Prize redemption kiosk
First Claim
1. A kiosk, comprising:
- a cashless instrument reader configured to determine cashless instrument information from a cashless instrument issued by a wager gaming machine;
an indicator for indicating a plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes to a player;
a mechanism configured to provide a non-cash physical merchandise prize in the plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes; and
a logic system configured to;
determine that the cashless instrument is redeemable at the kiosk for one or more of the non-cash physical merchandise prizes in the plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes based on the cashless instrument information;
determine a cashless instrument monetary value from the cashless instrument information;
determine a non-cash physical merchandise prize monetary value that is greater than the cashless instrument monetary value;
calculate a monetary difference between the non-cash physical merchandise prize monetary value and the cashless instrument monetary value; and
control the indicator to indicate the one or more non-cash physical merchandise prizes.
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Abstract
Some preferred implementations of the invention provide a kiosk that can read a cashless instrument, determine one or more corresponding items of merchandise for which the cashless instrument may be redeemed and provide the corresponding item(s) of merchandise. The cashless instrument may be, for example, an ordinary “cash out” ticket, a ticket formed according to the invention, a player loyalty instrument, etc. Some implementations of the invention provide EGMs configured to issue cashless instruments that may be exchanged for various types of merchandise. The cashless instruments may be, for example, encoded tickets. Some implementations provide EGMs configured for encoding a prize code that indicates a corresponding item of merchandise for which the cashless instrument may be redeemed. However, a cashless instrument may or may not indicate a prize code. If a cashless instrument includes a prize code, the prize code may or may not be indicated in human-readable form.
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39 Claims
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1. A kiosk, comprising:
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a cashless instrument reader configured to determine cashless instrument information from a cashless instrument issued by a wager gaming machine; an indicator for indicating a plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes to a player; a mechanism configured to provide a non-cash physical merchandise prize in the plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes; and a logic system configured to; determine that the cashless instrument is redeemable at the kiosk for one or more of the non-cash physical merchandise prizes in the plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes based on the cashless instrument information; determine a cashless instrument monetary value from the cashless instrument information; determine a non-cash physical merchandise prize monetary value that is greater than the cashless instrument monetary value; calculate a monetary difference between the non-cash physical merchandise prize monetary value and the cashless instrument monetary value; and control the indicator to indicate the one or more non-cash physical merchandise prizes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A kiosk, comprising:
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player loyalty account interface configured to receive player loyalty account information from a player loyalty instrument issued by a wager gaming machine; an indicator for indicating a plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes to a player; a mechanism configured to provide a physical merchandise prize in the plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes; and a logic system configured to; determine a player loyalty point amount that corresponds with the player loyalty account information; determine a non-cash physical merchandise prize player loyalty point value that is greater than the player loyalty point amount; calculate a monetary amount corresponding to the difference between the non-cash physical merchandise player loyalty point value and the player loyalty point amount; determine that one or more player loyalty points in the player loyalty point amount is redeemable at the kiosk for one or more of the non-cash physical merchandise prizes in the plurality of non-cash physical merchandise prizes based on the player loyalty point amount; and control the indicator to indicate the one or more non-cash physical merchandise prizes. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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