Patent ID: 6860808

Claim:
A networked system of pay to play video terminals which communicate with a remote central computer for entry of players in a random draw, each video terminal comprising a series of games displayed on said terminal for selection and play by a user, said series of games including identification of a limited portion thereof eligible for said random draw, a payment arrangement for receiving payment and authorizing initiation of a game from a series of games retained in memory, a registration query allowing registration of a new user or entry of a PIN assigned to a previously registered user for identification of the user with respect to said random draw, a counting arrangement for maintaining a count for each registered user which count is incremented based on the play of each eligible game associated with the registered user, and a communication arrangement for communicating with said separate remote computer and providing thereto the counts of the different registered users for entry in the random draw based each count providing an opportunity to win, wherein the eligible games for the random drawn can vary between networked terminals.