WO2005048164A1 - Appareil de jeux de hasard - Google Patents

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WO2005048164A1
WO2005048164A1 PCT/AU2004/001561 AU2004001561W WO2005048164A1 WO 2005048164 A1 WO2005048164 A1 WO 2005048164A1 AU 2004001561 W AU2004001561 W AU 2004001561W WO 2005048164 A1 WO2005048164 A1 WO 2005048164A1
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Jason Meyer
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Ainsworth Game Technology Limited
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Publication of WO2005048164A1 publication Critical patent/WO2005048164A1/fr

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3244—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements

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  • This invention relates to gaming machines, and more particularly to a method for determining the winnings paid to the player of a gaming machine upon the occurrence of a predetermined event.
  • the invention has been developed primarily for computerized gaming machines and will be described herein with reference to this application. However, the invention is not limited to that particular field of use and may be suitable in many other gaming applications, such as gaming facilitated by the internet.
  • Gaming machines have long been known and are now one of the most common forms of gambling. Usually gaming machines will simulate a well known game of chance. One of the oldest and best known forms of gaming machine is the rotating reel type "poker machine”.
  • Traditional poker machines use a series of three, four or five reels, each reel having symbols on its peripheral edge. The reels are rotated upon placing a bet and then stopped to produce an arrangement of randomly selected reels. Winnings are paid if the random arrangement of symbols matches one of the predetermined winning combinations.
  • Gaming machines can "pay winnings” in a variety of ways. These include dispensing money, dispensing tokens that can be redeemed for money, and adding credits to a credit meter that can be used for placing bets or redeemed for money. The winnings may even entail awarding the player one or more "free games” whereby the machine operates without the player needing to place a bet. Therefore, throughout the specification, the use of terminology such as “winnings are paid”, “pay winnings” and so on will be a reference to awarding the player some type of benefit or desirable outcome. More recently, these gaming machines have been computerised with a video screen replacing the physically rotating reels. Typically, the display screen presents an array of symbols in five columns and three rows equating to the symbols that would normally be seen on the five reels of an old style mechanical machine.
  • a first aspect of the present invention provides a method of awarding a payout to a player of a gaming machine upon the occurrence of a pre-defined winning combinations or event, wherein multiplying a non-integer pay value for a winning combination or event by any offered bet amount per game results in an integer payout value.
  • the gaming machine has a "dynamic" game pay table.
  • the actual payout values for predefined winning combinations or events are displayed on a screen and the displayed payout values vary depending upon the amount bet per game.
  • a pay value for a winning combination or event is expressible as a quotient in the form p/q, where: (a) "p" and “q” are integers, (b) "q” is greater than 1 and (c) p/q is in simplest form (i.e. an irreducible fraction). where "q” is a value which is a divisor of every pre-defined bet per game amount.
  • a second aspect of the present invention provides a gaming machine configured to award a payout to a player of the gaming machine upon the occurrence of pre-defined winning combinations or events, wherein multiplying a non-integer pay value for a winning combination or event by any offered bet amount per game results in an integer payout value.
  • the gaming machine has a "dynamic" game pay table.
  • the actual payout values for predefined winning combinations or events are displayed on a screen and the displayed payout values vary depending upon the amount bet per game.
  • a pay value for a winning combination or event is expressible as a quotient in the form p/q, where: (a) "p" and “q” are integers, (b) "q” is greater than 1 and (c) p/q is in simplest form (i.e. an irreducible fraction). where "q” is a value which is a divisor of every pre-defined bet per game amount.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a stand-alone gaming machine of the type suitable for the present invention.
  • the gaming machine 1 has a video display screen 2 and control console 3.
  • the control console 3 includes coin slot 5 for inserting coins or tokens, a bank note slot 6, and a coin collection tray 7 for redeeming any winnings or unused coins or tokens.
  • the console 3 also includes control buttons 4 for the player to select the number of paylines on which to bet, and, the number of credits they wish to bet on each payline.
  • the invention has particular application to gaming machines which have a
  • dynamic game pay table that is, the actual payout values for predefined winning combinations or events are displayed on a screen, such as the video display screen 2, and the displayed payout values vary depending upon the amount bet per game (i.e. the BET VALUE).
  • a pay value for a winning combination or event must be expressible as a quotient in the form p/q, where: (a) "p" and “q” are integers, (b) "q” is greater than 1 and (c) p/q is in simplest form.
  • "q” is defined herein as the "Proportional Game Number” and this value must be a divisor of every pre-defined bet per game amount.
  • An integer x is a divisor of the integer z if there exists another integer y such that x multiplied by y equals z.
  • the total number of credits bet per game multiplies all pay values to give the payout values for the various winning combinations.
  • the pre-defined bet values offered to the player are as follows: Bet Button 1: Bet 20 credits per game. Bet Button 2: Bet 40 credits per game. Bet Button 3: Bet 100 credits per game. Bet Button 4: Bet 200 credits per game. Bet Button 5: Bet 500 credits per game.
  • 5 is a divisor of all possible bet values including 20, 40, 100, 200 and 500 as required.
  • the pay value i.e. 2.25
  • 4 is a divisor of all possible bet values including 20, 40, 100, 200 and 500 as required.
  • the methodology of the present invention enables the game designer to configure the frequency of wins awarded to a player to a level that the market finds acceptable. Additionally, any symbol that forms part of a winning combination can occur anywhere on a given reel and is not dependent upon lines. At the same time winning combinations of symbols on reels can be limited to alignments such as left to right, right to left, any, adjacent, a combinations of these or decided in any other systematic way that a game designer decides.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne des appareils de jeux de hasard et, plus spécifiquement, un procédé de détermination des gains payés au joueur d'un appareil de jeux de hasard, suite à l'occurence d'un événement prédéterminé. Un premier aspect de cette invention a trait à un procédé d'octroi d'un remboursement à un joueur d'un appareil de jeux de hasard, suite à l'occurrence d'un événement ou d'une combinaison de gains prédéfinie, la multiplication d'une valeur à payer non entière pour un événement ou une combinaison de gains par une quantité pariée offerte par jeu débouchant sur une valeur de remboursement entière. Un second aspect de ladite invention a pour objet une machine de jeux de hasard conçue pour accorder un remboursement à un joueur de ladite machine, suite à l'occurrence d'événements ou de combinaisons de gains prédéfinies, la multiplication d'une valeur à payer non entière pour un événement ou une combinaison de gains par une quantité pariée offerte par jeu débouchant sur une valeur de remboursement entière.
PCT/AU2004/001561 2003-11-13 2004-11-11 Appareil de jeux de hasard WO2005048164A1 (fr)

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US10817851B2 (en) 2009-12-23 2020-10-27 Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited System and method for cashless gaming
US11482076B2 (en) 2020-03-04 2022-10-25 Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited Gaming device with dynamically awardable prizes based on collective position state of symbols

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US5456465A (en) * 1994-05-20 1995-10-10 Wms Gaming Inc. Method for determining payoffs in reel-type slot machines
WO2002036221A1 (fr) * 2000-11-04 2002-05-10 Sergey Kirillovich Maksimov Procede d'organisation d'un jeu interactif (et variantes) et dispositif de mise en oeuvre correspondant
US6569016B1 (en) * 2000-10-04 2003-05-27 Igt Gaming device having a method for randomly generating a bonus round outcome
WO2003049052A1 (fr) * 2001-12-03 2003-06-12 Novomatic Ag Appareil de jeu electronique et procede de calcul des gains

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5456465A (en) * 1994-05-20 1995-10-10 Wms Gaming Inc. Method for determining payoffs in reel-type slot machines
US6569016B1 (en) * 2000-10-04 2003-05-27 Igt Gaming device having a method for randomly generating a bonus round outcome
WO2002036221A1 (fr) * 2000-11-04 2002-05-10 Sergey Kirillovich Maksimov Procede d'organisation d'un jeu interactif (et variantes) et dispositif de mise en oeuvre correspondant
WO2003049052A1 (fr) * 2001-12-03 2003-06-12 Novomatic Ag Appareil de jeu electronique et procede de calcul des gains

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US10817851B2 (en) 2009-12-23 2020-10-27 Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited System and method for cashless gaming
US11392905B2 (en) 2009-12-23 2022-07-19 Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited System and method for cashless gaming
US11482076B2 (en) 2020-03-04 2022-10-25 Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited Gaming device with dynamically awardable prizes based on collective position state of symbols

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