Method and System for Conducting and Linking Play of a Lottery Game with a Televised Game Show Simultaneously with a Play-at-Home Version of the Game Show

A method for conducting a lottery game in conjunction with a televised game show and a play-at-home version of the televised game show, comprising:

• establishing a primary lottery game in one or more lottery jurisdictions wherein players purchase lottery tickets to play the primary lottery game;
• establishing a televised game show wherein players of the primary lottery game become eligible to be contestants in the televised game show by accumulating a predefined set of game symbols, the televised game show having one or more games wherein winning contestants are awarded a prize;
• providing a unique web code on the lottery tickets;
• during broadcast of the televised game show in the one or more lottery jurisdictions, providing a plurality of game symbol codes to at-home viewers of the televised game show who are also players of the primary lottery game, the at-home viewers able to access a website, enter the web code from their lottery ticket, enter one the game symbol codes broadcast with the televised game show, and play a web-based game to win a game symbol associated with the entered game symbol code;
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• wherein upon acquiring all of the game symbols in the predefined set of game symbols, the at-home viewer advances towards becoming a contestant in a future episode of the televised game show.