Electronic gaming apparatus and method

An electronic gaming apparatus of the type capable of dispensing a segment of a strip to be used as a ticket upon actuation of the apparatus and which may win or score in a game depending on indicia which may appear in the segment, said apparatus comprising:

• a) means providing a ticket containing strip having a first face and a second face on the opposite side of the first face, said strip also comprising a plurality of separate ticket defining locations thereon with each having indicia in each of the separate locations on said first face and where the indicia of some locations will differ from the indicia of other locations, certain of said locations containing winning indicia and which locations containing the winning indicia are randomly distributed throughout the ticket containing strip, each of said locations arranged to be separated from said strip to thereby provide a strip segment in the form of a ticket which is capable of being dispensed from said gaming apparatus;
• b) a secondary strip disposed over the indicia on the primary strip and which is removable from the primary strip, said indicia being hidden from view by said secondary strip and being visible when said secondary strip is removed and where removal of the secondary strip before dispensing of the ticket is evidence of tampering with the ticket;
• c) means for severing the strip segment in the form of a ticket from the ticket containing strip upon actuation of the apparatus to provide a ticket;
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• d) means for dispensing the severed ticket to a player of the gaming apparatus.

An electronic gaming apparatus capable of dispensing a ticket having a rear face and a front face containing indicia thereon upon actuating the apparatus and simultaneously reading and displaying indicia on the dispensed ticket, said apparatus comprising:

• a) a primary strip containing indicia on the front face thereof and a code representing the indicia on the rear face thereof and which code is unintelligible to an individual and only machine readable, and where the indicia on the front face of the ticket differs from the indicia on certain other tickets and only certain of the tickets contain a winning indicia and which certain tickets containing winning indicia are randomly distributed throughout a group of such tickets;
• b) a removable cover strip disposed over and concealing the indicia on the front face thereof;
• c) means for scanning the code on the rear face and converting the code to the equivalent indicia for purposes of display;
• d) means for dispensing a ticket derived from the primary strip upon actuation of the apparatus;
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• e) means for simultaneously displaying indicia corresponding to the code which is read and which corresponds to the indicia on the dispensed ticket.

In an electronic gaming apparatus of the type capable of dispensing a segment of a strip to be used as a ticket and which may win or score in a game depending on pre-printed indicia which may appear on the segment;

• a pre-printed ticket containing strip, said strip comprising a plurality of successive pre-printed strip segments capable of being severed from the strip to constitute tickets, each said strip segment further comprising:
• a) a first face and a second face on the opposite side of the first face;
• b) a plurality of separate ticket defining locations thereon with indicia on said first face in each of the separate locations and where the indicia of some locations will differ from the indicia of other locations, certain of said locations containing winning indicia and which locations containing the winning indicia are randomly distributed throughout the ticket containing strip, each of said locations arranged to be separated from said strip as a strip segment to provide a ticket which is dispensable from said gaming apparatus;
• c) a code representative of the indicia associated with the separate location on the strip having that indicia and which code is unintelligible to an individual by visual examination and only machine readable, such that the code can be read by the apparatus for further processing;
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• d) a removable cover strip over the first face of each of said ticket defining locations and which is separable therefrom.

An electronic gaming apparatus of the type capable of dispensing a segment of a strip to be used as a ticket upon actuation of the apparatus and which may win or score in a game depending on indicia which may appear in the segment, said apparatus comprising:

• a) means providing a ticket containing strip having a first face and a second face on the opposite side of the first face, said strip also comprising a plurality of separate ticket defining locations thereon with each having indicia in each of the separate locations on said first face and where the indicia of some locations will differ from the indicia of other locations, certain of said locations containing winning indicia and which locations containing the winning indicia are randomly distributed throughout the ticket containing strip, each of said locations arranged to be separated from said strip to thereby provide a strip segment in the form of a ticket which is capable of being dispensed from said gaming apparatus;
• b) a removable cover strip associated with the ticket containing strip;
• c) one of said ticket containing strip or said cover strip having a code thereon which is machine readable and not readily discernable by visual examination and which corresponds to the indicia on a strip segment to be dispensed;
• d) means for severing the strip segment in the form of a ticket from the ticket containing strip upon actuation of the apparatus to provide a ticket;
• e) means in said apparatus for reading the code corresponding to the indicia of the ticket which is being dispensed;
• f) means on said apparatus for displaying the indicia generated from the code and which is the same as the indicia on the ticket which is being dispensed;
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• g) means for dispensing the severed ticket to a player of the gaming apparatus.

In an electronic gaming apparatus of the type capable of dispensing a segment of a strip to be used as a ticket and which may win or score in a game depending on pre-printed indicia which may appear on the segment;

• a pre-printed ticket containing strip, said strip comprising a plurality of successive pre-printed strip segments capable of being severed from the strip to constitute tickets, each said strip segment further comprising:
• a) a first face and a second face on the opposite side of the first face;
• b) each of said plurality of strip segments constituting a separate ticket defining location on said strip with indicia on said first face in each of the separate locations and where the indicia of some locations will differ from the indicia of other locations, certain of said locations containing winning indicia and which locations containing the winning indicia are randomly distributed throughout the ticket containing strip, each of said strip segments arranged to be separated from said strip to provide a ticket which is dispensable from said gaming apparatus, certain of said tickets containing winning indicia and which tickets are randomly distributed throughout said ticket containing strip;
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• c) a code representative of the indicia associated with the separate strip segment on the strip and where information in the code is unintelligible to an individual by visual examination and only machine readable, such that the code can be read by the apparatus for further processing and generation of the indicia on a display member, such that each ticket will have the code on that ticket representative of the indicia on the ticket read for generation and display of the indicia of that ticket on the display member.

In an electronic gaming apparatus of the type capable of dispensing a segment of a strip to be used as a ticket and which may win or score in a game depending on pre-printed indicia which may appear on the segment;

• a pre-printed ticket containing strip, said strip comprising a plurality of successive pre-printed strip segments capable of being severed from the strip to constitute tickets, each said strip segment further comprising:
• a) a first face and a second face on the opposite side of the first face;
• b) each of said plurality of strip segments constituting a separate ticket defining location on said strip with indicia on said first face in each of the separate locations and where the indicia of some locations will differ from the indicia of other locations, certain of said locations containing winning indicia and which locations containing the winning indicia are randomly distributed throughout the ticket containing strip, each of said strip segments arranged to be separated from said strip to provide a ticket which is dispensable from said gaming apparatus, certain of said tickets containing winning indicia and which tickets are randomly distributed throughout said ticket containing strip;
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• c) a code representative of the indicia associated with the separate strip segment on the strip and where information in the code is unintelligible to an individual by visual examination and only machine readable, such that the code can be read by the apparatus for further processing to recreate the indicia;
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• d) a secondary strip located over the ticket containing strip.