Scratch card

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Loterie Romande's first scratch card in Europe

A scratch card is a participation ticket in an instant lottery , in which fields have to be scratched off to find out whether you have won.

The classic scratch card has several fields under which three identical characters (monetary values, lucky symbols, etc.) must appear in order to bring a profit. However, there are also adaptations of known (card) games, such as B. Black Jack , Poker or Monopoly .

A scratch card consists of a paper carrier with a print and a machine-applied sticker, which has an easy-to-rub-off layer of a rubber-like substance on a transparent film. The first modern computer-generated scratch cards were introduced in 1973 by the US company Scientific Games . The first scratch card in Europe was issued in 1978 by Loterie Romande from Switzerland .

The same function, but with a different technology, enables the tear-free operation .

In Germany and Switzerland, scratch cards are available for people over the age of 18. Austrian scratch cards are available from the age of 16. Previously, there was no age limit and the sale of scratch cards was at the discretion of the seller until the Austrian Lotteries tightened the regulations.

The currently world's largest scratch card was presented on July 5, 2011 in Bremen. It was 61.94 m² (38.00 m × 1.63 m), was produced for the Breminale (2011) and brought in more than 20,000 euros in donations.

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  Finnish Christmas scratch card

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  World's largest scratch card, Bremen, July 5th, 2011

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