Apparent skill games for use with predetermined outcomes

摘要

A gaming system having a game outcome generator separate from a gaming machine, where the gaming machine is operably connected to the game outcome generator and, upon a game play request from a player, generates a request for a game play result. The game outcome generator generates a specific game outcome (won amount if the game play is a winning result, or a no-win, o-value result) and sends it back to the gaming machine. The gaming machine uses the predetermined result to mimic or simulate a skill based game. The skill based game is designed to play just like an actual skill based game, which may result in poor players not getting the game to a state that has an equivalent value as that which is supposed to be awarded (equal to the predetermined game play). Each game includes a final game event, consistent with the game just played, which enables the game to make up any difference between the actual result of the skill based and the predetermined amount. This preserves the look and feel of the skill based game while allowing the game to award the player the total amount of the predetermined award.

主权项

1. A gaming system, comprising:
a network host that determines and transmits a pre-determined payout amount prior to a game play sequence on a gaming machine, wherein the payout amount is mapped to a plurality of end game states selected from a universe of game end states; and a plurality of gaming machines in communication with the network host, wherein each gaming machine is configured to receive the pre-determined payout amount from the network host and to present at least one apparent game of skill and a secondary game regardless of interactions made by a player during the apparent game of skill, the secondary game being independent and separate of the at least one apparent game of skill and having different goals and rules than the at least one apparent game of skill, wherein the gaming system allows a player to interact with the apparent game of skill and wherein a game outcome for the apparent game of skill and a game outcome for the secondary game each correspond to the pre-determined payout amount received from the network host regardless of the interactions made by the player during the apparent game of skill such that a first portion of the pre-determined payout amount is received by the player upon completion of the apparent game of skill and a second portion of the pre-determined payout amount is received by the player upon completion of the secondary game, the first and second portions adding up to the pre-determined payout amount, wherein each gaming machine employs an algorithm to apportion off payout amounts from awards won during the at least one apparent game of skill to reserve a portion of the pre-determined payout amount for the secondary game that must be won by the player in the secondary game.