Patent ID: 9424718
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A system featuring a game apparatus operative within a retail technology for retainage and generation of sales activity therein, comprising: a provider operative within a retail technology that offers a plurality of goods to a plurality of consumers and at least one random draw game having a plurality of tickets, each ticket for use by a respective one of the plurality of consumers to receive an award from the provider based on each ticket having a status of either a winning ticket for the award or a non-winning ticket as determined from time-to-time by the provider; a second opportunity game offered by the provider to the consumers who periodically have possession of at least one non-winning ticket, each of said consumers associated with at least a respective one of a plurality of second opportunity tickets, each second opportunity ticket having a predetermined number of unfilled symbol spots each designated by a respective one of a plurality of symbols and to be filled by said one consumer with said non-winning ticket, and a respective one of the second opportunity tickets, upon completion of filling the symbol spots, being released for play by said consumer in the second opportunity game; a controller configured for receiving the non-winning ticket, selecting a game piece having a respective one of the symbols from a pool of game pieces, determining whether the selected game piece symbol matches an unfilled symbol spot of one of the second opportunity tickets associated with said consumer, and releasing a completed second opportunity ticket having each of the unfilled symbol spots filled for play in the second opportunity game; the controller configured for comparing the symbol of the selected game piece with each of the plurality of second opportunity tickets of the respective one of the consumers to find an unfilled symbol spot thereon matching the symbol of the selected game piece and filling the unfilled symbol spot thereof, the controller, upon determining that the symbol associated with the selected game piece does not fill one of the symbol spots of any of the second opportunity tickets associated with the consumer, withdraws the symbol from the pool for said consumer and selects another game piece from the pool, whereby the consumer, being encouraged by the second opportunity ticket, being completed upon filling each symbol spot thereof by withdrawal from the pool of the symbols filled on the second opportunity tickets associated with the consumer, continues to seek tickets from the provider within the retail technology.