Gambling Among Young People, 837 kB

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types of games
You can divide the most common games into the following categories:
• Lotteries. Traditional lotteries with lottery tickets where the draw is made after the purchase are
included as well as scratch cards where you know immediately whether you have won anything or
not, for example Triss and Tian.
• Betting games. Betting on different sport events, for example athletic contests, horse-racing
(horse-racing and harness racing) and greyhound-racing are the most common betting games.
Tipset, V75, Oddset, Måltipset, Dagens Dubbel and Greyhoundracing belong to this category.
• Fruit machines. The term “fruit machine” is used in this report to refer to all kinds of gambling
machines, including poker machines. Most modern gambling machines are Video Lottery
Terminals (VLTs) and are completely electronic. In Sweden all legal gambling machines are
VLTs. The Swedish fruit machines are called Jack and Miss Vegas and are placed in restaurants
and in bingo halls around the country. Jack and Miss Vegas are the equivalent to what used to be
called one-armed bandits, but today they are totally electronic.
• Number games. In the number games, for example Keno, you bet that one or several numbers will
be drawn.
• Bingo in bingo halls. There are hundred-odd bingo halls around the country.
• Casinos. A few years ago four state casinos were opened in Sweden where you can, for example,
play on fruit machines, play roulette, poker and Black Jack.
• Restaurant casinos.There are casinos in 730 restaurants, usually Black Jack or roulette. Their bets
and winnings are more limited compared to the four casinos where international rules apply.
• Private games. Games organised privately, for example playing cards or placing bets.
It is possible to play several of these games via the Internet, on your mobile telephone, in a gaming
shop or for example at a racecourse. There are often several different variations of the games where
the person gambling can, for example, choose combinations of numbers or let the computer make a
random selection. For some of the games the draw is only once a week, while for others the feedback
is immediate. In addition to the games that are organised on the Swedish market there are also other
games that are available via the Internet and are organised from other countries. You can play poker,
roulette, scratch cards, place bets etc on thousands of games sites all over the world.
age limits
Most of the above-mentioned games are not permitted for children and adolescents under the age of
18. Games with an age limit include all casino games, fruit machines, greyhound-racing and horseracing,
most sport betting games and bingo in a bingo hall. You also have to be 18 to be able to play on
the Swedish companies’games on the Internet; this is checked when you register as a player. The rules
vary on the foreign websites depending on the legislation in the country in question, but you do require
some type of credit card, which in practice makes it more difficult for adolescents to participate.