A new game gives you a computer disc instead of a paper ticket.
It's called "Click and Play" but some gamers are now calling it "click and pay."
This is the latest Oregon Lottery game and it could be dangerous to your computer.
An unidentified user claimed that the Click and Play disc caused her computer to go haywire. She had to repeatedly re-boot and re-program.
But those aren't the worst of the problems.
"The first one broke after a couple of days of us playing and when it went, it was like 'bam' a gun went off and I thought 'What in the world is taking place?'" said Corbett Downing, an Oregon Lottery player.
So Downing tried again with a different disc.
"The first disc I put in... I got about half way through ... bam, same thing," said Downing.
Complaints like these have been filing into the Lottery Commission.
"The manufacturer is reprinting all half a million discs that they had printed for us originally. They are reprinting those at no cost to the lottery," said Chuck Baumann, of the Oregon Lottery.
The Oregon Lottery is covering the damage done to Corbett's computer. But all of these problems are keeping him away from more lottery games.
"If they get more discs and everything, I'll sure play it, because it is fun," said Downing.
The Washington lottery says they are interested in these types of interactive games, but no decision has been made on bringing them to our state.
I like the win for life online game idea, but i don't think it should be 4 numbers. I think it should be something like a 10/100 matrix, in which the lottery draws only 10 numbers. Give the players more numbers to match.
Although lifetime prize games do better as scratch-offs, the online versions are fun as well because they give you so many sets of numbers. Sure the lifetime prize only has one set, but usually the prizes offered for the other sets aren't bad either.
I'm glad now that I didn't try that new miniature golf lottery game for the computer. I like scratch -offs and powerball anyway.
Oregon should dump "Win for Life", which is played like NJ's discontinued Lotzee.
I like the win for life online game idea, but i don't think it should be 4 numbers. I think it should be something like a 10/100 matrix, in which the lottery draws only 10 numbers. Give the players more numbers to match.
Sounds like a bunch of BS&n
Dr EW:
"Lifetime" prizes should be restricted to scratch games.
CASH Only:
Although lifetime prize games do better as scratch-offs, the online versions are fun as well because they give you so many sets of numbers. Sure the lifetime prize only has one set, but usually the prizes offered for the other sets aren't bad either.
At least the $500,000 in New Jersey "Lotzee" was lump-sum, although multiple winners split the prize.
they do pari-mutuel prizes so they don't have to worry about having more winners than they can pay out.