Methods and systems for an event-linked lottery game

Abstract

A method for conducting a lottery game is described. The method provides a plurality of tickets acquirable by participants in the game, including an entry in a ticket Pool corresponding to a ticket acquired by a participant. A number of ticket drawings are distributed from a first drawing to an Nth drawing at predetermined intervals prior to an event. An entry from the ticket pool is randomly drawn as the first drawing, and a first prize is awarded to the participant to whom the first drawn ticket belongs. An entry is randomly drawn from the ticket pool as the Nth drawing, wherein the Nth drawing corresponds to a certain event; and an Nth prize is awarded to the participant to whom the Nth drawn ticket belongs. Tickets remain in the ticket pool from the first drawing to the Nth drawing.

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