Patent ID: 8038519

Claim:
In an automated raffle game system including a central raffle server and at least one player terminal, a method of providing automated raffle game sessions on the at least one player terminal, the method comprising: creating at the central raffle server a prize pool comprising at least one prize and a win frequency; selling at the at least one player terminal a group of electronic tickets during a game session as sold tickets, each sold ticket being associated with the game session and the prize pool; determining a number of sold tickets that are declared as winners based on the number of sold tickets and the win frequency; randomly drawing from among the sold tickets the number of tickets declared as winners as winning tickets; randomly drawing a number of prizes from the prize pool equal to the number of winning tickets; assigning a drawn prize to a winning ticket; distributing to the at least one player terminal the results of the selling of the group of electronic tickets; displaying the results of the selling of the group of electronic tickets at the at least one player terminal; repeating game sessions until the prize pool is exhausted.