System and method for substantially reducing chance from a mixed contest of luck and skill

• US 9,975,041 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2013
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert G. Gingher
• Original Assignee: Robert G. Gingher
• Inventors: Gingher, Robert G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Laneau, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US14/045,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20140100011A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,692 Days
• Field of Search: 463 16- 25
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3232 wherein the operator is informed
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3295 Games involving skill, e.g. dexterity, memory, thinking

Abstract

The system and methods of the present application comprise one or more computers for substantially removing the element of chance in a contest that would normally be on whose outcome would be determined by a mixture of chance and skill. The system comprises one or more computers that interact with a user in order to reduce or eliminate the elements of chance, thereby forcing the contest to obey the law of averages within a finite number of iterations of the contest, thereby reducing variance and increasing the success of skillful players.

Claims

1. A computer system for supervising an online contest between two or more players playing the contest on the computer system, comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

software stored on a non-transitory, computer-readable medium which, when loaded into the memory and run by the processor, causes the processor to perform steps of;

providing the players with first elements to play a first round in the contest, wherein the players each take a turn to score points in each round in the contest using elements provided, including the first elements;

maintaining, in the memory of the computer system, a record of a maximum number of points that each player could possibly score in the first round based on possible plays of the first elements;

determining second elements to provide the players in a second round in the contest, wherein the second elements are non-randomly created such that each player of the contest has a possibility to score a same total number of points from a sum of points scored by the player in the first round and the second round; and

providing the players with the second elements to play a second round.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the computer system accounts for an order of play of a turn of each player when determining the second elements, and provides the players with the second elements to play the second round at a beginning of the turn of each player.

3. The computer system of claim 2, wherein the first elements are provided by the computer system by pseudo randomized mixing and dealing of the first elements from a plurality of elements having a finite number of elements.

4. The computer system of claim 3, wherein each of the elements provided has a point value used to determine the points scored by each player.

5. The computer system of claim 4, wherein each player creates an ordered arrangement of elements to score points in the turn of each player, wherein the determining comprises considering possible ordered arrangements of elements to determine the possibility to score a same total number of points.