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Methods and apparatus for enhanced play in lottery and gaming environments

  • US 9,940,792 B2
  • Filed: 05/19/2014
  • Issued: 04/10/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for electronic game play involving one or more remote users of a system in an electronic environment, the remote users utilizing first electronic communications devices, the first electronic communications devices having input capability and generate an output corresponding to the input, comprising the steps of:

  • displaying a plurality of real life personalities depicted as virtual players including their identity and image, the virtual players having differing play characteristics, the differing play characterstics being revealed to the remote users,receiving at the input from the one or more remote users a selection indicating an association with one of the plurality of virtual players, the selection being communicated by the output of the first electronic communications devices over a public communication system to the input, the selection of the virtual player being made solely by the remote user,displaying a simulated game using the one or more virtual players,compensating for the differing player characteristics such that system generated probabilities of winning are uniform among the one or more remote users,identifying a subset of the one or more virtual players as being winners of the simulated game, andawarding a win to the one or more remote users if the selection indicating an association with one of the plurality of virtual players is in the subset of virtual players.

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