Patent ID: 8267766
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for improving the security of lottery tickets, comprising the steps of: generating ticket prize structure data for a lottery game having a predetermined number of lottery tickets, wherein the prize structure data includes a plurality of ticket value representations including at least one high-tier winning value; producing a ticket generation file of game data, with the game data including a ticket validation number and an originally generated ticket value representation for each of the predetermined number of tickets, but wherein no game data for any of the predetermined number of tickets includes a ticket value representation associated with the at least one high tier winning value; storing the game data for each ticket in a record associated with each ticket; selecting a validation number at random from the ticket generation file, identifying the ticket record corresponding to the selected validation number, and replacing the originally generated ticket value representation associated with the corresponding ticket record with a replacement ticket value representation associated with the at least one high tier winning value; and storing the record containing the replacement ticket value representation in a high tier seeded data file.