto type.   4. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the source nodes and the receiver nodes are adjacent two by two and form a network of a plurality of source-receiver nodes.   5. Device according to claim 4, characterized in that each source-receiver node is identified by an absolute address representative of its topographic position on the playing area.   6. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that the absolute addresses of the source-receiver nodes are organized according to a second type of game grid of the Lotto type.   7. Device according to one of claims 4 to 6, characterized in that the reception of a control object by a receiving node is followed by the random target by the paired source node of a receiving node, the generation of a witness object by the matched source node and the transmission of the witness object to the target receiving node.   8. Device according to claim 7, characterized in that the reception and the successive generation of control objects are synchronized to simulate for each test a random and continuous trajectory of a single control object.   9. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that each source node is provided with a control object ejection means formed by a discrete object to one of the receiving nodes.   10. Device according to claim 9, characterized in that said control object is constituted by a ball, each receiving node being formed by a receptacle selected from basketball basket group, football goal net, golf hole, target.   12. Device according to one of claims 1 and 10, characterized in that the network is a hydraulic network (2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4), the control object is a liquid mass, the source nodes each comprise at least one hydraulic pump and in that the receiving node receptacle is formed by a funnel for receiving the liquid mass.   13. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control means for generating a control object comprise an electronic pseudo-random generator (7) and synchronization means (5) for synchronizing the generation of the objects. witnesses.