Sukhothai, The Government Lottery Office is testing the sale of 3-digit online lottery tickets, starting in October 2024 at 20 baht per ticket, via a screen, with lottery ticket agents selling tickets for 30 baht nationwide, focusing on representatives of the original occupation group selling digital lottery tickets. Mr. Thanawat Polwichai, the committee member and spokesman of the Government Lottery Commission, along with Lt. Col. Noon Sansanakom, the director of the Government Lottery Office, announced the progress of the 3-digit government lottery project at the Ban Na Ton Chan community that after the cabinet approved the lottery office to draw 3-digit prizes online, the lottery committee approved the operation plan and is preparing to test the actual sales through the Sandbox system in October 2024, starting sales on October 2, 2024, with the prize draw on October 16, 2024 to April 16, 2024 for 6 months, by selling through the Lottery Office website and sales points set up at kiosks at 800 lottery dist ributors nationwide, selling tickets at 20 baht each. Mr. Thanawat said that the experiment of selling through 80-baht lottery sales representatives considered areas with high lottery trading volume to assess how the 3-digit online lottery competed with the 24 million digital lottery tickets in the Pao Tang app and how the public accessed and understood them, based on the lottery office's draws on the 1st and 16th of every month in order to pull the underground lottery market above ground. Initially, it was seen that the 3-digit online lottery did not compete with the Pao Tang app digital market, in order to present the test results to the lottery board for approval in the next phase. Lt. Col. Noon Sansanakom, Director of the Government Lottery Office, said that the purpose of issuing 3-digit online lottery tickets is to solve the problem of overpriced lottery tickets, create a new option for lottery sellers to avoid the risk of receiving lottery tickets and not selling them all. They can sell all numbers. The dealers do not have to invest in buying lottery tickets because they do not print them. They get paid for how much they sell. Initially, they selected 5 sales representatives from L6 digital lottery books and had them sell 2,500 more 3-digit online lottery tickets, or an income of approximately 20,000 baht per month. Then gradually develop to bring the iPad to sell in general areas by making jackets, attaching the representative's face and QR code on the chest for convenience and ease of selling. And focus on taking care of the disabled, the elderly, the vulnerable groups, online lottery 3 numbers, hoping to help reduce the problem of underground lottery, bring more money back into the system. For the 3-digit online lottery, it is sold at a price of 20 baht per item. Buyers can buy any number from 000-999, 1 number per purchase. For the sales method, it will be in a digital format. The proportion of sales is set at 60% as prize money, no less than 23% as national income, and no more than 17% as administ rative expenses. The prizes are drawn twice a month, on the 1st and 16th of the month, based on the results of the 6-digit lottery. Buying a 3-digit online lottery has both a three-digit straight prize from the last 3 digits of the first prize and a two-digit straight prize from the results of the last 2-digit lottery. Buying 3-digit online lottery, every 1 item will get 1 special prize number (jackport prize). There is a chance to win 4 types of prizes: 3-digit straight prize, 3-digit alternating prize, 2-digit straight prize, and special prize (jackport prize) to randomly select a special prize number from the lottery ticket that won the 3-digit straight prize. The prize money is variable. If there is no winner in any draw, the prize money will be added to the next draw. However, if there is no winner in the next draw, the prize money will be transferred to the treasury. If the last 1,000 numbers are bought per draw, the jackpot prize may be as high as 100 million baht. Source: Thai News Agency