Gaming ticket dispenser apparatus and method of play

An electronic gaming apparatus capable of dispensing an individual ticket containing indicia thereon upon actuating the apparatus and where the ticket is dispensed from a large group of such tickets which contain indicia thereon and where only certain of the tickets may contain winning or scoring indicia thereon, said apparatus comprising:

• a) means for dispensing a ticket containing indicia from the large group thereof upon actuation of the apparatus;
• b) display means on said apparatus for displaying the indicia on the tickets;
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• c) means for causing each of a plurality of indicia corresponding to the indicia on a ticket to move generally vertically across the display means and where each of the indicia corresponding to those on the ticket will selectively stop at at least one selected horizontal row on the display means.

A method of playing an electronic gaming apparatus which dispenses an individual ticket containing indicia thereon upon actuating the apparatus and where the ticket is removed from a large group of such tickets which contain indicia thereon and where only certain of the tickets may contain winning or scoring indicia thereon, said apparatus comprising:

• a) actuating the gaming apparatus;
• b) dispensing a ticket containing indicia from the large group thereof upon actuation of the apparatus;
• c) determining if the indicia was a winning or scoring indicia;
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• d) causing representations of the indicia on the ticket to be moved across a display means and selectively stopped at fixed scoring positions in such manner that the player of the gaming apparatus observes an image of rotating wheels which display the indicia.

An electronic gaming apparatus capable of dispensing gaming tickets containing indicia thereon upon actuating the apparatus and where the tickets are served from an elongate strip of such tickets and indicia on certain of the gaming tickets represent winning indicia, said apparatus comprising:

• a) frame means defining a ticket movement path;
• b) drive means for moving an elongate strip of the tickets in the ticket movement path;
• c) severing means after the drive means in the direction of movement of the strip of tickets for serving an endmost ticket from the strip in the ticket movement path;
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• d) means for dispensing the served ticket after the severing means and upon actuation of the apparatus such that the ticket containing strip in effecting pushed through the ticket movement path.

A method of operating a game of chance having a strip of tickets and where a ticket is served from the strip and dispensed upon actuation of a gaming apparatus playing the game of chance and issuing tickets from the strip of tickets;

• said method comprising:
• a) actuating the gaming apparatus to cause movement of the strip containing a plurality of tickets in a ticket movement path with each ticket containing indicia thereon and only a limited number of tickets containing winning indicia thereon;
• b) driving the ticket at a drive station through the ticket movement path of the apparatus for ultimate dispensing thereof;
• c) severing the ticket from the strip in the ticket movement path subsequent to the driving of the ticket through the path such that the ticket is effectively pushed through the ticket movement path;
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• d) dispensing the selected discrete ticket having the indicia thereon to the player of the apparatus.

An electronic gaming apparatus capable of dispensing a ticket containing indicia thereon used in the play of a game of chance upon actuating the apparatus and dispensing a ticket containing indicia thereon and a machine readable code correlated to the indicia on the dispensed ticket, said apparatus comprising:

• a) a ticket movement path in the apparatus capable of enabling movement of a ticket to be dispensed;
• b) scanning means at the ticket movement path for scanning the machine readable code of each ticket which is dispensed;
• c) a dispensing member enabling the dispensing of a ticket in the ticket movement path immediately after scanning the machine readable code so that the gaming apparatus does not effectively recognize whether the dispensed ticket contains winning or scoring indicia substantially before the ticket is dispensed;
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• d) display means connected to said scanning means for displaying information correlated to the indicia on the dispensed ticket.

A method of playing a game of chance where a player obtains a ticket containing indicia and in which the player will win a game if the indicia on the ticket corresponds to winning indicia, said method comprises:

• a) actuating an apparatus containing a plurality of tickets with each ticket containing indicia thereon and only a limited number of the tickets may contain winning indicia thereon;
• b) scanning a machine readable code on the ticket and which code is correlated to the indicia on the ticket;
• c) dispensing the selected ticket having indicia thereon to the player of the apparatus immediately after scanning the machine readable code so that apparatus does not effectively recognize whether the ticket is a winning or scoring ticket substantially before it is dispensed to the player;
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• d) displaying on a display screen on the apparatus information correlated to the indicia on the ticket which is dispensed.