Patent ID: 7614956

Claim:
A method including: (a) communicating a distribution group of lottery game play records each including a record identifier and prize value identifier in credits to an electronic assignment component included in a gaming system, and storing the distribution group so as to be accessible to the assignment component; (b) communicating one or more promotion records to the assignment component, the promotion records created independently of the lottery game play records, at least one of the one or more promotion records including a promotion prize identifier from which is determined a promotion prize to be awarded in response to assignment of the at least one promotion record, and storing the one or more promotion records so as to be accessible to the assignment component, each promotion prize being distinct from possible prizes in the distribution group of lottery game play records; (c) receiving a lottery game play request from an electronic player machine in the gaming system; (d) in response to the lottery game play request, assigning a respective one of the one or more promotion records to the player machine for the lottery game play request; (e) causing a result to be displayed including graphics consistent with the promotion record that has been assigned; and (f) recalling at least a first set of promotion records out of the one or more promotion records remaining unassigned from the assignment component, the recalling being performed in response to a promotion recall command from a distribution/promotion control component, the recalling leaving at least one other set of promotion records actively in use in the lottery game.