# US 12,223,796 B2 · Electronic gaming machine for playing a wagering dice game > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,223,796 B2 - Document ID: US12223796B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/462,344 - Filed: 2021-08-31 - Published: 2022-09-01 - Granted: 2025-02-11 - Earliest claimed: 2021-02-26 - Assignees: Zuum Limited - Applicants: Zuum Limited - Inventors: Blaž Vrabec; Mitja Kolman - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12223796B2 ## CPC - G07F 17/3211: {Display means} - G07F 17/3216: {Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects} - G07F 17/3288: {Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking} - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) ## Abstract An electronic gaming machine for playing a wagering dice game. A player terminal of the electronic gaming machine has a display device having three display areas. The first display area displays a plurality of user-selectable wagering options associated with the wagering dice game. The second display area displays a first plurality of colored die images, each die image displaying a predicted die outcome. The third display area displays a second plurality of colored die images, each die image displaying an actual die outcome. If the predicted die outcomes displayed on the first plurality of colored die images at least partially match the actual die outcomes displayed on the second plurality of respectively colored die images, a user wins a reward in a bonus game. The reward enables the user to repeat eligible user-placed wagers in a bonus round of the wagering game, without requiring user funding for the repeated wagers. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic gaming machine comprising: a display device; a computer processor; and a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the computer processer, cause the computer processor to: display, in a first display area of the display device, a plurality of wagering options in a wagering game; receive an input from a user corresponding to user-selected wagers placed on one or more of the plurality of wagering options; display, in a second area of the display device, a first plurality of differently colored die images depicting a plurality of predicted die outcomes; obtain actual die outcomes from a mechanical die outcome generator, a software-based die outcome generator, or a combination thereof; display, in a third area of the display device, a second plurality of differently colored die images depicting the actual die outcomes, wherein colors of second plurality of die images correspond to the colors of the first plurality of die images; and responsive to a first predefined quantity of like-colored die images of the first plurality and the second plurality of die images depicting identical die outcomes, display a first notification on the display device notifying the user that the user won a first reward. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic gaming machine of claim 1, wherein responsive to a second predefined quantity of like-colored die images of the of the first plurality and the second plurality of die images depicting identical die outcomes, and one of the first plurality of die images displaying identical die outcome as a differently-colored die image of the second plurality of die images, a second notification is displayed on the display device notifying the user that the user won a second reward. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The electronic gaming machine of claim 2, wherein responsive to the user winning the first reward or the second reward, at least some of the user-selected wagers are repeated for a bonus round of the wagering game, wherein repeated wagers are non-user funded. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The electronic gaming machine of claim 3, wherein the user is presented with an option to resolve the bonus round of the wagering game based on an outcome of the software-based die outcome generator rather than an outcome of a physical dice roll in the mechanical die outcome generator. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The electronic gaming machine of claim 3, wherein a monetary amount associated with the at least one of the user-selected wagers is automatically multiplied in the bonus round of the wagering game, wherein the monetary amount is multiplied by a first coefficient responsive to the user winning the first reward, or wherein the monetary amount is multiplied by a second coefficient, lower than the first coefficient, responsive to the user winning the second reward. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The electronic gaming machine of claim 3, wherein at least one of the user-selected wagers is excluded from the repeated wagers in the bonus round of the wagering game. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The electronic gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the actual die outcomes are provided by three physical dice. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The electronic gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the user-selected wagers must satisfy a predetermined condition as a prerequisite for eligibility to win the first reward. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The electronic gaming machine of claim 8, wherein the plurality of wagering options comprises qualifying and non-qualifying wagering options, and wherein the predetermined condition requires the user to select one or more qualifying wagering options to gain eligibility to win the first reward. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The electronic gaming machine of claim 8, wherein the predetermined condition requires the user-selected wagers to have an associated monetary or credit value exceeding a predefined threshold. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The electronic gaming machine of claim 8, wherein an indicator is displayed on the display device, conveying to the user whether the user-selected wagers satisfy the predetermined condition. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The electronic gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the user must elect a reduced payout for the user-selected wagers in the wagering game as a prerequisite for eligibility to win the first reward. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The electronic gaming machine of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of the predicted die outcomes is machine-selected rather than user-selected. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The electronic gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the wagering game is Sic Bo or a variant thereof. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The electronic gaming machine of claim 1, further comprising a credit input mechanism configured to interact with a physical item associated with a monetary value to establish a credit balance for the user to fund the user-selected wagers. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The electronic gaming machine of claim 15, further comprising a cash-out mechanism configured to enable a withdrawal from the credit balance. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The electronic gaming machine of claim 1, wherein responsive to the user winning the first reward, the user is presented with an option to place an additional user-funded wager in a bonus round, wherein responsive to the user placing the additional user-funded wager, at least some of the user-selected wagers are repeated for the bonus round of the wagering game, wherein repeated wagers are non-user funded. ### Claim 18 A computer-implement method for playing a wagering game, comprising the steps of: displaying, in a first display area of a display device, a plurality of wagering options in a wagering game; receiving an input from a user corresponding to user-selected wagers placed on one or more of the plurality of wagering options; displaying, in a second area of the display device, a first plurality of differently colored die images depicting a plurality of predicted die outcomes; obtaining actual die outcomes from a mechanical die outcome generator, a software-based die outcome generator, or a combination thereof; displaying, in a third area of the display device, a second plurality of differently colored die images depicting the actual die outcomes, wherein colors of second plurality of die images correspond to the colors of the first plurality of die images; and responsive to a first predefined quantity of like-colored die images of the first plurality and the second plurality of die images depicting identical die outcomes, displaying a first notification on the display device notifying the user that the user won a first reward. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, wherein responsive to a second predefined quantity of like-colored die images of the of the first plurality and the second plurality of die images depicting identical die outcomes, and one of the first plurality of die images displaying identical die outcome as a differently-colored die image of the second plurality of die images, displaying a second notification on the display device notifying the user that the user won a second reward.