Electronically facilitated randomized sports pool lottery

A method of conducting an electronically facilitated randomized sports pool lottery said method comprising:

• a) providing a lottery server comprising:
• i. an outcome database comprising a plurality of event outcome records, each event outcome record corresponding to a unique event outcome of at least one sporting event;
• ii. a ticket database comprising a plurality of ticket records each corresponding to a lottery ticket sold in the lottery, each ticket record including a unique ticket identifier and associated with at least one event outcome record;
• iii. a network interface for communication with at least one lottery sales terminal;
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• iv. a lottery administration software component stored on an accessible memory device, for administering the ticket database and the outcome database and managing communications via the network interface;
• b) providing at least one lottery sales terminal in communication with the lottery server, to transact the sale of lottery tickets to purchasers;
• c) selling lottery tickets in the lottery during a defined sales window by, in respect of each sold ticket, using a lottery sales terminal in communication with the lottery server to:
• i. randomly select the desired number of available event outcome records which are not yet associated with any ticket record for association with the sold ticket, being selected event outcome records;
• ii. creating a ticket record in the ticket database storing the details of the selected event outcome records along with a unique ticket identifier;
• iii. facilitate payment for the sold ticket by the purchaser;
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• iv. furnish the details of the ticket record and associated event outcome records to the purchaser;
• d) following the completion of the at least one sporting event, selecting at least one winning ticket from sold tickets by:
• i. selecting any event outcome records from the outcome database which correspond to the outcome of the at least one sporting event, being winning outcome records;
• ii. identifying any ticket records associated with the winning outcome records from the ticket database, being winning ticket records;
• wherein the purchase of a ticket is not aware of the particulars of the associated event outcome records for their ticket until after the ticket purchase transaction is completed.