Systems and methods for lottery-style games

A system for lottery-style games, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• at least one storage device coupled to the processor;
• a user interface coupled to the processor via one or more communication networks;
• wherein the processor is adapted to communicate with the at least one storage device and the user interface to execute instructions to perform the following tasks:
• establishing an online game that is scheduled to have lottery drawings on a number of drawing days, each lottery drawing to take place on one drawing day:
• accepting enrollment of a plurality of players in the online game, each player being assigned at least one unique identifier and being committed to participate in a plurality of the lottery drawings;
• receiving, from each player, a designated number of tokens to be entered for each of the at least one unique identifier in each of the plurality of the lottery drawings said player is committed to participate in, each designated number being at least one and up to a predetermined maximum;
• and
• executing the online game by doing the following on each drawing day:
• pooling tokens entered for said drawing by players participating on said drawing day, together with tokens carried over from one or more previous drawing days, if any, to form a jackpot for said drawing day,
• conducting a drawing, from unique identifiers of the players participating on said drawing day, to select one winner,
• calculating a proportional value based on:
• (a) the designated number of tokens the selected winner has entered for said drawing, and (b) the predetermined maximum, and
• providing a fraction of the jackpot to the selected winner based on the calculated proportional value.

A computer-implemented method for lottery-style games, the method comprising:

• establishing a game that is scheduled to have a number of lottery drawings;
• accepting enrollment of a plurality of players in the game, each player being assigned at least one unique identifier and being committed to participate in a plurality of the lottery drawings by contributing tokens of value;
• receiving, from each player, a designated number of tokens to be entered for each of the at least one unique identifier contributes in each of the plurality of the lottery drawings said player is committed to participate in, each designated number being at least one and up to a predetermined maximum;
• and
• executing the game by doing the following for each lottery drawing:
• pooling tokens which are contributed to said lottery drawing by players participating in said lottery drawing, together with tokens carried over from one or more previous lottery drawings, if any, to form a jackpot for said lottery drawing,
• conducting a drawing, from unique identifiers of the players participating in said lottery drawing, to select at least one winner,
• calculating a proportional value based on:
• (a) the number of tokens contributed by the selected at least one winner to said lottery drawing, and (b) the predetermined maximum, and
• providing a fraction of the jackpot to the selected at least one winner based on the calculated proportional value.