Patent ID: 7666082

Claim:
A computer implemented method of playing games of chance comprising acts of: Issuing, at a point of sale terminal, a ticket that includes a ticket-based game of chance on the ticket to the player, the ticket including a code printed on a surface of the ticket, wherein results of the ticket based game are stored in a database of a server separate from the ticket and wherein the results are not encoded on the ticket, the ticket based game having an overall prize value; using the code to access an entry stored in the database of the server to access a computer based game of chance; providing for the player the computer based game of chance on a different medium than the ticket based game, wherein the player accesses a game interface of the computer based game of chance that includes a computer-based slot machine game that is configured to reveal the results of the ticket based game of chance when the player plays a plurality of game instances of the computer based game of chance on the different medium; and using the code to obtain, from the database, the results of the ticket based game of chance, wherein the computer based game is a different game than the ticket based game, wherein at least one prize awarded in response to play of the plurality of game instances of the computer based game accumulates to form the overall prize value, and where the ticket based game is previously approved by regulators.