Help on Playing Ways



Split Tickets

A split ticket is like playing more than one keno game at the same time. You select different groups of numbers. Each group is signified by a different letter. Each of these groups is a separate game, so each group corresponds to a possible way of winning. The example below shows 3 groups of 8 spots each.

Split ticket with 3 groups of 8 spots.

In the left column under the Ways heading, you will see entries such as "3/8." In this notation, the first number represents the number of ways, and the second number represents the number of spots. Thus, 3/8 means there are 3 ways of 8 spots each (A, B, C).

When playing a split ticket, the different groups you select may or may not have the same number of spots. You can change the bet for each set of ways with a given number of spots. Thus, if you have ways of 2/8 and 2/6, the bet size can be one value for the 8 spot ways and a different value for the 6 spot ways. However, each of the ways for a given number of spots must have the same bet size.



Combination Tickets

Combination tickets extend the idea of split tickets one step further. Recall that in split tickets each letter group represents one way of winning. In combination tickets, we combine the different groups to form more ways of winning.

Combination ticket with 3 groups of 4 spots.

For example, if we mark off 3 groups of 4 spots, as in the figure above, then we have 3 ways of playing 4 spot games (A, B, C), 3 ways of playing 8 spot games (A+B, B+C, C+A), and 1 way of playing a 12 spot game (A+B+C). All such possible ways are shown under the Ways column: 3/4, 3/8, 1/12 in this case.

When a combination ticket consists of groups of equal numbers of spots, it is called a way ticket. When a combination ticket has at least one group of only a single spot, it is called a king ticket and the the single spot group is called a king.

As in split tickets, you can change the bet size for the ways of a given spot number. To not play a set of ways, set its bet size to 0.


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