METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TICKETS FROM GAMING DEVICES AND/OR LOTTERY TERMINALS WHICH ARE NOT DEPENDENT ON A PLAYER'S SUCCESS ON THE UNDERLYING GAME

• US 20090042634A1
• Filed: 10/08/2008
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IGT (International Game Technology)
• Original Assignee: IGT (International Game Technology)
• Inventors: Cannon, Lee E., Guinn, Robert, Roemer, Mick D., Maroney, Mike, Adams, William R.
• Application Number:
  US12/247,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20090042634A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/146 by issuing a winning ticket
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0665 having a message becoming legible after rubbing-off a coating or removing an adhesive layer for educational purposes G09B
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3248 involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards

Abstract

Gaming devices dispense tickets which are unrelated to a player'"'"'s success on a particular game played on a gaming device or to the player'"'"'s credits on a credit meter or other “cash out” indicator. The gaming devices provide gaming awards and also provide tickets. Other methods provide tickets during the play of wagering games. Still other embodiments comprise lottery terminals which dispense tickets other than those purchased by a lottery patron or won on a purchased lottery ticket

Claims

1. A lottery terminal comprising:

an input device for receiving input data;

a display for displaying information to a terminal operator;

an output device for dispensing a lottery ticket in direct response to input from the terminal operator at the input device, the output device operable for printing a second ticket which is not in direct response to input by the terminal operator at the input device.

2. A lottery terminal according to claim 1, wherein said second ticket is a lottery ticket.

3. A lottery terminal according to claim 2, wherein the timing of printing said second ticket at the output, device is randomly determined.

4. A lottery terminal according to claim 2, wherein said second ticket is only printed if a player has qualified to receive said second ticket according to a predetermined criteria.

5. A lottery terminal according to claim 4, wherein said predetermined criteria comprises a predetermined amount paid by a player for lottery tickets.

6. A lottery terminal according to claim 4, wherein said predetermined criteria comprises a predetermined minimum number of lottery tickets purchased by the player.

7. A lottery terminal according to claim 4, wherein said predetermined criteria comprises purchase by a player of a predetermined one of a plurality of types of lottery tickets.