Patent ID: 8092294

Claim:
A method for facilitating game play in an electronic lottery game network, the method including: (a) receiving a record index at a player terminal included in the electronic lottery game network, the record index being received from a central processing system remote from the player terminal and being received for a game play request initiated at the player terminal, the record index being associated with a particular game play record from a pool of game play records stored at the central processing system where each game play record in the pool of game play records corresponds to a result in a lottery game and includes a respective record index selected from a set of unique indexes each corresponding to a different result type, and where the received record index is distinct from a prize value associated with the game play record with which the received record index is associated; (b) in response to the record index received at the player terminal, generating display commands at the player terminal sufficient to cause a display device at the player terminal to display a graphic representation made up of a number of graphic symbols, the graphic representation being consistent with the result type corresponding to the received record index and representing an outcome for the game play request, one of the number of graphic symbols being selected from alternative graphic symbols by a processing device at the player terminal without being specified by the record index; and (c) displaying the graphic representation with the display device at the player terminal.