Lottery game

An online lottery game wherein a plurality of lottery tickets bearing various number combinations are sold in each of a series of lottery ticket sales periods for money and wherein after each sales period a winning number combination is publicly selected comprising drawing a plurality of numbers that are to be reordered subsequently into the winning number combination and thereafter selecting the order of the winning number combination and wherein the winning number combination is subdivided into a plurality of successive groups and wherein at least two lottery prizes of unequal amounts from that sales period are awarded for tickets bearing all of the winning number combinations and also to tickets bearing fewer than all the groups with winning numbers and wherein the larger amount is awarded to tickets bearing fewer than winning number combinations, and wherein a portion of the money received for sales in that period are allocated to groups not bearing winning numbers.

A lottery game involving the periodic selection in a sales period of a winning combination of numbers to determine which if any of a group of previously sold tickets, each bearing a combination is a winner, comprising vending a plurality of tickets with each ticket sold for the same amount of money and, each bearing at least one combination of numbers, and thereafter selecting a random combination of numbers as the winning combination, such combination of numbers comprising an array of digits arranged in a matrix of rows and/or columns, and thereafter allocating at least a portion of the money derived from vended tickets comprising a winning pool among a winning combination, and pre-selected portions of a winning combination.

A scratch ticket lottery game having periodic drawings wherein each ticket is preprinted with a randomly selected series of “N” numbers, selling the scratch lottery tickets covered with an opaque scratch removable cover for money to lottery customers in one of a successive series of lottery sales periods, randomly selecting a series of “N” numbers constituting the winning number, after the end of the periodic drawing, allocating at least a portion of the money derived from lottery ticket sales into a plurality of money pools with the money allocated to one pool smaller than the money allocated to at least one other pool, thereafter awarding the one pool to be divided among lottery customers who selected all of the “N” numbers and the one other pool to be awarded among lottery customers who selected fewer than the “N” numbers and thereafter allocating at least a portion of any money not awarded to the respective pool to which the money had been originally allocated for a possible award in the next of the successive lottery sales periods.