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An unnamed Mathayom 3 student says he likes to play the Hi-Low game as it is convenient to play anywhere anytime if there are enough players.

Another college student says some students lose their Bt1,000 weekly allowance in one day over the game and have had to borrow money. |He himself owes his friends Bt2,000 because of the addictive nature of the game.

Muang Chaiyaphum deputy superintendent Pol Lt-Colonel Banyat Thangklang says such a gambling trend is difficult to suppress and more patrolling officers have been dispatched to check suspicious youngsters' cellphones for the game as it violates the Gambling Act. He has urged parents and schools to check youngsters' mobile phones to reduce the impacts from gambling, which could lead to other crimes.

Banyat warns that compu-ter or cellphone shops that download such a program onto young customers' phones - reportedly for only Bt30-Bt50 - can be punished according to the Child Protection Act.