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AssigneeScientific Games International, Inc.
InventorsKyle Rogers, Steve Saferin, Amy Hill, Victor Marinelli
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A system and related method for conducting a lottery game having a televised bonus game component calls for establishing a primary lottery game wherein players are issued lottery tickets. The primary lottery game has a bonus game component and the lottery tickets have a bonus game symbol thereon. For entry into the bonus game, the players are required to collect a predefined set of the bonus game symbols. Periodically, a bonus game drawing is conducted such that at least one of the players entered in the drawing is selected as a winner in each bonus game drawing and becomes eligible for further participation in the bonus game. The bonus game component is coordinated with a televised game show so that contestants in the televised game show are the selected winners from the bonus game drawings. A prize is awarded to winning contestants who competed in the televised game show.
A computer-implemented method for conducting a lottery game having a televised bonus game component, comprising:
The method as in claim 2, wherein the contestants in the televised game show are drawn from an audience assigned to the televised game show, wherein the audience is composed of the winners from the bonus game drawings.
The method as in claim 8, wherein the audience is composed of the non-contestant audience members and winners from the bonus game drawings, and the contestants in the televised game show are drawn from the winners from the bonus game drawings present in the audience.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.