Patent ID: 8512123

Claim:
A method for implementing a ticket-based, multi-component lottery game, comprising: providing a set of physical lottery tickets for players, wherein the physical lottery tickets include a first game component with a first prize structure and one or more additional game components with a separate prize structure; for each of the physical lottery tickets, providing a first validation code printed on the respective physical lottery ticket that is linked to a computing system operating a first game redemption algorithm for validating and redeeming the first game component of the physical lottery tickets; for each of the physical lottery tickets providing one or more second validation codes printed on the respective physical lottery ticket, separate from the first validation code, linked to the computing system operating a second redemption algorithm for validating and redeeming the one or more additional game components of the physical lottery tickets; wherein at least one of the one or more additional game components is an electronic interactive Internet-based game; for each of the physical lottery tickets, providing an access code printed on the respective physical lottery ticket that is separate from the one or more second validation code and the first validation code that enables the player to access a web site for play of the electronic interactive Internet-based game; logging all of the one or more second validation codes into a data file maintained by a lottery provider and associated with a future on-line lottery drawing from the lottery provider and, for winning plays of the Internet-based game, crediting a winning prize amount to the respective second validation codes that are moved into a drawing winner's file associated with the on-line lottery drawing; at scheduled periodic times, the lottery provider transferring the drawing winner's file to a computing system operated by the lottery provider having an existing on-line validation system used for validating and redeeming on-line draw-type lottery tickets; and wherein the physical lottery tickets are redeemable by players presenting the physical lottery ticket with the one or more second validation codes thereon to a redemption location having access to the computing system operating the existing on-line validation system used for validating and redeeming on-line draw-type lottery tickets, after the scheduled periodic time.