Event-Based Lottery Ticket System for Player Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional lottery games lack excitement and engagement beyond the primary chance to win, failing to provide additional sources of interest or interaction with external events.
Innovation Solution
A digital ticket issuer server provides a digital instant lottery ticket system that incorporates an external event-based chance game, where the outcome of the event determines the chance game characteristics, such as available prizes and entrant pools, allowing users to participate in second chance draws associated with sporting events or other external events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional lottery games provide only primary game outcomes, then the game structure remains simple, but player engagement and excitement are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the primary lottery game with a secondary event-based chance game into a single integrated ticket system. The ticket includes both primary game numbers and event-based game entries, allowing players to participate in both games simultaneously. This merging increases player engagement by providing multiple winning opportunities while maintaining a unified, manageable game structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The lottery ticket serves multiple functions: it provides entry to the primary lottery game, entry to the event-based chance game, and potential eligibility for both primary and secondary prizes. The single ticket structure enables players to participate in diverse game types (instant win, future draw, event-based) without requiring separate tickets for each game type.
2Adaptability or versatility
If lottery games are linked to external events, then player interest and excitement are enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-generates event-based chance game entries and associates them with lottery tickets before the external events occur. Prize pools and game characteristics are predetermined based on possible event outcomes. This preliminary preparation allows the system to handle multiple external events without real-time complexity, as the framework for event-based games is established in advance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an event outcome as an intermediary element that connects the lottery ticket system with external events. The event outcome acts as a mediator that determines which prize pool and game characteristics apply to event-based entries. This intermediary layer simplifies system complexity by using the external event itself to control game parameters rather than requiring complex system-level decision-making.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple prize pools are offered based on event outcomes, then player excitement increases, but game management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic prize pools that automatically adjust based on external event outcomes. Different prize pools (first, second, third pools with varying prize types and quantities) are predefined for different event results. When an event outcome is determined, the corresponding prize pool is activated, providing prize diversity while simplifying management through automated selection rather than manual configuration.
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AI summary
Provided herein are systems methods and devices. Systems disclosed herein include a processor circuit and a memory including machine-readable instructions. When executed by the processor circuit, the machine-readable instructions cause the processor circuit to: provide a lottery game ticket that includes data corresponding to a primary game, receive a registration of the lottery game ticket corresponding to a chance game that includes an outcome that is based on an external event, determine, based on an outcome of the external event, a chance game characteristic to be applied to an entry for the chance game that corresponds to the lottery game ticket, and use the chance game characteristic to determine whether to provide a chance game award to a user.