Patent ID: 8075382

Claim:
A scratch ticket lottery game having periodic drawings wherein each ticket is preprinted with a randomly selected series of “N” numbers, selling the scratch lottery tickets covered with an opaque scratch removable cover for money to lottery customers in one of a successive series of lottery sales periods, randomly selecting a series of “N” numbers constituting the winning number, before the end of each successive period drawing, after the end of the periodic drawing, allocating at least a portion of the money derived from lottery ticket sales into a plurality of money pools with the money allocated to one pool smaller than the money allocated to at least one other pool, thereafter awarding the one pool to be divided among lottery customers who selected all of the “N” numbers and the one other pool to be awarded among lottery customers who selected fewer than the “N” numbers and thereafter allocating at least a portion of any money not awarded to the respective pool to which the money had been originally allocated for a possible award in the next of the successive lottery sales periods.