Patent ID: 7175525

Claim:
A method including: (a) revealing a limited set of potential results to a player through a player terminal display associated with a player terminal, each potential result in the limited set of potential results being correlated to a respective game play record included in at least one pool of game play records for a lottery game so that the limited set of potential results defines a number of game play records less than the total number of game play records for the at least one pool of game play records; (b) presenting the player with a set of representations, each respective representation in the set of representations being presented through the player terminal display and having no apparent relationship to any particular potential result in the limited set of potential results; (c) enabling the player to select one of the representations by making a player choice input through the player terminal; and (d) assigning to the player one of the potential results in the limited set of potential results in response to the player choice input, the potential result assigned to the player representing an actual result for the player in a game.