Patent ID: 8460081
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A computer and game terminal implemented lottery game method, comprising: offering a plurality of different draw-type lottery games to players, each of the different lottery games having a different game theme and respective rules of play; issuing lottery tickets to the players from a plurality of game terminals in the different lottery games, each lottery ticket having a grid of uniquely identifiable positions displayed thereon with the grids being different between the different respective lottery games, the terminals in communication with a server via a communications network; transmitting information on each ticket issued to the server from the game terminals, the server storing a record of each ticket issued that includes the transmitted information; in a single drawing event, randomly and sequentially drawing grid positions with a random generation device, wherein enough of the grid positions are randomly drawn so as to encompass all of the different grids for play of the respective different lottery games, and providing to the players and the server the sequential order in which the grid positions were drawn; wherein the randomly drawn grid positions are matched to the lottery ticket grids to determine whether the respective lottery tickets are winning tickets, and prizes are determined by the server for winning lottery tickets in each of the different lottery games as a function of the order in which the grid positions are sequentially and randomly drawn such that lottery tickets that become winning lottery tickets earlier on in the random draw of grid positions win a greater prize than lottery tickets that become winning lottery tickets later on in the random draw of grid positions; wherein one of the lottery games includes randomly populating the grids on each ticket with indicia from a first field of game indicia that is unique to the lottery game such that the entire field of indicia is randomly populated into the grids, and separately indicating a set of player indicia on each lottery ticket comprising a randomly generated or player-selected subset of the field of indicia; and wherein a win in the one of the lottery games is a function of a number of grid positions needed to match the set of player indicia with the first field of game indicia in the grid positions on the respective lottery tickets.