Method of playing a lottery game

• US 5,186,463 A
• Filed: 05/29/1991
• Issued: 02/16/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Scott J. Fields, Stephen B. Richter, Thomas C. Marin
• Original Assignee: Scott J. Fields, Stephen B. Richter, Thomas C. Marin
• Inventors: Richter, Stephen B., Fields, Scott J., Marin, Thomas C.
• Primary Examiner(s): LAYNO, BENJAMIN
• Application Number:
  US07/707,119
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 273/139, 273/138, 283/101-102, 283/901, 283/903
• US Class Current: 463/27
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2003/086 played via telephone, e.g. using a modem
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/081 electric
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/903 Lottery ticket

Abstract

A method for playing a lotto type lottery game. The method comprises the following steps: selling a first plurality of lottery tickets for a lotto style lottery game in which prizes are paid out at both the jackpot and sub-jackpot levels; drawing a first winning combination; and selling a second plurality of tickets for a subsequent game such that said first plurality of lottery tickets may be reutilized for the jackpot prize level of a subsequent drawing.

Claims

1. A method for playing a lotto type lottery game comprising:

selling a first plurality of lottery tickets for a lotto style lottery game in which prizes are paid out at both the jackpot and sub-jackpot levels;

drawing a first winning combination; and

selling a second plurality of tickets for a subsequent game such that said first plurality of lottery tickets may be reutilized for either the jackpot or a sub-jackpot prize level of said subsequent game, said first and second plurality of tickets containing a code which indicates their sequence between jackpot drawings.