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Tickets for an instant lottery are imprinted with lottery numbers and serial numbers that are uniquely related and the lottery numbers are covered from view until after purchase, to provide control and distribution of winners and a high degree of security from fraud. By means of computerized fabrica

Tickets for an instant lottery are imprinted with lottery numbers and serial numbers that are uniquely related and the lottery numbers are covered from view until after purchase, to provide control and distribution of winners and a high degree of security from fraud. By means of computerized fabrication a low cost and high security ticket is achieved. Playing cards for other games are also inexpensively fabricated.

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A method of manufacturing and using lots of physically connected instant lottery tickets for lotteries and other games, each having a serial number and a lottery number seemingly randomly associated with the serial number, said lottery number being indiscernible after the playing card is fabricated

A method of manufacturing and using lots of physically connected instant lottery tickets for lotteries and other games, each having a serial number and a lottery number seemingly randomly associated with the serial number, said lottery number being indiscernible after the playing card is fabricated and when given to the player but transformable by the player to be intelligible for comparison with known winning lottery numbers, said method comprising; feeding a continuous strip of ticket material through a computer-controlled printer; imprinting under computer control different lottery numbers in a seemingly randomized way on successive portions of said ticket strip corresponding to individual tickets and rendering said lottery numbers indiscernible; and imprinting serial numbers on said ticket card portions under computer control seemingly randomly associated with the lottery numbers; said serial numbers being imprinted on successive physically connected ones of said lottery tickets with the serial numbers being sequential within each of a plurality of lots of tickets and providing an inventory control of the tickets in each of said lots; said lottery numbers being imprinted on said lottery tickets with each of the lottery numbers being correlated seemingly randomly to the serial number of the same ticket by a certain computer algorithm; said imprinting of lottery numbers including imprinting on said physically connected tickets in said lots a certain quantity of winning ones of said lottery numbers in a particular game, the winning lottery numbers being seemingly randomly distributed among said physically connected tickets of said lots without physical manipulation of said tickets and correlated with said serial numbers by a computer algorithm associated with said lottery number algorithm; and testing for correlation between the lottery numbers and the associated serial numbers of said tickets to validate winning lottery numbers and detect altered or counterfeit lottery numbers; whereby a reliable lottery is economically established in the ticket fabrication by the ability to validate winning lottery tickets, by the distribution and dispensing of tickets being accounted for by serial numbers, and by the assurance to players and ticket dispensers of a certain number of winning lottery tickets in seemingly random relation to non-winning tickets.