Unique lottery tickets and/or systems for providing and/or participating in a lottery. In other embodiments, methods of administering and/or participating in a lottery. In at least one embodiment, a lottery integrated with a television or web broadcast, website, or other broadcast or publication.

A wireless communications system includes a computer system that runs on at least one platform on which a plurality of different lottery games for different jurisdictions are supported and run from the at least one platform. A plurality of multiple functions relative to lottery games are mapped to the at least one platform. Multiple functions for the plurality of lottery games and different jurisdictions are mapped to the at least one platform and the at least one platform is scaleable. The at least one platform is configured to perform fraud detection.

A wireless communications system is provided. A computer system runs on at least one platform on which a plurality of different lottery games for different jurisdictions are supported. The at least one platform is configured to enable a person physically present at a retail establishment, that sells at least one of lottery tickets, lottery services and lottery products to the general public, to purchase at least one of lottery tickets, lottery services and lottery products at the retail establishment. At least one computer readable storage medium stores computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one network processor in the workflow server residing in the mobile communications network, implement components including: a workflow module comprising sets of workflow instructions for processing different types of lottery game packets from a plurality of different jurisdictions; and a deep packet inspection module for inspecting a received lottery game packet and providing information about the lottery game packet to the workflow module.

A wireless communications system is provided. A computer system runs on at least one platform on which a plurality of different lottery games for different jurisdictions are supported. The at least one platform is configured to enable a person physically present at a retail establishment in a jurisdiction, that sells at least one of lottery tickets, lottery services and lottery products to the general public, to purchase at least one of lottery tickets, lottery services and lottery products at the retail establishment, and also to purchase at least one of lottery tickets, lottery service and lottery products anywhere in the jurisdiction. At least one computer readable storage medium stores computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one network processor in the workflow server residing in the mobile communications network, implement components including: a workflow module comprising sets of workflow instructions for processing different types of lottery game packets from a plurality of different jurisdictions; and a deep packet inspection module for inspecting a received lottery game packet and providing information about the lottery game packet to the workflow module.

A wireless communications system includes a computer system run on a single platform on which different lottery games for different jurisdictions are supported and run from the single platform. The single platform is configured to be in communication with one or more social media sites. Computer executable instructions, when executed by at least one network processor in a workflow server residing in a mobile communications network, implements components that include: a workflow module of sets of workflow instructions for processing different types of lottery game packets from different jurisdictions. A deep packet inspection module inspects a received lottery game packet and provides information about the lottery game packet to the workflow module. The workflow module coordinates processing of the received lottery game packets using selected ones of selectable communication function modules based on the information about the lottery game packet provided by the deep lottery game packet inspection module.

A wireless communications system includes a computer system run on at least one platform on which a plurality of different lottery games for different jurisdictions are supported. The at least one platform including a rules engine that operates for one or more desired lottery games for different jurisdictions by implementing defining parameters. A computer system includes: at least one workflow server residing in a mobile communications network, the at least one workflow server including at least one network processor, and the at least one workflow server accessible by a plurality of lottery clients; at least one computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one network processor in the workflow server residing in the mobile communications network, implement components including: a workflow module comprising sets of workflow instructions for processing different types of lottery game packets from a plurality of different jurisdictions; and a deep packet inspection module for inspecting a received lottery game packet and providing information about the lottery game packet to the workflow module.