Clerks Learn Machine Language For N.C. Lottery

Friday, March 10, 2006 posted 08:53 PM EST

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Convenience store clerks and managers are already learning something new thanks to the North Carolina Education Lottery.

More than 1,000 retailers across the state have been to seminars meant to show them how to work the machines that will help them manage their business when they begin selling lottery tickets.

Thursday in Raleigh, nearly 70 people attended two half-day workshops. More seminars are planned as it gets closer to March 30 -- the target date for starting instant-win tickets.

The state is about 50 retailers short of the 5,000 it hopes to have approved by the time instant-win ticket sales begin.

The designs for four scratch-off tickets were unveiled this afternoon.

Chances for a tic-tac-toe game and a simple match-three game will sell for $1 apiece.

The other two are a blackjack-style game at $2 per ticket, and a $5 "Carolina Cash" game with a $100,000 prize.

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