Patent ID: 7485037

Claim:
A method of playing a fixed-odds sporting event tournament based lottery game wherein a pool of teams compete in the tournament, the method comprising the steps of: a player in the lottery game designating a number that corresponds to a number of teams to be randomly generated for the player from the pool of teams, the player designated number being less than the total number of teams in the pool; randomly assigning individual teams from the pool of teams to satisfy the player's designated number of teams; assigning an individual score to each of the teams in the pool of teams according to their individual placement in the tournament, the individual score being assigned according to a set of predefined lottery game rules; for each individual lottery game player, determining a total score for the randomly assigned teams based on the individual score of each of the plurality of teams; and the lottery game players receiving a prize as a function of the total score compared to a predefined score that merits the prize.