material and having a front surface 116 a rear surface not shown side edges 120 top 122 and bottom 124 a plurality of lottery indicia 126 are variable image printed at regular intervals on the rear surface 106 of the first strip 102 and promotional graphics and or lottery information 127 are printed on the front surface 104 of the first strip 102 specifically the plurality of lottery indicia 126 and the lottery information 127 are printed onto the first strip 102 such that a representative one of the plurality of lottery indicia 126 and the lottery information 127 is between the top 110 and the bottom 112 of a representative one of the plurality of first ticket portions 103 in some embodiments promotional graphics and or lottery information are printed on the front surface 116 of the second strip 114 it is of note that the lottery information 127 may include a bar code 129 for identification specifically the bar code 129 on the front surface 104 of a representative one of the plurality of lottery tickets 101 is related to and dependent upon the representative one of the lottery indicia 126 printed on the rear surface 106 next the rear surface 106 of the first strip 102 is placed in contact with the rear surface 118 of the second strip 114 and the first strip 102 and the second strip 114 are positioned relative to one another such that a representative one of the first ticket portions 103 is aligned with a representative one of the second ticket portions 115 in some embodiments the rear surface of the.