Abstract: A method and system for playing an interactive game includes inputting into a host computer an access code, wherein the access code is operatively associated with game data storing a predetermined outcome of a game play, transmitting from the host computer a game play for play by a player on a terminal device in response to the inputted access code, and increasing the amount of a progressive jackpot in response to the occurrence of at least one game playing event.

Abstract: A lottery ticket and continuous process of forming the same in which the front and rear surfaces of the lottery ticket and provided with scratch-off lottery games which may be accessed by the player without first having to remove a break-open window.

Abstract: A lottery ticket including at least one first play area and at least one second play area in which authenticating indicia is printed beneath the scratch-off layer in the second play area and on top of the scratch-off layer in the second play area. If the player decides not to play the second play area, the authenticating indicia on top of the scratch-off layer in the second play area authenticates the lottery ticket and the prize that is won. If the second play area is played, then the authenticating indicia printed below the scratch-off layer is employed as the authenticating indicia.

Abstract: A lottery ticket including at least one game area with at least one play area where each play area includes a plurality of play regions with each play region having a first indicia covered by an opaque scratch-off layer and a second indicia appearing above the scratch-off layer. The player removes at least one of the scratch-off layers and if the first indicia appearing in such activated play regions matches any one of the second indicia in a non-activated play region, a prize may be won.

Abstract: A multiple ticket lottery system in which a player engages in one or more play actions on a first lottery ticket level in order to gain access to a second or higher ticket level in order to win a prize.

Abstract: A lottery ticket including at least one first play area and at least one second play area in which authenticating indicia is printed beneath the scratch-off layer in the second play area and on top of the scratch-off layer in the second play area. If the player decides not to play the second play area, the authenticating indicia on top of the scratch-off layer in the second play area authenticates the lottery ticket and the prize that is won. If the second play area is played, then the authenticating indicia printed below the scratch-off layer is employed as the authenticating indicia.

Abstract: A lottery ticket including a play action game in which symbols from a first game area are matched with symbols from a second and third game area. Matching all of the symbols in the second game area before the third game area may result in the winning of a prize.

Abstract: A lottery ticket having a first play area including individual play regions each of which contains a player-identification symbol, a prize defeating symbol or a neutral and a second play area which is associated with the first play area and which at least in part determines whether a prize has been won.

Abstract: A lottery ticket having a first play area including a preselected number of pairs of adjacent play symbols, and a second play area including a plurality of intersecting rows, each row having at least two regions with each region containing a play symbol, wherein the player matches the pairs of symbols from the first play area with the same play symbols in adjacent regions of the second play area and a prize is won if the player completes a sufficient number of play symbols in the second play area.

Abstract: A printed document in which a bar code is imprinted on a surface thereof and entirely covered with a scratch-off layer, the removal of the scratch-off layer reveals the entire bar code thereby enabling easy authentication of the printed document.

Abstract: A lottery ticket having a first game area with a grid of target letters arranged so that at least some of the letters form target words and a second game area having a list of preselected game words which are covered by a scratch-off layer. The game words are matched with the target words to determine if a prize has been won. An enhanced play action in the form of at least one third game area may be provided.

Abstract: A scratch-off lottery game including a substrate having at least one area having printed indicia thereon, the printed indicia being covered by at least one clear, transparent layer which can be removed by scratching, and at least one layer on said clear transparent layer which is colored, transparent and made of a non-scratch-off material, the colored transparent layer being affixed to the clear transparent layer in a manner in which removing the clear transparent layer by scratching results in removal of the colored transparent layer.