A game I invented

[superuseless]

I wanted to ask about your opinion about a game I invented:

The game is a jackpot roulette. The roulette wheel has 52 numbers - 00 and from 0 to 50. Betting on a number pays 47 to 1. Of every bet, 4% is the jackpot contribution. The payout percentage is 96.3%. Along with the normal betting chips, the player will be able to place golden and silver chips, or use a Lucky Dip option that would place them randomly. For every bet, the player can place two golden chips and as many silvers as pounds he has bet. He can also save silver chips for the next spin, but will have to place the two golden chips every time. If the ball lands on a number with a golden chip on it, the jackpot feature begins. The wheel spins again and if the ball lands on a number with a silver chip on it the jackpot is won. If both golden chips are placed on the same number, the player will be able to place twice as many silver chips, all silver chips have to be placed on different numbers.

So, what do you think? Does it have a chance of being accepted? If not, why not?

[Dice Man]

I don't really understand what's going on with the gold and silver chips. If I understand correctly, this game in the long-run pays out 96.3%, and then 4% of every pot goes into the jackpot fund. When the wheel spins on a gold and then the bonus spin on a silver, the jackpot gets paid out to the inning player. Doesn't this mean that the house loses 0.3% in the long term?

Who's going to accept this anyway? There's a reason why regular roulette has 36 non-0 numbers. Because 36 divides by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 36. 50 only has 6 divisors which makes it less fun to play with.

[KasinoKing]

I wanted to ask about your opinion about a game I invented:

The game is a jackpot roulette. The roulette wheel has 52 numbers - 00 and from 0 to 50. Betting on a number pays 47 to 1. Of every bet, 4% is the jackpot contribution. The payout percentage is 96.3%. Along with the normal betting chips, the player will be able to place golden and silver chips, or use a Lucky Dip option that would place them randomly. For every bet, the player can place two golden chips and as many silvers as pounds he has bet. He can also save silver chips for the next spin, but will have to place the two golden chips every time. If the ball lands on a number with a golden chip on it, the jackpot feature begins. The wheel spins again and if the ball lands on a number with a silver chip on it the jackpot is won. If both golden chips are placed on the same number, the player will be able to place twice as many silver chips, all silver chips have to be placed on different numbers.

So, what do you think? Does it have a chance of being accepted? If not, why not?

Your game sounds good, but seems to be fundamentally flawed.
First off, you didn't say if this is for a real roulette wheel, or a virtual one - but due to the complexities, I assume virtual.
You also didn't say if the player has to pay for the gold chips, and if so how much?
If they are paid for, does the player get a 'normal win' + the bonus when the gold is landed on?
Also is it a multiplayer, or single player game?

The main flaw though is this; one or many players play the game until the jackpot gets reasonably large (say over £150), then a player then they can start covering every number on the wheel with Silver Chips + the 2 golds somewhere & just keep spinning until they hit the jackpot.
(If they put £1 on every number, they lose £1.92 every spin (assuming they get the jackpot eventually) which would give them over 100 spins to break-even or make profit by hitting a gold chip with a 1 in 26 chance)

Another problem is what happens after the jackpot is won?
If it resets & starts again from £0, what is the incentive to start playing a game with a 7.69% house edge?

I agree with the poster above as well, why have a special wheel with 52 numbers?
I'm sure it is possible to come up with a jackpot game using a standard American 38 number wheel.
In fact, several jackpot roulettes like this already exist; Microgaming have Roulette Royal, and WagerWorks have 2; Double Bonus Spin Roulette & Hot Streak Roulette. (Details on my site).

Keep going though - I think you are on the right track to produce a new game.
How you get a software house to accept it though could be your biggest problem.

KK

[superuseless]

The game could be modified for live play, but I don't think people would play it when the jackpot is small and people wouldn't be able to use the Lucky Dip feature to place the silver chips randomly. The Microsoft Surface could be used in casinos to play it, especially multiplayer.

The main idea is that people often play jackpot games at insignificantly small jackpots (the house edge without the jackpot would be 92.3 %, but they would still play it), so there would always be someone who builds them and then people like me (who hate losing) would come and take the jackpot. If this game is in the bookies I would help them make 50£ in less than 20 minutes. For online casinos the silver chips would be harder to earn, say one silver chip for every 10£ wagered.

I made the game with 4 lines of 12 numbers with 2 numbers on each side, so that the jackpot contribution is higher, but of course it can be done with an American Roulette wheel - the jackpot contribution would be 2.5 %.

The golden chips cost nothing. You get two (perhaps one if a 38 number wheel is used) for every spin and you have to place them, you can't accumulate them.

What makes the game special is that it is a progressive jackpot roulette (unlike Double Bonus Spin Roulette & Hot Streak Roulette) and it doesn't take 1.8 Million spins (unlike Roulette Royal).

Any criticism would be highly appreciated! So what do you think?

[superuseless]

If the ball lands on a number with a golden chip and there are normal chips on that number, the player gets these winnings as well as the jackpot whether he wins it or not. The second spin is independent of any non-silver chips.