Device for manufacturing playing counters and drawing sequences in a lottery

A device for manufacturing game pieces and generating movement sequences to be used in a game of chance with a predetermined number of winners, the device comprising a printing machine, a computer processor, readable and writeable memory means incorporating a plurality of registers, and a plurality of communication links;

• wherein the printing machine prints on each game piece a start column containing a start position, an end column containing an end position, and a number of parts made up of a grid of columns and rows forming grid sections;
• wherein each part comprises a director area, the director area containing director patterns;
• the director patterns comprising at least one director;
• wherein the computer processor is connected to the printing machine by means of a first communication link and to the memory means by means of a second communication link;
• wherein the computer processor
• (a) obtains game piece manufacturing data from a first register by means of the second communication link, the manufacturing data incorporating numbers representing maximum vertical differences, in number of grid sections, between the start and end positions of each part;
• (b) generates one list of director areas for each part, the director areas comprising a director pattern, the director areas being smaller than their corresponding parts;
• wherein the lists or lists of director areas are stored in a second register by means of the second communication link;
• (c) sorts the lists in the second register so that director patterns resulting in small vertical differences between the start and end positions of each part are placed first, the sorted lists being stored in a third register by means of the second communication link;
• (d) selects, by means of the second communication in, a number of director patterns from the third register using a random number generator, the random number generator being configured to give preference to the director patterns at the beginning of the lists, the director patterns being stored in a fourth register by means of the second communication link;
• (e) generates a list of movement sequences for each part, wherein the lists, when applied to the director patterns in the fourth register, result in specific vertical differences between the start and end positions of each part;
• wherein the lists are stored in a fifth register by means of the second communication link;
• (f) selects, by means of the second communication link, for all game pieces to be manufactured, one director pattern for each part from the fourth register, combines the director patterns and determines their positions on parts on a game piece;
• and
• (g) transmits, by means of the first communication link, data concerning start and end columns, the number of parts, director patterns and their positions in each part to the printing machine for printing the parts on a game piece, wherein the directors are arrows positioned to point upwards, downwards, right, diagonally upwards and right, or diagonally downwards and right.