Patent ID: 8002622

Claim:
A method of dispensing instant game tickets to a patron that are preprinted with game content and are associated with a deal of tickets that includes at least some predetermined winning tickets, each ticket having a fixed denomination, and each winning ticket having a predetermined award amount, the method comprising for each dispensed ticket: (a) receiving an indication from a patron of a multiple of the fixed denomination, wherein the multiple times the fixed denomination is equal to a total wager amount for the dispensed ticket; (b) recording the multiple of the fixed denomination indicated by the patron in a database; (c) dispensing the ticket to the patron; (d) determining if the dispensed ticket is a winning ticket; and (e) calculating using a calculator an award amount for the winning ticket by multiplying the predetermined award amount by the recorded multiple of the fixed denomination obtained from the database, and awarding the calculated award amount to the patron, wherein the deal from which the tickets are derived is not determined by the total wager amount.