Game ticket system to be played with keno

• US 6,447,395 B1
• Filed: 05/21/2001
• Issued: 09/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Gamco Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Gamco Incorporated
• Inventors: Stevens, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BROCKETTI, JULIE K
• Application Number:
  US09/862,534
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 463/17, 463/18, 283/903, 273/269, 273/270, 273/139
• US Class Current: 463/18
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/069 having a message becoming legible by tearing-off non-adhesive parts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/903 Lottery ticket

Abstract

A game ticket system to be played in conjunction with a live action game, and a method of using the game ticket system. The game ticket system includes a plurality of game tickets having one or more play results, where some tickets indicate fixed play results and some indicate a hold play, and where a hold play identifies a result from a live action game. The game ticket system is used by distributing the tickets to players, revealing to the players the results of the game tickets, playing a live action game, and determining if any player holds a ticket with a hold play result which matches some result of the live action game.

Claims

1. A method of running a game ticket system to be played in conjunction with a live-action gaming system that uses a set of numbers comprising:

distributing a plurality of game tickets to a group of players, each game ticket having

one or more play results included thereon, with each play result indicating either a winning play, a losing play or a hold play result and the hold play result identifying a number from a set of numbers used in a live-action gaming system, and

one or more removable exposure devices concealing the one or more play results;

removing the one or more exposure devices to reveal the one or more play results;

comparing the hold play results with a number from the set of numbers used in the live-action gaming system corresponding to a predetermined result of the live-action game; and

determining which hold play result matches the number corresponding to the predetermined result, where winning the live-action game is independent of being a member of the group of players to which the game tickets were distributed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the live action gaming system is a keno gaming system.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each game ticket has three play results.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein each game ticket has five play results.