Patent ID: 7878894

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an indication of payment of an amount based on a total wager amount for a wager; determining an outcome amount for the player in response to receiving the indication of payment; based on a parameter specified by the player, distributing via a gaming device the outcome amount for the player among a plurality of scratch-off type instant game tickets for the player; after determining an outcome amount, revealing to the player a result associated with at least one of the scratch-off type instant game tickets for the player; and transmitting an indication of an amount associated with the result, in which the parameter specified by the player comprises at least one of the following types of parameters: (i) a payout distribution preference, (ii) a payout frequency preference, (iii) a payout magnitude preference, (iv) a payout location preference, (v) a standard deviation associated with said distributing, (vi) a payout order preference, (vii) a total wager amount, (viii) an event wager amount, (ix) a total time period, (x) a game format, and (xi) a payout currency preference.