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Lottery Online? You Can Do It in New Hampshire Now!

From news sources, I have learned that gamblers will be able to buy lottery tickets in New Hampshire next week to play online — a move seen by some as an expansion of the kind of gambling that state lawmakers oppose.

But not me.

PlayNowNH interactive games go on sale July 1.

New Jersey tried something like this a few years ago, incidentally.

Here is how it works: players choose the game — baseball, super slots, speed bingo or New Hampshire poker — and the amount they want to play.

For example, players can buy chances for the $1 baseball game on one ticket or a separate ticket with chances for the $5 poker game.

They can buy tickets with total chances per game worth up to $100 and play on their home computers, using a 30-digit access code.

Since the prizes associated with the tickets are determined at sale, players also can check at lottery outlets to see if the tickets are winners — without playing the games.

Lottery Commissioner Paul Holloway described the games as similar to scratch tickets.

Winners must claim prizes in stores and cannot buy more chances online, he said.

Sounds good to me.

Let’s see how it works.