Game with a user alterable prize distribution
AssigneeMultimedia Games, Inc.
InventorsClifton E. Lind, Jefferson Craig Lind, Brian Alexander Watkins
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Abstract
A game, system, apparatus, and method are disclosed with an updatable prize result structure. The result structure having several first level result identifiers and an additional second level result. First level results are each associated with an expected number of plays per game. As with each first result level, the additional second result levels are each associated with a respective number of results per given number of plays. In contrast to first level results, the second level results correlate to a player or operator assigned value which may be modified during game play to change results provided in subsequent games.
Claims20
A game including
- a set of possible game outcomes stored in a memory, each of the possible game outcomes including an associated prize and an occurrence probability;
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- upon a play request, a processor configured to determine one of the game outcomes and award the associated prize;
- the game being definable by a prize distribution corresponding to a mapping of each of the associated prizes and the respective occurrence probabilities;
- subsequent to one or more plays of the game by a player, the prize distribution being modifiable with a user interface by changing the associated prize of at least one of the possible game outcomes.
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