NJ Lottery scrapped instant scratch-off game after only 3 days

Comment #7

Coin Toss — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 01:19:24 GMT

It's a cop of a Mexican game. When you match a symbol you scratch it and that reveals a bean.

That was the confusion.

Comment #6

play4shekels — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:59:35 GMT

Looks pretty straight-forward if people know what horizontal and vertical mean.

Comment #5

play4shekels — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:54:54 GMT

Sounds to me like a glitch in the program used to create the tickets more so than bad instructions. Scratch offs are always designed to prevent scenarios like the one described in the article- I have scratched enough of them to see the built-in roadblocks.

Comment #4

Stack47 — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:41:20 GMT

scratched off showed a hand of 5-6-9-J-Q. The dealer had a hand of 4-6-7-10-Q.

Whomever created this game clearly doesn't understand the game of poker and their attempt to change poker rules on the back of a lottery ticket means they are not lottery savvy either. It's probably because some players simply scratch the bar code and use a ticket scanner to see if it won and don't care if Q-J beats Q-10 in real poker or even know what type of hand they have.

Comment #3

Raven62 — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:24:10 GMT

You can fool some of the players some of the time, but you can't fool all the players all the time

Comment #2

Coin Toss — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:12:15 GMT

Thus one confused a lot of people

Comment #1

music* — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:07:37 GMT

Being confused by the rules of a scratch off game is common.

Draw games are so simple. MM PB

NJ Lottery scrapped instant scratch-off game after only 3 days

Lottery Post — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:13:09 GMT

High Card Poker rules were confusing

By Todd Northrop

The New Jersey Lottery pulled its latest instant scratch-off game from retailers' shelves after players became confused by the game's rules.

High Card Poker (Game #01436) went on sale Aug. 7, and was canceled three days later on Aug. 10. In a statement, the NJ Lottery said the cancellation was due to the potential for players to misunderstand the game's win scenarios as stated on the back of tickets.

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