Patent ID: 8657672
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. An electronic gaming machine comprising: a game server for controlling a game, wherein the game server is configured to be indirectly or directly connected to at least one gaming apparatus, and wherein the game server comprises a game ticket block, and wherein the game ticket block comprises an electronic game ticket block comprising a plurality of game tickets comprising electronic game tickets with which for each electronic game ticket at least one winning symbol combination is associated, and wherein the gaming apparatus is connectable to a credit store which is associated with the gaming apparatus and which can be loaded with a credit via an input apparatus; and a ticket purchasing apparatus for purchasing a game ticket while reducing the credit loaded in the credit store, and wherein the gaming apparatus comprises a gaming device configured to receive a winning symbol combination from a winning symbol generator after purchase of a ticket and to compare the received winning symbol combination with the winning symbol combination associated with the purchased ticket, said gaming device being further configured to be actuated in dependence on a course of a game while using as a basis a data of the same game ticket in a plurality of game rounds from the credit store and then from a winnings store; wherein in a first game round the gaming device is configured to be actuated upon reduction of the credit from the credit store and to compare a first round winning symbol combination received from the winning symbol generator with the winning symbol combination of the purchased ticket; and wherein in a second game round the gaming device is configured to be actuated upon reduction of the credit from the winning store, if any of the credit was credited to said winning store in the first game round, and comparing the second game round winning symbol combination received from the winning game generator with the winning symbol combination associated with the same game ticket used in the first game round.