The corporation that operates scratch-off lottery games in Louisiana announced this week that it would shut down three of the games because of problems with the way some of the tickets were printed.

The Louisiana Lottery Corp. halted sales of the Louisiana Boil, Winning Combination and Extra Free Spot Bingo games after lottery workers realized hidden numbers on the tickets could be seen through the scratch-off coating. The ticket printer, who was not identified, has been ordered by the Lottery Corp. to re-examine all tickets printed since Jan. 1.

As a precaution, we decided to end sales of all three games to ensure their integrity, said Louisiana Lottery Corp. president Randy Davis.

The vendor has since changed the ticket-printing process and tickets have not shown any problems since, Davis said.

The Lottery Corp. also stopped sales of $2 Blackjack game because the tickets don't specify that aces only count as 11, unlike traditional Blackjack, which counts aces as either one or 11.

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