RU39280U1 - SLOT MACHINE - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to computing. Its use to modify existing and create new casinos, gambling houses, etc., both real and virtual, eliminates the possibility of falsification of the random principle of loss. The gaming machine 1 contains a means of inputting data 2 for inputting bets from gambling participants on the winning events indicated by them, a remembering means 3 for storing each of the entered bets with the identification data of the player who made this bet, and random selection means 4 for randomly choosing one of the possible winning events. The technical result is achieved due to the fact that a communication line 6 is introduced into the gaming machine 1 for transmitting exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes to random selection means 4, which contains a data processing device 5 configured to perform systematic checks of the occurrence of a system according to a predefined rule - either of the winning events indicated by the players, for which the change in the specified rate of a particular financial instrument from the number of broadcasted a link 6-exchange and / or OTC quotations.

Description

This utility model relates to computer technology and can be used to modify existing and create new casinos, gambling houses, etc., both real and virtual.

Currently, as a basis for obtaining outcomes in games using the principle of random loss of winning options, two principles of generating random events are applied - roulette and slot machine. In the case of roulette, a ball is thrown on a circle rotating in one direction with winning numbers on its periphery in the opposite direction; stopping the ball on one of the numbers means a loss is won on this number. A slot machine uses three or more independently rotating reels with different patterns on a cylindrical surface; a win is considered to be the appearance of identical patterns on several reels after their sequential stop at random times. At the same time, both roulette and the slot machine can be both real and virtual. For example, WO 97/18870 (05/29/1997) describes a device for supplying a ball in a roulette wheel; in EPO application 0673004 (09/20/1995) the roulette image is transmitted over the communication line to the terminals; Russian patent 2181066 (04/10/2002) describes a system of virtual slot machines.

All these and other well-known gaming systems and devices use various artificially created random number generators. All of them, however, can be used by unscrupulous organizers by appropriately adjusting to the relatively more frequent occurrence of certain numbers compared to all others.

The purpose of this utility model is to create a gaming machine in which the possibility of falsifying a random principle

loss of winnings would be reduced to zero. This result can be achieved using random events, caused not by just one reason (the random number generator), but by a multitude of independent events occurring almost simultaneously. A classic example of so many events is financial markets.

Therefore, to obtain the indicated technical result, a gaming machine is proposed comprising a data input means for inputting bets from gamblers on the winning events indicated by them, a storage means for storing each of the entered bets with the identification data of the player who made this bet, and random selection tool designed to randomly select one of the possible winning events - in which, in accordance with this utility model, a line is entered communication for broadcasting exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes to a random selection tool that contains at least a data processing device capable of performing, according to a predetermined rule, systematic checks for the occurrence of any of the winning events indicated by the players, for which a change is selected for a given the exchange rate rule for a specific financial instrument from exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes broadcast over the communication line.

An additional difference of the gaming machine according to the present utility model is that the data processing device can be configured to compare the stored winning events with a change in the rate of a particular financial instrument in a predetermined time.

Moreover, the predetermined time is the time interval during which m≥1 of the checks mentioned are carried out, where m is an integer.

Another additional difference of the gaming machine according to this utility model is that a change in a given rule for a course of a particular financial instrument can be either an increase or decrease in this rate by a predetermined amount, or a fluctuation of this rate a specified number of times within specified limits.

Another additional difference of the gaming machine according to the present utility model is that the random selection means may further comprise a display device for displaying rate changes of a particular financial instrument from exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes broadcast over the communication line.

In this case, the data processing device can be made in the form of a personal computer, and the display device is made in the form of a display of this personal computer.

Another additional difference of the gaming machine according to the present utility model is that the data processing device is configured to independently select the player when the game starts.

Another additional difference of the gaming machine according to the present utility model is that the gaming machine can be executed using software installed on the gaming server designed to generate the corresponding gaming website.

Another additional difference of the gaming machine according to this utility model is that the exchange of stock and / or OTC quotes can be carried out in real time from a specific financial market.

Moreover, during periods of time when the financial market does not work, for broadcasting, you can use the recordings of the work of a predetermined financial market on a pre-selected day in the past.

Finally, another additional difference of the gaming machine according to this useful model is that the exchange of stock and / or over-the-counter quotes can be transmitted in accelerated or slowed mode using the recording of the work of a predetermined financial market on a pre-selected day in the past.

In the prior art, various sources of information are known that describe the use of exchange-based instruments for gambling. So, in US patents No. 4913446 (04/03/1990), No. 6497410 (12.24.2002) and in US application No. 2003/0018564 (01/23/2003) various games are described that use one or another exchange mechanism. However, in the current level of technology, no sources of information have been identified that would contain descriptions of a gaming machine with the above set of features, which allows us to consider a gaming machine according to this utility model new.

A further detailed description of the present utility model is illustrated by the drawing, which shows a generalized block diagram of the gaming system, which includes a gaming machine according to the present utility model.

Before moving on to a detailed description of this utility model, we introduce some definitions.

Player - an individual (resident or non-resident) who, according to the laws of Russia or his country of origin, has the right to use the services of the gaming business.

Gaming service is a system of organizational, administrative, legal, technical, technological and other processes carried out by the organizers of a gambling business in order to provide players with the most complete and high-quality service.

Game service provider - any legal entities (residents or non-residents) that are entitled to provide the players with the above

game service in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as the laws of countries at the place of registration of legal entities.

Collateral cash game funds - the player’s money in a currency agreed with the game service provider that the player deposits into the account of the game service provider in order to ensure his possible losses in the game or series of games.

Collateral game account - an account opened by a player with a game service provider for storing and recording pledged game funds.

A gaming instrument is a financial instrument for which winning events in the gaming system can occur and whose prices are transmitted from the news agency to the gaming system.

A financial instrument is a specific currency or security that is traded on a financial or stock, exchange or over-the-counter market.

Financial or stock (money) market - a set of buyers and / or sellers of financial instruments, a communication system between them, a system of settlements between them, a set of traded financial instruments, an organizational and legal system of interaction between buyers and sellers.

Market participant - a specific seller / buyer of a financial instrument or market infrastructure service.

The date of conclusion of the transaction (hereinafter referred to as the date of the transaction) is the business day on which the transaction was concluded.

Value Date - a business day recorded as the settlement date for a single transaction.

Currency position - the difference in claims and obligations in foreign currency on transactions concluded on the value date. If the requirements and obligations in a particular currency match, then the currency

the position is called a closed currency position (hereinafter referred to as a closed position) in the specified foreign currency. If the requirements and obligations in a particular currency do not match, then the currency position is called the open currency position (hereinafter - the AFP) in the specified foreign currency. AFP arises from the moment the transaction is concluded.

Exchange rate (hereinafter referred to as the exchange rate) is the amount of the quote currency (quoted currency) per unit of the base currency (quote base). The exchange rate is written as follows:

Quotation base / Quotation currency = decimal fraction (for example, EUR / USD 1.1945). According to the prevailing practice of the world market, the rates of some currencies are quoted accurate to the second, third, fourth or fifth decimal place. With the changing practice of the world market, the form of recording exchange rates of various currencies will also change.

A percentage point or pip is the last character in an exchange rate record, which is the unit of measurement for the minimum change in the exchange rate.

Tick - each new exchange rate quote on the time schedule of quotes.

Currency swap (hereinafter referred to as swap) is a transaction consisting of two opposite transactions for the same amount in the base currency, concluded simultaneously with different value dates and exchange rates.

Foreign currency (hereinafter - the currency) - funds in accounts in monetary units of foreign states and international monetary or settlement units, which are legal tender in the respective foreign state or group of states, except for the Russian Federation.

Conversion transactions - transactions on the sale of one currency for another at the exchange rate agreed between the parties on a specific date for settlement of transactions.

Conversion arbitrage transaction - an operation consisting of two opposite conversion transactions for the same currency pair for the same amount of the base currency concluded on one value date.

Quotation - a rate at which at a particular moment in time for a specific amount of the base currency, the client can make a deal with the bank. A quote is written as follows:

Bid Offer **** **** **** **** where * is any of the digits from 0 to 9.

The course and price of a financial instrument are hereinafter synonyms.

Bid (Quotation Base / Quotation Currency) is the quote side, which is the rate at which the quotationer buys the base currency for the quote currency. The bid bid side is called the buyer's rate. At this rate, a player can bet on lowering a certain amount of the base currency, calculated in the quote currency.

Offer (Quotation Base / Quotation Currency) is the quote side, which is the rate at which the issuer sells the base currency for the quote currency. The Offer side of the quote is called the seller’s rate. At this rate, the player can bet on increasing a certain amount of the base currency, calculated in the quote currency.

Full quote - a quote that includes the buyer's rate and the seller’s rate. It is full quotes for the present method of conducting a gambling game that must be delivered to the gaming system.

The limit of the open foreign exchange position (hereinafter referred to as the “ORP limit”) is the quantitative restrictions on the ratio of the size of the total open foreign exchange position during the established period of time and own funds and liabilities, which serve as security for settlements on concluded transactions.

Netting - the procedure for calculating the total gain / loss of a player.

Order - a document fixing the player’s order and the obligation of the game service provider in the event that the price of the gaming instrument specified in the order is established in the Russian or world interbank currency, money or stock markets, start the game in accordance with the conditions specified in the order.

Swap points - absolute points of the exchange rate in units of quote currency.

Margin or spread - the difference between the purchase price and the sale price. It is the income of a market participant who bought and sold the same amount of a financial instrument in a working day. For example, if he sold 100,000 euros for US dollars at the rate of 1.2550 and bought at 1.2545, his income was 50 dollars. Since it is not 100,000 per day, but 10,000,000 or more, income is correspondingly higher. At the same time, he gave the following quote to the news agency: EUR / USD 1.2545 1.2550. At the first price, he suggested that another market participant sell the euro (i.e., he wanted to buy it), and at the second price, on the contrary, he wanted to sell the euro.

In addition, we introduce the following concepts:

The player and game service provider are referred to as Parties within the scope of this description.

If a player won in any of the games, then his winnings are hereinafter referred to as the requirement of this player to the game service provider, or the obligation of the game service provider to him.

If a player loses in one of the games, then his loss is hereinafter referred to as the requirement of the game service provider for this player, or the obligation of this player to the game service provider.

If a player works with a game service provider using a system of secured cash game funds, then in this case, the game service provider and the player do not make sense to make settlements after each game. Instead, the game service provider and player agree that they will settle accounts with each other at an agreed point in time.

If at the time of calculations a player in a series of games made bets on various changes of various amounts of various gaming instruments, then to determine the total result of his game for a certain period of time, the game service provider performs the following procedure:

If at the time of mutual settlements both Parties have mutual obligations for the same gaming instrument, then the amounts paid to each side must be summed up, while:

A) If the total amount of obligations of one Party exceeds the total amount of obligations of the other Party when betting on one and the same gaming instrument, then the difference calculated in the currency of security money for game funds at the agreed rate is paid by the Party that has a large amount of obligations;

B) If the total obligations of the Parties when betting on the same game instrument are equal, then they remain unchanged.

As an information agency, both specialized and other media can act. For example, the REUTERS information and dealing equipment based on modern personal computers, combined into a global global network of users (agency subscribers), is today one of the most reliable and widespread means of monitoring market conditions and concluding deals. REUTERS Agency provides information to more than tens of thousands of subscribers from more than 3,000 organizations in 80 countries in real time about the rates of 125 world currencies, interest rates, forward quotes, the main news of economic and political life in the world and in individual countries.

Information comes through the agency’s channels, firstly, from system contributors who have the right to enter their information into special pages. For example, quotes of exchange rates changing every second on the screen are added up from exchange rates entered independently by large banks by market makers and replacing each other in a time sequence. If any bank is not satisfied with the quotation displayed at the moment, it can change it to its own. The constant change of quotes by depositing banks forms a visible change in the exchange rate and serves as the basis for reading this information when plotting. Likewise, quotes for interest rates, forward points, gold prices, etc., are entered and changed.

Secondly, information comes from agency correspondents preparing information on economic and political life events in the form of mini-articles that appear on the screen in chronological sequence under short headings. Windows software allows you to expand the heading into an article and then collapse it again. In addition to articles on the information screen, urgent news appears, typed to attract attention in large red font and accompanied by a sound signal, which influence the decision-making by dealers and affect the market situation. For example, this may be information about the resignation of V. Gerashchenko from the post of chairman of the Central Bank: “GERASCHENKO IS ASKED BY PRESIDENT YELTSIN TO RESIGN” or published macroeconomic indicators: “DECEMBER US UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 5.9%”.

The Bloomberg news agency offers users a range of information services, including economic and other news, data on exchange rates, rates, quotations on securities and derivative products, as well as a fairly powerful analytical tool. The equipment allows dealers not only to monitor the current state of financial markets, but also to analyze complex strategies, draw up investment portfolios with profitability calculations, draw graphs and analyze them. In addition, the dealer can display television programs of financial news on the screen of the Bloomberg terminal, as well as listen to radio news information, which greatly facilitates the dealer’s perception of news. For customers who want to receive only informational messages, there is a Bloomberg satellite television channel with television financial news programs.

The global global Internet network today also makes it possible to have reliable information on the state of financial and stock markets in real time.

Information from any financial markets is suitable for use in this utility model. The financial market can be stock and over-the-counter. When trading in a specific financial instrument, buyers and / or sellers on the exchange market are required to be in a room specially designated for trading and satisfy additional conditions. On the OTC market, buyers and / or sellers trade through special communication channels: telephone, Internet, intranet, etc. Buyers and / or sellers are divided into banks and / or financial campaigns and other individuals and legal entities. In the first case, there is an interbank market, in the second, just a financial market. Markets come with round-the-clock work, sessional (have start and end times), liquid and not (with frequent changes in prices and no). Markets may vary in complexity and speed of transactions.

The markets with round-the-clock operation and very liquid markets are most suitable for use in the gaming system. The most suitable is the interbank international currency market. The daily volume of operations of the world currency exchange market - the FOREX market - is on average 2-3 trillion. USD (including both buying and selling) and has a tendency to increase. The main participants in the FOREX market are large brokerage firms, central and commercial banks. Among the latter, a group of large “elephant” banks stands out, which in fact determine the current market exchange rate of currencies. The features of the functioning of the FOREX market are, on the one hand, an almost round-the-clock mode of operation, and on the other, an eight-hour financial day for banks of the countries participating in this market. Moreover, there are overlaps in the calendar days when the financial markets of various countries operate simultaneously. Just these overlappings determine large fluctuations in exchange rates during the day. The amplitude of these fluctuations reaches an average of 100 percentage points (pips). The transaction time on the FOREX market is a few seconds. It is these parameters of the international currency market that allow generating a wide variety of winning events. In addition, about prices in the international currency market there is the most complete and accurate information, which practically coincides, being taken from different sources.

Thus, information from financial markets may well act as a “generator” of random numbers in the game system. A true utility model uses this very fact.

Gambling can be carried out on a gaming machine according to the present utility model, an enlarged block diagram of which is shown in FIG. The gaming machine 1 is part of the gaming system and can be implemented, in particular, on a personal computer, although the option of a specialized device that performs the functions described below is not excluded. The gaming machine 1 comprises at least a data input means 2, which is intended for entering bets from a gambling participant on a winning event of their choice, a storage means 3, for storing each of the entered bets with the identification data of the player who made this bet, and means 4 random selection, designed to randomly select one of the possible winning events and containing at least a data processing device 5. In the case of the implementation of the gaming machine 1 according to the present utility model in the form of a personal computer, the data input means 2 can be a keyboard, the storage means 3 can be executed on the hard drive of this computer, and the data processing device 5 is the processor of this computer. In addition, such a computer is equipped with a communication line 6 for transmitting exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes to a data processing device 5, configured to perform systematic checks of any of the winning events indicated by the players according to a predetermined rule. In a computer, such a data processing device 5 will be an appropriately programmed processor. Finally, the gaming machine 1 according to the present utility model may optionally include a display 7 for displaying the bets made by the players, the progress of the game of chance and other information that is described below.

The gaming machine 1 according to the present utility model through its communication line 6 is connected to a gaming system in which there is at least one server 8, to which information from financial markets is received via the communication network 9 and which transmits this information via the communication line 6 to each connected slot machine 1.

As a winning event, players choose any change in the rate of a particular financial instrument from the number of 1 exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes transmitted to the gaming machine. Accordingly, it is these events that the data processing device 5 checks in the gaming machine 1.

Gambling can be conducted, for example, as follows.

Option 1 (for bank customers)

Players can bet on the forecast of changes in the exchange rate of certain amounts of different currencies. These amounts are determined by the gaming service provider. For example, the price is 10,000 euros (EUR) in US dollars (USD), which, in accordance with business practices, is designated as 10,000 EUR / USD, or the price of 500,000 British pounds (GBP) in US dollars (USD), which is indicated as 500,000 GBP / USD. In the future, such notation will be used. Bets are placed using the data entry means 2.

The source of quotes for the game is information received in real time from the international currency market or from an employee of the organization-provider of the game service for his player. Any legal entities, residents or non-residents who may provide players (customers) with the aforementioned gaming services in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as the laws of the countries at the place of registration of legal entities, can act as providers of gaming services. Without loss of generality, a Russian or international bank can act as a game service provider. Moreover, it is banks that can, using this method of conducting gambling, organize and provide their players with a gaming service on a risk-free basis for themselves.

To do this, the bank can offer its players the following rules of the game, which it can fix in the contractual relationship between the bank and the player, or submit them to the player for acceptance in the form of a public offer:

A player (individual, resident or non-resident) contributes funds in US dollars to the bank as security for his possible losses in games with the bank (hereinafter referred to as pledged cash game funds). In this case, the bank guarantees the safety of collateral cash game funds of its players, which serves as an additional incentive for players (customers) to choose a game service provider. In this case, the bank itself determines the sufficiency of the amount deposited to start the game, which is fixed by the rules of the game, which the bank must bring to the attention of each player. To store collateral cash game funds, the bank opens the corresponding balance accounts of its players. From the moment a player deposits security funds into his bank account and draws up all the necessary documents correctly, he begins to receive information about currency quotes and news from the international currency market from the bank to decide on the start of the game. The bank can take bets on increasing / decreasing the rates of specific amounts of various base currencies, expressed in other currencies (quote currencies) by a certain amount. This value may be predetermined by the bank, or may be set by the player himself. In the second case, the game continues until the player of the bank has sufficient security funds in the account for the game or until the player himself stops the game by personally notifying the bank or by placing a warrant in the bank.

The bank accepts bets from players on a change in the exchange rate of the base currency, i.e. the currency that is listed first in the quote. At the same time, the bank establishes an unambiguous correspondence between the minimum amount NB of the pledged cash game funds deposited by the player and the minimum amount MB of the base currency, on which the player wants to bet on the exchange rate. The total amount of the base currency, on which the player can bet, must be a multiple of MB. At the same time, it may be advantageous for a bank to set the amount MB equal to the minimum market transaction amount in the real currency market for those currencies for which quotes are transmitted by leading news agencies and other sources of information. As a rule, this is 100,000 (one hundred thousand) of one or another base currency.

A player, after the start of the game, has the right to change his bets during the game, if his pledged game funds allow, through a notification to the bank employee (dealer). The above is equivalent to the fact that the player before the start of the game has at his disposal a certain amount of the base currency for which he wants to bet, or the amount of the quote currency calculated at the rate existing in the international currency market at the time the game starts. It is advisable to calculate the player’s gain in the quote currency, i.e. currency in which the price of the base currency is expressed, on the change of which the player makes a bet. In the framework of this utility model, we will assume that the client’s gain is equal to the price difference of the base currency, expressed in the quote currency, at the end and at the beginning of the game, multiplied by the amount of the base currency on which the bet was placed, in case of an increase game and the price difference of the base currency, denominated in the quote currency, at the beginning and at the end of the game, multiplied by the amount of the base currency that the bet was placed on when playing down. At the same time, after the actual end of the game, the bank converts the player’s loss / win in the quote currency into the currency in which the player’s collateral money is expressed at the rate set by the bank and debits / credits them to the player’s account.

Players can place bets at the same time on changes in the rates of various base currencies. In this case, to calculate the total gain / loss of the player, the bank carries out a netting procedure. The player can withdraw his winnings from the account in accordance with the rules established by the bank. The maximum bet on a specific base currency will be equal in this case to the amount of the player’s security money in game funds divided by NB, rounded to the nearest whole number and multiplied by MB. The bank also determines in which case the bank will consider that the player does not have enough security money for playing the game to continue. Then the bank forcibly, without notifying the player, but with his prior consent, stops the game in accordance with the rules of the game. To do this, from the moment the game begins, the bank and the player, independently of each other, begin to systematically, with each new price that appears on the international market for the base currency being played, calculate the potential player gain / loss. For these purposes, each new quote is taken as the end price of the game.

For example, a bank has agreed with a player that a game can be terminated by the bank forcibly from the moment when the client’s loss in USD, calculated at that moment at the current rate of the international currency market, will be less than L% of the total amount of the base currency on which the player made a bet divided by MB. At the same time, the player, seeing that there is a moment of forced stopping of the game, can exercise his right to stop the game, by the time the forced stop of the game, only for that part of the amount of the base currency, which will allow the condition of forced stop in relation to the remaining part of the amount of the base currency games, and continue playing the rest of the base currency.

When the game is forced to stop, the remainder of the security funds of the game funds is not necessarily equal to zero. Simply, according to the rules of the game, they are not enough to continue it or start a new game. If a player does not want to deposit security money in the game for the continuation of the game, he can withdraw from his game account the balance of his security money in the game minus all the bank fees established by the rules of the game.

If the player started the game during the current calendar day and the game was not stopped during this day, but was continued during the next calendar day, the bank has the right to charge the commission established for the game on the next calendar day. This, based on the practice of banks in the international currency market, is equivalent to a swap transaction when a bank transfers its open foreign currency position to a later value date.

As a specific example, consider one of the possible options for implementing the above rules of the game:

1. Let the bank customer have in the account 1000 (one thousand) US dollars (USD) of secured cash game funds.

Let NE = 1000 USD (US dollars) of pawn cash game funds that allow the player to bet on a change of 100,000 (one hundred thousand) of a specific base currency relative to another (with a minimum amount of MB base currency).

A game can be terminated by the bank forcibly from the moment when the client’s loss in USD, calculated at some point after the start of the game at the current rate of the international currency market, will, for example, be less than 40% of the amount of the base currency by which the player made a bet divided per 100,000.

Let the base currency be USD (US dollars).

Let the client of the bank make bets on the change in USD relative to JPY (Japanese yen). In banking, this is equivalent to the player making bets on raising / lowering the USD exchange rate relative to JPY or, what is the same, buying / selling the amount of USD per JPY selected by the bank's client set by the rules of the game.

Suppose that at the time the USD / JPY rate was 105.34 (offer), as the bank dealer informed the player, the player decided to start the game to raise 100,000 (one hundred thousand) USD relative to JPY. From this moment, the bank can assume that the bank’s client bought 100,000 (one hundred thousand) USD from the bank for 10,534,000 JPY, which, as it were, were on his account with the real amount of security money in the game on his account at 1000 (one thousand) USD. When the USD / JPY rate grew and became equal to 105.94 (bid), the client stopped the game. Moreover, he actually sold the bought 100,000 USD for 10,564,000 JPY and received a win, as the difference between 10,564,000 and 10,534,000 JPY, i.e. 60,000 JPY. The bank converted 60,000 JPY at the rate of 105.94 and accrued to the player a win in the amount of 570 USD, but at the same time withheld a commission from the client, because the player stopped the game only during the next day from the day the game started, in the amount of 2USD, which is comparable to the value of swap points for transferring the bank's open currency position in the amount of 100,000 USD / JPY to a later value date. So, the player within two gaming days on his 1000 USD won 570 USD, which corresponds to a yield of more than 10,000% per year in USD.

If the rate did not increase and decrease, then from the moment the player had an amount of 400 USD left on the account with this decrease, with a margin for all fees payable in accordance with the rules of the game when converting the player’s current loss at the current rate on the international currency market , the bank had the right to stop the game.

In this example, the rate for a forced stop of the game by the bank is 104.71.

It is banks that are participants in the international currency market, and it is banks’s transactions on the purchase and sale of various currencies in the international currency market that are the source of information about quotes, which are transferred to the gaming system in accordance with this method of conducting a game of chance.

Consider another illustrative example:

When a player (a client of a bank) makes a bet, for example, on an increase in the exchange rate, for example 100,000 (one hundred thousand) EUR / USD, by 30 points, then essentially for a bank (or other game service provider) this means that the player buys 100,000 from him ( one hundred thousand) EUR for USD at the rate of, for example, 1.2345 (at offer) and hopes that the rate from the start of the game (i.e. purchase) will increase by 30 points and become equal to 1.1275 (at bid), and then the player (client) will be able to sell to the bank (or another game service provider) EUR that was purchased earlier and how to get his USD back, and calculate your winnings as 100000EUR * 30 points (0.0030 in absolute terms) and win 300 USD, which he can receive on his hands or on his game account in the bank.

At the same time, the bank has the opportunity to do the following:

If at some point one of the bank's players starts a game of promotion, the bank can at the same time buy the same currency from another bank for the amount of the player’s bet. In our example, at the time the game starts, the bank can simultaneously sell from the bank’s dealer about the start of the game, buy from another bank 100,000 EUR / USD at the rate of 1.2345 or even cheaper, and at the same time confirm the player about the end of the game at the player’s signal, sell the same 100,000 EUR / USD at the rate of 1.2375 or even more expensive. Then, in the course of the game, regardless of whether the player wins or loses, the bank as the organizer of the game stably receives its commission as stipulated by the rules of the game. This is because if a player wins, the bank will accordingly win the same amount from another bank. Having received the winning amount of his player from another bank, the bank will give away the winnings minus the commission to its player. If a player loses, the bank will send the loss of his player from his security cash game funds to another bank.

Thus, the bank does not need, unlike other organizers of the game to change exchange rates, calculate the probabilities of a particular winning event on the part of the player in order to reduce the risks of his own loss.

Moreover, the bank is interested in providing players with the highest quality gaming service, regardless of whether these players win or lose, because the longer the players work with the bank, the greater the income of this bank on a risk-free commission basis.

Given the fairly high level of complexity of the above rules of the game, we can recommend the bank, in order to attract more players, organize a training center where basic concepts about financial and stock markets are given and how you can make money by changing various amounts, for example, various currencies.

If the bank wants to organize the described gambling, but for various reasons is not able to do this, fearing that partners and counterparties may condemn it in the interbank market, we can suggest a simple way out of this situation:

1. A bank may call its activity as a game service provider for contact audiences by providing bank customers with the opportunity to carry out conversion arbitrage operations in the international currency market, subject to the mandatory closure of their open currency positions at the end of the working day.

2. The bank will have to name the players as its customers, which is essentially the case.

3. Employees serving the game should not be called a croupier, senior dealer, etc., but customer service employees, bank dealers, back-office employees, etc.

4. Players do not start and stop the game, and bank customers buy and sell some currencies for others, etc.

At the same time, there are the following advantages for the bank, which is the provider of the gaming service:

A) Attracting customers to the game, the bank attracts consumers of its own banking service;

B) For its customers, the bank provides an opportunity to have some fun, as they say, without leaving the cash desk.

Option 2 (for casino visitors)

To organize the described gambling, it is recommended to organize the game according to the following rules, taking into account the specifics of conducting gambling in a casino, namely:

1. Easy bidding;

2. External simplicity and beauty of the player interface;

3. A small time interval from the moment the game starts to the moment the winnings are distributed;

4. Ease of settlements with players and casinos;

5. Ease of accounting and control by the casino.

Players can bet on the forecast of changes in the exchange rate for currency pairs EUR / USD, GBP / USD, USD / CHF, USD / JPY. Bets are placed using the data entry means 2.

The source of quotes for the game is information received in real time from the international currency market and transmitted to slot machine 1 via communication line 6. Display 7 shows tick charts of changes in the exchange rates of the listed currency pairs and player bets.

To get a double win, a player needs to “win back” one spread for five ticks, and to get a triple and a fourth win, two or three spreads, respectively.

After all bets have been placed, the senior dealer enters the bets into the memory tool 3 and announces the start of the game. Players have, for example, one minute to decide which direction the exchange rate may occur. If the player believes that the charts of the currency pairs that he has bet on will go up, he needs to press the BUY button, and if he believes that these charts will go down, the SELL button.

When you press the corresponding button, the display shows the course at which the player concluded the game transaction. If the BUY button was pressed, then the transaction was made at the Ask (Offer) rate, and if the SELL button, then at the Bid rate.

Thus, if five ticks after a player presses the BUY button, the Bid exchange rate is greater than or equal to the game transaction at the Ask rate, this player won. If this did not happen, he lost. If, after five ticks after a player presses the SELL button, the Ask exchange rate is less than or equal to the game transaction at the Bid rate, that player won. If this did not happen, he lost.

If in this case, within one minute, the player did not press either the BUY button or the SELL button, this player lost.

A comparison of the winning events on which the players have made bets with real changes in the exchange rate of the respective financial instruments is carried out by the data processing device 5. In addition to the winning events indicated above, bets can, for example, be placed on such events:

- the price of the currency for m≥1 changes according to the information of the news agency or for a given time will be more / less than a given value;

- the price of the currency for m≥1 changes according to the information of the news agency or within a specified time will not go beyond the specified area of price changes;

- the price of the currency for m≥1 changes according to the information of the news agency or for a given time will be equal to a given value;

- the price of the currency for m≥1 changes according to the information of the news agency or for a given time touches k≥1 times the upper price level and j≥1 times the lower price level;

- the price of the currency for m≥1 changes according to the information of the news agency or for a given time rises above (falls below) a given level by at least a given amount.

Here m is an integer.

The onset of a winning event leads to a gain equal to the initial bet multiplied by a certain coefficient, which is calculated depending on the probability of the occurrence of a particular winning event.

Depending on market conditions, the coefficients involved in determining a winning event may be adjusted from time to time.

The above examples are just a small demonstration of the possibilities that can be realized by a real gaming machine, or rather, those parameters that make up the essence of the work of this gaming machine. Varying these parameters allows you to come up with and implement a huge variety of rules for conducting gambling. These parameters include:

1. The moment of placing bets - this may be the moment when the player sat at the gaming table in the casino (Option 2), or he can be determined by the client at his discretion, as is the case with the bank (Option 1).

2. Bets can be set in cash, like in a casino (Option 2), and in non-cash form, from a player’s account in a bank at the signal of a player to a bank dealer on the phone, via intranet, Internet and other communication channels (Option 1).

3. The game may start at the signal of the representative of the gaming service provider, for example, the dealer in the casino (Option 2), or at the signal of the player himself to the bank dealer (Option 1).

4. The game can be limited in time by the gaming service provider, as in a casino, by appropriate organization of the game (Option 2), and unlimited in time, as in a bank (Option 1).

5. The game may be terminated by the representative of the game service provider (croupier), and may be terminated at the signal of the player, as is the case with the bank (Option 1).

6. A game may involve placing bets on changing a constant number of financial instruments, as in the casino example, when bets are placed on changing one unit of a financial instrument (Option 2), or implying bets on changing various amounts of different financial instruments (Option 1).

Unlike other games in the game held in the gaming machine according to this utility model, bets are placed on changing exchange rates. These changes can be more or less predicted by providing information about prices in the past from the moment the game starts and for, for example, 1 minute later. Therefore, in a preferred embodiment of the gaming machine according to the present utility model, players within a predetermined time interval, for example, within 1 minute, are given the opportunity to independently choose the start time of their game. The indicated time can be less than 1 minute, or significantly more, depending on the specific rules of a particular game service provider. And in order to make the choice (forecast) conscious, the player (client) is provided with current information and exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes, as well as other news from financial and / or stock markets. Such information is displayed on the display 7 of the gaming machine 1.

A specific currency, specific stocks or any other financial instrument appearing on that financial market, information about quotes on which are transmitted via communication line 6 to gaming machine 1, can be used as a financial instrument, on the exchange rate of which a player can bet.

In a preferred embodiment of the gaming machine according to the present utility model, quotation information on a particular market is transmitted via the real-time communication line 6. This is possible if the market operates around the clock. If the selected financial or stock market has breaks (for example, the market is sessional, i.e. it works for a specific period of time - a working day, for example, from 10-00 to 17-00 local time), in a method that is really useful models can broadcast recordings of the work of this or any other predetermined financial or stock market on a pre-selected day in the past. At the same time, at the end of a gaming day or after a specified period of time, in a casino using slot machines according to this utility model, it is possible to inform the players for which day and on which financial or stock market the record of changes in quotes was made. In principle, such a situation is possible when exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes are not translated in real time, but in an accelerated or slowed mode using a record of the work of a predetermined financial or stock market on a pre-selected day in the past. Such records can be made in advance on the server 8 during the transfer of real changes in quotes from any news agency and then stored in the database of the server 8, and at the right time to be transmitted via the communication line 6 to the gaming machines 1 connected to the local casino network.

Such an embodiment of the gaming machine according to the present utility model is also possible when software is installed on the gaming server (for example, in a casino or gambling house), which is designed to generate the corresponding gaming website. This website hosts a virtual gaming machine that performs all the functions described above of a real gaming machine 1.

The present description does not disclose the methods and means by which specific financial transactions (accepting bets, winning), as well as the methods and means necessary to identify a specific player. All these methods and tools are not included in the scope of this utility model and can be any known from the prior art, for example, such as described in RF patents No. 2102790 (01.20.1998) and No. 2181066 (04.04.2002) or in EPO applications No. 0673004 (09.20.1995) and No. 1139310 (04.10.2001).

This utility model can be used both in existing real-time and in virtual casinos or gambling houses. To implement this utility model, it is not necessary to develop any special hardware, although it is quite possible to implement a gaming machine according to this utility model in the form of a specialized device. Specialists will be able to immediately apply the principles described here and specific implementations to make the necessary modifications and changes, which, however, will be equivalent to the features indicated in the attached utility model formula.

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1. A slot machine containing a data input means for entering bets from gambling participants on the winning events indicated by them, a memory means for storing each of the entered bets with the identification data of the player who made this bet, a random selection means, characterized in that a communication line has been inserted into it for broadcasting stock and / or over-the-counter quotes to said random selection means, which contains at least a data processing device s, made with the possibility of carrying out, according to a predefined rule, systematic checks of the occurrence of any of the winning events indicated by the players, for which a change in the rate of a particular financial instrument is selected from the number of exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes transmitted over the communication line, while changing according to a given rule of a course of a particular financial instrument, it represents a fluctuation of this rate a specified number of times within specified limits, an increase in this rate by a given amount or a decrease in this rate by a given amount. 2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the data processing device is configured to compare the stored winning events with a change in the rate of a particular financial instrument for a predetermined time, which is a time interval for which m≥1 of said checks are performed, where m is an integer. 3. The gaming machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the random selection means further comprises a display device for displaying exchange rate changes of a particular financial instrument from exchange and / or over-the-counter quotes broadcast over the mentioned communication line, which are broadcast in real time from a specific financial market, while in periods of time when the aforementioned financial market does not work, records of the work of a predetermined financial market in a pre-selected one are used for broadcasting Shade in the past, said broadcasting exchange and / or off-exchange quotation is carried out in an accelerated or decelerated mode. 4. The gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the data processing device is made in the form of a personal computer, and the display device is made in the form of a display of this personal computer. 5. The gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the said data processing device is configured to independently select the player when the game starts. 6. The gaming machine according to claim 1, characterized in that it is made using software installed on the gaming server designed to generate the corresponding gaming website.