Patent ID: 8038529

Claim:
A method for playing a game of chance comprising acts of: issuing a ticket to a player at a point of sale, the ticket being associated with the game of chance and including a code printed on a surface of the ticket; defining, by a game operator via an outcome server, after the ticket is issued to the player, a correlation between the ticket and results of the game of chance; transmitting, over a communication network to a computer-based game play server, the results of the game of chance, the computer-based game play server being adapted to provide at least one computer-based game provided by the game operator to the player; providing for the player to play at least one computer-based game, wherein the code is used to gain security access to play the at least one computer-based game to obtain the results of the game of chance; and revealing, responsive to play of the at least one computer-based game by the player, the results of the game of chance within an interface of the computer-based game.