Method and associated lottery game card/ticket for play of multiple game components

1. A method for implementing a ticket-based, multi-component lottery game, comprising:

providing physical lottery tickets to one or more players, wherein the physical lottery tickets include a first playable game component with a first prize structure and one or more second playable game components with a second prize structure, wherein the second prize structure is different from the first prize structure, and wherein the one or more second game components are interactive Internet-based game components;

providing an access code on each of the physical lottery tickets that enable the one or more players to access a website to play the interactive Internet-based game components;

for at least one of the plurality of physical lottery tickets, providing a first validation code on the at least one of the physical lottery tickets that is used by a first game redemption system for validating and redeeming a first prize associated with the first game component of the at least one of the physical lottery tickets;

providing a second validation code on the at least one of the physical lottery tickets, the second validation code configured to validate and redeem a second prize associated with the Internet-based game component of the at least one of the physical lottery tickets, the second validation code being different from the access code associated with the at least one of the plurality of tickets and being unique to at least one of the plurality of tickets with respect to another different one of the plurality of physical lottery tickets;

for a winning play of the Internet-based game associated with the at least one of the plurality of physical lottery tickets, storing the associated second validation code in a winners data file;

assigning a winning credit amount, corresponding to the second prize, to the stored associated second validation code;

periodically transferring the winners data file to the first game redemption system so that the winning play of the Internet-based game associated with the at least one of the plurality of physical lottery tickets is redeemable for the second prize via the first game redemption system;

generating a completion indication upon completion of the Internet-based game associated with the at least one of the physical lottery tickets; and

associating the completion indication with the second validation code associated with the at least one of the physical lottery tickets stored in the winners data file, wherein presence of the completion indication, is required, at the time of redemption of the at least one of the physical lottery tickets for the Internet-based game via the first game redemption system.

2. The method as in claim 1 , wherein the completion indication is a third validation code that is generated upon completion of the Internet-based game and associated with the stored second validation code in the winners data file transferred to the first game redemption system.

3. The method as in claim 2 , wherein the third validation code is presented to one of the or more players associated with the completion of the Internet-based game and must be presented by the one of the one or more players at the time of redemption of the associated physical lottery ticket.