Patent ID: 6942569

Claim:
A method of conducting a drawing sweepstake at a retail fee collector over the Internet in which: (a) a plurality of players obtain an electronic receipt, each of the receipts displaying at least a time and a date; (b) at the player's request or with the player's consent, the retail store fee collector logs on to the Internet and communicates with a server drawing web site; (c) the drawing web site displays a web page having a place indicating that it is to be filled in with a time and a date and the player's electronic receipt from the retail fee collector is then scanned or manually processed to enter the time and date from the receipt; (d) the drawing web site displaying said page also having a place that is filled in with a zip code from the receipt and when there is no zip code on the receipt, a zip code is automatically randomly assigned by the web site and said place is automatically filled in with said randomly assigned zip code, and (e) the drawing web site randomly selects a time, a date and also selects a portion or all of a zip code and awards a prize to a player whose data most closely matches said randomly selected data.