Multiplayer slot machine gaming

摘要

Slot Machine Arena provides computerized method and system for managing slot machine gaming sessions, including: adding a plurality of mutually competing players to a multiplayer session wherein a plurality of players play against one another, each added by a module of a hosting client terminal; receiving from each player a bet; calculating an outcome of the gaming session; instructing an outcome rendering on a respective display of each hosting client terminal; and crediting at least one player and debiting at least another player according to the outcome. Other aspects of these embodiments relate to a computer readable medium of computer executable instructions adapted to perform the method; and to a client terminal, interfaced with the gaming system wherein the terminal includes secure wireless communications with the server.

主权项

1. A method of managing a slot machine gaming session, comprising:
setting a multiplayer slot machine gaming session wherein at least three players play against one another on respective slot machines having separate displays, each said player is added by a different slot machine module loaded in respective slot machines, and each player is allowed to select an arrangement of reels of their respective slot machine wherein at least two of the slot machines respectively include:
at least one public reel in which identical symbols are always assigned to all slot machines having the public reel, andat least one private reel in which the symbols are assigned independently of other reels of the same slot machine and the reels of the other slot machines; causing a plurality of randomly selected symbols to be rendered for each player on a display of each player's respective slot machine, wherein the symbols are assigned to the reels of a respective player's slot machine from multiple possible symbols; receiving from each said player at least one betting action pertaining to an outcome of said player's multiplayer slot machine gaming session; calculating said outcome using a processor wherein the player with the highest score wins, and a score for each player is based on a combination of the symbols in the player's private reels and, for those players having public reels in their slot machines, the symbols in the public reels; and crediting at least one of said plurality of players and debiting at least another of said plurality of players according to said outcome.