MULTIGAME™ System

Multigame™ is an integrated solution for the traditional regulated Lottery market. Multigame™ Management Center and Games Administration Center, offers a modular, secure, scalable, robust and versatile platform for the management and administration of Lottery and Sports betting.

Total solution

All of the system components, software and hardware, are designed to be integrated into the system - providing a total solution for the gaming and wagering industry.

Modular

Whatever games you market ... now or in the future... Multigame™ provides a quick and easy, economical and effective way to integrate new offerings into one comprehensive system.
Multigame™ can expand to match your business growth, with minimum cost or changes to your current system.

Affordable

Lottery systems are no longer constrained by large mainframe computers and expensive operating centres. Multigame™ provides features and benefits, at a cost-effective price.
Still another benefit - new games can be developed and introduced quickly and without a large investment.

Multi-Mode

Multigame™ flexibility allows point of sale operation at any location, without compromising system performance. You can choose from a multitude of operational modes: On-Line, Batch/On-Line, Batch and Off-Line or any combination of these.

Versatile

Multigame™ supports any kind of communication media.

Open Architecture

Multigame™ has more connectivity capabilities than any other known lottery system thanks to the fact that it is based on the Windows NT operating system and Oracle database. The platforms can import and export practically any information.

Secure

Running as a native application in a 32-bit operating system, Multigame™ achieves the highest level of performance and reliability, ensuring that data is never lost. Terminals have security mechanisms, tailored to each lottery operators needs, in case of malfunction and fraudulent entry attempts.
What's more, Multigame™ effectively optimizes computing resources, achieving high performance.

System Functions

Multigame™ goes beyond meeting traditional gaming needs and it is based on predefined functions and parameters. It is easy to configure by the system operator through the Multigame GUI and depending on the operation mode the data is centralized in the Multigame Database (online operation mode) or it is downloaded to the terminals (batch).

The Main Central System functions are:

Games Definition

• Configure Prize Plans
• Open / Close draws
• Game Operational Parameters

Games Supervision and Control

• Online authorization of Sales and Payments

Communications Supervision and Control

• Line Types configuration and Terminals assignment

Local and remote Users Administration

Remote Terminals Definition and Control

• Hierarchies for management and administration

Sales and Payments Control

• Real-time sales monitoring

Complete monitoring of users activities

Remote download of Terminal Application Software

Financial and Statistical Reports

Configuration & Parametrization

Multigame™ allows configuring almost any parameter used at the definitions level, including the following among others:

• Communications
• Type and class of lines of communications
• List of terminals per “Channel” or communications thread (32, 16 or 1 direct line)
• Retry times and communications timeouts
• Licensing
• Number of terminals connected to the system
• Administration
• Hierarchies for management and administration
• Software parameters
• Components redundancy
• Communications servers
• Transaction processors
• Components network parameters

There are many parameters and variables that control the logic of the most important tasks of the games process and administration, including:

• The bet price
• Minimum ticket price
• Maximum amount in bets
• Maximum amount per ticket to be paid at the terminals, above this figure a voucher will be issued for payment through a Bank or other agency.
• Type of cancellation allowed: X number of last tickets or X last minutes.
• The age of the ticket, to receive a prize (in number of days, above which only a voucher will be given).

Financial and Statistical Reports

The system offers a large number of reports; all of them can be displayed on screen or printed out.
The following is a partial list of the predefined reports:

• Terminals activity: Sales, Payments and Cancellations carried out by each terminal. These reports may be requested by time period varying from minutes, hours, days or even months.
• Betting distribution. Detailed per day.
• Dividend calculations.
• Sales statistics.
• Statements per Day, Season, etc.
• Tickets with pending payment.
• Per terminal Balances and Statements.
• Tickets paid.
• Betting dividends.

Database Engine

Multigame system is based on ORACLE™, a standard relational database with an SQL interface. This database supplies an administration system of great versatility and high performance.

Oracle™ has been designed to support distributed environments on a large scale and to make use of fail tolerance, multiprocessing, protected memory, multitasking characteristics and multiplatform availability. Oracle™ offers a security scheme that is highly configurable and integrated with Windows Clients.

Oracle™ allows for access to and generates, in a friendly form, user screens and a full range of statistical and financial reports.

System Architecture

The architecture is composed of three main subsystems: