Abstract: A lottery ticket having a first game area having at least one row with each row containing a plurality of play indicia and a second game area adjacent each row of the first game area and containing a target indicia which if present may result in a prize being won.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 29, 2001
Date of Patent:
February 28, 2006
Assignee:
Oberthor Gaming Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Kevin Paul Downes, Geneva McCaffrey, Carla Schaefer
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a scratch-off type lottery ticket in which a layer comprised of a non-conductive ink region and a conductive ink region are printed below an opaque scratch-off layer. The conductive ink region is detectable through the opaque layer by conventional lottery ticket authentication/validation machines.