WO2009002948A4 - Lottery game that alternates between game indicia and raffle prizes - Google Patents

Abstract

A drawing in the inventive lottery game comprises one or two stages. In the first stage, a wheel is spun. If the wheel indicates a slot occupied by game indicia, then a group of players win simultaneously, in which case, the drawing is over. Otherwise, the wheel indicates a prize, in which case, a raffle drawing for a winner of this prize is deferred to a second stage. There are single-wheel and more sophisticated multi-wheel embodiments, a multi-wheel embodiment having at least one advantage in that it requires no minimum level of sales.

Claims

Claims

What is claimed is:

A method for implementiing and playing a raffle with a plurality of player: comprising:

A raffle being defined as a. wagering game wherein each entry comprises ii unique concatenation of characters , which is conferred either a winner or loser in it's entirety by a drawing, i.e. a selection process, with the winner or winners being awarded a prize or prizes; Each player paying an entlry fee;

Each player selecting, or tlhe lottery organization assigning, game indicia;

The lottery generating a unique concatenation of characters where a designated position or positions of the said unique concatenation is occupied by the sid player-selected or lottery- assigned game indicia; The said lottery-generated unique concatenation of characters comprising he entry for the raffle;

The raffle drawing being a. one or two-stage process;

The outcome of the first stage of the said raffle drawing being either game indicia or one or more prizes;

The said first stage of the drawing conferring as winners the group of entres for which the game indicia part of the unique concatenation matches the outcome of the first stage of the drawing, if the outcome of the first sage of the drawing is game indicia;

The group of entries conferred as winners in the first stage being awarded prizes, if such a group is produced;

A second stage of the drawing commencing, if the outcome of the first stage of the drawing is one or more prizes;

The said second stage of the drawing comprising a random selection of a winner or winners among the entries corresponding to the prize or prizes determined in the first stage of the drawing, if a second stage of the dra wing takes place: The entry or entries conferred as winners in the said secord stage of the drawing being awarded the corresponding prize or prizes determined in the first stage of the drawing, if a second stage of the drawing takes place.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein a single payment is allowed for multiple cr ries.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the said drawing process is performed by soinning one of a system of wheels wherein:

Each wheel comprises slois occupied by game indicia interspersed with prizes;

Each of the wheels is fair, a fair wheel being one in which all of the slots on the wheel have an equal chance of being selected when the wieel is spun;

The wheel to be spun is rajπdomly selected subject to a probability distribυ ion;

The said raffle allows for large fixed prizes, a large fixed arize being hund eds, thousands or more times the price point;

There is no minimum requirement as to the level of sales, that is, the game is viable whether there are as few as 1 or 0 players.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein: the said raffle is a fast-pced monitor game; A fast-paced game being one that is conducted more than once a day;

A monitor game being one for which the drawing or results of the drawing is displayed as they occur on monitors deployed across an e itire population.

5. A method for implementing, playing and conducting a drawing for a rafflii with a plurality of players comprising:

A raffle being defined as a wagering game wherein each entry comprises ;ι unique concatenation of characters, which is conferred either a winner or loser in t's entirety by the drawing process, with the winner or winners being awarde; a prize or prizes;

Each player paying an entry fee;

The said raffle allowing fir large fixed prizes, a large fixed prize being hundreds, thousands or more times the price point;

There being no minimum requirement as to the level of sales, that is, the game is viable whether there are as few as 1 or 0 playcrs- The method of claim 5 wherein:

The said raffle is a fast-paced monitor game;

A fast-paced game is one that is conducted more than once a day;

A monitor game is one for which the drawing or results of the drawing is displayed as they occur on monitors deployed across an entire population.