GLO to Release New Lottery Tickets and Resolve Overpricing Issue

[webfact]

 

by Paul Rujopakarn

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Government Lottery Office (GLO) has announced new product lines to be released next year.

 

The announcement was made by Dr Thanawat Polvichai, board member and spokesperson for the GLO. He added that the office will hold public hearings on the matter sometime in the later half of this year, after the administration declares COVID-19 an endemic disease.

 

According to the GLO spokesperson, these products include prizes for two and three digits, whose tickets will sport new designs based on the 12 zodiac signs. Once the GLO finishes gathering public input, it will propose the production plan to the Cabinet for consideration.

 

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Dr Thanawat reiterated that the GLO must follow regulations in releasing the new product lines, while assuring that the move will help alleviate the issue of overpriced tickets due to an increased number of available products.

 

According to local media, the introduction of the new tickets was the culmination of multiple studies from several universities. In the studies, the authors cited similar schemes implemented in 2003 that effectively suppressed illegal lottery operations and prevented regular tickets from exceeding their original 80 baht price tag.

 

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[Misterwhisper]

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

the authors cited similar schemes implemented in 2003 that effectively suppressed illegal lottery operations

Introduced by the government of "He Who Shall Not Be Named in NNT Reports for He Is the Devil Incarnate".

[ezzra]

How lovely... that's what the poor messes need, more lotteries to spend what little they have...

[Pattaya Spotter]

I challenge anyone to find a lottery ticket for sale at 80 baht.

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

I challenge anyone to find a lottery ticket for sale at 80 baht.

Challenge accepted. I will sell you my losing tickets from the last lottery for 80 baht each. Mint condition down to the original staple holes.....????

[Orinoco]

Buy 80 baht lottery ticket every 2 weeks Nongkhai.

Also can buy 80 baht lottery ticket, rear entrance Big-C

Sukhumvit Pattaya / Pattaya Thai.

Amazing Poster of Aseannow.

Not to hard to spot if you look, pun intended. 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

According to the GLO spokesperson, these products include prizes for two and three digits, whose tickets will sport new designs based on the 12 zodiac signs. Once the GLO finishes gathering public input, it will propose the production plan to the Cabinet for consideration

Just go digital with numbers purchased at local outlets.

Cut out this street "ticket" purchase nonsense.

Go to a store, choose your own 6 numbers and register it online, get a receipt.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Challenge accepted. I will sell you my losing tickets from the last lottery for 80 baht each. Mint condition down to the original staple holes.....????

That's why you lost, the lucky numbers cost more.????

[PETERTHEEATER]

Are they scared to go this route again?

 

 

[rwill]

Ok.  So allegedly the lottery was fixed in 2003.  So explain what happened between then and now.

A few years back they said they were fixing it so that vendors wouldn't be able to make and sell sets.  How did that work out?

 

It sounds like they will introduce another separate lottery product.  So then we will have 2 games being sold for more than ticket value.

 

[Burma Bill]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

suppressed illegal lottery operations

Oh really!!

During my 20 years of living in rural Northern Thailand, it was the local "village" lotteries that were the most popular because out in the sticks you could not buy an official ticket unless you travelled into town which often meant a long journey!! Also the "village" lottery offered far better odds and ways of winning for whatever amount you wanted to bet - no fixed price!!. For example, I won two amounts of 30,000 Baht with bets of 100 Baht each on a selection of the 3 numbers turning up like 128, 581 etc.

[cracker1]

Dr Thanawat reiterated that the GLO must follow regulations in releasing the new product lines, while assuring that the move will help alleviate the issue of overpriced ticket,

 

This is a simple job for the Police and the Courts. Call in BIG JOKE !

He will sort it out in no time.

[DefaultName]

Winning seems to be restricted to Thais only; we buy the same number of tickets, from the same vendors, but my wife has won 3 times this year, I've won nothing.  ????

[Liverpool Lou]

6 minutes ago, DefaultName said:

Winning seems to be restricted to Thais only; we buy the same number of tickets, from the same vendors, but my wife has won 3 times this year, I've won nothing.  ????

Nonsense.  How can that be the case when there is no registration of purchased tickets until a claim is made?

[chickenslegs]

11 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Nonsense.  How can that be the case when there is no registration of purchased tickets until a claim is made?

Woosh!

[kickstart]

5 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Buy 80 baht lottery ticket every 2 weeks Nongkhai.

Also can buy 80 baht lottery ticket, rear entrance Big-C

Sukhumvit Pattaya / Pattaya Thai.

Amazing Poster of Aseannow.

Not to hard to spot if you look, pun intended. 

Plus one,outside our local 7-11 the old boy always has sold his tickets at 80 baht ,the wife has found another local  selling at 80 baht ,I am in Lopburi province. 

[Nong Khai Man]

On 4/4/2022 at 12:54 PM, Pattaya Spotter said:

I challenge anyone to find a lottery ticket for sale at 80 baht.

I KNOW of ONE Shop in Nong Khai that I Can buy for 80 Baht.....But He's always SOLD Out of them when I go to buy mine !!

[RafPinto]

Another lottery.

Soon, 50 people at one kiosk to check out the numbers.

They never have money but suddenly find a spare few hundred Baht for the "get rich quickly" game.

[connda]

On 4/4/2022 at 11:12 AM, webfact said:

According to local media, the introduction of the new tickets was the culmination of multiple studies from several universities. In the studies, the authors cited similar schemes implemented in 2003 that effectively suppressed illegal lottery operations and prevented regular tickets from exceeding their original 80 baht price tag.

This is a bad joke.