Lottery game card and method for conducting a lottery game
First Claim
1. A method for producing a scratch-off lottery ticket, the method comprising:
- causing a plurality of symbols to be printed in a play area of a lottery ticket, each of the symbols being printed adjacent to at least one other symbol, wherein at least one set of play symbols forms a potentially continuous path that spans the play area; and
causing a plurality of links to be printed within the play area, each link being printed between at least two symbols, wherein at least one set of links is printed between the symbols that form the potentially continuous path, wherein at least at least two adjacent symbols do not have a link printed between them, and further wherein any one of the play symbols is selectable at the start of a game of the lottery ticket.
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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.
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33 Claims
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1. A method for producing a scratch-off lottery ticket, the method comprising:
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causing a plurality of symbols to be printed in a play area of a lottery ticket, each of the symbols being printed adjacent to at least one other symbol, wherein at least one set of play symbols forms a potentially continuous path that spans the play area; and
causing a plurality of links to be printed within the play area, each link being printed between at least two symbols, wherein at least one set of links is printed between the symbols that form the potentially continuous path, wherein at least at least two adjacent symbols do not have a link printed between them, and further wherein any one of the play symbols is selectable at the start of a game of the lottery ticket. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for creating a scratch-off lottery ticket, the method comprising:
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printing, on a scratch-off lottery ticket, a plurality of nodes in a pattern spanning a play area of the ticket;
printing a plurality of links between the nodes in the play area of the ticket, such that the plurality of nodes and the plurality of links together form a plurality of paths between a first section of the play area and a second section of the play area, wherein at least two nodes that are adjacent to one another do not have a link printed between them, and further wherein any one of the nodes is selectable at the start of a game of the lottery ticket. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for facilitating play of a simulated scratch-lottery ticket on an electronic device, comprising:
generating a pattern of nodes in a play area of the simulated scratch-lottery ticket, the pattern of nodes forming a plurality of available paths from the first section of the play area to a second section of the play area, at least one of the nodes having including at least one symbol within a perimeter of the node wherein at least two nodes in the pattern that are adjacent to one another do not together form a portion of an available path, and further wherein any one of the nodes is selectable at the start of a game of the lottery ticket; and
causing the at least one symbol within a perimeter of a node to be concealed from view until a signal indicating a selection of the node by a player is determined. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method for facilitating play of a simulated scratch-off lottery ticket on an electronic device, comprising:
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reading data that defines a pattern of nodes spanning a play area of the simulated scratch-off lottery ticket, the pattern defining a plurality of paths between a first section of the play area and a second section of the play area, wherein each path of the plurality of paths is defined by links between adjacent nodes, wherein at least two of the nodes that are adjacent to one another do not include a link between them, wherein at least one of the nodes is associated with at least one symbol, the at least one symbol not being made visible from a predetermined viewing perspective until a signal indicating selection of the node associated with the symbol is received; and
outputting the data on a display, wherein the links defining the paths are visible from the predetermined viewing perspective from the time the data is initially output. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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