Dual play area lottery game with enhanced authentication system
AssigneeOberthur Gaming Technologies, Inc.
InventorsRené LaPorte, Benoit Mirandette
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Abstract
A lottery ticket including at least one first play area and at least one second play area in which authenticating indicia is printed beneath the scratch-off layer in the second play area and on top of the scratch-off layer in the second play area. If the player decides not to play the second play area, the authenticating indicia on top of the scratch-off layer in the second play area authenticates the lottery ticket and the prize that is won. If the second play area is played, then the authenticating indicia printed below the scratch-off layer is employed as the authenticating indicia.
Claims20
A method of authenticating a lottery ticket having at least one first play area containing at least one game indicia covered by a first scratch-off layer and at least one second play area comprising at least one prize affecting symbol covered by a second scratch-off layer wherein if a player wins a prize in the first play area, the player can seek to enhance the value of the prize by playing the second play area, said method comprising:
- a) providing the second play area with a first ticket authenticating indicia beneath the second scratch-off layer and a second ticket authenticating indicia on top of the second scratch-off layer;
- b) reading only the second ticket authenticating indicia as indicative of the player having removed only the first scratch-off layer thereby playing only the first play area or reading only the first ticket authenticating indicia as indicative of the player having removed both the first scratch-off layer from the first play area and the second scratch-off layer from the second play area and thereby having played both the first play area and the second play area;
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- c) comparing the second ticket authenticating indicia or the first ticket authenticating indicia to a database containing the same and if there is a match the ticket and the amount of the prizes are thereby authenticated.
A method of authenticating a lottery ticket wherein the lottery ticket comprises:
- a) a substrate;
- b) at least one first play area covering at least a portion of the substrate and comprising at least one game indicia;
- c) a first scratch-off layer covering the at least one first game indicia wherein the removal of the scratch-off layer to reveal up to all of the game indicia may result in a prize being won;
- d) at least one second play area comprising at least one prize affecting indicia and a first ticket authenticating indicia;
- e) a second scratch-off layer covering the at least one prize affecting indicia and the first ticket authenticating indicia;
- f) a second ticket authenticating indicia printed on the second scratch-off layer;
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- said method comprising correctly identifying the first ticket authenticating indicia if both the first scratch-off layer and the second scratch-off layer have been removed revealing both the first game indicia and the prize affecting indicia or correctly identifying the second ticket authenticating indicia only the first scratch-off layer has been removed revealing only the first game indicia corresponding to whether or not the second play area has been played by a player, comparing the correct first or second ticket authenticating indicia to a database containing the first and second ticket authenticating indicia and preventing a copy of the second ticket authenticating indicia from being read by a lottery ticket authenticating apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.