Patent ID: 8182328

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for lottery wagering based on real-world events, comprising a computer performing the steps of: selecting a set of variables, each variable representing a possible outcome of a real-world event, the possible outcome of the real-world event being available to the public at the specified time or at a time thereafter; receiving wagering data from a first lottery player, the wagering data comprising a first set of wagering numbers; associating the first set of wagering numbers with the first lottery player; for each variable in the set of variables: randomly assigning a lottery number from a set of lottery numbers to each variable in the set of variables so that each lottery number in the set of lottery numbers is randomly assigned to one of the variables in the set of variables and so that the wagerers do not know which possible outcomes are associated with the picked numbers when they are picked, wherein each wagering number in the first set of wagering numbers corresponds to the lottery number selected by the first lottery player for each variable in the set of variables; selecting a winning lottery number from the set of lottery numbers based on correlating the variable assigned to the winning lottery number with the possible outcome of the real-world event; determining a set of winning lottery numbers, the set of winning lottery numbers comprising the winning lottery number selected for each variable in the set of variables; and determining whether the first lottery player is a winning lottery player based on correlating the first set of wagering numbers with the set of winning lottery numbers.