US 2011/0212766 A1 · CONTROLLING AND REWARDING WAGERING GAME SKILL

Abstract

A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In embodiments, the operations can include presenting a skill-based wagering game on a wagering game machine. The skill-based wagering game can have a limited winnable award amount for the skill-based wagering game. The operations can also include tracking skilled game goals that a player accomplishes during the skill-based wagering game and awarding the player from the limited winnable award amount. The operations can also include determining a surplus amount that was not earned from the limited winnable award amount, and awarding some, or all, of the surplus amount during subsequent activity. In some embodiments, the operations can also include allocating the surplus amount to wagering game pools, distributing the surplus amount as tokens based on triggered activities, and presenting game modifiers that enable players to enhance performance in a skill-based game.

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A method, comprising:

allocating a winnable award used exclusively for payouts on a wagering game network, wherein any portion of the winnable award can be won during at least some portion of a skill-based wagering game;
presenting the skill-based wagering game;
providing one or more skilled game goals for a player account to accomplish during the at least some portion of the skill-based wagering game;
determining a goal completion amount, of the one or more skilled game goals, that the player account accomplishes;
awarding at least some portion of the winnable award amount to the player account based on the goal completion amount, the at least some portion of the winnable award amount totaling a total earned award amount;
determining a surplus amount that was not won by the player from the winnable award amount, the surplus amount representing the total earned award amount subtracted from the winnable award amount;
and
awarding the surplus amount during subsequent activity on the wagering game network.

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One or more machine-readable media having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a set of one or more processors causes the set of one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

presenting a skill-based wagering game on a wagering game machine, the skill-based wagering game having a limited winnable award amount, wherein at least some portion of the limited winnable amount can be won during at least some portion of the skill-based wagering game for skillful performance during the skill-based wagering game;
determining a surplus amount that was not won by a player account from the limited winnable award amount in the skill-based wagering game;
processing subsequent activity on the wagering game machine;
determining a trigger activity that occurs during the subsequent activity;
and
providing at least some portion of the surplus amount based on the trigger activity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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