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WO2002021369A1
WO2002021369A1 PCT/US2001/026011 US0126011W WO0221369A1 WO 2002021369 A1 WO2002021369 A1 WO 2002021369A1 US 0126011 W US0126011 W US 0126011W WO 0221369 A1 WO0221369 A1 WO 0221369A1
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Priority to AU2001288321A priority patent/AU2001288321A1/en
Priority to MXPA03002003A priority patent/MXPA03002003A/es
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q30/00—Commerce
    • G06Q30/02—Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
    • 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
    • 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

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  • the following invention relates generally to a gaming device in which players wager in order to win money and provide entertainment. More specifically, the instant invention standardizes preferably all gaming machines on the floor of a gaming establishment such as a casino such that payouts occur with a coin, token or the like having only one value.
  • a typical gaming establishment has a very large number of gaming devices known as slot machines on its floor. Some of the larger casinos have gaming machines numbering in the thousands. Each gaming machine includes a hopper filled with coins to provide payouts to players upon cessation of play and also when a large jackpot is won. The industry has experienced great difficulty refilling the machines.
  • Penny slot machines heretofore were found only in museums are making a come back with multi-coin, multi-decision games. Especially with the new penny slot machines, wagers in the order to hundreds of coins are made per play of machine. Machines which receive and payout nickels, quarters and dollars are the industry norm. Machines which receive and payout dimes and half dollars, while relatively rare, also exist.
  • the logistics in providing coins of each denomination in each hopper of each machine and also in reserve to replenish hoppers on demand, requires both a considerable inventory of coins and more than a modicum of skill in making sure that adequate reserves exist.
  • the instant invention addresses the foregoing enunciated problems as well as others which are more subtle by providing gaming machines with coins or tokens to be used in the hopper for payouts which is a whole number multiple of the minimum wager.
  • the hopper according to this example would also need replenishment rather soon. Instead, the instant invention would pay the player upon demand the requested payout in a coin or token having a different magnitude than the input. Assume that the hopper has been stocked with dollar coins rather than nickels. Using this example, the hopper would dispense six one dollar coins leaving a credit balance of five credits, totaling twenty-five cents. At this point, a gaming proposition is offered the player. The premise of the betting proposition is that the player is to now wager the surplus (i.e., twenty-five cents) in the hope of winning seventy-five cents more, thereby totaling one dollar. In a preferred form of the invention, the game offered is a "zero sum game".
  • the player is wagering the twenty-five cents and the player either loses the twenty-five cents or receives another dollar.
  • the player's expectation is preferably exactly equal to the wager.
  • a random game with twenty possible outcomes would yield five win places any one of which yields a dollar and fifteen loss places where the player loses the twenty-five cent wager.
  • the outcome of the game is weighted mathematically so that the player has five wirtning chances and fifteen losing chances which corresponds to the betting increment that the player started with, namely a nickel.
  • the gaming device includes a display which is a video monitor or includes a video monitor
  • the screen would provide visual prompts to the player showing visually the player's twenty-five percent chance of winning.
  • this weighting could be a pie shaped bonus wheel having sectors nominated as winning sectors reflective of the surplus credits that the player enjoys along with sectors where the player will lose.
  • An indicator would simulate rotation over the various sectors like a roulette wheel.
  • a random number generator correlating the twenty-five percent odds delivers an outcome, preferably by illuminating one sector reflecting the results of the player's wager.
  • bonus indicia could exist. For example, the player would be given a choice of one of four boxes (or five of twenty boxes). The player selects a box via a video touch screen. Where four boxes are shown, in this example one box provides the bonus. Where twenty boxes are shown, five would provide the winning outcome.
  • the player is given the option of continuing to wager the twenty-five cents to round that twenty- five cents off to a nominated currency in the present example, a one dollar coin or token for a final cash out.
  • the player could be issued a printed voucher from a ticket printer on the machine to redeem the twenty-five cents. In this way, the coin stocking requirements for the casino will have been minimized.
  • hoppers there could be two or more hoppers in the game, each with large tokens. For example, a game could have $1. and $25. "coins”. If a player cashes out $105.30, the player gets four tokens worth $25. each and 5 units at $1. each and therefore plays for
  • the game may accept multiple coin denominations.
  • a nickel game that dispenses dollars should best accept both nickels and dollars, or just dollars, or just nickels. Only the dispensed coins would be diverted back to the hoppers. Others received as the wager would go straight to the drop box.
  • a gaming device comprising, in combination: wagering receiving means posted as credits, means for incrementing/decrementing the credits as a function of game play, payout means to dispense credits from the machine in a nominated denomination, and round off chance means to enable the payout means to either dispense additional credits in the nominated denomination or to retain surplus credits
  • (S) which when aggregated are less than the nominated denomination.
  • Figure 1 is a flow chart according to the present invention.
  • Figure 2 is a gaming machine according to the present invention.
  • Figure 3 is a visual depiction of the bonus preferably presented to the player upon cashing out when there is surplus credits.
  • reference numeral 10 as shown in figure 2 is directed to the device according to the present invention.
  • the apparatus 10 includes a housing 16 which supports a visual display 2, preferably a video monitor, therewithin.
  • the device may use a mechanical reel system.
  • the display 2 may include a window 8 for special messages or for incrementing counting of credits accumulated by the player.
  • the window 8 can be used to describe the initiation of the feature of the present invention, or describe the particular rule set for the bonus delineated infra.
  • the device also includes an LED readout 4 for prompting the player and can provide similar verbiage as the window 8 or in lieu thereof, to stimulate the player.
  • the device includes an inlet 6 for the reception therein for coins, currency or the like to auger in the inception of play.
  • a plurality of decision-making buttons 12 are located on the face of the apparatus 10, preferable below the display 2 and a pull handle 14 can be used to initiate play as an alternative to supplement the decision-making buttons 12.
  • a coin tray 18 may be included to effectuate an output of an award due the player from a coin hopper.
  • a plurality of hoppers, H ⁇ , H 2 . . . H N are shown. Each hopper preferably dispenses (and receives) different denomination coins or tokens script or currency, e.g. quarters, dollar, twenty, etc.
  • the apparatus 10 may have a top portion 32 with a display thereon having a motif correlative with the game to be played and can include a paytable.
  • a plurality of speakers 34 may be included on the device for aural interaction with the player.
  • the apparatus also includes a processor P coordinating all functions and a random number generator G operatively coupled thereto for generating outcomes.
  • the random game could be purely mechanical and not have a computer random number generator.
  • a voucher printer 7 may be integrated into the system to facilitate payouts as described infra.
  • the player plays a gaming device according to a conventional protocol.
  • the processor calculates the number of tokens necessary for a payout by dividing a predetermined denomination into the number of credits due, resulting in a number. For example, if the predetermined denomination is one dollar and the base unit or elemental credit posted is a nickel and if the number of credits posted is twenty, one nominated denomination or one dollar is paid directly as shown in figure 1. However, if the remainder came to one hundred and seven credits which equals one dollar and thirty- five cents, the one dollar would be paid forthwith and the number of base units or surplus credits S would equal thirty-five cents.
  • a zero sum game then is initiated to show the player the gaming proposition. If the player loses, the thirty-five cents is forfeit. As mentioned infra, it is preferred that the zero sum game is comparable to that which is shown in figure 3.
  • a wheel is depicted with a spin enabling feature and the wheel is segmented into pie shaped sectors in which the thirty-five cent remainder on a nickel game and nominated denomination is one dollar. Thus, there are seven win possibilities and thirteen losing possibilities.
  • the random number generator once the spin command has been given, will reveal an outcome as reflected by the pointer at the top of the wheel. If the player wins, one more dollar inures to the player's benefit.
  • the player can receive a voucher for the amount due from a voucher dispenser/printer 7.
  • the player may elect to "play off” the surplus in the normal game or, the casino may elect to "hand pay" the surplus.
  • the instant invention is compatible with games in which wagers made during the course of regular play can be increased.
  • a poker game can receive a "maximum" wager to modify the paytable.
  • Another example includes payouts in one of several mundane denominations. The player may even be empowered to nominate the payout denomination.
  • the device could be embodied as an accessory, mounted on the machine and operatively coupled thereto.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé et un appareil (10) permettant de rationaliser le stock de monnaie sous forme de pièces qu'un casino doit stocker dans ses multiples machines à sous. Chaque machine comprenant un crédit d'unités de base reçoit des jetons ou des valeurs nominatives de valeur supérieure dans une trémie de paiement (H). Lorsque le jeu cesse, un processeur (P) divise les gains dus par la valeur nominative prédéterminée, ce qui produit un nombre. L'entier du nombre total est payé sous forme de jetons ou de pièces dans la trémie (H), et le reste est soumis à une proposition de jeu permettant au joueur de recevoir un autre jeton dans la valeur nominative prédéterminée ou de perdre les gains restant remis en jeu dans le nouveau jeu à bonus.
PCT/US2001/026011 2000-09-06 2001-09-06 Valeur arrondie de bonus de dispositif a sous Ceased WO2002021369A1 (fr)

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JP2002525504A JP2004508117A (ja) 2000-09-06 2001-09-06 端数丸めボーナスを出すゲーム装置
EP01968043A EP1327218A1 (fr) 2000-09-06 2001-09-06 Valeur arrondie de bonus de dispositif a sous
AU2001288321A AU2001288321A1 (en) 2000-09-06 2001-09-06 Gaming device round off bonus
MXPA03002003A MXPA03002003A (es) 2000-09-06 2001-09-06 Sistema para redondeo de bonificaciones para dispositivos de juego.

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US9293005B2 (en) 2013-08-07 2016-03-22 Igt Gaming system and method providing a plurality of different player-selectable wager alternatives when a credit balance is less than a designated wager amount and greater than or equal to a lowest eligible credit balance
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US10916091B2 (en) 2013-08-07 2021-02-09 Igt Gaming system and method providing a plurality of different player-selectable wager alternatives when a credit balance is less than a designated wager amount and greater than or equal to a lowest eligible credit balance

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