Lottery Game System Integrating Televised Show and Web Play
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional lottery games face declining sales and a need for enhanced entertainment value and participation, with existing second chance games offering minor prizes and limited engagement.
Innovation Solution
A method combining a primary lottery game with a televised game show and a play-at-home version, where players accumulate game symbols on lottery tickets to participate in a bonus game, potentially winning entries into a televised game show, with winners becoming contestants or audience members, and accumulating symbols through both ticket purchases and web-based games.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional scratch-off and draw games are used, then lottery revenue is generated, but sales curves are flattening out and player engagement is declining
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines traditional lottery games with a televised game show and a web-based play-at-home version, merging three distinct gaming formats into a unified system. Players can participate in the primary lottery game, accumulate symbols, and then engage with either the televised show or online version, creating a multi-channel gaming experience that revitalizes player engagement and drives sales
Solution Approach 2:
The lottery ticket serves multiple functions: it acts as a traditional lottery entry, a collectible symbol repository, and a qualification ticket for the televised game show. The game show itself serves dual purposes as both televised entertainment and online game template, allowing the same game mechanics to function across different platforms and player preferences
2Ease of operation
If second chance games with minor prizes are offered, then some player engagement is maintained, but they are not recognized as significant promoters of sales
Solution Approach 1:
The patent fundamentally changes the prize structure parameter from minor second-chance prizes to major televised game show prizes with significant cash awards and luxury vehicles. This parameter change transforms the perceived value of participation, making the second chance game a major sales driver rather than a minor engagement tool
Solution Approach 2:
The televised game show acts as an intermediary that bridges the gap between traditional lottery play and high-value prizes. Instead of directly offering minor prizes for ticket purchases, the system uses the game show as an intermediate mechanism that converts symbol accumulation into significant prize opportunities, thereby enhancing sales promotion
3Reliability
If players accumulate game symbols through ticket purchases, then eligibility for televised game show is created, but the process requires multiple transactions and time
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by providing players with starter symbols directly on their lottery tickets and through the web-based game. This preliminary symbol accumulation reduces the time and transactions needed to reach eligibility thresholds for the televised game show, while maintaining the reliability of the accumulation system
Solution Approach 2:
The web-based play-at-home game serves as an intermediary mechanism that accelerates symbol accumulation. Instead of requiring players to make multiple primary lottery purchases, the web game provides an additional channel for earning symbols, thereby reducing the time and cost to qualify for the televised show while maintaining system integrity
4Adaptability or versatility
If a televised game show is integrated with lottery games, then entertainment value and player engagement increase, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by creating a web-based version that replicates the televised game show mechanics. This digital copy allows the same game to run on different platforms (televised and online) without requiring separate game designs, thereby managing system complexity while maintaining versatility across multiple delivery channels
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method are provided for conducting a primary lottery game in conjunction with a televised game show and a play-at-home version of the show. In the primary lottery game, players purchase lottery tickets, with each ticket having a unique web code. Players of the primary lottery game become eligible to be a contestant in the show by accumulating a predefined set of game symbols in the lottery game. During broadcast of the game show, a plurality of game symbol codes are provided to at-home viewers of the show who are also players of the primary lottery game. The at-home viewers are able to access a website, enter the web code from their lottery ticket, enter one the game symbol codes broadcast with the game show, and play a web-based game to win a game symbol associated with the entered game symbol code.