Patent ID: 8684813

Claim:
A method of providing a lottery entry to a player of a hybrid game, the method comprising: performing by one or more processors, the following: providing a gambling game portion of the hybrid game, the gambling game portion generating random gambling outcomes for a gambling bet in real world credits; providing an entertainment game portion of the hybrid game, the entertainment game portion including a first type of enabling element and a second type of enabling element; receiving a lottery ticket from a lottery system; receiving attendant rules for awarding the lottery ticket to the player based on the player's play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game, the attendant rules indicating that the lottery ticket is to be issued to the player when the first type of enabling element of the entertainment game is consumed by the player during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game; monitoring the player's play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game, the monitored play including consumption of the first type of enabling element and the second type of enabling element consumed during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; paying out game world credit to the player on the basis of the player's skillful play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; triggering and executing the gambling bet in the gambling game portion of the hybrid game on the basis of the consumption of the second type of enabling element consumed during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; determining to award the lottery ticket to the player on the basis of the attendant rules, monitored play of the entertainment portion of the hybrid game, and the consumption of the first a type of the enabling element consumed during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; and issuing the lottery ticket to the player.