Patent ID: 8439738

Claim:
A method for distributing game play records in an electronic lottery game, the method including: (a) under control of one or more electronic processors, forming a number of distribution groups for a gaming system, each respective distribution group including a number of game play records selected from a first lottery game, each game play record being a data structure stored on a non-transitory storage medium; (b) under control of the one or more electronic processors, distributing two or more of the distribution groups to assignment components included in the gaming system such that any one of the assignment components receives one or more of the distribution groups; (c) assigning game play records from at least one of the two or more distribution groups, each assigned game play record being assigned in response to a respective game play request made by a respective player; (d) under control of the one or more electronic processors, collecting unassigned game play records from the two or more distribution groups of game play records; and (e) under control of the one or more electronic processors, forming a new distribution group at a central computer system included in the gaming system, the new distribution group containing game play records from the collected unassigned game play records and containing at least one game play record from a second lottery game, wherein the new distribution group is formed according to a distribution group game play allocation requirement.