Patent ID: 8641500

Claim:
A method for playing an interactive online lottery game played by players on respective player devices capable of communication with a gaming server unit, the method comprising: creating, by the gaming server unit, groups to which are respectively associated a group total wager amount and a combination of symbols; receiving, at the gaming server unit, from each of the players, a player wager amount; associating fractions of each player wager amount to at least a portion of the groups thereby assigning a distribution percentage of each group of the at least a portion of the groups to each player, wherein the fractions are less than one; closing, by the gaming server unit, groups for which the sum of the fractions of the player wager amounts associated thereto equals the group total wager amount, thereby resulting in closed groups; comparing a draw result obtained from a limited pool of draw results to the combination of symbols for each closed groups; based on the comparing, determining a winning group; and calculating a distribution of the prize among the players associated to the winning group according to the assigned distribution percentage; whereby the associating fractions of each player wager amount among at least a portion of the groups increases the probability for a player to win the prize as compared to the probability for a player to win the prize in the absence of the step of associating fractions.