A novel lottery ticket as well as a lottery game and method of playing that game
using the lottery ticket are disclosed. The lottery ticket can be used to participate
in at least one of a plurality of drawing events that occur over a period of time.
The lottery ticket comprises a number of panels that conceal a number of playing
game pieces and/or free spaces. The playing game pieces and/or free spaces are
concealed by a removable coating material. Participants can choose which drawing
event to play, manifesting their intent to play a particular drawing event by revealing
the playing game pieces associated with the panels that are designated specifically
for that particular drawing event. The game is played further by selecting a combination
of winning game pieces and determining whether any of each participant's playing
game pieces match some or all of the winning game pieces. A ticket becomes a winning
ticket if some or all of the matching playing game pieces on the lottery ticket
adjoin so as to produce a winning line of a horizontal, vertical or diagonal "three-in-a-row"
as with tic-tac-toe. More than one winning line are possible on each lottery ticket,
producing multiple ways of winning on a single lottery ticket.