System and method for providing players with location of lottery tickets with specific game play characters
AssigneeScientific Games International, Inc.
InventorJoseph W. Bennett, III
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Abstract
A lottery ticket dispensing system includes an array having bins that dispense a pack of scratch-off lottery tickets, wherein each ticket includes game play characters covered by a scratch-off coating. A pack code for each ticket pack is associated with a computer database file maintained by a central server that includes identification of some of the game play characters for each of the tickets in the pack and location of the pack. A display is in communication with the central server and, based on ticket location information from the central server, is configured to reveal to players the game play characters of at least certain ones of the scratch-off lottery tickets remaining in the array.
Claims15
A lottery ticket dispensing system configured to reveal one or more game play characters on scratch-off lottery tickets to players prior to purchase of the scratch-off lottery tickets, comprising:
- a dispenser array at a retail establishment, the dispenser array having one or more bins each configured to house and dispense a pack of the scratch-off lottery tickets, wherein each of the scratch-off lottery tickets includes a set of game play characters covered by a scratch-off coating;
- a scanner associated with the array and configured to read a ticket pack code of each of the packs loaded into the array, wherein each ticket pack code is associated with a computer database file that includes identification of all or some of the game play characters for each of the scratch-off lottery tickets in the pack and location of the pack;
- a central server in communication with the scanner for receipt of the ticket pack codes and a signal that identifies bin location of the pack in the array;
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- a display at the retail establishment in communication with the central server, wherein, based on ticket location information from the central server, the display is configured to reveal one or more of the game play characters of at least certain ones of the scratch-off lottery tickets remaining in the array.
A lottery ticket dispensing system configured to reveal game play characters on scratch-off lottery tickets to players prior to purchase of the scratch-off lottery tickets, comprising:
- a dispenser array at a retail establishment, the dispenser array having one or more bins each configured to house and dispense a pack of the scratch-off lottery tickets, wherein each of the scratch-off lottery tickets includes a set of game play characters covered by a scratch-off coating;
- a scanner associated with the array and configured to read a ticket pack code of each of the packs loaded into the array, wherein each ticket pack code is associated with a computer database file that includes identification of a subset of the game play characters for each of the scratch-off lottery tickets in the pack and location of the packs;
- a central server in communication with the scanner for receipt of the ticket pack codes and a signal that identifies bin location of the pack in the array;
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- a display enabled on a player's mobile smart device that is in communication with the central server via a computer application running on the smart device;
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- wherein the application is interactive and the player inputs game play characters of their choice via the mobile smart device, and the display indicates to the player location of one or more retail establishments having one or more of the scratch-off lottery tickets for sale having the game play characters chosen by the player.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.