Patent ID: 7520808

Claim:
An online lottery game having periodic drawings of a series of “N” numbers, comprising selling lottery tickets for money to lottery customers in one of a successive series of lottery sales periods, said lottery tickets each bearing “N” numbers, allocating at least a portion of the money derived from lottery ticket sales into a plurality of money pools with the money allocated to one pool smaller than the money allocated to at least one other pool, at the end of the lottery sales period randomly selecting a series of “N” numbers constituting the winning numbers, thereafter awarding the said one pool to be divided among lottery customers who selected all of the “N” numbers and the said one other pool to be awarded among lottery customers who selected fewer than the “N” numbers and thereafter allocating at least a portion of any money not awarded to the respective same pool to which it had been originally allocated for a possible award in the next of the successive lottery sales periods.