Method and System to Fund and Conduct Second Chance Games

A computer-implemented method for implementing a multi-jurisdictional lottery second chance game program, the method comprising:

• networking a plurality of lottery jurisdictions to a lottery server system;
• in each of the plurality of lottery jurisdictions, providing one or more production runs of game tickets for use in respective one or more primary lottery games within the respective jurisdiction, each production run of game tickets having a total face value, each game ticket within a production run having a unique identifier thereon;
• for each of the production runs of game tickets, defining a percentage of the total face value to be contributed by the lottery jurisdiction to fund prize awards in a plurality of second chance games that are common to all of the lottery jurisdictions;
• funding the plurality of second chance games with the total amount contributed from all of the lottery jurisdictions;
• providing the plurality of second chance games to all players in all of the lottery jurisdictions by entry of the unique identifier from losing game tickets into the server system;
• and
• wherein the lottery jurisdictions thus fund the plurality of second chance games as a function of the total face value of game ticket production runs sold to players within their respective jurisdiction.