Patent ID: 7481431
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: A63F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A scratch-off lottery game card, comprising: a substrate; a first set of game indicia of a first type on the substrate and arranged in a grid comprised of a plurality of rows of cells, each cell having a unique one of the first type of game indicia therein, the grid having at least one row of cells having indicia of a second type with a unique one of the indicia of a second type defining a particular column of the grid; a second set of game indicia on the substrate located in an area separate from the first set of game indicia, each of the second set of game indicia comprised of a grouping of one of the first type of game indicia and one of the second type of game indicia such that each of the second set of game indicia defines a potential indicia of a first type in a column of cells of the grid of first set of game indicia; the second set of game indicia being a subset of the total number of cell positions in the first set of game indicia such that every one of the second set of game indicia is present in the first set of game indicia; and a set of prize indicators on the substrate adjacent the grid of the first set of game indicia thereby defining a row of the grid, wherein each of the prize indicators indicates a prize for a defined row wherein each cell of the defined row containing a game indicia of the first type.