The examples and perspective in this section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. After losing, one can scratch all areas to see if, how, and what one could have won with this card. In these cases, the card becomes invalid if too many areas are scratched. 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 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. To win an amount of money in this scratch game the player has to find it three times under the scratch area.Ī scratchcard (also called a scratch off, scratch ticket, scratcher, scratchum, scratch-it, scratch game, scratch-and-win, instant game, instant lottery, scratchie, lot scrots, or scritchies) is a card designed for competitions, often made of thin cardstock or plastic to conceal PINs, where one or more areas contain concealed information which can be revealed by scratching off an opaque covering.Īpplications include cards sold for gambling (especially, lottery games and quizzes), free-of-charge cards for quizzes, fraudulent free cards encouraging calls to premium rate phone services, and to conceal confidential information such as PINs for telephone calling cards (otherwise known as recharge cards) and other prepaid services. JSTOR ( June 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

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