Lottery game
OwnerDavid Wolfinventor
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Abstract
An online lottery game having periodic drawings of a series of digits. Money derived from the sale of lottery tickets is allocated into a plurality of winning pools in which the winning pool consisting of all of the numbers is smaller than at least one and preferably all of the other winning pools consisting of less than all of the numbers. Money allocated to pools are carried forward to successive drawings in the event there are no winners of that particular pool.
Claims20
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 it had been originally allocated for a possible award in the next of the successive lottery sales periods.
An online lottery game wherein a plurality of lottery tickets bearing various number combinations are sold in each of a series of lottery ticket sales periods for money and wherein after each sales period a winning number combination is publicly selected comprising drawing a plurality of numbers that are to be reordered subsequently into the winning number combination and thereafter selecting the order of the winning number combination.
A lottery game involving the periodic selection in a sales period of a winning combination of numbers to determine which if any of a group of previously sold tickets, each bearing a combination is a winner, comprising vending a plurality of tickets, each bearing at least one combination of numbers, and thereafter selecting a random combination of numbers as the winning combination, such combination of numbers comprising an array of digits arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and thereafter allocating at least a portion of the money derived from vended tickets comprising a winning pool among a winning combination, and pre-selected portions of a winning combination.
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