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In NZ they are called 'instant kiwi' tickets, I imagine all country's have them.
Problem : they alienate a significant portion of the population - the vision impaired.
Solution: lottery tickets with the symbols in raised from the surface, and the denomination of the win in brail.
The
covering which is scratched off needs to be of a thicker variety than your average, ordinary, scratch and will ticket, and the ticket would also need visual wrting and symbols also for the non-vision impaired section of the public.
ONCE
http://www.once.es/cd/og/ocdog01cose.htm
Spanish lottery organisation [oneoffdave, Oct 04 2004]
[link]
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Braille
What's to prevent an employee of a store from "reading" tickets beforehand, and knowing which ones are the winners? There was a fiasco involving baseball cards with raised surfaces. |
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I think the idea is that the covering is so thick that the bumps are obscured by it and that the bumps are tough enough that they will not be flattened when scratching off the surface. |
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Fishbone from me for being neither practical nor amusingly impractical. |
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I like the idea, but not the implementation. Can we fix this idea? |
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[admin] Corrected the spelling of 'Braille' in the idea name. |
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actually a pretty good way of doing it, GTR, and it's not like the lottery companies are poor, is it? |
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Still far easier, however, just to get a trusted seeing friend to tell you what you got. |
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How about a scratch-n-sniff area under the rub-off? |
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or lick-n-taste - scotch whisky for winners; vinegar for losers. |
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//just to get a trusted seeing friend to tell you what you got// |
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"no, sorry joe, nothing on this one....here, I'll take it and *put* it in the *trash* for you...." |
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ok...I'm having a cynical day.... |
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well, that is why I felt *trusted* was necessary.. |
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I like the scratch-n-sniff version, myself... |
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What does "win!" smell like? |
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Money. Losing tickets smell like garbage. |
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And if you don't smell anything, the guy's just sold you a business card.. |
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I have never really liked spell-check programs, and dictionarys - who needs them.......well me I guess. |
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Yamahito, you trust a friend with a potential million dollars (kumara in NZ)? |
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I had considered scratch and sniff, but did not think was practical (was there not an episode of Red Dwarf with scratch and sniff books)? Lick and win I like, but only for the scotch... |
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And how to market these...? |
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[GeorgeTheRobin] I like the spoken word, aside from the expense. I don't care how much money the lotteries generate -- their beneficiaries clutch, with white knuckled fists, every bit of it. |
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What is needed here is an auditory redemption machine. Scratch the ticket to reveal the familiar visual results, but also a scannable code (UPC, magnetic, rfid). Feed the game card into the machine and have the results spoken, displayed and printed on a receipt. Extra credit for a machine that redeems the prize immediately. |
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Here in the states, some Wells Fargo Bank ATM machines dispense postal stamps. Flip this idea upside down: Standard ATMs read lottery cards and dispense cash. |
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Activation of the cards needs some careful management to keep clerks honest. A UPC code is both cheap and hidden by the opaque scratch-off covering. Magnetic or RFID is more readily adapted to ATM machines, but comes at a higher cost and potential security risks. |
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For all I know, lottery tickets already come with scannable ids and prizes are looked up in a central database. Is this true? I've never played. For statewide lotteries, I imagine that the tickets are merely a touchy-feely component in an otherwise digital infrastructure. |
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If my assumptions turn out to be wrong, I default to my secondary solution: Trustworthy Reading and Speaking Eye Dogs. |
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Florida tickets, both lottery and scratchoff, have bar codes that can be scanned to tell if they're winners or not. <I've often wondered if anyone has run a pack of the things through the scanner on a boring night at work...> |
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How about braille scratch-and-sniff lottery cards? Some smell like cherries and others like school-girl's used panties. |
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These are:
(1) Tax free
(2) Better economics for the operator
(3) Similar chance of winning* |
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A whole trading counter-culture could spring up between those that wish they'd won cherries and those that wished they'd won school-girl's used panties. |
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The braille is for blind smokers. |
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In Spain one of the major lotteries is run by an organisation for the visually impaired, ONCE. Then every vendor may be able to detect the winning tickets. Would make it easier to verify any winners though [link] |
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