Patent ID: 8864578

Claim:
A method for securely generating one or more game entries for a lottery game, the method comprising: establishing, by one or more processors, a seed set of at least two seeds by a plurality of sources, wherein a first seed of the seed set is established by a first source of the plurality of sources, the first source including a lottery game provider, and a second seed of the seed set is established by a second source of the plurality of sources, the second source including a party that is not the lottery game provider, and wherein a value of the first seed is only known by the first source and remains undisclosed to the second source, and a value of the second seed is only known by the second source and remains undisclosed to the first source; manipulating, by the one or more processors, the at least two seeds by one or more computer-based algorithms to generate a single final seed; and using, by the one or more processors, the single final seed to generate the one or more game entries for the lottery game, wherein transparency is provided by the plurality of sources that were used to generate the single final seed agreeing on generation of the single final seed such that no one source can determine another source's seed and the single final seed cannot be created or recreated without all of the seeds from the seed set.