Patent attributes
An apparatus for holding and marking a lottery ticket during playing conditions includes a base plate with a planar top surface provided with upwardly extending walls contiguously surrounding a periphery thereof. A lid is pivotally coupled to the base plate in such a manner that the lid and base plate pivot about a fulcrum axis extending along respective proximal latitudinal edges of the lid and the base plate. The apparatus further includes a plurality of brackets attached to opposed ones of the walls of the lid. Each of such brackets is linearly slidable along a corresponding edge of the lid, and the brackets are slidable along mutually exclusive linear paths defined along the corresponding lids respectively. The apparatus further includes a scratching implement removably coupled to one of the brackets, and a marking implement removably coupled to another one of the brackets.