Patent ID: 8523652

Claim:
A system for providing a right to a time sensitive ticket to one or more players of one or more gaming devices configured to play a game, play of said one or more gaming devices resulting in one or more defined triggering events, said system comprising: a host computer; a data structure storing data corresponding to a set of time-sensitive tickets, said data associating to one or more tickets a value and a termination date after which said tickets become substantially valueless, said data structure accessible to said host computer; a communication network providing communication between said gaming devices and said host computer; apparatus for said gaming devices to accept wagers by players to play said gaming devices; a display at said one or more gaming devices, at least one of said gaming devices and host computer configured to display to said players at said one or more displays an association between an event and one or more tickets where said prize corresponds to said associated value of one or more of said tickets; and one or more of said gaming devices and host computer configured to award a right to said one or more tickets to a player upon an occurrence of a triggering event and to deplete said set of said tickets corresponding to said award.