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25. New Hampshire

 

48.83 points

 

 

26. New York

 

48.79 points

 

Good

Odds for all prize levels for scratch games on web

 

From survey: "once the last top prize is claimed, game is taken off the market, no longer on sale”

 

No “free ticket” prize

 

From survey: “we have 750 ticket checkers in place”

Bad

Sell subscriptions, can pay by credit card

 

Don’t have PowerBall top prize cash value amount on website

 

Only top 3 or 4 scratch prize level odds on website

 

$30 scratch tickets

 

Unclaimed prize money back to net profit, not to players

Good

NY is starting to implement POS ticket checkers in stores.  Scratch-offs say "you're a winner"

 

Scratch games have 1 year after announced end of game to claim prizes

 

Odds for all prize levels for scratch games on web

 

Pull scratch games when top prizes claimed

Bad

No Spanish language links on website, given the fairly substantial Hispanic presence in the state

 

Only $200,000 devoted to problem gambling initiatives

 

State tax on lottery winnings

 

Video lottery

 

Do not disclose cash value amount of Mega Millions jackpot

 

Free ticket prizes

 

 

 

27. North Carolina

 

48.71 points

 

 

28. North Dakota

 

47.74 points

 

Good

Along with Virginia have the best billboards, say “annuitized amount” and also disclose top prize odds for the PowerBall jackpot

 

$10 top scratch point

 

$200,000 to compulsive gambling fund

Bad

“free” ticket prize

 

Use of “Education” in name, see comments at Tennessee

 

No written policy on closing of scratch games when all top prizes claimed

 

State tax on lottery winnings

 

PowerBall cash value amount not on web

Good

No scratch games or in-state online games – for purposes of these rankings they were given the mean of the other states scratch game scores for their scratch points

 

Odds for all prize levels for scratch games on web

 

PowerBall cash value amount on web

 

Bad

State tax on lottery winnings

 

Unclaimed prizes not returned to players