Voucher and game ticket combination and apparatus and method use

Details Voucher and game ticket combination and apparatus and method use Voucher and game ticket combination and apparatus and method use

1997-09-11

1999-07-27

Layno, Benjamin H.

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

In a chance application

463 17, 2731382, 273139, A63F 306, A63F 922

Patent

active

059280824

ABSTRACT:
Electronic and mechanical apparatus utilizing a voucher and game ticket combination used in the play of a sweepstakes promotional game. The voucher may represent any document, receipt, stamp, or the like which evidences an expenditure or otherwise has utilitarian value and includes a game ticket. This sweepstakes game is used as a marketing inducement to sell the voucher or coupon. Preferably, the apparatus is a dispenser which dispenses the voucher and the game ticket combination and, in so dispensing, automatically allows the play of a sweepstake game. The game ticket and the game apparatus function as an effective marketing inducement for a purchaser to acquire a particular voucher as, for example, a prepaid telephone card. In this way, the user will be able to access a telephone service. The voucher portion contains information on the use of the voucher and the game ticket portion of the voucher contains indicia relating to a play of the sweepstakes promotional game. The promotional game indicia appears on the attached game ticket and may represent a winning or scoring indicia. In addition, a bar code is present on the game ticket and as the voucher and game ticket is dispensed, the bar code is read by the apparatus and displays indicia corresponding to the sweepstakes promotional indicia on the game ticket.

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patent: 5799947 (1998-09-01), Spector

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