Lottery-type ticket having a winner indication
OwnerDarin L. Peters, Knowles B. Comwell +1inventors
InventorsDarin L. Peters, Knowles B. Comwell, Steven W. Smith
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Abstract
A lottery-type ticket having a winner indication that enables a player to quickly determine whether the ticket is a winning ticket. The ticket may be a scratch-off ticket or a break-open ticket. The winner indication may be hidden under a scratch-off zone or behind a pull-tab window that is independent and separated from the playing area. Alternatively, the winner indication may be proximate to one or more game indicia that are each hidden under a scratch-off zone or behind a pull-tab window. Speed of play is increased by enabling the player to determine whether the ticket is a winning ticket by either scratching off a single scratch-off zone or opening a single pull-tab window.
Claims16
A game ticket having a plurality of concealed game indicia for playing a game of chance, comprising:
- a plurality of game indicia printed on a surface of the ticket;
- a winner indication printed on the surface of the ticket in an area separated from the plurality of game indicia, said winner indication indicating whether the ticket is a winning ticket;
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- means for hiding the plurality of game indicia and the separate winner indication from view until the game is played;
- wherein the ticket can be determined to be a winning ticket by revealing the separate winner indication without revealing any of the game indicia.
A game ticket having a plurality of concealed game indicia for playing a game of chance, comprising:
- a plurality of game indicia printed on a surface of the ticket;
- a winner indication for indicating whether the ticket is a winning ticket, wherein the winner indication is located in an area associated with one of the plurality of game indicia;
- means for hiding the game indicia and the winner indication from view until the game is played;
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- means for identifying to the player, the area where the winner indication is located, thereby enabling the player to reveal the winner indication without having to guess the location of the winner indication or reveal any of the other game indicia.
A game ticket having a plurality of concealed game indicia for playing a game of chance, comprising:
- a plurality of game indicia printed on a surface of the ticket:
- a plurality of winner indications for indicating whether the ticket is a winning ticket, each of the winner indications being printed on the surface of the ticket in proximity to an associated one of the plurality of game indicia;
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- means for hiding the game indicia and the associated winner indications from view until the game is played;
- wherein a player can determine whether the ticket is a winning ticket by revealing any one of the plurality of game indicia and its associated winner indication without having to guess the location of the winner indication or reveal any of the other game indicia.
A system for enabling a player to determine whether a game ticket is a winning ticket without altering a game-playing area of the ticket, said ticket being of the type having a plurality of game indicia printed on a surface of the ticket in the game-playing area, and having removable means for concealing the game indicia until removed by the player, said system comprising:
- an encoded winner indication included on or embedded in the ticket in an area separated from the game-playing area, said winner indication being encoded in such a manner that a player cannot determine from the winner indication whether the ticket is a winning ticket, and the winner indication must be decoded to determine whether the ticket is a winning ticket;
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- means for decoding the encoded winner indication to determine whether the ticket is a winning ticket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.