Automatic keno game

In an automated Keno game system,

• (a) at least one remote station having a player operated console for repeated player actuation comprising,
• I. means to select numbers by a player from a group of eighty on which a player wishes to bet,
• Ii. means to indicate the amount of money to be bet on the numbers selected,
• Iii. a device to accept money in the form of bills and change to cover the amount bet,
• Iv. means to return change when the amount of money deposited for acceptance is in excess of the amount of the bet,
• V. a supply of tickets,
• Vi. mechanism to impress on a ticket the numbers selected for a bet;
• the amount of the bet, the date on which the bet is made and the number of the game of that date for which the bet is made on final player actuation at the console of a bet button, and
• Vii. means for issuing said ticket which is so impressed;
• and
• (b) a central station having an overall game operator's console connected to said remote station, including,
• I. means for making a record of the numbers selected at a remote station, the amount bet on the numbers selected by the player, the date and time of selecting the numbers and the number of the ticket that is issued at said remote station,
• Ii. a ticket validator for comparing a ticket issued at said remote station when inserted into said operator's console with recording mechanism to determine that said ticket was issued by said ticket-issuing means,
• Iii. a winning numbers selecting machine in which a predetermined number of numbers from said group of eighty are determined by chance for a particular game;
• Iv. means for printing on a validated winning ticket the amount of money won as determined by the number of numbers of the group selected which come out in the operation of the winning numbers selecting machine, and a predetermined table of odds, and
• V. a cashier's station at which a bettor receives the amount of money won by his play of a winning ticket for a particular game.