Patent ID: 7704140

Claim:
A lottery system for facilitating the play of a base game and an additional game using game play information from the base game, the system comprising: an input device configured to receive information indicating a customer's desire to purchase additional game play information and a unique ticket identifier, the unique ticket identifier uniquely identifying an initial ticket having initial game play information sufficient to indicate whether the initial ticket is a winner of the base game; an output device in communication with the input device, the output device configured, responsive to receipt of the information indicating the customer's desire to purchase additional game play information and the unique ticket identifier by the input device, to output additional game play information associated with the unique ticket identifier; and a redemption device configured, conditioned on the initial game play information indicating the initial ticket is a winner of a prize in the initial game, to allow redemption of the initial ticket for a prize in the base game, and, conditioned on a combination of the initial game play information and the additional game play information indicating a win in the additional game, to allow redemption of a prize in the additional game.