1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates generally to a lottery game, and more particularly to a lottery game in which the player selects a plurality of positions within a geometric figure and in which some of the positions in the figure are subsequently populated with indicia.
2. Description of the Related Art
Many governments and/or gaming organizations sponsor wagering games known as lotteries. A typical lottery game entails players selecting permutations or combinations of numbers. This is followed by a “draw,” wherein the lottery randomly selects a combination or permutation of numbered balls. Prizes are awarded based on the number of matches between a player's selection and the drawn numbers. The drawn numbers are then well-publicized, and large-jackpot lotteries are popular throughout the world.
Lotteries have become an important source of income to governments as they shoulder much of the financial burden for education and other programs. However, as governments have grown more dependent on and increased the use of lotteries, it has become a challenge to sustain public interest therein and maintain the desired level of game participation. One approach to invigorating lottery sales is to expand game content beyond traditional combination/permutation games in the hope that the new games will help keep current players, as well as draw in new players.
One method to enhance game play is to change game indicia from simple alphanumeric characters to other pictures and images. It is known to use pictures or other game indicia in the lottery game to create a unique prize structure. However, most of the variable game indicia lotteries still rely upon a matching of game indicia and drawn indicia to determine a prize through the correspondent level of matching.
Therefore, it would be advantageous to provide a lottery game that allows winning based upon more than simple number or symbol matching. Further, such lottery game should allow a variable prize structure that is greater than that permitted by pure matching of sets of symbols. It is thus to such an improved lottery game that the present invention is primarily directed.
The present invention overcomes some of the deficiencies of the lottery games know in the art, and provides new lottery game content in three ways. First, rather than requiring players to select a plurality of indicia from a large set of indicia, the invention allows players to select a plurality of positions from a geometric figure that will subsequently be populated with indicia from a possibly small set of indicia, possibly with repetition. Second, rather than being limited to the use of generic indicia such as numbers, the invention may use symbols, and possibly symbols related to a brand or other popular images with broad consumer appeal. Third, the indicia have point values associated with them so that the value of a player's ticket is determined by the total number of points associated with the indicia in the selected positions, in contrast to awarding prizes based only upon matching symbols.
The invention thus comprises a lottery game in which the player may select a plurality of positions within a geometric figure. Some or all of the positions in the figure are subsequently populated with game indicia having point values. Preferably, the game indicia are related but not limited to an identifiable brand that will appeal to players. The positions may be populated with the indicia either by the lottery system at the time the player's ticket is issued, or they may be populated with indicia as the result of a draw that is held at a predetermined time in which case the assignment of indicia to positions is common for all players. A player's prize is thus a function of the total number of points associated with the indicia in the positions selected by the player.
In one embodiment, the invention is a method for implementing a lottery game using a geometric figure having a plurality of selection spaces comprising the steps of allowing a player to select at least one selection space within the geometric figure, populating one more of the selection spaces with one or more game indicia, wherein each game indicia has a point value, and then awarding a prize based upon the total number of points associated with the game indicia in the player-selected selection spaces.
In one embodiment, the invention is a system for implementing a lottery game comprising at least one game server that implements the lottery game using a geometric figure having a plurality of selection spaces, and at least one dispensing terminal that allows a player to select at least one selection space within the geometric figure of the lottery game implemented by the game server. The game server further populates one more of the selection spaces with one or more game indicia, with each game indicia having a point value, and the game server further awards a prize to the player based upon the total number of points associated with the game indicia in the player-selected selection spaces.
The invention also includes a lottery game ticket including a geometric figure having a plurality of selection spaces that allows a player to select at least one selection space within the geometric figure, and allows one more of the selection spaces to be populated with one or more game indicia, with each game indicia having a point value. The lottery ticket allows a determination of a prize is based upon the total number of points associated with the game indicia in the player-selected selection spaces.
Other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent after review of the hereinafter set forth Brief Description of the Drawings, the Detailed Description of the Invention, and the Claims.
Referring now to the drawings, in a first embodiment of the inventive lottery game shown in
After the lottery system accepts the wager, it prints a ticket 20 (
In an alternate embodiment, the ticket displays the player's selection but does not indicate the placement of the indicia in the geometric figure. In this embodiment, a drawing is held after sales are discontinued, the drawing comprising a selection of cells, without replacement, for each indicium in the set of indicia. The point value of the player's ticket can then be determined and the ticket validated as described above.
A sample embodiment of this invention is described as follows. The player chooses five positions from a 5.times.5 square grid 12 using a bet slip 10 as shown in
Using a random number generator, as known in the art, the lottery system assigns the indicia to a 5.times.5 grid. The system then issues a ticket that displays the grid, the indicia and the player's selected positions. As shown in
In assigning indicia to positions on the geometric figure/grid, the lottery system may randomly select and populate the positions (typically via a randomized algorithm or a drawing) or it may use the method of reverse mapping, i.e. it may randomly determine the number of points that the player will earn first and then assign the indicia to the positions so as to effect a ticket that has the selected point value. Other methods as known in the art to automatically populate the indicia in a “quick pick” manner can be used herein. The odds shown in the table in
The following example shows how the odds may be computed in the case where indicia are randomly assigned to positions. Consider the event where a ticket earns exactly six points. This can happen in one of two ways: a) the player's selected positions contain two Pac-Man® symbols 28, two pairs of cherries 29, zero ghosts 27 and one blank space or b) the player's selected positions contain one Pac-Man® symbol 28, four pairs of cherries 29, zero ghosts 27 and zero blank spaces. Under the assumption that the indicia are placed on the geometric figure randomly, the probability of each case can be computed as follows:
Thus the total probability of earning six points is 0.001957, or approximately 1 in 510.9.
Note that in general, if k objects are selected from a set S of cardinality n that is partitioned into subsets S1, S2, . . . , Sm with cardinalities n1, n2, . . . , nm, respectively, then for nonnegative integers k1, k2, . . . , km with k1+k2 . . . +km=k, the probability that exactly ki of the objects are from S1 for i=1, . . . ,
denotes a binomial coefficient and by convention
The computation of these odds is facilitated by a method of automatically generating a list of all possible ways of expressing a positive integer n as an ordered sum of k nonnegative integers. For example, in the calculations above one may make use of a list of all the possible ways of writing 5 as a sum of four nonnegative integers, where order matters, i.e. 0+2+2+1 is distinct from 2+1+0+2. It is well known within combinatorial mathematics that these can be put in one-to-one correspondence with (k−1)-element subsets of a (n+k−1)-element set; see for example pp. 14-15 of Stanley's Enumerative Combinatorics, Vol. 1. Methods for generating all such subsets are also well-known; see pp. 43-52 of Kreher and Stinson's Combinatorial Mathematics: Generation, Enumeration, and Search.
The foregoing sample embodiment is for a stand-alone lottery game. The invention may also be embodied as an “extension game.” Specifically, the game may be offered for sale only in combination with another lottery game, referred to here as the “base game.” When embodied as an extension game, the prize table may include multiplier values as prizes. When a player wins a multiplier prize, say, for example 3×, one or more prizes that he wins in the base game may be multiplied by the multiplier value.
When embodied as an extension game, the prize table may include multiplier values as prizes. When a player wins a multiplier prize, say, for example 3×, one or more prizes that he wins in the base game may be multiplied by the multiplier value. The present invention may be embodied as an extension game, that is, a lottery game that can only be played in conjunction with another lottery game, referred to as the “base game.” In such an embodiment the prizes available to the player may include a multiplier value that multiplies one or more prizes that the player may have won in the base game. Extension games with multipliers as prizes are known in the art.
As shown in the following example.
The game terminal 54 can further providing a player a ticket having a printed matrix of selection spaces, such as bet slip 10 such that the player can select one or more selection spaces on the printed matrix of selection spaces. The game terminal 54 can also further print a ticket 20 showing the selection spaces populated with game indicia. The game server 52 can populate one or more of the selection spaces with one or more game indicia with issuance of the ticket 20, or can populates one or more of the selection spaces with one or more game indicia as the result of a draw or other random picking that is held at a predetermined time. Further, the game server can implements a second lottery game played simultaneously with the steps for implementing the lottery game using a geometric figure, such as shown in
The foregoing descriptions present only exemplary embodiments of the invention. Those of ordinary skill in the art will readily recognize that the invention may be embodied in a variety of ways by varying the geometric figures, the plurality of positions within the figure, the plurality of positions selected by the player, the symbols, the plurality of symbols, the plurality of instances of each symbol, the assignment of point values to the symbols, and the prize table. In particular it is contemplated there may be a lottery game where all the indicia are identical or have equal point values. These, and other variations of the game, are contemplated as being within the scope of the present invention.
The present application is a Divisional Application from U.S. application Ser. No. 11/258,545, filed Oct. 25, 2005 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,726,652. The '545 application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/622,982, filed on Oct. 28, 2004, the entirety of which is hereby fully incorporated herein by this reference.
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