Amusement devices: games – Chance devices – Electric or magnetic
Patent
1995-02-07
1997-02-11
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Chance devices
Electric or magnetic
273269, 463 19, A63F 306
Patent
active
056012870
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention refers to a system for use of a microprocessor at drawing of winners in a lottery with an in advance given dividend, whereby each lottery ticket includes at least one counter of bingo type with a number of numbers provided in rows and columns as well as an identification that is unique for the lottery ticket.
PRIOR ART
At conventional lotteries one simply draws prize tickets from the total number of lottery tickets, until an in advance given number of prize tickets has been obtained. The results of such draws are published by means of lottery prize-list. A disadvantage of usual lotteries is that the excitement moment is short-lived.
Interactive games of bingo type engages the participants considerably more and are therefore experienced as more exciting. A problem at games of bingo type is that the random draw of numbers gives an unpredictable dividend. It is true, that the dividend in long-term can be statistically calculated, but the uncertainty is yet very big before each individual draw.
THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
The purpose of the invention is therefore to achieve a system that makes it possible to achieve an in advance given dividend at games of bingo type.
THE SOLUTION
For this object the invention is characterized in that the identification of each lottery ticket and number row of a counter are stored in a first register which is readable by a microprocessor, that a number of number sequences are created and stored in a second register which is readable by a microprocessor, in such a way that each of the number sequences is unique and gives a number of prize-winning rows of numbers among the counters, which number corresponds to the given dividend, that one of the number sequences in the second register is selected by a random draw, and that the microprocessor compares this chosen number sequence with the number rows in the first register and shows the identifications that indicate counters with a prize-winning row of numbers.
Advantageous variants of the invention are illustrated by the subsequent subclaims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
Embodiments of the invention will now be described here below with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
FIG. 1 shows a Bingo-style lottery ticket with a counter in accordance with one aspect of the invention, and
FIG. 2 shows a microprocessor with memory registers for operating a lottery under the present invention.
PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The system according to the invention is based on the use of the conventional bingo-counter 10 for variation games, as shown in FIG. 1. Normally such a counter 10 includes 75 numbers distributed in five columns 11-15 with 15 rows each, with numbers 1-15 in the first column 11, 16-30 in the second column 12, 31-45 in the third column 13, 40-60 in the fourth column 14, and 61-75 in the fifth column 15. The invention is however not limited to this size, but can be modified regarding the number of rows and columns.
There are a total of 50,62.5 different ways to combine a bingo counter with 75 numbers in the five columns 11-15. Each lottery ticket includes at least one of these counters 10. It can manageably be appropriate to use series of, for example, 10,000 lottery tickets per series. Then 10,000 of the total number of bingo counters are selected. The counters are each printed and provided with an identification number 16, so that every lottery ticket in each series has a unique counter and a unique identification number 16. If several series are present, for example, nine, there are therefore 90,000 lottery tickets with nine identical counter series and 90,000 different lottery ticket numbers 16.
Each lottery ticket number 16 in a series consequently represents a unique counter 10. As shown in FIG. 2, the lottery ticket numbers 16 and their respective counters 10 are stored in a first register 17 readable by a microprocessor 18.
Before each draw the prize plan shall be known. One can, for example, choose that there shall be 90 winners per 10,000 lottery tickets. The draw i
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