Patent ID: 8216045

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a first price category and a second price category in which a lottery ticket can be purchased for a lottery game, the first price category being distinct from the second price category, the first price category corresponding to a first known portion of a linear prize and a first known portion of a non-linear prize associated with the lottery game, the second price category corresponding to a second known portion of a linear prize and a second known portion of a non-linear prize associated with the lottery game, the second known portion of the linear prize being more than the first known portion of the linear prize, the second known portion of the non-linear prize being more than the first known portion of the non-linear prize; selecting a set of lottery game numbers; randomly generating, for each of a plurality of lottery tickets, an assortment of the set of lottery game numbers in a lottery matrix of numbers with a processor; determining, for each of a predetermined quantity of the plurality of lottery tickets, a non-linear subset of the lottery game numbers; performing a drawing of a linear subset of the set of lottery game numbers that is utilized for each of the plurality of lottery tickets; providing the first known portion of the linear prize associated with the lottery game to a player if the player purchased the lottery ticket from the first price category and a linear match in the lottery matrix of numbers is displayed, the linear match being a linear display in the lottery matrix of numbers of at least a predetermined quantity of numbers from the linear subset; providing the second known portion of the linear prize associated with the lottery game to the player if the player purchased the lottery ticket from the second price category and a linear match is displayed in the lottery matrix of numbers; providing the first known portion of the non-linear prize associated with the lottery game to the player if the player purchased the lottery ticket from the first price category and a non-linear match is displayed in the lottery matrix of numbers, the non-linear match being a predetermined arrangement of numbers in the non-linear subset that is a display in the lottery matrix of numbers, the quantity of numbers in the predetermined arrangement of numbers being less than the predetermined quantity of numbers; and providing the second known portion of the non-linear prize associated with the lottery game to the player if the player purchased the lottery ticket from the second price category and a non-linear match is displayed in the lottery matrix of numbers.