The invention discloses a compact instant lottery ticket sales terminal, and relates to the technical field of self-service equipment. The terminal comprises a chassis, and a lottery ticket storage box and a lottery ticket conveying device which are arranged in the chassis, wherein the lottery ticket conveying device comprises a lottery ticket conveying channel and a conveying roller wheel group,and corresponding conveying driving devices; the terminal is characterized in that the lottery ticket conveying channel is U-shaped, and comprises a lottery ticket inlet channel, a lottery ticket outlet channel, and a redirection channel for communicating the lottery ticket inlet channel and the lottery ticket outlet channel; a coating scraping device is arranged outside the redirection channel; athrough hole through which a scraping plate of the coating scraping device can pass is formed in the redirection channel. The invention also provides a method for scraping the instant lottery ticketcoating based on the instant lottery ticket sales terminal above-mentioned. The invention has the beneficial technical effects that the coating scraping device is additionally arranged in the instantlottery ticket sales terminal, and a consumer can choose whether scratch a lottery ticket by the coating scraping device when purchasing the lottery ticket, so that the consumer can conveniently checkwhether the lottery ticket is won and can timely redeem the lottery ticket.