Suggestion for making Research and Experimenting more engaging

[masterxodin]

Just an idea to help make Researching and/or Experimenting more engaging, perhaps a small mini-game might be included.
The purpose of the mini-game would be to win a chance at reducing the scrap cost of an experiment or research project by a certain small percentage.  The full amount of scrap would still be needed before performing experiments or research, but based on the results of the mini-game some of the scrap might not be consumed by the process.  Discount would probably be small, so players could comfortably ignore the mini-game if they wanted to and just pay the full cost, but for players that really want to stretch how far their supplies can go could do so if they wish.
This is wide open to ideas and suggestions on what the minigame could be (match-3, slots, rust themed flappy bird, etc...).  Whatever it is though, it'd be the sort of thing that would be short.  It shouldn't take any longer than the actual research process now takes.