Embodiments provide systems, apparatus, and methods for rendering supplemental information on an electronic gaming device, where the supplemental information does not relate to game play on the machine. The supplemental information can include safety warnings, maintenance information, or other information. The electronic gaming device can detect user interactions with the electronic gaming device, such as using sensors or a player interface that includes a touchscreen. The user interactions can be compared with a condition associated with the supplemental information. Feedback, such as visual, audio, or haptic feedback, or a combination thereof, can be provided to indicate to the user whether the condition is satisfied. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.

To bring the excitement to the people (majority, who are not experts in games), we present the examples, described here, for one person to be able to bet on and be part of the deal and excitement for a third party, as his agent, proxy, or shadow, to bet for him, or instead of him, or as if the first person was doing the game directly, or one betting for another, or one playing for another with the other person's money. That generates more excitement on the game or casino, with more participation, transactions, income, profit, loyalty, and repeat customers. This brings a lot of variations on the game, e.g., stock market model, or derivatives model, or hedge model. This can be applied to sports and table games or fantasy sports. This can be applied to online, real, mobile, fantasy, simulation, computer generated, human based, or casino games or settings.

A system and method for conducting pari-mutuel betting on the performance of financial instruments as a betting pool type. The system and method execute an electronic or online betting experience where the “participants” in a race are a number of similar financial instruments such as individual stocks, cryptocurrency or regular currency pairs, commodities, or indices, etc. The system and method can be employed using any group of financial instruments, or items, that have a price or index or some other metric that fluctuates over time.

A method of playing a card game between a dealer and a player includes dealing first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth cards to the player. Second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth card are dealt to the dealer. A determination is made whether the first or second card has a higher value for a first point, whether the third or the fourth card has a higher value for a second point, whether the first, third and fifth combination of cards or the second, fourth and sixth combination of cards has a higher three-card stud poker hand for a third point, whether the seventh or eighth card has a higher value for a fourth point, and whether the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth combination of cards or the second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth combination of cards has a higher five-card stud poker hand for a fifth point.

A gaming machine identifies a first pattern within a first play area including a plurality of first positions arranged in a plurality of first columns, determines whether the first pattern satisfies a predetermined first threshold based on a first position and a first symbol, identifies a second position associated with the first symbol in a second play area including a plurality of second positions arranged in a plurality of second columns, and associates the second position with a second symbol. Each first position is associated with a respective symbol of a plurality of symbols including the first symbol and the second symbol. The first pattern is associated with the first position. The first position is associated with the first symbol. Each second position is associated with a respective symbol of the plurality of symbols.

The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium for controlling game states. The method includes: in response to that a game is in a preset prop operating state, obtaining a video stream of a game region, wherein the game region comprises a placement region for placing one or more game items; determining whether a game item is present in the placement region by performing detection on the video stream; in response to that the game item is present in the placement region, determining a state of the game item based on the video stream; and in response to that the game item is in a preset stable state, switching the game to an item operating state.

An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller that executes instructions that cause the game controller to at least: (i) display, on a display, a plurality of reels, each reel of the plurality of reels comprising a plurality of symbols, each symbol representing a puzzle piece including a plurality of connectors; (ii) simulate spinning and stopping each reel of the first plurality of reels, whereby symbols from each reel of the first plurality of reels are stopped and displayed; (iii) evaluate the plurality of symbols displayed on of the plurality of reels; (iv) determine, in response to the evaluating, which of the displayed symbols match with adjacent symbols, wherein matching an adjacent symbol includes interconnecting between adjacent connectors on adjacent symbols; and (v) provide a game award in response to the determining.

A card image for a first special card or a card image for a second special card, for which a player input for placing the card in the field is acquired, is removed, and a card image for which a player input for selecting a card as a card to be removed is acquired is removed. Furthermore, as an effect of the first special card or second special card placed in the field, a special lottery for determining two cards from a plurality of kinds of cards corresponding to the class of a player at a local terminal is executed, and the two cards determined by the special lottery are added to the hand of the player at the local terminal.

Systems and methods related to video streaming analyses for video game streams are disclosed. In embodiments, soft-ware-based algorithms may be applied to enhance game play, enable improvements to wagering, and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to enhance game play experience. In embodiments, video game streams may be received to determine data regarding the video game play. Based on the data, an analysis regarding one or more aspects of the gaming event may be produced, with such aspects including at least one or a game strategy, behavioral information, and prediction, and a recommendation. The analysis can then generate a message to be output to the player of the video game stream.

A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: selectably displaying a plurality of earning games in each of which at least two target objects that can be awarded to a player are set; displaying the at least two target objects of a selected earning game; storing one or more winning-scheduled objects that are selected from the at least two target objects and that are reserved to be awarded to the player, for the selected earning game; indicating the one or more winning-scheduled objects of the selected earning game to the player; and awarding at least one of the one or more winning-scheduled objects to the player by consuming predetermined in-game currency, when an execution operation of the selected earning game is input.