Abstract: Apparatus for managing a lottery distribution includes a plurality of lottery cards carrying a unique machine-readable code readable by a Point of Sale (POS) system for purchase and activation of the lottery card by a customer. Each lottery card carries in customer readable format only part of the game data, which is covered by a scratch-off, necessary for a determination by the customer whether the lottery card is allocated to be either a winner of a predetermined prize or a non-winner of the lottery and the lottery control system is arranged to communicate to the POS system the remaining information for said determination to be printed on a POS receipt for the customer so that the customer can read the printed data on the receipt along side or through the card to determine whether the card is a winner.

Abstract: A method is provided of managing awards to players in a lottery where players purchase lottery access tickets, each of which is assigned a predetermined prize in the lottery and each of which provides access to a selected one of a series of accessible video games on a computer medium. Each game has a plurality of game images in which the player can enter a selected action from a number of options based on different skill levels where the selected action can have a token value different from other options. The system displays a table to the player of an accumulation of the tokens and controls the accumulation of the tokens in order that the final prize matches the predetermined prize but may allow other awards to more skilled players. The prize must be validated using a code from the ticket and from an image in the displayed game.

Abstract: A method is provided of managing awards to players in a lottery where players purchase lottery access tickets, each of which is assigned a predetermined prize in the lottery and each of which provides access to a selected one of a series of accessible video games on a computer medium. Each game has a plurality of game images in which the player can enter a selected action from a number of options based on different skill levels where the selected action can have a token value different from other options. The system displays a table to the player of an accumulation of the tokens and controls the accumulation of the tokens in order that the final prize matches the predetermined prize but may allow other awards to more skilled players. The prize must be validated using a code from the ticket and from an image in the displayed game.