FI106294B - Game Ticket - Google Patents

Description

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PELILIPFU - SPELBILJETT

The invention relates to a game ticket as defined in the preamble of claim 1.

The invention relates to game tickets, and in particular, the invention relates to so-called tickets. "instant game" type lottery tickets.

The instant lottery type lottery tickets are such that when a user has played one, he or she immediately or instantly knows about the ticket whether he or she has won. Typically, instant game tickets include 10 sockets or platforms on which game information is printed. The information can be symbols, words or numbers, or any combination of characters, and in a particularly popular form of instant play, the chips are covered with scratch or scratch-off material. The user simply scratches off this material to reveal all or part of the characters, in accordance with the rules of the game, to reveal the characters in the game and to see whether or not the flag has been won or lost, usually on the information printed on the flag.

Fast games can be used to distribute winnings, which in some cases can be significant. Tickets are usually arranged in series and sold at a fixed price, and since winnings usually i · t 25 are a predetermined promoter (the initiator of a transaction • •. ·. Each series can have a series of winning tickets, which may include one major win, • higher group wins, and a much larger group of 30 smaller wins. On the other hand, flags may be based on probability, and winners and losers will depend on the manner in which the user chooses to scratch the material to be removed.

»· · S-. ' Whatever the winning structure, it is unfortunate 35 that the flags are subjected to fraudulent scrutiny and that promoters and agents and other people who fall into the flag often attempt to pre-determine winning flags and remove the aforementioned series. . The perpetrators of such deception go to great lengths to determine winning flags, even to the extent that the flags must have been formatted to be "secure" by well-established and sometimes advanced pre-identification techniques.

The primary pre-identification ankle of the type of flag that involves scraping the material requires High Intensity Illumination to effectively view the chips through the flag before interfering with the scrapable material without permission. If the secret characters can be discovered by using high intensity 15 light, then the winners can be determined in advance and taken away. In order to prevent this fraud, manufacturers have had to resort to special measures, and in particular these have included the use of stock or substrates, which have been described as "safe".

Such materials prevent high-intensity light from passing through them and typically include laminates with sheet metal or specially designed base board that are resistant to light transmission. Unfortunately, these cartridges are ·· / 25 expensive and generally • ambiguous due to the surrounding conditions. There is therefore a need to improve lottery tickets from both a cost and an environmental point of view by introducing the most normal and less expensive substrates that can be presented as "not sure" compared to safe materials.

. · * ·. The use of emulation patterns consisting of irregular · · ·, opaque light impermeable areas printed on the surface of the card material * · · · is suggested, for example, in US 40955824.

35 To prevent copying through the opaque mask, the confusion pattern is printed over the chips ... # using a transparent medium of color 3 106294 different from the color of the chip. However, if the embarrassment pattern is not completely transparent, its existence will be evident to persons wishing to uncover and resolve the flag, and in any case, it will not be particularly effective in preventing the use of strong light to reveal through the scintillation.

The present invention has been designed with this purpose in mind, and in particular the object of the invention is to allow the use of commercially available 10 and to some extent normal substances (not certain) such as white board. By applying the procedures of the present invention, it is believed that cheaper and commercially available and commercially used agents can be applied to the substrate.

The invention can be used for flags containing a single platform layer, or for flags having two platform layers adapted to a so-called "window" flag format in which one platform has windows that can be pulled to reveal information relating to a game that is on the other platform. range.

As regards the features characteristic of the invention, reference is made to the appended claims.

According to the invention, the game ticket includes a non-transparent substrate on which the chips are printed, which are covered with a light-impermeable material that masks the chips and is scratchable so that the chips · ·: can be exposed, and where the confusion pattern layer is aligned with the chips and is located under the expulsion agent so that the confusion pattern is not »» * '. ···. can be seen with the naked eye but produces m · ** confusing results if chips are attempted - tiffinated by illuminating them with strong light through flag 35, and wherein the confusion pattern layer is removable by scratching and is placed on chips and is covered with an opaque scratch-resistant substance.

It can be seen that the precautionary measure of the hidden confusing model provides an effective 5 and a simple way to make the flag as secure as the flag, which may be provided with a specially selected secure base. Preferably, the confusion pattern consists of patterns, symbols, numbers, words, or other characters that correspond to the characters of the real game, but are arranged in a form to enhance the effect of the confusion.

In this way, when the same characters made up of a large number of symbols, for example two types such as "O" and "X", the embarrassment-15 pattern can be made of the same symbols but a mirror image arrangement such that each position in the model with a light on the back, the viewer sees a pattern represented by an "O" superimposed on an "X" and it is impossible for 20 to say which symbol is in the chip and which is in the dummy pattern. The above is just a peculiar example, but every symbol system can ... be used. Thus, if the chip is made of three symbol types, it may be necessary to apply two layers of · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·

Multiple Arrangements or Different Layers • »• # 5 · can be used in a flag, but the following are two examples.

In either case, the substrate preferably ··· consists of a layer of cardboard or paper of suitable thickness to provide the desired handling and tactile properties.

'·' '' In one example, the chips are placed on a 3 5 platform. The confusion pattern is placed on top of the chips and then the confusion pattern is covered with light ... with impervious scratch-resistant 9 · • «5 106294 la. The embarrassment pattern is also scratchable and will be removed by scratching the scratchable topsheet.

The flags may be treated with other layers 5 such as protective varnish treatment and other security printing in accordance with common practice. Steps must be taken to ensure that the chips are effectively bound to the substrate and not removed during the scratching process.

In the following, the invention will be described in detail with reference to two embodiments, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an exploded view of different layers of a lottery ticket according to embodiment 15 of the invention;

First, Figure 1 is an exploded vertical sectional view of a lottery ticket according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention. The figure shows that the flag is comprised of a base layer or substrate 10 consisting of a material of a conventionally and commercially available structure, which may typically be of white conventional board of suitable thickness.

♦ The figure also shows a series of superimposed rectangles, the various layers which are applied, for example by pressing, on the base 10.

30 Although these layers are represented as rectangles, ···. it may also be mentioned that in fact, each layer • · - y. '.' does not have to be rectangular and can be made with '* for example a large number of symbols to form chips •' ί '.

"'" I The series of drawings (a) to (g) in Figure 2 also shows the top of the li-«* * 10 10 10 10 106294 after the respective layers have been placed on the substrate.

Furthermore, it should be noted that the various superimposed layers in the image give the impression that they have a substantial thickness, but in fact each layer has only a few microns in thickness so that when all layers are overlaid, they do not substantially contribute to increasing the thickness of the flag.

10 Keeping the above in mind, the various layers will now be described in more detail.

Figure 1 again shows the non-specific non-secure substrate layer 10 used, this being a particular advantage of the invention and the layers 15 being applied and the order in which they are applied is as shown below.

The first layer 30 is in the form of a conventional template and is known as a benday template layer and is intended to prevent the flag from being cut and re-glued. A chip layer 32 is placed over it. The chips are placed by conventional printing techniques.

... The next layer is a conventional lacquer treatment * «1 layer 34 applied over the chips a« '««' 25 to protect them from scratching, and a first scratch * * layer 36 is applied over the lacquer treatment layer *. , which contains a confusion pattern. Ticket if! it is considered at this stage, has a look that is · · · ·: * · *: shown in Figure 4 (d), which is a useful illustration for m 30, as it shows how chips and, ···, the confusion pattern intermingle, making • · Identifying them, illuminating them through the flag with strong · · light, almost impossible.

A light-transmitting: *: 35 impermeable layer, preferably completely black silk, is placed over the embarrassment pattern] ,; Printing inks that can be scratched off. This • t ... layer 38 is shown in Figure 3. The purpose of this layer 7 106294 is to prevent the variable information from being read if the flag layers are separated or cracked.

The following layers are a conventional off-5 scratch layer 40 applied somewhat simply, depending on its colorful properties and customer familiarity, and the final layer is an overprint layer 42 applied to the light impermeable layer 40 to prevent the layer 10 40 from dissolving.

The different images (a) to (g) in Figure 2 correspond to the images of layers 30-42 when placed on a substrate.

In this embodiment of the invention, the embarrassment pattern (layer 36) is again hidden in layers of 15 flags and cannot be seen by the flag user before removing the scratching surface or surfaces, and if the user intends to illuminate the flag through the flag which is conveniently shown in Figure 2 (d).

Two or more confusions can be used ... | model layers if you want to increase the degree of confusion.

Conventional materials can be used to fit various layers, and conventional printing processes can be used, although screen printing is preferably used to make a completely black blend layer 38. The chip stack in each case, and all the layers under it, are placed so that. ···. adapt to the substrate so that they cannot be removed ···. abrading.

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The present invention discloses the significant advantage that normal and relative 11? * · ,,,! 35 its cheap and commercially available materials as a platform for special reliable light-darkening • «... instead of substrates such as metal coated sheets 106294 or specially formed sheets. As well as being cost effective, this feature also has environmental benefits.

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Claims (3)

A game lot comprising a carrier (10) having game characters (32) printed thereon, which game characters are covered by an opaque material (38, 40) which hides the characters and which is scrapable to expose the game characters (32) that the carrier is unsafe and that a layer of confused samples (36) is in register with the game characters sample (32) and is beneath the scrapable material (40) so that the confusing pattern (36) is not visible to the the naked eye but will lead to confusing results if an attempt is made to identify the game characters by illuminating the lot with intense light and wherein said layer of confusing monsters (36) can be removed by scraping and disposed over the game characters and covered by the opaque scrapable material. A lottery according to claim 1, characterized in that the game characters (32) are formed by a number of different symbols, numbers and / or letters or the like arranged in a plurality of positions and that the confusing pattern (36) is also produced. of the same symbols, numbers and / or letters in the same plurality of positions, but arranged so that the symbols, numbers, and / or letters of the confusing pattern (36) overlie other symbols, in · · Numbers, and / or letters in the game characters (32). A lot according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the carrier (10) comprises a layer of ordinary cardboard or paper of suitable thickness. * * * * * * * * * * * *