Abstract: Products such as instant lottery tickets, pull-tabs, coupons, and gift cards including multi-purpose indicators that function with multiple different systems to enable activation, validation, purchase, use, and/or redemption by such multiple different systems.

Abstract: A lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery game.

Abstract: A system and method for providing instant games in both physical scratch-off and virtual forms wherein at least a portion of the winning value of the instant game is determined by a plurality of planar layers with the concordance of the planar layers determining value enhancements. The distribution and composition of the concordance of the plurality of planar layers is configured to ensure compliance with a predetermined prize outcome prize fund.

Abstract: A lottery ticket, and a lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery ticket, including a plurality of separate player symbol zones on the substrate, each player symbol zone including a plurality of player first symbols, a plurality of award symbols respectively associated with the plurality of player first symbols, and a player bonus award symbol; a plurality of winning symbols on the substrate; a first removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of player symbol zones; and a second removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of winning symbols.

Abstract: A lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery game.

Abstract: A system and method for providing instant games in both physical scratch-off and virtual forms wherein at least a portion of the winning value of the instant game is determined by a plurality of planar layers with the concordance of the planar layers determining value enhancements. The distribution and composition of the concordance of the plurality of planar layers is configured to ensure compliance with a predetermined prize outcome prize fund.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dynamically managing the distribution of prizes in a gaming system. In one aspect, a method includes initializing a digital interactive sweepstakes game, receiving player identification data, receiving player activity data, determining a player activity forecast based on the player activity data, updating a prizing algorithm based on the player activity forecast, applying the prizing algorithm to player activity data to identify a particular player, and distributing a prize to an account associated with the particular player.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dynamically managing the distribution of prizes in a gaming system. In one aspect, a method includes initializing a digital interactive sweepstakes game, receiving player identification data, receiving player activity data, determining a player activity forecast based on the player activity data, updating a prizing algorithm based on the player activity forecast, applying the prizing algorithm to player activity data to identify a particular player, and distributing a prize to an account associated with the particular player.