Apparatus and method for a sports card lottery game

Abstract

The sports card lottery game apparatus and method described herein is a daily lottery designed to associate tangible sports trading cards of a specific sport with a chance to win money according to a pool-based payout system. This works by providing the purchaser first with a package of quality sports cards that feature players at different positions of each sport, which have a sporting event that same day. Second, depending on the combined amount of success these players have, which is based on scoring and tracking systems, the pack of sports trading cards with the most combined points will be declared the winner and will collect a percentage of the pooled money from the net sales of total packs of sports trading cards sold in the corresponding region for that particular day. This lottery game offers the consumer a fun interactive way to follow the sport they love, by combining the tangible element of a physical “game piece” with an intangible chance to win a prize, which creates an energy of excitement and enjoyment for the consumer.

1 . A package of sports trading cards intended for use in a lottery game, the package comprising:
 a collection of said sports trading cards, wherein each sports trading card in the collection represents a player performing on a specific predetermined day, wherein the specific predetermined day is the same day for each of the sports trading cards in the collection;   and wherein the package of sports trading cards is intended for use in the lottery game in accordance with rules for playing the lottery game.