I been listening to the problems of Ohio for years, thru the paper,news, here. They hired a analysist firm to study the problem, and blamed the cause on many reasons,except the one important one, themselves.
I agree that a multi state game would be good for Ohio,but it won't solve there problems.
The way I see it is , there biggest problem is there not customer freindly.
The biggest example to this is there play slips,THERE THE WRONG COLORS, they use a red and yellow, there hard to read.
On the daily games, they have both pick three and pick four on them there are only 4 play areas,there is not a place for playing both draws.
So lets say a customer wants to play 5 sets of numbers for both draws, he has to fill out 4 cards,
and with the pick three and pick four on one slip it is easy to make a mistake.
Now the customer goes to the counter, the card don't work, the clerk hands the cards back the customer,he has to refill the cards back out again.
If a customer hands the numbers to the clerk, the clerk either hands the numbers back and tells them to use the card, or grumbles the hole time they are punching the numbers in.
I know I'm leaving a lot of the story out but I think you get my point.
Lotery players are gamblers, and gamblers don't like friction, we want every thing to be smooth and easy in our ventures. When we don't have that we simply start looking for other means.
If Ohio wants to increase sales, they need to work on better relations, better trained clerks,easier to use play slips, and go back to there old lottery machines, those new ones are a story of there own
