Lottery gaming system, methods of operating lottery gaming systems, and lottery tickets
AssigneeBrightstar Global Solutions Corporation
InventorsJoseph Charest, Sarah Walker
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Abstract
A lottery gaming system and method providing a play of a multi-draw lottery game, that includes a selection of a player multi-draw sum that is for at least one drawings of at least one draw lottery game, and a determination of any awards based on the player multi-draw sum and a sum of the plurality of drawn numbers for the drawing(s) of the draw lottery game that is/are used for the multi-draw lottery game.
Claims20
A method of operating a lottery gaming system comprising a lottery terminal comprising an optical scanner, a communications network, and a lottery server comprising a processor and a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions executable by the processor, the method comprising:
- determining, via the processor, a player multi-draw sum for a play of a multi-draw lottery game, the player multi-draw sum comprising one of a plurality of different sums based on numbers that are selectable for each of a plurality of drawings of a draw lottery game that are used for the multi-draw lottery game, wherein the player multi-draw sum is determined by optically scanning, via the optical scanner of the lottery terminal, a playslip comprising a player multi-draw sum selection portion, a wager indication portion, and a quick pick instruction portion, and wherein the playslip is either one of a paper playslip and a virtual playslip;
- generating, via the processor, a lottery ticket comprising an indication of the player multi-draw sum;
- storing data associated with the lottery ticket;
- causing the lottery ticket to be provided to a player via one or both of a paper copy and a virtual copy, the lottery ticket comprising a player multi-draw sum portion comprising an indication of the player multi-draw sum for the play of the multi-draw lottery game;
- for each of a plurality of independent and separate drawings of the draw lottery game that are used for the play of the multi-draw lottery game, randomly determining, via a random number generator, a quantity of drawn numbers for that drawing of the draw lottery game from a plurality of different numbers, the quantity of drawn numbers being at least one;
- determining an award for the lottery ticket based on the player multi-draw sum and a total sum of the drawn numbers for all of the plurality of drawings of the draw lottery game that are used for the multi-draw lottery game;
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- causing a display, by a display device remote from the processor, of an indication of the award.
A method of operating a lottery gaming system comprising a lottery terminal comprising an optical scanner, a communications network, and a lottery server comprising a processor and a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions executable by the processor, the method comprising:
- determining, via the processor, a player multi-draw sum for a play of a multi-draw lottery game, the player multi-draw sum comprising one of a plurality of different sums that are based on a drawing of a first draw lottery game and a drawing of a different second draw lottery game that are used for the multi-draw lottery game, wherein the player multi-draw sum is determined by optically scanning, via the optical scanner of the lottery terminal, a playslip comprising a player multi-draw sum selection portion, a wager indication portion, and a quick pick instruction portion, and wherein the playslip is either one of a paper playslip and a virtual playslip;
- generating, via the processor, a lottery ticket comprising an indication of the player multi-draw sum;
- storing data associated with the lottery ticket;
- causing the lottery ticket to be provided to a player via one or both of a paper copy and a virtual copy, the lottery ticket comprising a player multi-draw sum portion comprising an indication of the player multi-draw sum for the play of the multi-draw lottery game;
- for each of independent and separate drawings of the first draw lottery game and the second draw lottery game that are used for the play of the multi-draw lottery game, randomly determining, via a random number generator, drawn numbers for that drawing of the draw lottery game;
- determining an award for the lottery ticket based on the player multi-draw sum and a sum of all of the drawn numbers for the drawings of the first draw lottery game and the second draw lottery game that are used for the multi-draw lottery game;
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- causing a display, by a display device remote from the processor, of an indication of the award.
A method of operating a lottery gaming system comprising a lottery terminal comprising an optical scanner, a communications network, and a lottery server comprising a processor and a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions executable by the processor, the method comprising:
- determining a player multi-draw sum for a play of a multi-draw lottery game, the player multi-draw sum comprising one of the plurality of different sum ranges, wherein the player multi-draw sum is determined by optically scanning, via the optical scanner of the lottery terminal, a playslip comprising a player multi-draw sum selection portion, a wager indication portion, and a quick pick instruction portion, and wherein the playslip is either one of a paper playslip and a virtual playslip;
- generating a lottery ticket comprising an indication of the player multi-draw sum comprising one of the sum ranges;
- storing data associated with the lottery ticket;
- causing the lottery ticket to be provided to a player via one or both of a paper copy and a virtual copy, the lottery ticket comprising an indication of an indication of the player multi-draw sum for the play of the multi-draw lottery game;
- for each of a plurality of independent and separate drawings of the draw lottery game that are used for the play of the multi-draw lottery game, randomly determining, via a random number generator, a quantity of drawn numbers for that drawing of the draw lottery game from the plurality of different number, the quantity of drawn numbers being more than one;
- determining an award for the lottery ticket based on the player multi-draw sum and a total sum of the drawn numbers for all of the drawings of the draw lottery game that are used for the play of the multi-draw lottery game;
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- causing a display, by a display device remote from the processor, of an indication of the first award and the second award.
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