Patent ID: 7674170

Claim:
A method of administering lottery wagering on a phased competition, comprising: determining final participants from the conclusion of a pre-qualifying event of a phased competition; accepting a wager from a wagerer, the wager corresponding to wagering data D W including one or more picked numbers; assigning random numbers to the final participants; assembling concluding data D C for final participants after conclusion of a final event of a phased competition; determining at least one winner from the final participants of the final event based on the concluding data D C ; correlating the concluding data D C of a winner to the random number assigned to the winner, determining winning lottery data D L based on the correlating step such that there is an equal probability of any of the random numbers being included in D L ; and awarding a prize to a wagerer whose wagering data corresponds to the winning lottery data, the random numbers being assigned to the final participants after accepting the wager so that the wagerer does not know which participant corresponds to the one or more picked numbers when they are picked so that the winning lottery data is determined by the outcome of the competition but the probability of a player winning is random.