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Now that online casinos have begun to proliferate, the online versions of these games have grown markedly similar. Both game styles involve matching different symbols together and take advantage of the human delight in finding and connecting patterns. They both involve a long haul approach to gambling even in the face of some of the poorest odds offered by any casino games over that long haul.
Scratchies and pokies both feature similar themes drawn from movies, television, and pop culture, and they will often even imitate other games like poker or horse racing. The complex graphics and animations combined with the high quality sounds make the virtual versions of both of these games virtually indistinguishable with each other.
Socially both games are quite similar. In both games, you play by yourself. You may interact with people on the pokies next to you or others who are scratching off scratch cards near you, but you don’t play the same machine at once or scratch off the same card.
Online casinos try to create more social interactions in both of these games by hosting scratchie and pokie tournaments. Perhaps the most notable similarity between scratchies and pokies is the fact that both are games of pure luck.
But from this standpoint, one major difference between scratchies and pokies emerges. While both are games of luck, and the casino or scratch card designer has the capability of setting the odds for winning, scratch cards focus usually on matching multiple symbols anywhere on the card, whereas pokies match symbols in a line. Of course, in many pokies offering multiple lines of play, that line may be jagged or diagonal.
Another primary difference between pokies and scratchies is the lack of bonus rounds and special video sequences in scratchies. Pokies, on the other hand, are replete with these additional aspects. Of course, it wouldn’t serve to overstate this difference. Online scratchies frequently have nearly the same intricacy in sound and image as online pokies, even if they lack the bonus rounds.
Another major difference between the physical scratchies and pokies is that scratch card images are static, while even the oldest of pokies feature movement–even if that movement is as unsophisticated as spinning reels. The virtual scratchies veer more in the direction of video pokies as well as virtual pokies with more sophisticated graphics.