A lottery ticket vending machine that includes a ticket burster and a plurality of ticket drawers configured to hold different instant lottery ticket packs for different instant ticket lottery games, wherein the lottery ticket vending machine is configured to move the ticket burster to a pre-purchase position that is close to the lottery ticket drawer that holds an instant lottery ticket that is predicted to be the subsequently purchased instant lottery ticket from the lottery ticket vending machine to try to reduce the amount of time needed to complete the movement of the burster to the respective ticket drawer that holds that instant lottery ticket and thus to dispense that instant lottery ticket.

A lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine a vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from available instant lottery tickets in a plurality of ticket drawers, cause a ticket burster to move to the ticket receipt position associated with the ticket drawer associated with the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket, and cause the ticket burster to dispense the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from the ticket drawer associated with the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket.