Touch screen lottery machines WTG Iowa

 One step closer to a cashless society. 

So, are these like vending machines but fancier?

I think I read someone here saying they can key in numbers on the machines in their state instead of using a play slip, more like the machines the cashiers use.  Is that what this is?  That would be really nice because the play slip readers hardly ever work in the machines around here.

That's what I'm thinking.

Well, how about for us folks who use the play slips exclusively?

I wish some state, or the national lotto as a whole could come up with a way for the player to just turn in previous tickets played, so that the players can replay the next time, if they so choose.

I'd call that a triumph. Then, the clerk wouldn't have to run my slips through, generate the ticket, then put the slip on one side, on the counter; the ticket on the other side.

So, eliminating that, would be a triumph for me. I play several such slips, every week.   No big deal, if it stays this way, but don't talk about eliminating slips in any way.

(That's how the manual transmission has almost become extinct.)

On the vending machine, OK, same thing. I can put my slips in, and from then on, I can opt to put in my tickets, have a lighted "replay this ticket" button.

And bingo, my tickets are generated for the next game.

But why don't they do this?  I think it's because my slips are marked much better in pen than the tickets that are printed from the machine.  So, more potential problems possible.

My play slips last from matrix change to the next.
And yes, I use them every week.

I have them filled out neatly, all legible marks within the squares.
No need to eliminate the slips until they come up with a way for the player
to generate their next game play(s), by turning in their tickets, instead of the slips.

Otherwise, you may need to call your state lotto to come and fix/clean/adjust the machine you use.  Could be a bad batch of slips?

Great idea. We can play a lot of other games with touch screen . I can't see a reason it couldn't work in the lottery as well.

Here's what we have in Virginia, I love these things, so convenient.  You can cash your winners as well and use the funds towards a new purchase.

Very nice, JackofHearts.  I love that you don't have to rely on the machine to read the playslip to get your own numbers.  That's the thing I have the most problems and frustration with here.  I don't know if the lottery went cheap and bought "seconds" for our machines or what, but there's not a machine within 2 miles of my house that I haven't had the play slip reader refuse to work.

  Funny Groppo that you mentioned about putting the same tickets back into the machine... cause they do have it here in PA.. I heard the clerk telling someone else that instead of repeating the same plays he just takes his tickets from the previous day and runs them again the next day...no play slip involved..When I heard that I thought it was a good idea...

We can do that here, too.  If you scan a losing ticket it says to scan again to replay.  But it doesn't work if that particular ticket won.  It just keeps telling you that it's already been cashed.  However, the machines the cashiers use can replay a winning ticket.

In NY some locations have the touchscreen machines.

We also have the "PLAY AGAIN" option to re-play old tickets 9winners or losers).