Patent Application
20070262520
The present invention discloses a novel lottery or a promotional instant-game ticket, and a method of making the card or ticket. As shown in
The second set of game indicia 14 is covered with a removable covering 20 that contains identical game symbols 22,24 to the second set of game symbols 15, with the identical game symbols 22,24 positioned substantially over a corresponding identical game symbol of the second set of game indicia 14 whereby, as shown in
The ticket 10 is comprised of a substrate upon which data is imaged, some of this data being predetermined and fixed in nature, for example the game name, the sponsoring entity and game play instructions 26, and with some of the data being variably imaged as is known in the art. The ticket 10 is printed in known fashion using the known types of inks, and includes a removable “latex” or other polymer scratch-off layer (such removable coverings 16,20) which overlies and securely conceals the variably imaged data, this scratch-off layer being comprised of known types of elastomeric coatings.
Thus, to play the instant game, the player exposes “X” number of play symbols (the game symbols may be prize amounts 22 or words 24) in the first of two play areas. For every play symbol revealed in the first play area (set of first indicia 12), the player marks that symbol on the second play (set of second indicia 14) area as “eliminated”. In the second play area there preferably are “X+1” number of play symbols and an associated prize value (such as winning symbol 36). Therefore, in this embodiment, the player will eliminate all but one of the game symbols 15 in of the second set of indicia 14. That last remaining symbol will have a prize value or no prize value, depending upon whether or not it is a winning ticket. Thus, if one is left with “NO DEAL” as the last symbol of the second set of game indicia 14, it is a losing ticket.
The first set 12 and second set 14 of game symbols can include dollar amounts, such as winning indicator 36, or can include words, such as identical game symbol 24. As shown in
In another embodiment shown in
It can thus be seen from the Figures that the present invention also provides a method for making an instant-game ticket 10 through placing a first set of game indicia 12 on a substrate 11, with the first set of game indicia 12 including a first set of game symbols 13, and then placing a second set of indicia 14 on the substrate 11 larger in number than the first set of game indicia 12 and comprised of a second set of game symbols 15, with a subset of the second set of game symbols 15 identical to a subset of the first set of game symbols 13, and a subset of the second set of game indicia 14 each including a non-winning indicator 34. The method then has the step of covering the first set of game indicia 12 with a removable covering 16 that includes position indicators 18 that are positioned substantially over each of the first set of game indicia 12 such that removal of the removable material 16 at the position indicator 18 reveals a game symbol of the first set of game indicia 12 (as shown at scratch-off spot 30), and covering the second set of game indicia 14 with a removable covering 20 that contains identical game symbols (such as identical symbols 22,24) to the second set of game symbols 15, with the identical game symbols are positioned substantially over a corresponding identical game symbol of the second set of game indicia 14 such that removal of the identical game symbol on the removable material 20 will reveal the identical game symbol of the second set of game indicia 14 and corresponding non-winning indicator 34, if present, as shown at scratch-off spot 32.
The foregoing descriptions present only exemplary embodiments. 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 easily seen that an important special case of the invention is a lottery game where all the indicia are identical or have equal point values. These variations are contemplated as being within the scope of the present invention.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/799,543, filed on May 11, 2006, the entirety of which is hereby incorporated herein by this reference.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60799543 | May 2006 | US |
