Patent ID: 8403742

Claim:
A method of selling and the final printing of an on-line lottery game ticket, for purchase by a lottery game player within a store, the store having a networked lotto player's paperless terminal with the main lottery terminal and the main lottery terminal having the software to identify the games sent by the lotto player's paperless terminal and finally instruct the printer to print at least one lottery tickets, either manually by the sales associate or through the POS networked with the main lottery terminal, said method comprising the steps of: the game player making a game selection on a first page of the lotto player's paperless game terminal, directing the game player to a second page of the lotto player's paperless terminal for marking the required set of numbers, at least on one panel thereon, thus generating the lottery play numbers for onwards transmission to the on-site or off-site main lottery terminal; directing the user back to the first page; prompting the user to select another game selection, the combination of game selections forming a player's basket; to identify the player's basket, the player punching an identification code in the key pad before the final transmission of the game basket to the main lottery terminal; the lotto player's paperless terminal transmitting at least one game play either with a pick of player's own or machine picked set of numbers, to the main lottery terminal; the main lottery terminal detecting the game sent by the lotto player's paperless terminal with the player's identification code; the main lottery terminal networked with the ticket printer, instructing to print at least one on-line lotto game ticket, bearing the selected lottery play numbers thereon, the ticket printer printing at least one game ticket; the instruction to print the ticket is either initiated by the sales associate on receiving a payment or in case of a POS networked with the main lottery terminal receiving instruction of an amount to be charged for at least one lottery game ticket; whereby, the sales associate collects payment for, and delivers at least one lottery game ticket to the game player.