Winner awareness data distribution systems and methods

A lottery host system to provide players with winner display data, the system comprising at least one processor programmed to:

• receive historical winner data for a plurality of lottery clients, wherein the historical winner data for each of the plurality of lottery clients comprises information concerning prizes won from chances associated with the lottery client;
• for each of a plurality of lottery clients, determine winner display data, wherein determining the winner display data comprises:
• determining whether historical winner data from the lottery client meets a predetermined criteria;
• conditioned on the historical winner data from the lottery client meeting the predetermined criteria, determining winner display data for the lottery client based on the respective historical winner data for the lottery client;
• and
• conditioned on the historical winner data from the lottery client failing to meet the predetermined criteria, determining the winner display data for the lottery client based on historical winner data for a set of lottery clients comprising the lottery client;
• and
• transmit the corresponding winner display data for each lottery in the plurality of lottery clients to the respective lottery clients.

A method of facilitating the operation of a lottery system, the method comprising:

• determining winner display data, wherein determining the winner display data comprises:
• determining whether historical winner data from a lottery client meets a predetermined criteria, wherein the historical winner data for the lottery client comprises a description of at least one prize won from a chance associated with the lottery client;
• conditioned on the historical winner data from the lottery client meeting the predetermined criteria, determining corresponding winner display data for the lottery client based on the historical winner data from the lottery client;
• and
• conditioned on the historical winner data failing to meet the predetermined criteria, determining winner display data for the lottery client based on historical winner data for a set of lottery clients comprising the lottery client;
• and
• displaying the winner display data.

A system for facilitating the operation of a lottery system, the system comprising at least one processor programmed to:

• determine winner display data, wherein determining the winner display data comprises:
• determining whether historical winner data from a lottery client meets a predetermined criteria, wherein the historical winner data for the lottery client comprises a description of at least one prize won from a chance associated with the lottery client;
• conditioned on the historical winner data from the lottery client meeting the predetermined criteria, setting the winner display data equal to the historical winner data;
• and
• conditioned on the historical winner data from the lottery client failing to meet the predetermined criteria, setting the winner display data equal to geographic historical winner data describing at least one prize won from a chance associated with a geographic area comprising the lottery client;
• and
• display the historical winner data.

A system for facilitating the operation of a lottery system, the system comprising:

• a plurality of lottery clients configured to allow players to purchase chances in a lottery game, each client configured to:
• report sales of chances in the lottery game to a central host and display winner display data;
• a central sales recording system configured to receive and store information from the plurality of lottery clients identifying chances sold at the lottery clients;
• a winner log configured to store, for each of the chances associated with one of the plurality of lottery clients, the value of prizes awarded for the chances sold at the lottery clients;
• a winner display data analysis system configured to, for each of the plurality of lottery clients:
• compile historical winner data for the lottery client, the historical winner data comprising information concerning prizes won from chances associated with the lottery client;
• determine whether historical winner data from the lottery client meets a predetermined criteria;
• conditioned on the historical winner data from the lottery client meeting the predetermined criteria, determining the winner display data for the lottery client based on the historical winner data for the lottery client;
• conditioned on the historical winner data from the lottery client failing to meet the predetermined criteria, determining the winner display data for the lottery client based on historical winner data for a set of lottery clients comprising the lottery client;
• and
• transmit the corresponding winner display data to the lottery client.