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US 10,896,582 B2Granted
Lottery gaming system, ticket, and method
AssigneeIGT Global Solutions Corporation
InventorsBradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
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Abstract
A lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery ticket with a pre-draw cash-in amount based on the player symbols of the lottery ticket.
Claims20
A lottery gaming system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- responsive to receipt of a lottery ticket wager for a play of a lottery game, randomly select a first quantity of symbols from a plurality of different symbols to determine a player set of symbols for the play of the lottery game, the first quantity being more than one, wherein each of the different symbols can be randomly selected more than once to form the player set of symbols;
- determine any cash-in amount based on the player set of symbols and a paytable for the play of the lottery game;
- create a lottery ticket comprising an indication of the player set of symbols and an indication of any determined cash-in amount;
- store data associated with the lottery ticket;
- cause the lottery ticket to be provided to the player;
- before a draw for the play of the lottery game, responsive to receipt of a cash-in request for the lottery ticket, cause the determined cash-in amount for the lottery ticket to be provided to the player;
- at a designated draw time for the play of the lottery game, randomly select a winning draw symbol for the play of the lottery game;
- and
- responsive to receipt of the lottery ticket for redemption and responsive to the determined cash-in amount for the lottery ticket not being provided to the player, determine any award associated with the lottery ticket, the determination based on how many symbols of the player set of symbols match the draw symbol.
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A lottery ticket comprising:
- a substrate;
- a selected symbols portion comprising an indication of a randomly selected first quantity of symbols from a plurality of different symbols that form a player set of symbols for a play of the lottery game, the first quantity being more than one, wherein each of the different symbols can be randomly selected more than once to form the player set of symbols for the lottery ticket;
- and
- a cash-in amount portion comprising an indication of a cash-in amount based on the player set of symbols, wherein the lottery ticket can be cashed-in for the cash-in amount before any draw for the lottery ticket, the cash-in amount based on the randomly selected player set of symbols and a paytable for the play of lottery game;
- and
- a ticket identification portion comprising an indication of an identification of the lottery ticket.
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A method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising:
- responsive to receipt of a lottery ticket wager, via an input device, for a play of a lottery game, randomly selecting, via a processor, a first quantity of symbols from a plurality of different symbols to determine a player set of symbols for the play of the lottery game, the first quantity being more than one, wherein each of the different symbols can be randomly selected more than once to form the player set of symbols;
- determining, via the processor, any cash-in amount based on the player set of symbols and a paytable for the play of the lottery game;
- creating the lottery ticket, wherein the lottery ticket comprises an indication of the player set of symbols and an indication of any determined cash-in amount for the lottery ticket;
- storing data associated with the lottery ticket;
- causing the lottery ticket to be provided to the player;
- before a draw for the play of the lottery game, responsive to receipt of a cash-in request for the lottery ticket, causing the determined cash-in amount for the lottery ticket to be provided to the player;
- at a designated draw time for the play of the lottery game, randomly selecting, via the processor, a winning draw symbol for the play of the lottery game;
- and
- responsive to receipt of the lottery ticket for redemption and responsive to the determined cash-in amount for the lottery ticket not being provided to the player, determining, via the processor, any award associated with the lottery ticket, the determination based on how many symbols of the player set of symbols match the draw symbol.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.