Patent ID: 7766739
Filing Date: 2010-08-03
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing games of chance comprising acts of: issuing, at a point of sale terminal, a ticket having a ticket based game thereon to a player, the ticket including a code printed on a surface of the ticket, wherein an outcome of the ticket based game is stored in a database and not placed on the ticket, the ticket based game having an overall prize value; and providing for the player an interface of a host computer system to play a computer based game that is a different game than the ticket based game on a different medium than the issued ticket, wherein the code is used to gain security access to the computer based game and to reveal the outcome of the ticket based game from the database, wherein the computer based game is a computer-based scrambled word game involving one or more scrambled words, and wherein the player descrambles the one or more scrambled words within the interface of the computer based game to reveal a result of the computer based game and; displaying, during play of a plurality of game instances of the computer based game, the outcome of the ticket based game to the player in the interface, wherein at least one prize awarded in response to play of the plurality of game instances of the computer based game accumulates to form the overall prize value, wherein the ticket based game is approved by regulators.