Minnesota Lottery to offer online 'scratch-off' tickets

Comment #22

jamella724 — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:39:01 GMT

I don't agree to such a thing for it would create a much wider range of addiction to our people, but I worry the most is our youth for they are the most vulnerable potential victims of addicition. Furthermore we cannot assure the transparency if we are going to play lottery online. I still prefer the actual scratch-off tickets the thrill of buying that and scrathing it off is priceless for me.

Comment #21

sully16 — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:34:19 GMT

I think you can take that to the bank

Comment #20

sully16 — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:33:30 GMT

I agree

Comment #19

Slick Nick — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 12:06:55 GMT

I prefer the old way of going to your local store and buying your tickets! Enough said

Comment #18

dr65 — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:47:56 GMT

This is a terrible idea. Not for the state but for the players.

Do you know how fast it would take to scratch a virtual ticket? Do you know how fast it would take

to drain a deposit of $100? $200? $500? wow..this is just too much. They realize what they're doing

and setting a limit or offering caps on funding and ability to play is just a cover-up. They always want

to appear to be willing to help but it turns out they are just helping themselves. Who cares if there is

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Comment #17

helpmewin — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 03:25:33 GMT

Comment #16

Coin Toss — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 23:33:42 GMT

I wouldn't trust this at all.

Hope a Minne-ho-ta lottery official is monitoring this thread.

Comment #15

mypiemaster — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:59:38 GMT

Good for you mammary517 glands. It's your prerogative if you spend all your money on sour milk also. Like you really need it.

Comment #14

mamamary517 — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:38:16 GMT

I don't like anyone telling me how I can waste my money. If I choose to buy scratch-offs online or in the store, cigarettes, junk food or any other vice I have It is my money I will spend it all anyway I want.

Comment #13

Jon D — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:32:49 GMT

And the Arizona incident pales in comparison to the California incident, which went 6 months without being discovered! Whoops! Also after player complaints.

Imagine that happening with randomly selecting scratch games. And how will people know without something like a draw history

Comment #12

RedStang — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 21:55:37 GMT

or if the lottery is being honest. Can't trust no one these days. If i don't see Mr.Patel working, i usually walk out.

Not sure if this will work. At one time, i did'nt think Video poker would become popular.

Comment #11

VFR95 — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 21:11:27 GMT

I agree 100%, bad bad idea, I was lucky enough to have saved my tickets during the glitch period. They didn't offer any cash for my losses, only replacement tickets.........digital drawings suck.

Dreamer,

Comment #10

mrcraft — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:42:37 GMT

Bad idea on many fronts. I don't like anything digital when it comes to drawing numbers in the lottery. Although, the lottery office can claim that they are fool proof, we have evidence that they are not. Look at Arizona. It took officials over a month to figure out (only after player complaints) that there was a glitch in the code that prevented some numbers from being digitally drawn if certain conditions were met. Since most people throw away draw tickets right after finding out they are not... [ More ]

Comment #9

LottoMetro — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:27:09 GMT

I have tested an online scratch off before, and after doing so I felt overwhelmingly scammed, even though I paid nothing to play. The experience is just not the same at all. For one, you don't know if the payouts are consistent and/or if the lottery is being honest....or if the RNG is working properly. With paper games they are pre-printed and you can buy some and know you'll hit a winner (at least in my state).

Comment #8

s200sf — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:45:51 GMT

Remember this:Lottery afficionados soon will have their choice of a host of online scratch-off lottery games, digital replicas of the actual paper lottery tickets they now buy at retailers. Players in Minnesota would be fools to play either paper or online scratch offs if they go ahead with this. It's gotta be one or the other and not both

Comment #7

Jon D — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:44:20 GMT

Right, draw/lotto games are one thing, those are fine to offer online.(PB, MM, state lotto, etc.)

Daily games, pick 3/4, OK, but don't go crazy. Once a day for p4, maybe twice for p3, but you start going 4 times a day, or every 4 hours, or every hour...watch out! Now you crossed the line into slippery slope.

Scratch games are already bad, not like a true/traditional lottery and crossing into gambling with the speed of play and potential for abuse. Now you expand online? Bad.

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Comment #6

s200sf — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:35:27 GMT

Terrible idea. This cheats the long time players who don't and will never play online scratch offs IE: scratch offs have a fixed number of winning tickets. Suppose the three top tier prizes on a 20 dollar ticket which would pay a million dollars are all online codes. that means the customers who play paper tickets in stores wouldn't have a chance in hell of winning the top tier prize.

Comment #5

BuyLow — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:13:07 GMT

Don't like this at all....

Comment #4

mypiemaster — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:55:36 GMT

The lottery has never ever done, and will never ever do anything, with the sole purpose of benefiting the players. Now you don't even need to leave your house to drain your bank account. You in effect become your own identity thief. Online lottery games for the states should be limited to subscription games and not this account draining scratchy stuff. The only thing that gets scratched is your bank account.

...Credit cards over the limit with extra charges etc.

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Comment #3

Jon D — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:18:33 GMT

Yeah, sounds creepy to me:

Have no fear . . . we mean you no harm . . . we're just here to help you win

Comment #2

helpmewin — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:45:13 GMT

We are not going to hurt them, and I don't want to hurt them, Van Petten said. We will help each other.

We have no intention of hiding anything we are doing from anybody, he said

That horse has left the barn, and that horse left a long time ago,

Minnesota Lottery to offer online 'scratch-off' tickets.

Sounds like a great idea

Comment #1

Jon D — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:13:23 GMT

Bad, bad, bad idea.

The lottery expanding their stranglehold on lottery gaming, particularly scratch style into the online space, before even allowing real gambling like online poker, that's just pure greed.

Minnesota Lottery to offer online 'scratch-off' tickets

Lottery Post — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:00:04 GMT

As expected, critics are outraged, supporters hopeful

Forget that drive to a convenience store for a scratch-off lottery ticket.

The Minnesota State Lottery soon will give consumers the same chance at a jackpot from the comfort of home, allowing them to scratch off tickets with a mouse and a cursor, not a coin.

Undeterred by earlier criticisms, lottery official are making a bold play to reach the next generation of lottery players by going beyond its current Powerball-like games online