WO2000043089A1

WO2000043089A1 - Lottery game

Info

Publication number: WO2000043089A1
Application number: PCT/RO2000/000001
Authority: WO
Inventors: Florin Beblea
Original assignee: Florin Beblea
Priority date: 1999-01-20
Filing date: 2000-01-14
Publication date: 2000-07-27
Also published as: AU3989200A

Abstract

The invention refers to a lottery game where there are drawn balls and it is a combination of two games that are played on the same ticket. The lottery game contains a new type of game ticket, two drawing urns and one electronic representation panel. The ticket is divided into three zones: zone A is blue, it contains the fields 1, 2 and 3 and participates at the blue game; zone B is red, it contains the fields 4 and 5 and participates at the red game and zone C with the field 6. There are two variants to make a ticket: a printed ticket and an unprinted ticket. The central fields 1 and 4 are the zones where there are the game numbers in a precisely established configuration according to the game option and a certain rule. These fields are two identical squares that are made of small cases disposed in parallel columns and rows. The small cases are indicated in the columns with n, with figures from 1 to m are numbered the columns. Following the drawings from the blue urn that are valid for the blue game there is formed a number of mx2 figures that take part at the award. Following the drawings from the red urn that are valid for the red game there are given prizes for the situations when 4, 5, 6 drawn numbers are situated on the same horizontal row, called line.

Description

LOTTERY CAME

The invention refers at a lottery game with drawing of balls from the urn. The game is a combination of two games played on the same ticket.

There is known a game of the type lotto, 6 out of 49 that is played on a ticket from where the player chooses 6 numbers or more, according to the variant he/she plays. The urn contains 49 balls, each ball bears one number. According to the drawn numbers and those chosen by the player on his/her ticket there can be prizes won.

Another lotteristic game is known that is played on cards where there are printed bidimensional grids with numbers taken randomly and a drawing mechanism of balls draws out balls from an urn and balls are validated on the spot. According to the drawn balls and the configuration of numbers on the player's card, the player participates for the prizes that are established prior to the beginning of the game.

The disadvantages of the first game is that a simple variant contains a single game combination, there are periods of time when the player does not mark his ticket, these moments are called "dead times" and drawings are made out of an urn with a great number of balls.

The disadvantages of the second game is that on one card can be played a single game that cannot be played in combined variants too, there are "dead times" for the player and the drawings are made out of an urn with a great number of balls.

The advantages come out from this invention is a lottery game that can be played on national and local level or in casinos and halls, a simple variant has a lot of game combinations, there are no "dead times" for the player, in the drawing urn there are a small number of balls and can be played a lot of combined variants.

An another advantage which results from this invention is that can be introduced into the lottery game, the signs of the latin and Chinese zodiac. According to the invention the game is played on a new type of lottery tickets, and the situations rewarded are different of other games.

The game system can be used as program in computer games or as an interactive contest for television.

The game is played on a ticket that is divided into three zones that are marked A, B and C.

Zone A from the left is blue and is made up of three fields numbered with 1,2, and 3, zone B from the right is red and is made up of the fields 4 and 5, zone C in the middle consists of field No.6.

The game is a combination of two games called blue game at which the player takes part with the blue part of the ticket and one called red game at which the player takes part with the red part of the ticket.

Field No.l is situated in zone A of the blue colour and is made up of small cases that are within a square, in parallel vertical columns and parallel horizontal rows that are called lines.

We mark with numbers from 1 to m the columns and indicate with n the number of the small cases within the a column. Each column has at the upper side a number starting-in an increasing order from 1 to m. The numbers go from the right to the left.

Field 1 is the place where there are chosen the game numbers with which the player takes part at the blue game.

Field 2 is situated in the blue A zone above field 1 and is made up of a horizontal row of m empty small cases that is thus arranged that each case in field 2 is situated on a vertical level with one of the columns of field 1 that it represents. Field 3 is situated in the blue A zone and is identical with field 2; it has the same number m of small cases situated on a horizontal row below field 1, so that each small case in field 3 is situated on a vertical level with one of the columns of field 1 that it represents.

Field 4 is identical with field 1 but it is situated in the red B zone and is made up of cases that are within a square in parallel vertical columns and parallel horizontal rows that are called lines.

Each column has at the upper side a number starting in an increasing order from 1 to m. The numbers go from the right to the left and each column contains the same number of cases indicated within n.

Field 4 is the place where there are chosen the numbers with which the players participate at the red game.

Field 5 is situated in the red B zone above field 4 and is made up of a number of m small cases disposed as horizontal row so that each case in field 5 is situated on a vertical level with one of the columns from field 4 that it represents.

Field 5 is the place where there are represented the columns of field 4 that play the Double. Each column in field 4 that plays double is marked with D in the field 5 in the small case that it represents.

Field 6 is situated in the C zone between the A and B zones. If are indicated with n all small cases from one column of field 1 or 4; field 6 contains thus the same number of n horizontal spaces that are placed one under the other, any space being situated between two lines one of field 1 and the other one of field 4.

In these horizontal spaces of field 6 there are to be written indicatives that can be words that represent a certain field of interest, e.g. star signs, countries, towns, names or any other things. The indicatives will be printed on all tickets and in a certain order that was previously established for the whole period the game goes on.

The tickets that participate at the game are recognised as they have the same indicatives printed on and they are in the same order in field 6.

The indicatives in zone C in the field 6 of the ticket are called correspondents of the blue balls in the urn, as the blue balls are equal in number with the number of correspondents and each ball bears a single indicative named correspondent too.

The ticket with the 6 fields of the game that are disposed as described above exist thus in two variants called printed ticket and unprinted ticket.

The unprinted ticket is the game ticket where all small cases of the fields 1 and 4 are empty, the player is able to choose the numbers and the variant he/she wants to play.

The printed ticket is a ticket where in the small cases in fields 1 and 4 the numbers are printed on by the national printing house or any other authorized agency. This ticket is played in the simple variant only and is for ambulant sellers for areas where there does not exist any lotto agency.

The player or the printing house chooses only the first game number in each column of fields 1 and 4 the rest of numbers in the column are printed on the printed ticket and on the unprinted ticket in the following configuration.

If you indicate with n the numbers of the existing cases within any columns of the field 1 or 4, all numbers from 01 to n will be in each column of these fields, with the option that the first number situated in the first case of any column may be any number from 01 to n, the other numbers in the column are in a decreasing order from the top to the bottom to the last case in the column, number 01 being followed by number n, and so on. The figures up to 10 shall have a "0" in front of them. A ticket on which in the fields 1 and 4 are chosen numbers according to the rules described above is a simple game variant.

An unprinted ticket may play a combined or a double variant as well.

A combined variant is the situation when the player plays several numbers on a column, thus increasing his winning chances. The player may play the combined variant on one or more columns in fields 1 and 4. The figures in fields 1 and 4 that are played in the combined variant shall be marked by two diagonals in the small cases they are in.

The double variant can be played only at the red game, the player having the possibility to play double on one or more columns in field 4.

The column in field 4 that takes part in the double game shall be marked D or Double in the small case in field 5 that represents it.

Game Urns and Drawings

The drawings are made out of the two game urns, one urn contains blue balls and one urn contains red balls. The drawings out of the blue balls urn are valid for the blue game at which the player participates with the blue part of the ticket, the drawings out of the red balls urn are valid for the red game at which the player participates with the red part of the ticket.

For the columns of field 4 that plays at the double game, the drawings from the blue urn are valid as well. Thus, if a player plays at double on column 3 in field 4, the drawing of column 3 of the blue game shall be valid for the column 3 of red game too, the player marks his/her ticket on the blue side of the ticket at the junction the correspondent with the column 3 and on the red side of the ticket at the junction the correspondent with the column 3. The blue balls urn contains a number of n blue balls equal in number with the number of correspondents in field 6. Each ball is marked with a single indicative named correspondent too. Thus the n balls contain all the n correspondents of the field 6.

The drawing starts with the blue balls urn for the blue game; one drawing shall be made for each column, after each drawing the ball is put back into the urn.

The player has the ticket in front of him/her and marks in field 1 the small case that is situated at the junction of the correspondent of the drawn ball with the column for which the ball had been drawn.

Each small case that is situated at this junction contains a figure that is to be copied in fields 2 and 3, in the small cases of these fields that represent that column. There are thus formed in fields 2 and 3 a number mx2 figures made of all these pairs of numbers.

The following situations are rewarded: at blue game.

The greatest number - copied in field 2 resulted from tickets that took part in the game.

The smallest number - copied in field 3 resulted from all tickets participating in the game.

Constancy of numbers. A constant number is the situation when all the m pairs of two numbers are identical.

The red ball urn contains a number of n red balls marked each with a single figure starting with 01 and going to n, thus that all n balls are marked with all n figures.

For the red game there is made one drawing out of the red ball urn for each column. After each drawing the ball is put back into the urn. The player marks in field 4 the drawn number in each column separately.

The following situations are rewarded at the red game

4 numbers drawn out and validated are situated on the same line.

5 numbers drawn out and validated are situated on the same line.

6 numbers drawn out and validated are situated on the same line.

The drawing and validation of balls can be made as a part of an interactive contest.

Representation panel

The panel for representation is an electronic panel which contains all the six fields identically disposed with the game ticket.

Representation panel is a big electronic panel destined for the halls and casinos in order to represent the validated balls.

The field 6 of the representation panel is identical with the field 6 of the game ticket and contains the same correspondents arranged in the same order with the game ticket.

Each case from the panel can be lighted or can represent any number from 01 to n.

Claims

1. Lottery game with drawings of balls from the urn that is characterized through the fact that the game is a combination of two games that are played on a single ticket that contains a blue A zone where there are the fields 1,2,3, a red B zone, where there are the fields 4 and 5 and a zone C that contains the field 6.

2. Lottery game according to claim 1, characterized through the fact that field 1 of the game ticket is a square made up of empty cases that are disposed on parallel vertical columns and parallel horizontal rows-called lines. The square contains a number of n horizontal rows with m cases each or a number of m parallel vertical columns with n cases each; the columns are individually numbered on the top with a number from 1 to m in an increasing order from the right to the left.

3. Lottery game according to claims 1 and 2, characterized through the fact that the game ticket contains two fields, field no. 2 situated in the blue A zone above field 1 and the identical field no. 3 (with field no. 2) situated in the blue A zone below field 1; each of these fields are made of a horizontal row of m empty cases disposed such that each case in field 2 and each case in field 3 is situated on a vertical level with one column each from field 1 that it represents.

4. Lottery game according to claims 1, 2 and 3, characterized through the fact that field 4 of the game ticket is identical with the field 1 and is a square made up of empty cases that are disposed on parallel vertical columns and parallel horizontal rows-called lines. The square contains a number of n horizontal rows with m cases each or a number of m of parallel vertical columns with n cases each; the columns are individually numbered on the top with a number from 1 to m in an increasing order from the right to the left.

5. Lottery game according to claims 1, 2, 3 and 4, characterized through the fact that the game ticket contains the field no. 5 situated in the red B zone above field 4. Field 5 is made up of a horizontal row of m empty cases disposed such that each case in field 5 is situated on a vertical level with one column each of the field 4 that it represents.

6. Lottery game according to claims 1,2,3,4 and 5, characterized through the fact that on the game ticket exists the field 6, situated in the C Zone between A and B Zone, which contains a number of n horizontal spaces that are placed one under the other so that any horizontal space is situated on a horizontal level with two lines, one of the field 1 and the other of the field 4.

In these horizontal spaces in field 6 are to be written indicatives that can be words, which will be printed in a certain order, previously established on all tickets, and these indicatives are named the correspondents of the blue balls of urn.

7. Lottery game according to claims 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 characterised through the fact that the game ticket, according to another variant, is printed on with a number in each small case of the fields 1 and 4 thus, if, any column of fields 1 and 4 contain a number n of small cases, on each column of these two fields there are to be chosen all figures from 01 to n with the option that the first figure may be any of his palette of numbers from 01 to n, the rest of the figures on the column are in decreasing order from the top towards the bottom; figure 01 is followed by figure n, and so on; up to number 10 a "0" shall be put in front of the respective number.

8. Lottery game characterised through the fact that the game contains a drawing urn with a number of n blue balls, equal in number with the number of correspondents of the field 6 on the game ticket, according to claim 6, and each ball is marked with a single indicative named correspondent too; thus the n blue balls contain all the n correspondents.

9. Lottery game characterised through the fact that the game contains an another drawing urn with a number of n red balls, equal in number with the number of cases within any column of the field 4, and each ball is marked with a single number from 01 to n, thus that all n red balls from urn contains all n figures from 01 to n.

10. Lottery game characterised through the fact that the game contains a representation panel, which is an electronic panel identical with the game ticket, according to claims 1,2,3,4,5,6, each case in the panel is empty, but can be lighted or can represent any number from 01 to n, and the correspondents of field 6 of the panel are the same with the correspondents of the game ticket, arranged in the same order.