Patent ID: 8042809

Claim:
An apparatus for conducting a lottery game comprising: a processor; and a storage device in communication with the processor, the storage device storing instructions configured to direct the processor to: display a plurality of exposable elements in a game area of a lottery game, each exposable element in the plurality of exposable elements being adjacent to at least two other elements in the plurality of exposable elements, further in which any exposable element in the plurality of exposable elements in the game area can be exposed as an initial element, receive, by an electronic game controller, a signal indicative of a selection of an exposable element in the plurality of exposable elements as the initial element; for any selected initial element in the plurality of exposable elements, expose the selected initial element to reveal an indication of at least two exposable elements that are adjacent to the selected initial element and that are eligible to be selected next; receive, by the electronic game controller, a signal indicative of a selection of one of the at least two exposable elements adjacent to the selected initial element as the second element; for any selected second element in the plurality of exposable elements, expose the selected second element to reveal an indication of at least two exposable elements that are adjacent to the selected second element and that are eligible to be selected next; and determine, by the electronic controller, a game outcome of the lottery game based on the selected initial element and the selected second element, in which determining the game outcome of the lottery game based on the selected initial element and the selected second element comprises: determining a dealer total; determining a player total based on a first number associated with the selected initial element and a second number associated with the selected second element; and determining the game outcome based on the dealer total, the player total and at least one game rule.