Patent ID: 8047907
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Classification: G07F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for playing a game of chance comprising acts of: issuing a pull-tab ticket to a player, the ticket including a code printed beneath a pull-tab cover of the ticket on an outside surface of the ticket, the ticket having thereon a ticket based game of chance, wherein ticket combinations indicating a result of the ticket based game are printed in a hidden location on an inside surface of the ticket that is a different surface than the outside surface, the ticket based game having an overall prize value; determining, subsequent to issuing the pull-tab ticket to the player, the result of the ticket based game; providing for the player to play a plurality of game instances of a computer based game that is a different game than the ticket based game on a different medium than the issued ticket; providing for the player to obtain, from play of the computer based game, a result of the ticket based game of chance using the code to reveal the result of the ticket based game during play of the computer based game, wherein a plurality of prizes awarded in response to play of at least one of the plurality of game instances of the computer based game accumulate to form the overall prize value of the ticket; wherein the result of the ticket based game that is revealed during play of the computer based game is a different result than a result of the computer based game and play of the computer based game does not affect the result of the ticket based game; requiring the player to perform an action to reveal the code wherein this action does not reveal the ticket combinations; and wherein the inside surface of the pull-tab ticket containing the ticket combinations is sealed and the outside surface of the ticket is free of perforations and cutting lines and does not reveal that the ticket may be opened to access the ticket combinations printed in the hidden location, such that the player plays the computer based game to reveal the result of the ticket based game of chance.