What the Browse Tab Is For
The Browse tab is the tool for going through every active scratch ticket in a region and finding exactly what you're looking for. Instead of scrolling through a lottery's own site game by game, Browse puts every ticket in one place with the numbers that actually matter: price, top prize remaining, total prizes remaining, estimated percent sold, days on the market, overall odds, and our value score. You can search by name, sort by any column, and filter by price or by our Edge rating (BUY, NEW, WATCH, PASS) to narrow the list down to tickets worth a second look.
On a laptop or desktop screen, that works well as a wide data table — everything visible at once, click a column header to sort, done. On a phone, it didn't.
Why the Table Wasn't Working on Mobile
A data table with ten-plus columns doesn't fit on a 6-inch screen no matter how you shrink it. Before this change, the mobile version of Browse was the same table, just squeezed — smaller text, sideways scrolling to see the rest of the columns, and column headers you had to tap precisely to sort. It technically worked, but it wasn't built for a phone. Comparing two tickets meant scrolling right, then left, then right again just to line up the numbers you cared about.
⚠️ The core problem: tables are a desktop pattern. They rely on a wide screen and a mouse pointer to make dense columns of numbers easy to scan and click. Neither of those exists on a phone, so the same layout that works great on desktop turns into pinching, sideways-scrolling, and mis-taps on mobile.
What Changed
On screens under 600px wide, Browse now shows a scrollable list of cards instead of a table. Each card is one ticket, with the same key numbers — price, top prize status, prizes remaining, value score — laid out top to bottom instead of side to side. No horizontal scrolling, no tiny tap targets, no squinting at a nine-point font.
The tools around the cards got a mobile-specific redesign too:
- A search bar right at the top of the section, so you can jump straight to a ticket by name.
- A sort dropdown with the same options as desktop (price, top prize left, prizes remaining, estimated percent sold, days on market, overall odds, value score) plus a one-tap button to flip between high-to-low and low-to-high.
- Quick-filter chips for Edge rating (All, 🟢 BUY, 🔵 NEW, 🟡 WATCH, 🔴 PASS) that sit in a horizontally scrolling row you can flick through with a thumb.
- A filter sheet that slides up from the bottom of the screen for narrowing by price, so the main view stays uncluttered until you actually need more filters.
- A sticky bar that stays pinned under the header while you scroll, so search, sort, and filters are always one tap away without scrolling back to the top.
None of this touches the desktop experience — the full sortable table is still there for anyone browsing on a laptop or wider screen, where it works well. This change only kicks in below 600px, and it's live now on all four regions: WCLC, BCLC, OLG, and Loto-Québec.
ℹ️ Prefer the table? Turn your phone sideways. The card view only kicks in below 600px wide — that's your phone in portrait mode. Rotate to landscape and most phones are wider than that threshold, so Browse switches back to the original full data table automatically. Handy if you want to eyeball every column at once instead of scrolling through cards.
How to Use It
- Open Browse on your phone — the card view loads automatically on screens under 600px wide. Nothing to toggle on.
- Search or scroll — type a ticket name in the search bar, or just scroll through the card list.
- Sort with one tap — pick a column from the sort dropdown, then tap the arrow button to flip the order.
- Filter by Edge rating — tap a chip (BUY, NEW, WATCH, PASS) to instantly narrow the list.
- Open Filters for more — tap the Filters button to open the bottom sheet and narrow by price too.
💡 Why this matters: Browse is the tool most people reach for right before buying — it's where you actually compare tickets and decide what's worth the money. If that comparison is a pain to do on the device most people are holding when they're standing in line at the store, the tool isn't doing its job. This update is about making sure it does.
What's Next
This was a mobile-first rebuild of one section, not a full redesign — the goal was to fix the part that was genuinely hard to use on a phone without changing anything for desktop users who were already well served by the table. If you run into anything that feels off on the new card view, or there's a stat you wish showed up on the card that doesn't, let us know.
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