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

[0067] The summary effect of the completely versatile, controllable, and mathematically rigorous payout schedules of the predecessor and related inventions based on the “secondary identities” called “colors”—of each card within multiple decks of cards is to give the owner/programmer of the video poker machine an immense degree of fine control over the poker gaming experience. Normally this experience is set both so that (1) big new payouts—called supplemental jackpots—based on card secondary identities become possible, while (2) pay-outs of lesser amounts simultaneously become possible. And, all this is, of course,

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 t

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