Method for Holding a Lottery

• US 20170140606A1
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Published: 05/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Andrey Evgen'Evich Kolesov
• Original Assignee: Andrey Evgen'Evich Kolesov
• Inventors: KOLESOV, Andrey Evgen'evich
• Application Number:
  US15/127,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20170140606A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0645 Electric lottos or bingo games
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 15/00 Generating random numbers; Lottery apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 15/001 with balls or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

The invention relates to large-scale collective games and can be used in holding various types of lotteries. The technical result consists in simplifying the holding of a lottery by means of decreasing the quantity of circulating documents, eliminating the need for participants to remember information, and making it possible to conduct multi-level lotteries. The process of determining winning lottery ticket numbers is carried out in at least one round, and a request for participation in a lottery is submitted together with the registration of data identifying a participant in the lottery. The registration data of each individual are linked to each lottery participation request and to a number assigned to a participant in the order in which the request is received in real time. A draw for a main prize fund is carried out for one of the lottery tickets by using a drawing machine which is set for limiting possible combinations of numbered lottery balls drawn, taking into consideration the following conditions: the total number of lottery balls drawn equals the number of digits in the number corresponding to the total number of participating lottery tickets; a first lottery ball and subsequent lottery balls, which form a winning number, are limited in the drawing thereof to possible combinations of numbers, taking into consideration those numerical values which can provide the winning number with a value which is within the limits of the number corresponding to the total number of participating lottery tickets.

Claims

1. The method of conducting a lottery, whereby its participants are informed about conducting a lottery, accept applications for participation in the lottery, the prize fund of the lottery is established, the winning of the prize fund and the issuance of prizes is conducted, while after the start of the acceptance of the lottery participation applications, the participants of the lottery lodge with the organizer of the lottery by means of remote communication at least one application to participate in the lottery, the organizer of the lottery secures the acceptance and registration of the applications, and informs the participants on the number assigned to the participant'"'"'s application that turns into a number of an electronic lottery ticket, then the drawing of the prize fund is conducted, which is different so that the process of identifying the winning ticket numbers is conducted at least in one round, participation applications are lodged by simultaneously registering the data identifying the drawing lot participant, and the registration data of each person are embedded in the application for participation and the number assigned to the participant;

the numbers are assigned to the participant based on the queue of received applications in real-time;

the drawing takes place with regard to one of the tickets by means of a drawing device (lototron), adjusted to restrict the number of possible combinations of the numbered lotto balls drawn by the device on the following conditions;

the total number of lotto balls shall be equal to the number of numerical placeholders in the total number of drawing tickets;

the first and the next lotto balls constituting the winning number are restricted to the drawing of possible numerical combinations based on the number values that may secure the value of the drawing number within the size of the number matching the total number of drawing tickets.

2. The method to conduct a lottery in accordance with paragraph 1 different so that TV and internet or internet only are used as means of communication.