SCRATCH CARD

WHAT IS SCRATCH CARD?

The scratch card is a traditional, simple card game, but it has adapted to cutting-edge gaming technology brilliantly. Players all over the world can play scratch cards on desktop computers, smartphones, and tablets. Despite being first introduced back in the 1970s, scratch card games’ simplicity helps to keep players coming back for more worldwide. Also, this user-friendly design has helped the game become a staple of today’s online casino lobbies. While there are many fabulous games of chance online, the quickest by far is a scratch card game. You can go on your device of choice and pretty much instantly be winning money. How great is that! Scratch cards are commonly sold in newsagents as something to spend a little bit of loose change on. Some people do not know this but they are also available to play online. They are incredibly simple to play and work in almost identical ways to the ones available in shops. Instead of scratching a card with a coin, you just rub the area with the mouse to reveal what is on the online scratch card. Or, alternatively, you can just press the button to ‘reveal all’. This might be a little less fun but it allows you to do it much quicker if you are planning on doing a few scratch cards. In some cases the entire scratchable area needs to be scratched to see whether a prize has been won—the card is printed either to be a winner or not or to reveal the secret code; the result does not depend upon what portions are scratched off. In other cases, some but not all areas have to be scratched; this may apply in a quiz, where the area corresponding to the right answer is scratched, or in some gambling applications where, depending on which areas are scratched, the card wins or loses. In these cases the card becomes invalid if too many areas are scratched. After losing one can scratch all areas to see if, how, and what one could have won with this card. The scratchcard itself is made of paper-based card, or plastic, with hidden information such as PIN or HRN printed on it, covered by an opaque substance. The original cards were covered with an environmentally unsafe solvent based coating. In the late 1980s, adhesive specialist Jerome Greenfield invented a safe water-based coating still used in scratchers today that can be scratched off relatively easily, while resistant to normal abrasion. Other types of scratch panel are scratch labels, hot stamp foil or 'sandwich' label which are technologies that is easy to produce for manufacturers without specialised equipment for applying latex panels. Unlike silkscreen latex panels that bond with the card body, labels are distinctly separate to the card body and applied by adhesion which makes them prone to sophisticated and fraudulent manipulation. Lottery scratchers are distributed to retailers in large rolls, and each roll is guaranteed to have a certain number of winners. Those winning scratch-off prizes will have values, some smaller, some bigger. The original game tickets were produced using manual randomization techniques. In 1974 the American company Scientific Games Corporation led by scientist John Koza and retail promotions specialist Daniel Bower produced the first computer-generated instant lottery game. In 1987, Astro-Med, Inc. of West Warwick, Rhode Island, received the U.S. Patent for the instant scratch-off 고스톱사이트  lottery ticket.