摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To significantly reduce cash necessary to operate municipally operated racing and workload and staff for handing cash, at a low cost. <P>SOLUTION: A terminal device 1 of a totalizator system of a municipally operated race course has a ticket issuance part 1-4 for issuing a ticket 5 as an unfixed betting ticket betting on an imaginary race in a format and way equivalent to those of a normal betting ticket 7, and has the function of, at the purchase of the normal betting ticket 7, reading in the ticket 5 via a winning ticket/ticket reading part 1-7 to execute payoff processing and adjusting the purchase amount of the betting ticket 7 with the payoff. A communication interface for a collection apparatus is kept unchanged, and thereby, without major modifications to the collection apparatus and terminal device 1 and without the use of a special high cost voucher or the like completely different from the normal betting ticket 7, cash necessary for operating the municipally operated racing and a workload and staff for handling the cash can be reduced significantly. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |