One day I won $500 and this was on Monday and then on Wednesday, I won $500 more. This same thing happened again in 2021. Both on the same days. I always help my family and slide people some who I feel are struggling. That's part of how I celebrate. God Bless everyone and everything!
I've been playing lottery scratcher for 15 years, I spend about 50 to 80 bucks a week and the highest I won was 200 bucks from a 30 dollar ticket. I win win quite a bit of 50 dollar winners on 5 dollar tickets which is nice to get back some of my money back. I've tried every strategy or tips or whatever you want to call it to help win more but what I found out is that winning the lottery is buying a ticket at the right place and right time, when the universe just happens to line up for you. That's it. My friend who played scratches only a few times bought a 5 dollar ticket and won 50k. Good luck to all you scratchers out there.
That’s so true. I’ve been playing for years and the highest I won was $500 on a take 5 drawing. And then I read stories about some people who won $10 million twice or a guy who played mega millions once and won big on his first try 😅. It truly is all about luck. But that’s ok cuz I just enjoy playing scratch offs and hopefully maybe one day I will get lucky.
I used to play scratchers sometimes, until I moved next door to someone that worked at the lottery and talked to them about how it works. You have to understand when the lottery orders a game from the printer, they have 35 million or so tickets printed. These tickets arrive to the lottery on a dedicated semi truck. In all those tickets, generally there are 2 or 3 grand prize winners (depends on the game of course). The lottery pulls and tests a large group of tickets to make sure they meet the specifications of the game. I wondered what would happen if they pulled one of the grand prize tickets for the test because it seemed to me that would mess up the odds on the game and ruin the game. He said it has never happened, but it wouldn't mess up the game at all because the grand prizes don't really effect the overall odds very much. It's a terrible wager. He had lots of good stories about people trying to cheat the system. The cashiers used to be able to scan a ticket (like they do when making a payout) to see if it was a winner and then only buy the tickets that were winners. They can still do that actually, but they can only scan a couple of losing tickets a day (because the only scans should be of winning tickets for payout). If they scan more losers than that, they have to enter a code that is under the scratched out part of the ticket to see if it is a winner. Once, a UPS driver figured out he was delivering lottery tickets to a lottery reseller. He decided to steal the tickets and play them himself. He didn't know the tickets aren't even active in the system until the reseller has verified they have been received so he couldn't collect on any winners and got himself arrested, and fired of course. This was all 30+ years ago as I moved to a different state and lost contact with my neighbor, so it might even be very different now. But he was one interesting guy to talk to.
Thanks for sharing😊. I was surprised to find out that cashiers could actually scan a ticket to see if there winning tickets and then buy also the winning tickets.
Yes they have to activate the book and also count the lottery and keep track of what ticket is on what number at the end of the shift. Also ips that the tickets aren’t active either until being scanned and sold but I’m not positive in the last part.
1rwfcm No wonder the Indian people around here won't scan my ticket without me scratching it first. One instance the other day I went in bought a ticket and scratched the bar code on the bottom. I handed him the ticket and he started scratching the top slowly. I was in a hurry and just wanted to know He scratched it and said Sorry not a winnah
I doubt people that play these games would play them with no expectations to win a jackpot! I wouldn’t. The hardcore players are really serious about their gambling, but they have an advantage in a sense because they can afford it. The ones that can’t afford it are buying the most tickets, and that’s sad if you think about it.
Agreed. I buy four, five dollar scratch offs every Friday. I buy the same ticket, sequentially. Since starting this two months ago, I have won five dollars a week. However, I look at it as I have lost 15 dollars a week. It is fun, but if I had put that 20 aside instead of playing it on scratch offs, I would have 160 dollars right now instead of a measly 40. Live and learn. Or in my case, keep doing the same thing again and again expecting a different outcome. 😄
No one ever got anywhere without taking risks.(Paris Hilton’s father took the big risk that’ll last for generations) Someone playing lotto responsibly is no different from a investor in real estate or stocks. Heck even selecting the best person to get in a relationship with or marry is no different or picking a major in college. You’re taking a risk. So don’t judge those who take risks responsibly.
It should be illegal to sell scratch off that have 0 chances for getting any prize. When it reaches that point the seller of the scratch off should be required to remove them from sale til there is a prize available. Otherwise this amounts to blindly robbing the player.
Dude. It’s called gambling. Should it be illegal for the slot machines in Vegas to not guarantee a win?? This is what you sign up for when you buy a ticket. You are wagering that ticket price. Sometimes you lose. I’m not sure what you’re struggling with here.
There are always "winners" in the pack, just not grand prize or claim winners. That's how they get away with selling games where "all prizes" have been claimed.
I agree! Once all prizes are claimed, they should stop selling them. But we have the ability to look that up. Too bad some people do not know or have access to the internet to see that.
This is so true. I said that very same thing the other day when I bought 4 scratch offs. I won $5.00 but I said the big wins are out in the middle of nowhere
That is certainly NOT the case in Florida. The truck leaves Tallahassee and drive down to the southern most part of Florida then work it's way back up toward Tallahassee. Thus, the largest wins take place mostly in the Tampa area and the outer perimeter, Miami, Jacksonville, then back towards Pensacola. All of these are large cities.
@Tonette Lewis prob has more to do with the type of people congregating in said areas being more prone to this unhealthy addiction. People in "high society" know lottery is a poor tax, Joe Shmo the farmer doesn't and is the normal clientele.
So I just learned that nothing works really except researching your state for how many prizes left on a particular scratch off and buying at least 10 of those scratch offs at a time
Some scratch off depending on your state do have 2nd chances. You might be able to luck out online instead if you place all your tickets thru the deadline and increase your chances as it gets closer. I'm in vermont people love these things
One thing I've noticed about the winners in my state is that a lot of the big prizes won were on tickets that were bought and played in small out of the way towns, many of which I've never heard of. There are some big prizes won in larger cities but most prizes are won in the smaller towns.
The lottery spreads all scratch tickets randomly. Some stores will get more tickets because they’re selling more in bigger cities so more winners come out from those areas.
My research says ur right the lottery sends a lot of high winner tickets to rural areas I don’t know why but it doesn’t give the rest of us a chance it not fair
That's because there are more smaller towns than big cities, dumbass. Also, the dumber people tend to live in rural areas and dumb people play the lottery more often.
A woman that worked for me used to spend about $65 a day on scratch-offs. She was absolutely thrilled when she won $5 dollars one day. $325 for the week, and she was on cloud nine because she won $5. Apparently the "Thrill of the win" was worth $320 in losses.
I don't buy that for on minute i spend about the same as you said lady and won five different times 500 and a bunch of 100 no way just 5 you are not being told the truth by her...
Some of the scratcher RU-vidrs on here do seem like mere gambling addicts tbh. Hope their incomes match up with them buying stacks of tickets at a time.
@@twdjt6245 You don't think they have the money for the tickets? So where does the ticket buying money come from then? I only buy what last years excess allows me to but everyone is different...
Texas Lottery: I worked for a retail store that sold hundreds of thousands of tickets. The only way to increase your odds is to buy into the first rolls. They Salt the first rolls sent out to pay out high. You're guaranteed to break even or better in any run of 5 tickets in a $5 or higher game and any run of 10 tickets in a $1, $2, or up to $5 game. New game, first roll, buy it out. Otherwise there is no system that guarantees a break-even or better after the salted roll.
The only exploit I found was to attempt to snowball any new tickets when they are very new. It feels like the first rolls out the door are very profitable . Win 100 keep 50 and then visit 5 places and buy more tickets . Continue until the day is over. Ran up 1700$ on 2$ one time.
Remember Bill Cosby? He had a funny joke and when something like this, “hi would you like to play Keno? Sure I’ll play how much is it? It’s only a dollar and you could win 1 million. OK I’ll play here’s a dollar. 10 seconds later, OK you lose would you like to play again.”
Never won much at scratchers. But at the same casino from just 3 visits, each a year apart, I put $40 each time in the same slot machine. Won $750 then $1,259 then $250 lol I couldn't believe it. Just a couple spins each time. Then cashed out and walked away each time
Casinos and sports books have much better odds than lotteries. 90 % or more. I've won much more in a casino than any lottery. I can't see buying another lottery ticket again in my life.
I was mad at my husband for telling me to get a powerball ticket on the way home. So instead, I got a gold rush $10 ticket. I won $5000. Mind you, I am NOT one to gamble! That was sheer LUCK!
I have a coworker who has won more than I make in a year off of scratch offs. His strategy is to buy from stores in the poorer section of town because he believes they actually sell more tickets. So since their inventory of tickets rolls over faster he gets a winning ticket more often.
@Jim Beanie it’s not a ridiculous comment as he is correct that lower income areas sell more lottery tickets. As for the “better” odds, there is no strategy to win more on scratch offs just as there is no strategy to win at the slot machines, it’s all just luck.
@@jimbeanie3610 enough about all of this negative talk about the odds of winning. You've already beat the odds. You're alive. You were a one in several trillion chance to make it here and here you are. You've already beat the biggest odds of all. The lottery doesn't seem so big anymore now does it?? Fuck the odds.
I recently started playing the lottery after having a random dream of winning. So far, I've spend about $10-$50 a week combing the purchase of quick picks, using the numbers from my dream and a few scratchers. I have won $4 total over a 3 month period buying quick picks; using my lucky dream numbers I have won anywhere from $2 - $24 each week. I purchased a $30 scratcher and won $50; and once I purchased 53 $1 scratchers and won a total of $50. For now, I will stick with my lucky numbers and scratchers. Playing the lottery should be fun, not stressful, just have fun and see how it goes. Best of luck to all you lottery players!
A lot of winners & losers for scratch offs are not chance, let me explain. To begin with and feel free to correct me, winning scratch off tickets are sent to particular locations to play, they are not distributed randomly. Specifically, if there are 10,000 store locations scratch offs are sold they are not randomly shipped to these 10,000 stores. IE, the locations of the Grand Prize Tickets are known by the distributer beforehand. I happen to live near a Lottery Headquarters. As far as I know & I think its deliberate. there have never been Grand Prize tickets sold at any location within the small City/town of the Lottery Headquarters!
Thats a misconception. The "odds" is for the "total number of tixs in the series" not a "book" thats why you can pull 15 in a row and lose 15 in a row. Sometimes you luck but thats not the true meaning of it. Just some insight. I wish it was that easy with what it say on the back of a ticket (refering to book) ...naw unfortunately its more complicated.
I believe that the proper way to think of this is to use a geometric probability distribution. With that you can model the probability of the first win.
Thank you for running the experiment. Great job! I like scratch off. We have $50 with one major prize left. I keep playing hoping to win that last $5 million prize. There’s one $5 million grand prize left, and one $100,000 and $50,000 10 more 10,000 and so on and so on. 🍀🤞😉
Great video !! I've always said only use money you don't need for anything else if you wish to buy some scratch off tickets. I play a bit and have won a few thousand dollars, but I have also lost money with losing tickets so I never go overboard. I will continue to buy a ticket once in a while and if I get lucky that's great.
This all BS. I made scratch offs at SG games in GA. Out of an order of 58 million tickets every 6 months we would pluck ( duplicate winning tickets.) They are all random based on a computer program that makes them when printed. The lottery chooses when and where they want the tickets to go, so they could hold winning tickets for awhile if they wanted to.
I bought 200$ of a 2 dollar ticket, every time rebought same tickets with winnings at a new retail. ended up scratching over 700$ in tickets before I ran out of money and made it to the seventh prize out of ten different payouts. The 8th tier was 3x to 5x the 700$ total to reach based on the math, it is a losing game and it pure luck to top prize. That was 10 years ago when I decided craps, or roulette is a better bet.
can't beat that logic. Turn in the crap odds lottery for literally the worst odds game in a casino (still better odds than scrathoffs though). The "better bet" is to not play games where you have less than a 50% chance to come out on top.... in the long run you will always lose.
Hi Professor Essa. I remember you as one of my regulars at Chamblins cafe. You once made me rich with tips and now with great scratch off strategies : D It’s great to see you are doing well! This channel is awesome
She doesn't have a clue how scratch off lottery works..the website only tells you 2 facts in regard to the tickets on that actual date...the original prizes in each dollar category, than prizes left to claim in each category. This doesn't take into acct. Actual losing tickets still left.
Great video, I love that you include expected value and probability. The problem I had, and a reason why I stopped buying scratch offs: When I found out that a game called "Millionaire Maker" (Michigan) had $2,500,000 in prizes remaining including 2 $1,000,000 top prizes, and the cost to purchase the remaining tickets would be close to $1,800,000 I was excited. The expected value was 1.5x the ticket price. But I was not able to find a retailer with at least 1 Millionaire Maker ticket, even though there were 60,000 tickets remaining. Michigan has close to 11,000 lottery retailers. I called 30 to 50 retailers per day for 1 month (starting in the most populous cities and close to the distribution center) not 1 of them had that ticket or would admit they had it. The retailers would give me one of a few different answers as to why I may have trouble finding the tickets. 1. Too many retailers to contact. 2. Some, if not many, store owners research the same information on remaining tickets and, in the case of Millionaire Maker, they sell those to friends or "accomplices". 3. The state lottery (in this case the Michigan Lottery) will not tell you where the remaining tickets are located; the closest information is a list of retailers who "carried" that ticket. They will NOT give you remaining ticket locations, I wrote them multiple times and received the same answer no matter how I worded the question. 4. Many have said that the distributors will remove tickets of entire games, at the Michigan Lottery's discretion, to make room for the seasonal tickets i.e. holiday games. Therefore, the probability of winning with these games is much higher, but the probability of finding the tickets is extremely low. About 3 months later, the 2 remaining $1,000,000 top prizes were claimed, both from retailers in Detroit. Even though Detroit had the next 1,000 retailers on my list to call, I have a feeling I would have received the same responses. But, you never know.
For weeks I've won over and over and it finally ended. I started with $10 in scratchers. That's it! And then won 21. Then 25. Then 27. Then 32. Then 37. Then 49. And everything I won I put back into getting more cards since it was for entertainment. And then it went down to 30.... and then 17. And now $1. So my lucky streak ended.
Not trying to be negative, but all of this is common sense. I tend to win WAY more often when I buy tickets at least a couple weeks after they’ve been restocked and I lose my money nearly every time I buy tickets right after they’ve been restocked.
I used to work at the printing factory where they were printed… there is no math and probability goes out the window the amount of cards printed on a print roll vs winning cards are slim. The machine that prints the symbols are completely random. I will never buy a scratchy, save you money.
I know a reformed criminal who used someone's CC to buy a trashbag worth of scratchoffs (about $1500) there were less than $200 in winners. Even worse was the majority of the winning tickets were just giving the price of the ticket back. I never bought a scratcher after hearing that.
Because it’s the same thing. Odds of winning and odds of winning a cash prize are the same thing. They can’t have different odds of winning on a particular game.
@@jarellhoward4218 You're lottery agent has a website with all remaining prizes. Generally, the newest tickets are the best odds of winning, but sometimes old games have outstanding prizes and nobody is buying those tickets anymore. Cheers!
I collect losing tickets from friends and only play the second chance for free. It's a waiting game, and not much fun to play but I won't be out money for losing and any win is a pleasant surprise.
I always did the best when I played between two gas stations across from each other daily and always asked what was won on each roll or pack of the tickets I bought. I won 1000$ twice $250 a few times and 100$ several times off of 10$ tickets, but my bread and butter were 2$ and 5$ tickets. I won 100$ on 3 different 2$ ticket rolls at the same time. If someone had won 100$ or 50$ on a 2$ or 5$ ticket from a roll I wouldn't buy off it until it was switched out, but if nothing was turned in I would buy off of them, and keep track of what numbers I had bought and what number the rolls were on. I would usually get at the very least a 100$ winner every two or three days on a 2$ or 5$ and sometimes multiple times a day, every week, not including all the 2,5,10,15,20,40,50$ winners. I usually bought my 2$ in rows of 3, 5, or 10 from 2 or 3 games. My 5$ tickets in rows of 2, 3, 4, or 5 from 2 or 3 games. My 10$ usually 1 or 2 from maybe 2 or more games depending on circumstances. Rarely bought 20$ tickets but would usually win 20$ to 100$ every few or so times I played them, Rarely bought 30$ tickets, usually won 30$ to 100$ every few or so as well. I moved away from those gas stations and never kept up like that again, and I gamble far less now as well.
Florida lottery has a search bar at the top of their website so you just type in "prizes remaining" and it'll pull up everything left!!! What all winners have been paid out and what's left. 😊😊
I usually go into the store and start hitting ticket after ticket in the same roll until i get a prize, then i move on to the next ticket. yesterday i went to the store with $106 and left with $283. i hit $100 twice and $50 once but u gotta spend some to win some. 😂
@@kyigemz4420 yeah I heard that also my sister does that spend some good money and gets good returns back.. cuz if u just going to spend a bit then u don't have a chance unless u put some some good money ull get a better return..
Does the lottery know if a jackpot winning scratch ticket was sold but never turned in if there is still plenty of tickets left to purchase? Someone hunting to buy the remaining tickets thinking they will for sure get that big jackpot may be disappointed.
There is no way to increase your odds. I had friends that used to work at a gas station and would buy hundreds of dollars worth at a time, scratch them and pay off the cost with the winnings. It always evens out. You can't win. It's false hope for poor people.
HOLY SNAP , honestly didn't even think that the prizes could have been won. now that i look online at my area, only the 10$ tickets or more seem to still have their prizes
the problem is that when patterns are discovered and exploited, they get corrected. i used to own a small convenience store, and trust me when i say i've heard some pretty dumb 'strategies,' all of the based on confirmation bias. it's basically the same psychological basis of slot machines. there is absolutely nothing on a lottery card that's random in the way it's printed. it has nothing to do with winners, of course, but it's part of the printing process itself. a 'white line' isn't a misprint, it's there for a manufacturing reason. they're called books. i've seen people go through literally entire books and not win so much as a fraction of their money back. i've had books with lots of winners in there. you never know. and, it doesn't matter the dollar value of the tickets. people don't pick the distribution, computers do.
i am guessing there are way too many people who never quite grasped the concept of randomness. what is not random is that almost certainly the person who posted this clip, works for the people who manufacture these ridiculous things.
What I would truly like to know is how is that so many of the same people win the California State Lottery "2nd Chance prizes." Those are the non-winning scratcher cards that you scan into the system and winners are supposedly randomly selected the next week. How?
Each dollar played is 1 entry up to 500 entries a month. If you play $5 scratchers and i play $30 scratchers. I will have 15,000 entries to your 2,500, with 10m total entries. So odds go roughly 1 in 1000 vs 1 in 10,000. Also it could be there are 6 different jay snow's but only 1 old friend.
I need to stop playing. I have a favorite game and I have won a few times- not over $100. I am sure I spend more than I win. It's addicting. I use to never play til the person in front of me at the store won $160,000. I thought it could have been me. If I put the $5- $10 away instead of playing I would have saved more money than I win. State lottery will always come out ahead - that's just how it goes. We all play hoping we are lucky enough to get a big win
Yeah I just play in groups and buy whole books of 20$ tickets. Also AR Platinum makes money scratching lottery tickets by filming it and posting on RU-vid. Creating revenue to support the quest for the jackpot.
Super kewl insight into how the lotto publishes how many prizes are remaining. Had no idea they did that, I could have been buying auto-losing tickets for years. Thanks!!
I always buy multiples of the same ticket one less than 5 to 10 of the same ticket. And I always come out winning something. You may not get all your money back but at least half.
i usually buy 4 or more of the same ticket. One time i spent $200 on (20) $10 tickets and ALL were loosers, i was PIST 🤬 But then a year later i spend $50 on a $50 ticket and won $10,000.00
I'm going to have to do some more research on the top prize thing, because I believe in NY they are required by law to remove the ticket once all the top prizes are sold because they know exactly when every tip prize was printed and what store it went to
I'm gonna let y'all know right now Mr Beast did a video where he bought 100,000 worth of 30 dollar tickets, he got 60,000 back. There is no advantage in buying in bulk kids
When I worked at a gas station, there were a few customers who would only buy the scratch offs if they were at certain numbers in the roll. They said they were more likely to be winning tickets, and sure enough, when they scratched them off, about half the time, they were winners-- much better odds than the other tickets. Most of the time I saw them win between $5-$20, but once someone won $50. The scratch off tickets come on rolls of 500, and usually the first 1-5 are not winners, after that I don't know. I'm not sure if the number would still be the same because this was back in 1999, but these gamers waited for the 165 or 167 on the roll.
I started playing recently. The first $200 played I got my money back. The numbers series number on the cards were 10 and up. Played again $100 and got cards 1-5 and no prizes. You are right.
In florida, they publish the number of tickets, the number of winning tickets, and the remaining unclaimed winning ticket count on their website. Hard to find but best to buy into a game with a large unclaimed number of tickets, all else equal. Seek out that info and your odds should improve dramatically. Myself, I played a number through a bookie in 1972, hit it straight and collected 1200. That was also the last time I played.
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In SD we have crappy tickets. Our highest available prize is only $300,000 @ $20 each ticket. I bought 2 different unused rolls for 2 different games that cost $300 per set. Didn't matter the value each one paid out $175 for each roll. So SD has a 60% take on their ticket sales versus the 87% on the example on the video. Buying in SD means you'll lose 40% every time unless you "luck out". I need to move.. wages suck, the lottery here sucks and I am going to have a tarp for a roof too. SUCKS!!
When I get the urge to buy a ticket I take my $ say we're gonna spend $20 and I scratch it then say heck yeah I just won (20$) it's a win win situation put it over into my winnings envelope and at the end of the year you actually can say that you played the lottery responsibly 😊.
