They have the Nudge machines in Georgia fuel stations and tobacco stores. That is where from a 25 cent to $5 bet per spin might get a win on in-store credit fro store items, fuel, or lottery tickets or play Keno in store.
But the money is the machine owners or stores, once you put money in the machine it is not the Georgia Lottery and if winning a jackpot or amount ion the machines the Georgia lottery will not assist in making the stores pay up the in-store credit.
The pay-out ticket prints up at their clerks cash register and you do not get any receipt at the machine when ending the play.
Unless they have a Voucher option which allows the player to save their debt owed but he store to the player on receipt book vouchers, in which the player has a copy but the Store does not have to honor them in reference to the Georgia Lottery making the the Store honor them. So if you win, the Store can tell you tol eave or ban you or whatever they want to do.
The money you play in the machine is just taxed by the Georgia State and once you put your money in it is the Stores or machine owners which might not be the same. THEY Might ALSO TELL YOU Keno IS NOT ALLOWED OR certain LOTTERY GAMES SO THAT YOU might have to blow any winnings on a bunch of tickets at once instead of taking your time. If playing Keno then because of the customer traffic it is difficult to keep getting your bets in.
Because the Georgia Lottery does not enforce the stores having to actually pay out the in-store credit earned from the Nudge machines, this is terrible situation for the unwary. If the stores do not participate in vouchers, you have to spend whatever you win at once or play keno or spend it before leaving. It is more likely you will loose than win, and it takes 3 to 5 or 6 to 10 times winnings output than money input to break even, except for random wins of a $500 scratch off or a $100 scratch off or other higher random win. if the store participates in vouchers, then you could bankroll the store credit and buy fuel and scratch offs or lottery games when choosing over several months time. But then, the Store is not enforced by the Georgia Lottery to release the in-store credit owed to the customer by the Store.
Also, when playing the Nudge machines, the moving of one token either up or down is the ''skill'' requirements to make them legal rather than stopping as casino gaming does. Then the tally of points or credits must be run up or down to stop and pay-out ticket at $5 or $10 increments, so the Store gets all the money in between those increments a lot of times, as the machine is not going to increase most of the time. Then from those amounts deleted by the player to reach the pay-out point, the Georgia Lottery get the the pleasure of taxing , because the player cannot get the pay-out ticket printed at $3.75 level but must either put money in maybe or ruin them it down to $0.
If winning a jackpot on a $1 or $1.25 bet of $2500 to $3500 is then going to have to win again to get cash off scratch offs or lottery games. Some Stores might just kick you out because at that point they lost some of the tens of thousands of dollars the Georgia Lottery i and Stores have been ripping off the consumers with those tactics.
The primary heinous facts is that the Store might allow you to spend your in-store winnings, but the do not have to by law's of enforcement according to the enforcement of the Georgia Lottery Corp., because that is not enforced by the Georgia Lottery.