Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Moving surface
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-18
2005-10-18
Harrison, Jessica (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Moving surface
C463S017000, C463S001000, C463S047000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06955353
ABSTRACT:
A novel lottery ticket as well as a lottery game and method of playing that game using the lottery ticket are disclosed. The lottery ticket can be used to participate in at least one of a plurality of drawing events that occur over a period of time. The lottery ticket comprises a number of panels that conceal a number of playing game pieces and/or free spaces. The playing game pieces and/or free spaces are concealed by a removable coating material. Participants can choose which drawing event to play, manifesting their intent to play a particular drawing event by revealing the playing game pieces associated with the panels that are designated specifically for that particular drawing event. The game is played further by selecting a combination of winning game pieces and determining whether any of each participant's playing game pieces match some or all of the winning game pieces. A ticket becomes a winning ticket if some or all of the matching playing game pieces on the lottery ticket adjoin so as to produce a winning line of a horizontal, vertical or diagonal “three-in-a-row” as with tic-tac-toe. More than one winning line are possible on each lottery ticket, producing multiple ways of winning on a single lottery ticket.
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Gray Andrew P.
Taylor Alan
Europrint Holdings Limited
Harrison Jessica
Kenyon & Kenyon
Skaarup Jason
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