Methods and apparatus for enhanced interactive game play in lottery and gaming environments
AssigneeMilestone Entertainment, LLC
InventorsRANDALL KATZ, Gary Dawson
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Abstract
Methods and systems for electronic interaction comprising a display for presenting a grid of identifying objects, an input for receiving a player selection of an identifying object, a random generator for randomly selecting a winning identifying object, and a point tally system for awarding points to the player according to the rules comprising a first point value if the player selected identifying object exactly matches the winning identifying object, a second point value if the player selected identifying object is in a geometric relationship with the winning identifying object, and a third, negative, point value if the player is not awarded the first point value or the second point value.
Claims42
A method for enhanced lottery play in a multiple user environment comprising the steps of:
- providing a central system for storing user identification data, user game information and for control of interaction with the system,
- receiving at the central system an indication from multiple users of interest to participate in a game, including receipt of user identification information,
- generating at the central system and transmitting a display of user selectable icons arranged in a grid,
- receiving at the central system an indication of one or more selections from one or more of the multi-users of user selectable icons,
- selecting at the central system one of the selectable icons, and
- awarding prizing by modifying the game information for the users by:
- (i) providing a superior, positive point value to a user if the user selected icon exactly equals the icon selected by the central system, and
- (ii) providing a lesser, positive point value to the user if the user selected icon does not exactly equal the icon selected by the central system, but is geometrically adjacent the system selected icon.
A system for enhanced electronic interaction in a multiple user lottery environment comprising:
- a display generator for generating a presentation of a grid of objects,
- an input receiving a player selection of one or more an objects from the grid of objects,
- a lottery random generator for randomly selecting a first winning identifying object, and
- a prizing system for awarding prizes to the player according to the rules comprising:
- a first positive prize value if the player selected the identifying object that exactly matches the first winning identifying object, and
- a second positive prize value, the second positive prize value being less than the first positive prize value, if the player selected identifying object is directly adjacent the first identifying winning object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.