Multi-level simple lotto

Abstract

In a lotto game the lotto draw is made from numbers within a multiplicity universes of numbers, with (1) each number universe having all the numbers normal to the lotto game, and with (2) at least one number universe having associated with at least one number of the universe a secondary indicia, or differentiator, that of one or more types each of which types is called a “color”. No two numbers of the lotto draw are the same whether plain or colored, but the lotto draw of different numbers can contain one or more numbers that are each of the one or more colors. Lotto wagers, or tickets, containing winning numbers matching the lotto draw sufficient for a winning payout are paid full normal amounts if the matched numbers are all plain numbers, but if the winning numbers of the lotto ticket contain some predetermined quantity of numbers that match numbers of the lotto draw that are colored numbers, then the winning payout is increased above levels that would correspondingly have been paid should the same winning payout of the lotto ticket have matched only numbers of the lotto draw that were plain numbers.

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REFERENCE TO A RELATED PATENT APPLICATION [0001] The present application is related as a continuation-in-part to U.S. utility patent application Ser. No. 10 / 268,826 filed Nov. 11, 2005, for ELECTRONIC VIDEO POKER USING MULTIPLE DECKS OF CARDS HAVING BOTH CONVENTIONAL PRIMARY AND ADDITIONAL, SECONDARY, IDENTITIES IN ORDER TO RESPECTIVELY MAKE BOTH CONVENTIONAL NORMAL, AND SPECIAL JACKPOT, PAY-OUTS. Said application Ser. No. 10 / 268,826 is itself a continuation-in-part of U.S. utility patent applications Ser. No. 11 / 194,712 filed Aug. 2, 2005, and Ser. No. 11 / 196,825 filed Aug. 4, 2005, for WORLDWIDE ELECTRONIC VIDEO POKER, now abandoned. [0002] The present application is also related to U.S. utility patent applications Ser. No. ______ for INCREMENTAL INCREASING LEVELS OF PLAY, NADA (LOSING HAND) PAYOUT, AND STAND ALONE AND / OR LINKED PROGRESSIVE-JACKPOT ELECTRONIC VIDEO POKER GAMES, and Ser. No. ______ for MULTI-LEVEL SIMPLE KENO both filed on an even date with the present application....

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Benefits of technology

[0054] In accordance with the predecessor and related inventions and applications, all these additional awards, rewards, bonuses, prizes, large jackpots, and even mega jackpots and / or progressive jackpots—generically called “supplemental jackpots”—may be won in the same game, and above the normally applicable award schedule in Lotto, with or, most commonly, without any increase in the wager, nor any placement of any additional wager. Clearly an important new element is brought to the play of Lotto. By bringing more levels and aspects to the game, more win possibilities, and more awards to the game, for the same and or only somewhat more out of the player's pocket, the overall perception of the game of Lotto is changed to a more positive image, being an image of a game that is fun to play, exciting, rewarding, and, in fact, actually winnable.

[0062] In accordance with the predecessor and related invention, pay-outs in the form of “supplemental jackpots” are made based on selected secondary identities of the composite cards of a poker hand or, more exactingly, on the second identities of the cards of the poker hand cards in combination with the ranks of these same cards. For example consider that one (only) of the 50 aces, let us say the ace of spades, within the combined 50 decks has a secondary identity of “Green”. Consider likewise that one only of the 50 Kings, one only of the 50 Queens, one only of the 50 Jacks, and one only of the 50 tens within the combined decks is also of the secondary identify color of “Green”. These cards may also be of suit “spades”, but they need not be. Now, if the probability of drawing a royal flush (A-K-Q-J-10) in spades (and in every other suit) is 1 in 2,598,960, what then is the probability of drawing a “royal flush” (still A-K-Q-J-10) that is also (and simultaneously if the cards made “Green” were all spades) in “Green”. The answer is that it is the odds that one of the required 5 useful Green cards of the 2600 cards will be first drawn, times the odds that one of the remaining 4 useful Green cards will next be drawn from the remaining 2599 cards, times the odds that one of the remaining 3 useful Green cards will next be drawn from the 2598 remaining cards, and so on. The odds of a “green royal flush) are (5 / 2600)×(4 / 2599)×(3 / 2598)×(2 / 5597)×(1 / 2596), or about 1 chance in 10 to the 15th power (1 chance in a million billion). This is a very, very small number. Accordingly, the payout for a “royal flush in Green” may be made very high. With typical 5×$1 bet casino video poker machines paying out $4000 for a “conventional” royal flush, the supplemental jackpot for a “royal flush in Green” may easily be sent to $1,000,000, or more.

Problems solved by technology

Of course, this sort of Lotto does indeed pay a high award or jackpot; however the player perception is that it is very nearly impossible to actually win such a game.

Of course, this sort of Lotto does pay a high award or jackpot, however the player perception, as noted above, is that it is very nearly impossible to actually win such a game.

However, the player perception of this sort of game would be more pessimistic than the player perception of the same the Lotto game known as 3-digit, single number Lotto.

This makes the play of the game unattractive.

There are real, intrinsic drawbacks and related limitations in any and all of the aforesaid games of casino Lotto.

These drawbacks and the resultant limitations are common to all varieties of Lotto in that all Lotto's are a product of the same sort of deal and draw process.

This is a major drawback to the game.

Another drawback to the play of Lotto is that the customary game cannot and does not award many consolation prizes, and, if it does, there are in the usual course very few if any large consolation prizes and the smaller ones are just that, very small.

Although the future is always difficult to predict, the popularity of casino Lotto, live action or electronic video play, could further ebb relative to the other gaming alternatives now coming onto casino floors due to the aforesaid drawbacks and stated limitations.

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