Iowa lottery players enjoy first electronic scratch games

Iowa lottery players enjoy first electronic scratch games

Iowa Lottery players in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Waterloo and Cedar Falls have an opportunity to diversify their lottery experience playing the first electronic scratch game.

According to Lasvegassun.com, the Iowa Lottery will begin distributing battery powered cards loaded with 80 plays. Lottery’s representatives say that gamblers have to spend $20 on each card, which means that they pay 25 cents per play, named "Quarter Play".

20,000 cards, the sixe of a driving license, will be sold as the initial market pilot test. Gamblers will have the chance to win a cash prize of at least $5. According to Joe Hrdlicka, the lottery spokesman, the  top prize is $300, which will be won by the lucky buyers of 35 cards programmed to pay out this sum.

Hrdlicka said, that the testing period for the game may range from six to eight months until all 20,000 cards are purchased. So far, about 130 retailers in eastern Iowa have been provided with the games that were disclosed Friday in Cedar Rapids. Iowa Lottery officials claimed it's the first electronic scratch game in the country.