Abstract: Disclosed is a lottery-type game which involves providing a plurality of playing cards, each of which having one or more game symbols displayed thereon, and a master game card. The game further involves distributing at least a portion of the playing cards to a plurality of individual players and selecting one or more of the individual players having playing cards displaying predetermined selected ones of the game symbols. The game further includes determining whether one or more of the selected individual players are winners of primary prizes associated with an initial and a subsequent level of play. If none of the selected individual players are determined to be winners of the primary prize value associated with the initial level of play, at least a portion of the primary prize value associated with the initial level of play is rolled over into a primary prize value associated with the subsequent level of play.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lottery-type game which involves providing a plurality of playing cards, each of which having one or more game symbols displayed thereon, and a master game card. The game further involves distributing at least a portion of the playing cards to a plurality of individual players and selecting one or more of the individual players having playing cards displaying predetermined selected ones of the game symbols. The game further includes determining whether one or more of the selected individual players are winners of primary prizes associated with an initial and a subsequent level of play. If none of the selected individual players are determined to be winners of the primary prize value associated with the initial level of play, at least a portion of the primary prize value associated with the initial level of play is rolled over into a primary prize value associated with the subsequent level of play.

Abstract: A lottery-type gaming system simulating a traditional casino game, and a method of using same. Traditional casino card games, wherein winning hands are determined by combining specific, unshared playing cards dealt to individual players, with community cards shared among a plurality of such players, are simulated in the environment of a pull tab, scratch off or other type of player card or ticket lottery-type game. Traditional casino games other than card games, such as slot machines, are also simulated. The gaming system includes a plurality of player cards or tickets and one or more master game cards. Each of the player cards or tickets includes at least one player game symbol indicative of a game symbol in the conventional casino game. At least one of the master game cards includes at least one community game symbol indicative of a game symbol in the conventional casino game.