Lottery game card having a Sudoku game
AssigneeScientific Games International, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Martineck, S. Kyle Rogers, Jennifer M Welshons, Paul Guziel
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Abstract
A lottery game card including a plurality of squares distributed in a matrix format, and a plurality of game indicia initially covered by a removable material. Each squares of the matrix are populated with a game symbol and some of the squares of the matrix are covered by the removable material, forming a Sudoku puzzle. A player may play the Sudoku puzzle using the matrix. The player may remove the removable material from the game indicia and covered squares. If the squares identified by the game indicia form a predefined pattern, a prize is awarded to the player.
Claims8
A scratch-off lottery game card with a Sudoku puzzle theme, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a plurality of game spaces displayed on said substrate in a Sudoku puzzle format having an N (column)×N (row) matrix, said matrix further divided into a block matrix having M (column)×M (row) blocks;
- a plurality of game symbols comprising N different symbols, with a single game symbol placed in each of said game spaces such that said matrix defines a completed Sudoku puzzle wherein each different game symbol occurs only once in each said row, column, and block;
- a plurality of said game spaces, but less than all of said game spaces, covered by a removable scratch-off material such that less than all of said completed Sudoku puzzle is visible to a player;
- a plurality of player game indicia provided on said substrate and covered by a removable scratch-off material, said player game indicia identifying game spaces positions on said matrix or selected ones of said game symbols;
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- wherein upon playing of said game, a player removes said scratch-off material from said game spaces and said player game indicia, and if said identified game space positions identified by said player game indicia forms a predefined pattern in the completed Sudoku puzzle, a prize is awarded to the player.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.