SECURITY PATTERNS FOR INSTANT GAMING TICKETS

摘要

A secure instant gaming ticket, a system for authenticating the ticket, and methods for producing and authenticating the ticket, include a substrate (12 ) having a plurality of game indicia and a ticket security signature printed thereon, and an opaque, removable coating (20) disposed on at least a portio n of the plurality of game indicia. The coating has a machine readable securit y pattern (16, 18) related to the ticket security signature disposed thereon. The coating may comprise a plurality of cells (30), each cell (30) being disposed on at least one of the game indicia on the substrate (12) and each cell having an associated cell security signature which forms a part of the ticket security signature.