PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT FOR DEALS OF INSTANT GAME TICKET WHERE WINNING PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT INSTANT TICKET IS RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM UNPLAYED TICKETS AFTER COIN-IN OR PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT AMOUNT FOR THE DEALS OF INSTANT TICKETS REACHES PREDETERMINED VALUE

摘要

A winning progressive jackpot ticket is selected from deals of instant tickets that are dispensed from a network of gaming machines by randomly selecting, upon initiation of a progressive jackpot, a coin-in value that falls within a predetermined range of coin-in values, detecting in the server when the coin-in value is reached as a result of a purchase of an instant ticket at one of the gaming machines, randomly selecting the winning progressive jackpot ticket from all of the currently unplayed instant tickets, or from the next n number of currently unplayed instant tickets, when the coin-in value is detected as reaching the coin-in value that was randomly selected, and awarding the current progressive jackpot amount to the player who subsequently purchases the winning progressive jackpot ticket. A similar process randomly selects a progressive jackpot value that falls within a predetermined range of progressive jackpot values.