Abstract: A method for determining whether confidential written material has been tampered with. The disclosed invention comprises the following steps: applying a removable adhesive to one side of an opaque paper masking label; cutting intermittent slits in said opaque paper masking label; embossing the adhesive side of said slit opaque paper masking label over confidential written material to be masked such that when said embossed opaque paper masking is removed from said material to be masked, said opaque paper masking label fragments and disintegrates due to the intermittent slits.

Abstract: A method for playing a lotto type lottery game. The method comprises the following steps: selling a first plurality of lottery tickets for a lotto style lottery game in which prizes are paid out at both the jackpot and sub-jackpot levels; drawing a first winning combination; and selling a second plurality of tickets for a subsequent game such that said first plurality of lottery tickets may be reutilized for the jackpot prize level of a subsequent drawing.

Abstract: A disintegrating tamper-proof masking label comprising an opaque paper label having an adhesive backing for adhering said opaque label to a medium to be masked, a silicon coated polystyrene backing paper for holding said label, said label being peeled from said polystyrene backing so as to be applied to a medium to be masked, said label having a plurality of cuts such that when said label is removed from said medium, said label fragments thereby evidencing of said label.