Scratch cards are great fun for everyone, but particularly older people who maybe don’t always want to go out at night, but still enjoy a bit of fun with online scratchies. You don’t have to be a complete expert on the PC to be able to enjoy online scratchies, you can simply log in to one of the online scratch cards sites, pick up some scratchies and if you find it difficult to move the mouse, well all you have to do is press auto play and the scratch card will play time after time for you. So you get all the fun of a scratch card, but you don’t have to worry about being able to move the mouse.
Scratch cards also offer older people a gentle kind of fun, that is readily open to them. Often we forget that the internet is a recent invention, so there are lots of ways that it is still ‘new’ to people who have only just got round to using a PC. Although there are all kinds of scratch games and different, more complex games, many older people like scratch cards because they have played scratchies before (the scratch cards that you buy from the shops). This means that they already understand how to play a scratch card so they like that sense of knowing the game and how to play it; that is also why so many older people also like to play online pokies. They know pokies, so they know how to play it!
