METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PROBABILITY OF AN OUTCOME IN A RANDOM GENERATION EVENT
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1. A method of conducting an online lottery game, comprising:
- for each play of the game, a player choosing a set of player indicia from a total field of the indicia;
randomly generating a subset of X number of indicia from the total field of indicia;
for each individual game play, determining whether the game play is a winning play by comparing the player'"'"'s indicia to the subset of indicia to verify if a defined combination of the player'"'"'s indicia is contained in the subset of indicia;
establishing a desired overall winning probability for the game plays by varying the number X of indicia in the subsets between different game plays such that a blend of the winning probabilities for each number X for all of the game plays produces the desired overall winning probability; and
assigning a payout to each winning game play as a function of a predefined overall percentage payout for the game and the overall winning probability such that the payout for all expected winning game plays achieves the percentage payout.
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Abstract
An online lottery game system and methodology involves, for each play of the game, a player choosing a number of player indicia from a field of the indicia. A subset of the indicia is randomly generated, and the player'"'"'s indicia is compared to the subset to determine a winning game play. The number of indicia in the subsets is varied between different game plays such that a blend of the winning probabilities for each subset for all of the game plays produces a desired overall winning probability.
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1. A method of conducting an online lottery game, comprising:
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for each play of the game, a player choosing a set of player indicia from a total field of the indicia; randomly generating a subset of X number of indicia from the total field of indicia; for each individual game play, determining whether the game play is a winning play by comparing the player'"'"'s indicia to the subset of indicia to verify if a defined combination of the player'"'"'s indicia is contained in the subset of indicia; establishing a desired overall winning probability for the game plays by varying the number X of indicia in the subsets between different game plays such that a blend of the winning probabilities for each number X for all of the game plays produces the desired overall winning probability; and assigning a payout to each winning game play as a function of a predefined overall percentage payout for the game and the overall winning probability such that the payout for all expected winning game plays achieves the percentage payout. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of conducting an online lottery game, comprising:
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for each play of the game, a player choosing a number of player indicia from a total field of the indicia; randomly generating a subset of X number of indicia from the total field of the indicia; for each individual game play, determining whether the game play is a winning play by comparing the player'"'"'s indicia to the subset of indicia to verify if the player'"'"'s indicia is contained in the subset of indicia; establishing a desired overall winning probability for the game plays by establishing a first deck containing at least two sets of records, a first set of the records designating a first number X1 of indicia in the subsets, and a second set of the records designating a second number X2 of indicia in the subsets, and wherein the blend of different sets of records having different X numbers is computed to achieve the overall desired winning probability for the game; assigning a payout to each winning game play as a function of a predefined overall percentage payout for the game and the overall winning probability by establishing a second deck of records, with the number of records in the second deck corresponding to the expected number of winning game plays computed by applying the overall winning probability of the game to the number of records in the first deck, each of the records in the second deck designating a prize payout such that a totality of the payouts corresponds to the desired percentage payout schedule; and assigning one of the records in the second deck to each of the game plays designated as a winning game play. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of conducting an online lottery game, comprising:
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for each play of the game, a player choosing a number of player indicia from a total of the indicia; randomly generating a subset of X number of indicia from the total field of the indicia; for each individual game play, determining whether the game play is a winning play by comparing the players indicia to the subset of indicia to verify if a defined combination of the player'"'"'s indicia is contained in the subset of indicia; and establishing a desired overall winning probability for the game plays by varying the number X of indicia in the subsets between different game plays such that a blend of the winning probabilities for each number X for all of the game plays produces the desired overall winning probability. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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