Patent ID: 8795054

Claim:
A method for conducting an interactive lottery game between players and a lottery gaming organization via a graphical user interface in communication with a game server, said method comprising: a) displaying to the player on the graphical user interface a first set of player game indicia assigned to the player for play of the lottery game and a separately displayed second set of lottery game indicia assigned to the lottery gaming organization for play of the lottery game; b) the player selecting one of the player game indicia from the first set of player game indicia via the graphical user interface, with the player's selection designated on the graphical user interface without being revealed to the lottery gaming organization; c) the lottery gaming organization, via the game server and without being aware of the player's selection from the first set of player game indicia, subsequently after the player selection, randomly selecting one of the remaining unselected lottery game indicia from the second set of lottery game indicia; d) displaying the randomly selected lottery game indicia from the second set of lottery game indicia to the player on the graphical user interface such that the graphical interface separately displays to the player the player selected game indicia, the randomly selected lottery game indicia, and the remaining unselected player game indicia and lottery game indicia; e) determining if the player-selected game indicia matches a predetermined criteria as a function of the randomly selected lottery game indicia; (f) removing the randomly selected lottery game indicia from display on the graphical user interface after step, (e) such that the graphical user interface contains only the remaining unselected lottery game indicia; and (g) repeating steps (b) through (f).