US 6,676,126 B1Granted

Lottery game card and method for conducting a lottery game

AssigneeWalker Digital, LLC

InventorsJay S. Walker, Stephen C. Tulley, Daniel E. Tedesco, James A. Jorasch

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Abstract

A lottery game card incorporates player direction in determining the outcome of the game and allows a player to reveal one or more elements on the card according to rules associated with the lottery game. According to one embodiment of the invention, all of the possible combinations of playable elements on the card may be known or knowable in advance to the player before the player begins to expose elements on the card and some or all of possible elements on the card that the player may expose may be known to the player before the player begins to expose elements on the card. The player's progression through a card is not predetermined such that the player has significant ability or flexibility to control or direct the play of the lottery game embodied by the card and to influence or direct the outcome of the lottery game embodied by the card.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A method for producing a scratch-off lottery ticket, the method comprising:

causing a plurality of start symbols to be printed on a lottery ticket, the plurality of start symbols being printed along one side of a play area of the lottery ticket;
causing a plurality of finish symbols to be printed on the lottery ticket, the plurality of finish symbols being printed along another side of the play area;
causing a plurality of sets of play symbols to be printed within the play area, each set of play symbols forming a potentially continuous path between one start symbol and one finish symbol;
causing a plurality of links to be printed within the play area,
each link being printed between at least two symbols that form one of the potentially continuous paths, thus indicating the potentially continuous path;
causing at least one void symbol to be printed as part of at least one potentially continuous path formed by at least one of the sets of play symbols,
thereby causing the at least one potentially continuous path that includes the void symbol to be a non-continuous path and
thereby causing the other potentially continuous paths to be continuous paths;
causing each of the plurality of play symbols and the at least one void symbol to be covered with a latex covering;
and
causing each of the links to remain uncovered, thereby rendering the at least one non-continuous path to be undifferentiable from the potentially continuous paths until the latex covering is removed from the play symbols forming a potentially continuous path.

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