Patent ID: 7789745

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a request of a player to purchase a conditional lottery ticket, the request including an indication of at least one player-specified condition for automatically activating the conditional lottery ticket; in exchange for payment from the player, issuing an inactive conditional lottery ticket to the player, in which the inactive conditional lottery ticket is not activated at the time of purchase by the player; storing, in a database, an indication of the at least one player-specified condition and an indication that the inactive conditional lottery ticket issued to the player is inactive, in association with an identifier that identifies the inactive conditional lottery ticket issued to the player; after purchase of the inactive conditional lottery ticket by the player, determining that the at least one player-specified condition is not satisfied currently; and after determining that the at least one player-specified condition is not satisfied currently, overriding the at least one player-specified condition that is not satisfied currently and activating the inactive conditional lottery ticket regardless of the at least one player-specified condition.