Abstract: An electronic gaming machine for a providing a jackpot bonus in a gaming system A jackpot bonus element is generated in an entertainment game portion of a hybrid game and a gambling game in a gambling game portion of the hybrid game is triggered when a player initiates an encounter in the entertainment game with the bonus element. It is then determined if the player wins the gambling game triggered by the player's encounter with the bonus element in the entertainment game a payout is provided to the player when it is determined that the player has won the gambling game.

Abstract: A casino gaming machine hosting a skill normalized hybrid game. The casino gaming machine includes a skill normalized hybrid game, including: a gambling game; an entertainment game; a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment game and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger randomly generated payouts for the gambling game to the gambling game, and a skill normalization module constructed to: receive player performance measurements for at least one player from the game world engine, assign a handicap to the at least one player based at least in part upon the performance measurements for the at least one player from the game world engine, and send information concerning handicaps to the game world engine that configures the game world engine to implement each assigned handicap within the skill normalized hybrid game.

Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a screen activity moderated skill wagering interleaved game are disclosed. A screen activity moderated skill wagering game is provides an entertainment game and a gambling game. The entertainment game is provided by an entertainment system and is managed by a game world operating system. The gambling game is provided by a real credit operating system. The screen activity moderated skill wagering interleaved game also provides screen activity moderation to adjust gambling activity based on the level of screen activity within the entertainment game. During periods of high intensity game play within the entertainment game, the screen activity moderated skill wagering interleaved game in some embodiments adjusts the gambling activity within the gambling game inversely based on the level of screen activity.

Abstract: A draw certificate hybrid game system that uses encrypted draw certificates issued by a draw server to resolve wagers in a gambling game. The draw certificate hybrid game system uses a computing device to provide a entertainment game of skill. Player actions are received by the computing device and used to determine a wager in a wagering event game. This wager is associated with an encrypted draw certificate. In response to the indicated wager, the computing device requests an authentication result, determined by the draw server decrypting an encrypted draw certificate. The computing device then determines a wager result from the authentication result, provides the wager result to the player within the entertainment game, and determines a change the entertainment game based on the wager result.

Abstract: A fungible object award interleaved wagering system includes a plurality of interactive controllers operatively connected to an application controller by a network, each interactive controller configured to: communicate, to an application controller, application telemetry; and receive, from the application controller, an object based on the application telemetry. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive a wager request; generate a wager outcome based on the wager request; communicate, to an object controller, the wager outcome.

Abstract: An augmented or replaced application outcome interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller by a network, the interactive controller configured to: communicate application telemetry; receive application outcomes, advancement of an interactive application being based on the application outcomes; and receive a wager outcome. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive application outcome requests; generate application outcomes; communicate the application outcomes; determine a wager outcome.

Abstract: A record display system includes an interactive controller configured to: communicate, to an application controller, application telemetry; display initial outcomes; receive a record indicating an official result of a series of wagers associated with the user interaction; and display the record; a wager controller constructed to: receive a wager request; determine a wager outcome; communicate the wager outcome; and communicate the record; and the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, and constructed to: receive the application telemetry; communicate the wager request; receive the wager outcome; receive the record; communicate the record, wherein the record comprises the official wager outcome.

Abstract: An electronic gaming machine configured to: provide an interactive application including fungible objects; receive and distribute user input; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request instructions; determine a wager outcome; transmit the wager outcome; receive fungible object data comprising a fungible object; determine the fungible object; and transmit the fungible object to the application controller; and the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, the application controller constructed to: receive the user input; determine whether to trigger a wager; when a wager is triggered, generate a wager request; transmit the wager request to the wager controller; transmit the fungible object to the interactive controller.

Abstract: A method of operating a gaming system having a random number generator, a credit meter, and a first hybrid game containing an entertainment game portion and a gambling game portion. Skill play in the entertainment game is used to provide entrance to an asynchronous hybrid game tournament. The award for the asynchronous hybrid game tournament uses contributions from the real credit wagers in the gambling game of the first hybrid game.

Abstract: A gambling hybrid game that provides game history validation. The gambling hybrid game includes an entertainment system engine that provides an entertainment game to a user, a real world engine that provides gambling games to users, and a game world engine that monitors the entertainment game and provides gambling games when appropriate. The entertainment system engine stores game history information in response to a trigger event and provides at least a portion of the stored game history information to a game world engine. The game world engine stores received portion of the game history information. When a request for game history verification is received by the game world engine, the game world engine retrieves the game history information from the entertainment system engine and used the portion of the game history information stored by the game world engine to verify the game history information from the entertainment system engine.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a gambling game communicator in an interface of a gambling communicator hybrid game are disclosed. The gambling game communicator conveys information about the occurrences and outcomes of gambling events and any wagers on the results of the gambling events.

Abstract: An electromechanical gaming machine including: a real world controller connected to a game world controller, and constructed to: accept a gambling game trigger; provide a randomly generated payout of credits; the game world controller connected to the real world controller and connected by a network to an entertainment software controller executing a multiplayer entertainment game, the game world controller constructed to: receive a plurality of players' actions taken; and trigger the wager in the gambling game based on the actions, the game world controller utilizing a head to head gambling controller constructed to: detect a latch event and enter the plurality of players into a gambling session; parameterize wager terms of the wager made; trigger the wager in the gambling game during the session; distribute the payout of credits; determine the payout of resources utilized by the plurality of players; and distribute the payout of resources.

Abstract: An electronic gaming machine of a controlled entity hybrid gaming system is disclosed. The electronic gaming machine includes a game world engine controller constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from at least one wager in a gambling game, and an entertainment software engine controller constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game, communicate to the game world engine controller, a gameplay gambling event occurrence based upon a player's instruction of a controlled entity to consume an enabling element of the entertainment game that triggers a wager in the gambling game.

Abstract: A method of operating a gaming system to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon an autonomous agent action and constructed to trigger a wager, wherein the game; detects the autonomous agent action taken by the autonomous agent where the autonomous agent action is a direct utilization by the autonomous agent of the actionable element within the entertainment game, wherein the autonomous agent action is taken by the autonomous agent without the player's supervision; and communicates, to the real world controller, an agent wager.

Abstract: In an interactive entertainment game, passively actuated enabling elements are provided when a player elects to include them. Passively actuated enabling elements are enabling elements that are consumed through game play of the entertainment game but not directly through player action by a player. The system determines when a passively actuated enabling element is consumed in the game. A gambling event is provided based upon the consumption of the passively actuated enabling element. The system then resolves the gambling event and associated wagers on the outcome of the gambling event.

Abstract: A functional transformation interleaved wagering system including an interactive controller configured to: provide an interactive application; communicate, to an application controller, a wager request; receive a wager outcome; receive an indication to provide entrance to a lottery for a period of time; provide the lottery; and communicate, to the application controller, application telemetry; a wager controller constructed to: receive the wager request; communicate the wager outcome; receive an indication; and the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller and constructed to: receive the wager request; communicate, to the wager controller, the wager request; receive the wager outcome; communicate, to the interactive controller, the wager outcome; communicate the indication to provide the lottery for a period of time; and receive the application telemetry.

Abstract: A selectable intermediate result interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller, and constructed to: communicate application telemetry; receive an intermediate offer; communicate an indication to accept the intermediate offer; receive an application resource associated with the intermediate offer; and receive a wager outcome. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive the wager request; generate a wager outcome; and communicate the wager outcome.

Abstract: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention include: a real world controller connected to a game world server, the real world controller constructed to: receive gambling event occurrences; and provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits; and the game world server connected to an entertainment controller and the real world controller, the entertainment controller executes an entertainment game, and the game world server is constructed to: receive outcomes based upon a player's skillful play; communicate the gambling event occurrences; and receive player performance information; analyze the player performance information to determine the player's skill level; determine the configuration information for the for the entertainment controller's execution of the entertainment game; and communicate the configuration information for the entertainment controller's execution of the entertainment game.

Abstract: A slot machine including an entertainment software engine constructed to provide an entertainment game and display a received wager result; a first and second real world engine constructed to provide a wager result in response to a wager request; and a game world engine connected to the entertainment software engine, the game world engine constructed to: receive a request for a wager for a player of the entertainment game triggered by a player action taken while playing the entertainment game; communicate, the first and second wager requests; receive a first and second wager result; and generate, based on operator instructions, a controlled sequence of a portion of the entertainment game, the controlled sequence changing the state of the entertainment game.

Abstract: A skill-based progressive interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive controller connected to an application controller, and configured to: communicate application telemetry; provide a skill proposition; communicate secondary telemetry; receive and display award information; a wager controller connected to the application controller, and constructed to: receive wager request instructions; determine and communicate the wager outcome; and the application controller connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, connected to a session controller, and constructed to: receive application telemetry and the wager outcome; receive indication to provide a skill proposition; receive the secondary telemetry; determine whether an award should be awarded.