Patent ID: 7959502
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for playing a game of chance comprising acts of: issuing a ticket to a player, the ticket associated with the game of chance and including a code printed on a surface of the ticket; providing for a player to authenticate the ticket by sending the code from a host computer to a ticket validating computer server through a communications network, the ticket validating computer server separate from the host computer; randomly determining a game outcome of the game of chance associated with the ticket on a outcome generating server separate from the host computer, the determination of the game outcome performed after the ticket is issued and prior to play of a computer-based game associated with the ticket, the game outcome comprising a fixed payout; providing for the player to play the computer-based game on different medium than the issued ticket, wherein the different medium includes the host computer, wherein the code is used to gain security access to obtain results of the game of chance by communicating the code over a communications network from the host computer to an outcome storage computer server on which the game outcome associated with the ticket is stored, the outcome storage computer server on which the game outcome associated with the ticket is stored being separate from the host computer, wherein the computer-based game involves a plurality of game instances of the computer-based game, and wherein the player plays the plurality of game instances within an interface of the computer-based game.