Lottery ticket having multiple zone play feature

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12036480-B2
Application number	US-202117482951-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2021
Priority date	Sep 23, 2021
Publication date	Jul 16, 2024
Grant date	Jul 16, 2024

Abstract

A lottery ticket, and a lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery ticket, including a plurality of separate player symbol zones on the substrate, each player symbol zone including a plurality of player first symbols, a plurality of award symbols respectively associated with the plurality of player first symbols, and a player bonus award symbol; a plurality of winning symbols on the substrate; a first removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of player symbol zones; and a second removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of winning symbols.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lottery ticket comprising:
a substrate;
a plurality of winning symbols on the substrate;
a plurality of separate player symbol zones on the substrate, each player symbol zone comprising:
a plurality of player first symbols,
a plurality of award symbols respectively associated with the plurality of player first symbols,
a player bonus award symbol independent from the plurality of player first symbols,
a first award associated with the player first symbols, and
a second award associated with the player bonus award symbol and not the winning symbols;

wherein, for one of the player symbol zones, the player bonus award symbol indicates a zero bonus award;
a first removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of player symbol zones; and
a second removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of winning symbols.

2. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , which comprises four symmetrically arranged player symbol zones.

3. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of winning symbols are randomly selected, and wherein for each player symbol zone, the plurality of player first symbols are independently randomly selected.

4. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the first award comprises a plurality of awards, each associated with a player first symbol in the player symbol zone.

5. The lottery ticket of claim 4 , further comprising, for each player symbol zone, a third award for the winning symbols matching all of the player first symbols in said player symbol zone, the third award being in addition to the first award associated with the player first symbols of said player symbol zone.

6. The lottery ticket of claim 5 , wherein, for each player symbol zone, an indication of the third award is present in said player symbol zone.

7. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the lottery ticket comprises four separate player symbol zones.

8. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , which is a physical lottery ticket, wherein the first removeable covering is a first scratch-off coating on the substrate, and the second removable coating is a second scratch-off coating on the substrate.

9. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , which is a virtual lottery ticket.

10. A lottery ticket comprising:
a substrate;
a plurality of player symbol zones on the substrate, each player symbol zone comprising:
a plurality of player number symbols,
a plurality of primary monetary award symbols respectively associated with the plurality of player number symbols, and
a player monetary bonus award symbol independent from the plurality of player number symbols;

wherein, for each of a plurality of the player symbol zones, the player bonus award symbol of that player symbol zone indicates a zero bonus award;
a plurality of winning number symbols on the substrate;
a first removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of player symbol zones;
a second removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of winning symbols; and
wherein a plurality of awards are associated with the plurality of player symbol zones, the plurality of awards comprising: (i) for one of the player symbol zones, a first type award for any of the winning number symbols that match any of the player number symbols in that player symbol zone, and (ii) for one of the player symbol zones, a second type award based on the player monetary bonus award symbol and regardless of any of the winning number symbols.

11. The lottery ticket of claim 10 , which comprises four separate player symbol zones.

12. The lottery ticket of claim 10 , which is a physical lottery ticket, wherein the first removeable covering is a first scratch-off coating on the substrate, and the second removable coating is a second scratch-off coating on the substrate.

13. The lottery ticket of claim 10 , which is a virtual lottery ticket.

14. A lottery gaming system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to cause a lottery ticket to be created, the lottery ticket comprising:
a substrate;
a plurality of winning symbols on the substrate;
a plurality of player symbol zones on the substrate, each player symbol zone comprising:
a plurality of player first symbols,
a plurality of award symbols respectively associated with the plurality of player first symbols,
a player monetary bonus award symbol independent from the plurality of player first symbols,
a first award associated with the player first symbols, and
a second award associated with the player bonus award symbol and not the winning symbols;

wherein, for one of the player symbol zones, the player bonus award symbol indicates a zero bonus award;
a first removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of player symbol zones; and
a second removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of winning symbols.

15. The lottery gaming system of claim 14 , wherein the lottery ticket comprises more than three player symbol zones.

16. The lottery gaming system of claim 15 , wherein the lottery ticket further comprises a third award for the winning symbols matching all of the player first symbols in that player symbol zone.

17. The lottery gaming system of claim 16 , wherein the third award is present in each player symbol zone.

18. The lottery gaming system of claim 15 , wherein the first award comprises a plurality of awards, each associated with a player first symbol in the player symbol zone.

19. The lottery gaming system of claim 15 , wherein the lottery ticket is a physical ticket, the first removeable covering is a first scratch-off coating on the substrate, and the second removable coating is a second scratch-off coating on the substrate.

20. The lottery gaming system of claim 15 , wherein the lottery ticket is a virtual ticket.

Assignees

• Igt Global Solutions Corp

Inventors

• Lucci Anthony
• Schertzer Jeffrey

Classifications

• G07F17/329 Primary

  Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards · CPC title

• A63F3/0665 Primary

  having a message becoming legible after rubbing-off a coating or removing an adhesive layer (for educational purposes G09B) · CPC title

• A63F3/065 Primary

  Tickets or accessories for use therewith (A63F3/0625 takes precedence) · CPC title