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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7959188 | Lottery ticket having matched indicia grid with row and column win indicators A scratch off lottery game card is that includes a substrate on which a plurality of game indicia printed on a game indicia area in an M×N matrix and a plurality of player indicia printed on a player indicia area. The game indicia are preferably grouped by differen... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7431295 | Lottery ticket with play action game A lottery ticket has printed thereon a matrix of nine rows and nine columns defining eighty one locations some of which are pre-marked with numbers from 1 to 9 and is arranged such that the player can select and enter the numbers in open locations to provide an arra... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429044 | Scratch-ticket lottery and promotional games A scratch-ticket game card simulating a instant Texas Hold'Em Poker game card with multiple chances of winning for a player. The instant game card includes plurality sets of player hands and a set of opponent hands, a set of community cards, and at least two prizes.... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7410168 | Poker style scratch-ticket lottery games A lottery instant win game card simulating a Hold'Em Poker styled card game with multiple chances of winning for a player. The instant game card includes at least two sets of player hands and at least two sets of opponent hands, with at least two sets of community c... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407437 | Word based lottery game A lottery terminal apparatus and method of playing a word based lottery includes a value input device, a display unit and a lottery input unit for receiving alphabetical game play information wherein the display unit is adapted to visually display the received alpha... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404764 | Word based lottery game A lottery terminal apparatus and method of playing a word based lottery includes a value input device, a display unit and a lottery input unit for receiving alphabetical game play information wherein the display unit is adapted to visually display the received alpha... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7381132 | Gaming system and method The gaming system operates a lottery system for a single state, or includes multiple state systems, each having many different instant-winner ticket games and distributed ticket dispensers. A supervisory computer system is provided. A jackpot is provided which incre... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377512 | Lottery ticket A lottery ticket is printed onto a conventional paper, card or similar substrate to provide game information printed on the substrate and game data printed on the substrate where some or all of the game data is covered by a removable covering which can be removed by... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7294056 | Enhanced gaming system An enhanced gaming system through which a variety of games of chance and/or games of skill can be made available to players. The gaming system separates game outcomes from game themes and game payout/buy-in information, thereby enhancing game flexibility. The gaming... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7213811 | Extension to a lottery game for which winning indicia are set by selections made by winners of a base lottery game A system and method of playing an extension game to a lottery game is disclosed. A lottery game player enters a base game and receives a base game entry, and may elect to play a second lottery game in addition to the base game, and if so, selects or has selected for... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213810 | System and method for charting numbers games A play slip chart for a lottery game, for example, includes at least one board having a plurality of numbers. The numbers are divided into a plurality of groups of numbers called positions and further divided into a plurality zones. Each zone is defined by one or mo... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7156738 | Casino gambling machine with bonus round award redemption An electronic gambling unit for allowing a user to play a main gambling game and a bonus round game, and for dispensing value to the user at the conclusion of the bonus round game, may generally include a display unit capable of generating color images or other disp... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7128319 | Method of playing a game of chance including purchase of additional game play information and system for facilitating the play thereof A method for playing a game of chance and system for facilitating the play of the game are disclosed, in which an initial ticket containing initial game play information is received, a second ticket containing additional game play information is received, and the co... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7125017 | Dual play area lottery game with enhanced authentication system A lottery ticket including at least one first play area and at least one second play area in which authenticating indicia is printed beneath the scratch-off layer in the second play area and on top of the scratch-off layer in the second play area. If the player deci... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7073720 | Lottery ticket bar code Security can be provided for lottery tickets having data printed thereon in a bar code or other machine readable media by covering only a portion of the bar code with a scratch-off material. Removing the scratch-off material, or in some cases only a portion of the s... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7047104 | Item vending machine and method An apparatus for dispensing items from a pack of items wherein the pack of items has parameters associated therewith such as pack size, an item dimension and an item price. The apparatus includes an item dispenser, a cash acceptor, input and output devices, and a co... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7004506 | Lottery ticket play action game A lottery ticket having a first game area having at least one row with each row containing a plurality of play indicia and a second game area adjacent each row of the first game area and containing a target indicia which if present may result in a prize being won. | 02/28/2006 |
| 6969091 | Coin displaying book A book that is capable of displaying one or more coins related to its theme, including a front cover and a back cover. At least one book cover defines one or more apertures that are capable of receiving coins. The book theme is displayed on at least one of the book ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6958014 | Lottery-style on-demand ticket system and method A distributed manufacturing and distribution process for lottery tickets is disclosed. The manufacturing/vending system comprises a centralized ticket manufacturing controller located at a centralized location and one or more vending devices located at remote sites.... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6939627 | Scratch layer transfer sheet and method of producing scratch printing product A scratch layer transfer sheet comprising a substrate film and a transferable scratch layer disposed on one surface of the substrate film, the transferable scratch layer comprising a hiding layer, being able to be thermally transferred to the print surface of a tran... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6926273 | Seal card game and method A seal card game having a number of play areas, with each play area having a hidden symbol. One of the hidden symbols on the ticket is a directional symbol. The other hidden symbols are end of game symbols. The player has one opportunity to uncover a hidden symbol i... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6923440 | Seal card game with raffle A system for use in playing a game of chance includes a plurality of playing cards (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″). Optionally, at least some of the plurality of playing cards display a free ticket symbol (40) which entitles a holder of the playing card t... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6923445 | Gaming ticket sets having advertising by multiple advertisers with selectable variable advertiser exposure frequency Apparatus, systems and methods involving producing and distributing chance tickets, such as pull-tab tickets, scratch-off tickets, and folded tickets which have symbol sets used to determine whether the ticket has a winning symbol set or sets versus non-winning symb... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6921071 | Multi-play jar tickets A play piece for a game of chance has a game portion and an identification portion. Multiple play combinations are printed on the game portion. The play piece can then be folded to conceal the multiple play combinations, and sealed in some fashion. Multiple play pie... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6918589 | Winning scheme for a lottery type game The present invention provides a lottery type game system, method and ticket, wherein the winning of a game is determined by the assignment of game images to a predetermined number of consecutive positions along a linear array. The value of the prize is determined b... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916047 | Secure card A laminated construction that combines card stock with another card stock that has been printed with a dark pigmented coating, such as ink, to prevent the show through of information that appears beneath a scratch-off coating over the concealed information. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6896296 | Irreversible metal film display Display information is revealed from behind a metal film that can be cleared upon effective contact with a clearing agent. The metal film, while opaque, is generally less than 1000 Angstroms thick and can be cleared by exposure to innocuous agents including food or ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6880824 | Apparatus for controlling play of a progressively operated lottery-type game Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling the play of progressively operated lottery-type game systems wherein at least one selected player becomes eligible to play for a bonus award which if not awarded to or won by a player rolls over and is added to the bonus awa... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6877744 | Game using combined coin board and seal card creating an action board Coin Boards and Seal Cards have been used in conjunction with the playing of Pull-Tab Gambling games in the market place for many years. However, we are not aware of the Coin Board or Seal Card games being combined and used in conjunction with the real-time play of ... | 04/12/2005 |
| RE38666 | Game material set and play method with money-match bonus level qualifier A game material set is provided for playing a game of chance for monetary prizes and includes a plurality of individual playing cards each having one or more groups of game symbols printed thereon and selectively concealed under break-open windows. The game symbol g... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6824135 | Double win game A “lottery-type” game of chance for a plurality of players employs break open playing cards (10), at least some of the playing cards having printed on them one or more instant win awards. The awards are covered, prior to play, with one or more removable c... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6802506 | Entry ticket in the system of numerical games of chance and method of completing the said ticket The subject of the invention is the entry ticket in the system of numerical games of chance and the method of completing the said ticket. The uniquely marked ticket is the element by which the player enters the game. The ticket layout features numerical date-time an... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6736324 | Lottery ticket bar code Security can be provide for lottery tickets having data printed thereon in a bar code or other machine readable media by covering only a portion of the bar code with a scratch-off material. Removing the scratch-off material, or in some cases only a portion of the sc... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6714838 | Dispensing lottery tickets The input of information into the control unit of a lottery ticket dispensing machine, for filling of dispensing containers of the machine with different game tickets, defining a game number for a game provided on the tickets, a price of the ticket, a total number o... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6676126 | Lottery game card and method for conducting a lottery game A lottery game card incorporates player direction in determining the outcome of the game and allows a player to reveal one or more elements on the card according to rules associated with the lottery game. According to one embodiment of the invention, all ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6659458 | Perpetual seal card game A perpetual seal card game in which players purchase individual play cards and reveal indicia covered by removable covers. Indicia on the individual play cards indicate whether the player is an instant winner, continues playing as a challenging player or ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6648755 | Pull-tab manufacturing and distribution system and method A distributed manufacturing and distribution process for lottery tickets is disclosed. The manufacturing/vending system comprises a centralized ticket manufacturing controller located at a centralized location and one or more vending devices located at re... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6619660 | Lottery ticket play action game A lottery ticket having a first play area including individual play regions each of which contains a player-identification symbol, a prize defeating symbol or a neutral and a second play area which is associated with the first play area and which at least... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6612576 | Seal card game with multiple levels of play A "lottery-type" game of chance for a plurality of players employs break open tickets (10), at least some of the tickets having printed on them one or more instant win awards (40). The awards are covered, prior to play, with one or more removable cover me... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6588747 | Game piece and system and method of use This specification discloses various types of games that preferably utilize a game ticket to provide a first game with a base award. A second or other succeeding game may provide the opportunity to multiply the award or otherwise provide additional or dif... | 07/08/2003 |
