Kentucky Lottery Official App 17+

This app has traditionally been very clunky to use, but this new release actually makes it feel like a real app. It is fast, you can set up Face ID instead of logging in every time, and it seems to be moving a lot faster.
I love the convenience of buying lottery tickets here, but I’d probably avoid the instant win games. I think I’ve won maybe 3 times out of a hundred, and it was just the ticket face value. Seems hard to believe they’re not electronically rigged (at least more than scratch offs, which you seem to win a couple bucks at least occasionally!).

It is easy to use now, and convenient for buying tickets, checking winning numbers, and scanning physical tickets to see if you won. I do wish their order history was a little more robust, and you could see further back in transactions, but I’m sure they don’t want you seeing how much you’ve truly spent!

You ask how can a official lottery app save anyone money, well let me explain.

I’ve been a user of this app for years and it’s been very helpful to verify scratch off tickets and printed Powerball and Mega millions tickets as well. Also I can scan my non-winning tickets (and winning after claimed) for a second chance drawing that I have actually have won once. I can verify my win/loss tickets and enter the second chance drawing anywhere that I have a cellphone or WiFi connection. What I can’t do anywhere within the state of Kentucky is play games or purchase Powerball or mega million drawings unless I’m at home on my WiFi. I’ve tried all the videos showing how to fix this and it doesn’t work. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app so many times that my iPhone goes right to the lottery app in the App Store. My operating system is always up-to-date. I have opted in to allow the app to verify my location while the app is in use.

So the money saving part of this is that I’m retired and have been working another job that requires me to do very little during my time on the clock. I can only watch so much tv on my iPad and would enjoy to play few games on the app like I sometimes do at home, but can’t because of IOS and the lottery app don’t play well with each other. Just imagine how many games I could have played while pecking out this review on here. Humm I wonder if the sports betting apps would work with my iPhone?

The app has its appeal for sure. But that’s as far as the good things go for the app. If you want to play the scratch off games via the app, half of them have problems loading. I played Keno and went to do other stuff on the app while I was waiting, couldn’t find my plays anywhere on the app, so I had no idea if I won anything or what. And I’m sure there is a way to get back to your it, but it’s definitely not as straight forward as it should be. I honestly got the app for the ticket scanner in the first place, ended up trying multiple things on the app. Well it was a waste of money, time, and unnecessary brain power. But even the simple ticket scanner is always hit or miss. To the point where I literally forget I even have the app because 80% of the time I just get a error after scanning a ticket. So I always end up just taking them to the store to see. If your app can’t even do the basic thing its meant for, then you might have a problem. Not like the state’s Lottery is short on funds or anything, they can hire a actual good dev team. And with a good dev team the app could be 10x better if not 100x better at this point. It’s just ridiculous how outdated and clunky the app is for us to be living in a time period where high school kids are able to make better apps as their hobby. My review and rate will not change until the app changes, and joins us living in the technical great era!