Patent EA-000233-B1 (EA)
Title: Method of a wagering game (options) and apparatus for its implementation
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 1998-08-13
Abstract: 1. A wagering game method which comprises forming a wagering field of N>2 informative elements by means of generation of a set of N non-repeating informative codes in computer memory, propagation through communication lines among game participants signals carrying information about the wagering field elements, selection by every game participant one of the wagering field elements as a wager, forwarding through feedback communication lines signals, which identify the game participants and carry information about the wagers, identification and registration of the signals received through the feedback communication lines, forming wagers payment data, wagers drawing within playing-rounds which differs in that the signals carrying wager information are being registered as a sequence of signals in the order of signals arrival through the feedback communication lines, said sequence has been kept hidden from game participants until the playing-round is completed, and the wagers drawing is carried out by means of an iterative-analytical process of forming a quantitative wagers distribution among the wagering field elements, said process has been kept hidden from game participants until the playing-round is completed, and within every iteration of the said process a regular signal of the registered signals sequence is being correlated with the informative code of the wagering field element selected as the wager by the game participant, the number of signals correlated with the informative code of every wagering field element within the current playing-round is being determined, observation of wagers drawing end condition is being checked, and the wagers drawing is completed as soon as the said condition is observed, and in that case in the presence of registered wager information signals not worked up by the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process before the completion of the current playing-round said signals are worked up by the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process within one of the next rounds. 2. The method of Claim 1 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the N-th iteration, the informative codes, with which no signal has been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process is completed with processing the signal containing information about a wager corresponding to the only wagering field element, with whose informative code no signal has been correlated by the iterative-analytical process within the current playing-round before processing this signal. 3. The method of Claim 1 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the (2N-1)-th iteration, the informative codes, with which only one signal has been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process is completed in the presence of only one said informative code and in the absence of informative codes, with which no signal has been correlated within the current playing-round. 4. The method of Claim 1 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the 2N-th iteration, the informative codes, with which the minimum and the maximum numbers of signals have been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process is completed in the presence of only one informative code, with which the minimum number of signals has been correlated within the current playing-round, of only one informative code, with which the maximum number of signals has been correlated within the current playing-round, and with the absence of informative codes, with which no signal has been correlated within the current playing-round. 5. A wagering game method which comprises forming a wagering field of N>2 non-repeating informative elements, propagation among the game participants playing-coupons, which contain information about the wagering field informative elements contents, entering identification data onto the coupons, marking one of the wagering field informative elements by every player as a wager selected, return of the coupons with the said wager marks on them for the wagers drawing, registration of the returned coupons with the wager marks on them and the wagers drawing within playing-rounds, which differs in that the coupons with the wager marks on them are being registered as a sequence of coupons in the order of their return arrival, said sequence has been kept hidden from game participants until the playing-round is completed, and the wagers drawing is carried out by means of an iterative-analytical process of forming a quantitative wagers distribution among the wagering field elements, said process has been kept hidden from game participants until the playing-round is completed, and within every iteration of the said process a regular coupon of the registered coupons sequence is being correlated with the wagering field informative element selected as the wager by the game participant, the number of coupons correlated with every informative element of the wagering field within the current playing-round is being determined, observation of wagers drawing end condition is being checked, and the wagers drawing is completed as soon as the said condition is observed, and in that case in the presence of registered coupons carrying wager marks and not worked up by the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process before the completion of the current playing-round those coupons are worked up by the iterative-analytical wagers drawing process within one of the next rounds. 6. The method of Claim 5 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the N-th iteration, the wagering field elements, with which no coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the wagers drawing is completed with iterative-analytical processing the coupon containing a wager mark corresponding to the only wagering field element, with which no coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round before processing this coupon. 7. The method of Claim 5 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the (2N-1)th iteration, the wagering field elements, with which only one coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the wagers drawing is completed in the presence of only one said element and in the absence of wagering field elements, with which no coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round. 8. The method of Claim 5 which differs in that within every iteration of the wagers drawing process, starting with the 2N-th iteration, the wagering field elements, with which the minimum and the maximum numbers of coupons have been correlated within the current playing-round, are being discovered, and the wagers drawing is completed in the presence of only one element, with which the minimum number of coupons has been correlated within the current playing-round, of only one element, with which the maximum number of coupons has been correlated within the current playing-round, and with the absence of wagering field elements, with which no coupon has been correlated within the current playing-round. 9.The method of Claims 1-8 which differs in that on request of a game participant he is presented to accumulated information about current quantitative wagers distribution among the wagering field elements relating to unfinished playing round and said information is presented to him in exchange for a wager, which is placed without his participation and is processed by the wagers drawing process out of turn. 10. The method of Claims 1-8 which differs in that on request of a game participant, before the completion of a playing round, signals or coupons with wager information, received from said game participant, are being withdrawn from the wagers drawing process in the order, which is opposite to the order of their registration. 11. A wagering game apparatus for implementation of the method of Claim 1 comprising a wagering field forming unit (1), via the data propagation unit (2) connected with one of processor (3) inputs, whose informational output is connected with consecutively linked up a recognition and identification unit (4), a wagers payment unit (5), a wagers registration unit (6), a controller (7), a playing-logic unit (8), and a report unit (9), a playing-round counter (10), connected to the second input of the wagers registration unit (6) and to the second output of the controller (7), the second input of said controller coupled to the forming unit (1) output, a long-term memory unit (14) interconnected with the recognition and identification unit (4) and with the wager payment unit (5), a timer (17), connected with the controller (7), with the recognition and identification unit (4), with the wagers payment unit (5) and with the report unit (9), which differs in that it includes a wagers distribution processor(11), interconnected with the controller(7), a wagers registration confirmation unit (12), coupled to an input of the processor (3) and to the second output of the wagers registration unit(6), payment registration (15) and results review (16) units, interconnected with the long-term memory unit (14) and with the processor (3), both also coupled to corresponding outputs of the recognition and identification unit (4), at that the outputs of the report unit (9) and of the wagers registration confirmation unit (12) coupled to corresponding inputs of the long-term memory unit (14). 12. The apparatus of Claim 11, which differs in that it includes a wagers generator (13) interconnected with the recognition and identification unit (4) and coupled to the output of the wagering field forming unit (1).