Abstract: A draw lottery ticket selling system and methods of operating the system that enable the purchase of draw lottery tickets by players, and the remote printing of the draw lottery tickets using different devices.

Abstract: A gaming system server, method, and system are provided. A method includes determining a lottery ticket corresponds to a winning lottery ticket, determining a prize associated with the winning lottery ticket includes a progressive prize, determining the lottery ticket corresponds to a type of lottery ticket that links a physical ticket prize pool with a digital ticket prize pool, in response to determining that the lottery ticket corresponds to the winning lottery ticket, includes the progressive prize, and corresponds to a type of lottery ticket that links a physical ticket prize pool with a digital ticket prize pool, referencing an electronic record of a progressive prize pool for linked tickets. The method may further include determining a current value of the progressive prize pool for linked tickets then assigning a prize value to the lottery ticket based on the current value of the progressive prize pool for linked tickets.

Abstract: A lottery host, ticket generator, retailer terminal(s) and specially adapted draw-based lottery game tickets provide embodiments of a wagering event integrity control system, method and apparatus as disclosed. In various embodiments, purchased but unactivated tickets for a lottery drawing are activated based upon key codes associated with unsold tickets received by the lottery host at the end of a game. The lottery host and ticket generator can store different sets of information about the draw-based lottery game tickets, which can be pre-printed with game indicia and activated when desired by the player.