Patent ID: 6916246

Claim:
A player terminal configured for use in a gaming environment, where the gaming environment is one where cash cannot be used at the player terminals, and where cashless vouchers are used at the player terminals and where the cashless voucher further comprise indicia thereon, and where the indicia further comprises a transaction identifier, the player terminal comprising: a game operably disposed within said player terminal, said game usable for gambling and playable by a player; a network interface for operably connecting said player terminal to a communications network; a cashless voucher reader operably disposed within said player terminal and configured to read cashless voucher indicia; a cashless voucher printer operably disposed within said player terminal and configured to print cashless voucher indicia on a cashless voucher; and, where said player terminal is further configured to receive cashless voucher indicia from said cashless voucher reader, send said cashless voucher indicia operably out of said network interface, receive value data from said network interface where said value data comprises a value associated with a transaction identifier extracted from said cashless voucher indicia, generate a transaction identifier, associate a value with said generated transaction identifier and then send said associated information operably out of said network interface, and, use said generated transaction identifier to print a cashless voucher having indicia thereon correlating to said generated transaction identifier.