Patent ID: 8460080

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a first price category and a second price category in which an instant online lottery ticket can be purchased for an instant online lottery game, the first price category being distinct from the second price category, the first price category corresponding to a first known portion of a linear prize, the second price category corresponding to a second known portion of a linear prize, the second known portion of the linear prize being more than the first known portion of the linear prize; selecting a set of instant online game numbers; printing the set of instant online game numbers on the instant online lottery ticket; randomly generating an assortment of the set of instant online game numbers in a two-dimensional instant online matrix of numbers for the instant online lottery game; printing the two-dimensional instant online matrix of numbers on the instant online lottery ticket; determining a linear subset of the set of instant online game numbers such that each number in the linear subset is matched with corresponding numbers in the two-dimensional instant online matrix of numbers; providing the first known portion of the linear prize associated with the instant online lottery game to a player if the player purchased the instant online lottery ticket from the first price category and a linear match in the two-dimensional instant online matrix of numbers is displayed, the linear match being a linear display in the two-dimensional instant online matrix of numbers of at least four numbers from the linear subset; and providing the second known portion of the linear prize associated with the instant online lottery game to the player if the player purchased the instant online lottery ticket from the second price category and a linear match is displayed in the two-dimensional instant online matrix of numbers.