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Infinational Technologies, Inc.

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Michael J Dietz

Earl D Morris

A multiple play gaming ticket, such as a pull-tab ticket or &ldquo;instant winner&rdquo; lottery ticket, and a coordinating validation system. To deter fraud, a validation code is provided which uniquely identifies the pull-tab ticket and is not merely a representation of the indicia The pull-tab ticket is validated by a combination of validator machine and a host computer The validator machine reads the validation code and relays it the host computer to check for legitimacy (i.e., proper form and availability) and to correlate it to a stored record of gaming indicia The gaming ticket of the present invention can be used in connection with fixed payouts, progressive jackpots or both. The progressive jackpot is increased by a predetermined amount each time a gaming ticket is inserted into a validation machine.

Instant multiple play gaming ticket and validation system

A gaming system is provided including a central game processor, a plurality of master processing units and a plurality of slave terminals operable by players to play the game. The central game processor communicates with the master processing units and supplies the various games available in the system. The master processing units store and administer the games as they are played on the slave terminals connected to each respective master processing unit. A preferred game includes a fixed pool of game plays and a predetermined number of winning plays within each pool. Each player, through his or her slave terminal, can purchase plays in each fixed pool stored in the master processing unit to which that terminal is coupled. When a particular pool is exhausted, for example, through the purchase of all plays, the central game processor provides another fixed pool of plays to that master processing unit to enable continuous play.

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Del Norte, NM, United States of America

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