Abstract: There is disclosed a method of determining a result of an electronic game in order to allow fixed odds betting on the result. The method comprises providing a mechanical ball draw machine (3) configured to draw one ball at a time from a set of balls also provided to said mechanical ball machine (3). The set of balls consists of a plurality of subsets of one or more balls, at least some of the subsets having different numbers of balls and each ball being identifiable as belonging to a subset, whereby the relative numbers of balls in the subsets determine the likelihood of a ball from a subset being drawn thus allowing fixed odds betting to be carried out on a result is determined on the basis of subset identity.

Abstract: A method of generating a result of a racing game having a plurality of participants to enable fixed odds betting on the racing game. The result of the racing game is generated from the result of an identifier selection game. The method comprises allocating unique subsets of a set of identifiers used in the identifier selection game to each of the plurality of participants, defining a ranking of said participants from highest to lowest, running said identifier selection game by randomly selecting a result subset of identifiers from the set of identifiers, and determining first place in said race by determining which of said plurality of participants has the most identifiers of said result subset in the participant's allocated subset, and if two or more participants have the same number of identifiers in their respective allocated subsets, determining first place by determining which of the two or more participants is ranked highest.