Patent ID: 8251793

Claim:
A method for facilitating game play in an electronic lottery game played over a network, the method including: (a) receiving an input at a player terminal connected to the network to initiate a game play request for a game play record selected from a pool of game play records, the game play record including a record index selected from a set of unique index values each corresponding to a respective result type, the result type being a type of game play result for which multiple different outcomes are possible for each result type in game play; (b) at the player terminal, receiving the record index included with the game play record; (c) responsive to the receipt of the record index at the player terminal, causing a display device at the player terminal to display a graphic representation made up of a number of graphic symbols, the graphic representation being consistent with the result type and representing an outcome for the game play request, the outcome being one of the multiple different outcomes possible for the result type corresponding to the record index, one of the number of graphic symbols being selected from alternative graphic symbols by a processing device at the player terminal without being specified by the record index; and (d) displaying the graphic representation with the display device.