Method and apparatus for conducting a game of chance
AssigneeGameLogic, Inc.
InventorsSteven N. Kane, Dow Hardy, Mark E. Herrmann, Paul LaRocca, Bijan Sabet, Jason Yanowitz
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Abstract
A system and method are provided for playing a game of chance. The game of chance may include, for example, a lottery-type game. A result of the game of chance is revealed to a player in another medium. In one example, the result is revealed during multiple game instances of one or more online games. In one example, the online game includes a scrambled word game similar to the well-known game of JUMBLE.
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A method comprising acts of:
- issuing, at a point of sale terminal, a ticket having a ticket based game thereon to a player, the ticket including a code printed on a surface of the ticket, wherein an outcome of the ticket based game is stored in a database and not placed on the ticket;
- providing for the player an interface of a host computer system to play a computer based game that is a different game than the ticket based game on a different medium than the issued ticket, wherein the code is used to gain security access to the computer based game and to reveal the outcome of the ticket based game from the database, wherein the computer based game includes a computer based scrambled word game having one or more scrambled words, and wherein the player descrambles the one or more scrambled words within the interface to reveal a result of the computer based game;
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- displaying, during play of the computer based game, the outcome of the ticket based game to the player in the interface.
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