Patent ID: 11911705
Assignee: SCIENTIFIC GAMES, LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A system to encourage continued play of scratch-off lottery tickets remaining in a game after award of seeded top prizes in the game, the system comprising:
a total set of scratch-off lottery tickets generated for the game, wherein a single multi-tier prize structure is applied to game that includes at least one top tier prize and a plurality of prizes at lower tier prize levels, each of the lottery tickets including a scratch-off coating covering game indicia that indicates a winning or losing status of the lottery ticket;
a plurality of subsets of the total set of scratch-off lottery tickets, each of the subsets comprising a predefined number of the scratch-off lottery tickets having a predetermined winning outcome at one of the lower tier prize levels assigned to the subset;
each of the subsets divided into qualifying tickets and non-qualifying tickets, the qualifying tickets in each of the subsets eligible for play in a respective additional game associated only with the subset and having an additional game prize, wherein the additional game prize of at least one of the subsets is at least equal in value to the top tier prize;
each of the qualifying tickets and the non-qualifying tickets provided with a printed mark that visibly and positively identifies the lottery ticket as either a qualifying ticket or a non-qualifying ticket; and
wherein upon redemption by players of the qualifying tickets and the non-qualifying tickets for the respective lower tier prize assigned to each of the subsets, the qualifying tickets are identified and entered into the respective additional game associated with the subset to which the qualifying ticket belongs.