Patent ID: 8393949

Claim:
A computer implemented method, comprising acts of: issuing, at a point of sale terminal, a ticket having a ticket based game on the ticket to a player, the ticket including a code printed on a surface of the ticket, wherein results of the ticket based game, which are obtained via game play 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; using the code to access an entry stored in the database of the server to access a computer based game; providing for the player the computer based game on a different medium than the ticket based game, wherein the player accesses a game interface of the computer based game that includes a computer based slot machine game configured to reveal the results of the ticket based game when the player plays the computer based game on the different medium; and using the code to obtain, from the database, the results of the ticket based game, wherein the computer based game is a different game than the ticket based game and the results obtained from game play of the ticket based game are predetermined and independent of play on the computer based game and dictate the results of the computer based game.