Patent ID: 7490830

Claim:
A lottery ticket system which comprises at least two lottery tickets levels with each lottery ticket level represented by a separate lottery ticket, a first lottery ticket level comprising at least two first lottery tickets having a collectible receiving region containing a plurality of at least one target collectible items and a collectible generating region containing at least one collectible item therein wherein up to all of the collectible items in the collectible generating region are target collectible items, a portion of the first lottery tickets containing less target collectible items in the collectible generating region than the number of target collectible items in the collectible receiving region so that the player can not complete the collectible receiving region using only the target collectible items in the collectible generating region of a single first lottery ticket wherein the collection of a preset number of the target collectible items in the collectible receiving region entitles the player to proceed to play a second lottery ticket level, and a highest lottery ticket level comprising lottery tickets having a play region containing information relevant to a prize the player may have won for reaching the highest lottery ticket level, wherein the second lottery ticket level may be the highest lottery ticket level.