Methods and systems for an event-linked lottery game

Abstract

A method for conducting a lottery game is described. The method provides a plurality of tickets acquirable by participants in the game, including an entry in a ticket Pool corresponding to a ticket acquired by a participant. A number of ticket drawings are distributed from a first drawing to an N th drawing at predetermined intervals prior to an event. An entry from the ticket pool is randomly drawn as the first drawing, and a first prize is awarded to the participant to whom the first drawn ticket belongs. An entry is randomly drawn from the ticket pool as the N th drawing, wherein the N th drawing corresponds to a certain event; and an N th prize is awarded to the participant to whom the N th drawn ticket belongs. Tickets remain in the ticket pool from the first drawing to the N th drawing.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A method for conducting a lottery game comprising:
 providing a plurality of tickets acquirable by participants in the game;   including an entry in a ticket Pool corresponding to a ticket acquired by a participant;   distributing a number of ticket drawings from a first drawing to an N th  drawing at predetermined intervals prior to an event;   randomly drawing an entry from the ticket pool as the first drawing;   
       awarding a first prize to the participant to whom the first drawn ticket belongs;
 randomly drawing an entry from the ticket pool as the N th  drawing, wherein the N th  drawing corresponds to a certain event; and 
 awarding an N th  prize to the participant to whom the N th  drawn ticket belongs, wherein tickets remain in the ticket pool from the first drawing to the N th  drawing. 
 
     
     
         2 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein including an entry in a ticket pool is performed after randomly drawing an entry from the ticket pool as the first drawing. 
     
     
         3 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the N th  prize is larger than the first prize.