Vending Machine vs OTC 💰 NOT EVEN CLOSE! 2 $50 Tickets 🔴 $200 TEXAS LOTTERY Scratch Offs 

My niece (9 years old) had a dream that I won $50 in the lottery. She told me this on Sunday. I went to the kiosk in Publix on Sunday in GA. I won $50 on "The Price Is Right" scratcher. I only bought one ticket.

Yes! My neighbor bought one ticket for $20 dollars in the local vending machine & won 10k a week for life! Amazing because no one ever uses that vending machine- they stand in line to buy tickets- meanwhile the vending was holding the big ticket!

There is absolutely no way I could buy a $50 ticket and not win a dime 🤬 THIS IS A RICH MANS GAME 😂

I've never won over $50 and I've been playing since they started in Texas. In the early 80's a co-worker of my Mom's won $790,000. She had 7 years until retirement and kept working. That's what has always stuck with me.

I enjoy watching other people gambling 🎰

The only big winner I ever got was from a vending machine, 10,000 dollars.

I'm in Florida, went to Winn Dixie and bought five $10 tickets on a scratch off I had been having good luck with. I went home scratched them, no winners. I thought 5 tickets in a row with no winner, no way, went back to the store bought the next ticket and won $500. Luck I guess. 🙂

Making a video about scratching off tickets is winning the lottery. I’m sure you make more off of YT than you ever made on tickets. Well played sir.

I like the vending machine because most people don't play repeatedly at the machine. Also, the other night the cashier was playing tickets on her shift. So it's logical that when she wins she'll stop on that roll. I've had several $500 winners from the machine. Just got a few tickets from Publix service desk. Looking forward to your next session. Thanks

I've always had better luck with over the counter. Just got a 10X symbol on a $10 Jumbo Bucks ticket with $5 under it for a $50 winner and the hard $20 win on a $1 ticket. Also a $5 and a few $2 and $1 wins for a total of $81 in wins.

I only ever buy otc. I personally like the “$50 or $100” ticket. It’s $10, or any of the “Loteria” tickets, $5, $10, or $20. I have the most luck with those. I like doing the $5 bingo too but rarely win those ones. I like the ones that are different than the typical cards. That’s when I have the most luck. I also have the Texas lottery app and check the prizes before I buy any tickets. A lot of the time the high prizes are already gone or there’s only 1-2 high prizes left. I usually try to get tickets that have at least 1/2 the top prizes remaining.

Just scan the card to see if it’s a winner. Scratching it off is boring!! I love just buying $1000 worth of the $50 cards. Scanning it immediately. Hawaii doesn’t have these so when I visit my brother in Washington state, I go crazy on these cards. I usually make a couple of hundred dollars over what I invest. I love it it’s fun. I’ve had good luck at the Walmart in the battle ground community in Washington.

Many years ago, when the scratch offs first came out, we were at the state fair and for a dollar you got a newspaper, a handbag and a chance at winning a brick of scratch off‘s. They put a little girl in the box of all the entries, I stood in front of a very very large crowd and yelled dig dig dig dig dig to the little girl. She was digging away and lifted up the winning ticket which was “ME”. LOL. I picked up the brick at the state lottery office. There are 250 in a brick. At that time they had $5000 winners and I thought maybe maybe maybe. All together I won $134. Just over 50%, just like your payout in your challenge. Thanks for the video!

The vending machines look cool, I’ll give them that much, but I’ll stick with over the counter all the way. I’ve never won anything big out of them, but I’ve heard good stories like an employee from our local Walmart won a few grand off of it once. My reason I stick to otc is because I live out in a rural area, and I feel like they don’t really touch the rolls out here as much as they would in a town or major city. I always try my best to hit up the ones that look the most well stocked because I feel like once it gets closer to the end of the rolls, a majority of what’s left is the duds. Just my thoughts because it’s randomly done on where the claimers will be. Anyways, last year for Christmas I went to my local shop where I get my oil changed and bought around $150 worth of $3 tickets for my family and it was a pretty fresh roll of them and one of them won $30 off me, another $100 and my dad won $500. So ever since then I like to choose over the counter and places that aren’t touched much.

I like your persistence and calm attitude as you scratch. Always good to see people that play responsibly!

I LIKE TO SPREAD OUT MY TICKETS AT MANY STORES ,I DONT LIKE TO CHASE TICKETS, BUT NEVER LEAVE THE LAST ONE HANGING

Awesome safe on the OTC ticket 💲💲 Like you say..It only takes one!!!! You & Mrs. Fixin have a fabulous week🙏💖😉🙋

Your best bet is to buy a bunch of tickets from one row....like all Trucks and Bucks and so on.

I do over the counter, last week I hit for $500 on a 5 Dollar scratch off and 7 years ago I hit for $20,000 on a 2 Dollar scratch! So you never know when you will hit but you can't win unless you play !

when buying tickets you don't need to move around. you need to buy all from same row if something is there you will get it. Skipping around gives you a worse odd

My dad bought a $10 scratch off in MD and hit for $50,000 . He showed up at my house in a brand new mustang. Was soo jealous but happy for him 🎉

I prefer vending machines. I don't need people's bad karma.

I think location is key in finding lottery success. It's been my observation that the biggest scratch off ticket jackpot winners in my state-NC-come from out of the way small towns and cities, many of which I've never heard of. Occasionally a winner will come from one of the larger metro cities but most are from the smaller locations that have smaller populations.

The only difference IMO between getting scratch offs from a vending machine and a person working the counter at a convenience store, truly is the convenience of it (machine 100%). After realizing I became 'that guy' at the gas station getting scratch offs, I flat out stopped buying them at my local gas stations. You know what I mean by 'that guy'. It might be easy to say gimme 2 of these, 3 of those, and two quick pick same ticket (cause the ATMs smallest is $20 and it's Wednesday). But that takes way more time then the normal 'a pack of red shorts and forty on two'. So after that realization, vending machine all the time for my scratchers now. Now instead of being an inconvenience to others, I'm a curiosity. Cause self-service machines in the stores are usually in that void of your memory if you're asked to describe the inside of a store, you see it and know it. But it doesn't register in your mind what it is. Now I'm just rambling

Good morning my Fixin Family. I was starting to feel bad with the over the counter tickets until the 2X showed up

I’ve bought 4 scratch offs from Walmart vending machines and won $50, $20, and $10. Better luck than at a gas station.

Happy Monday scratching family. The new tickets come out today. Yeahhhh. I buy mostly from over the counter corner store Super K. They have given me 2lottery bags by 2 different owners. I just need the money 💵💰. It's our time. Good luck 🤞 everyone.

I have better luck out of the machine some of my biggest wins came out of the machine. The most i won from buying behind the counter on one ticket was $250. my biggest wins out of the machine was $2,000 $1,000 $2,500 $1,000 $1,000 $1,000 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $400 and $300 a few times too

I used to make lottery tickets with a company called SGI. The state lottery knows exactly where the winning tickets are in the packs and releases the winning tickets over time. On a 58 million ticket order per 6 months only 3 pages of winning tickets were produced. I know this because of the pluck we would have to do to remove the duplicate winning tickets for each state/country.

Good Morning Fixin family!!! Good luck on your profit session today Matt 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵

Over here in the southwest region of Houston the lottery is having people put up screens with the tickets but also the ticket number every time it is bought it changes to the next ticket number. Which is something I like because I can keep track of how many tickets were bought each day I go to store to know if I can hit and it always happens. I win. Also I like the machines too but it’s hard because you don’t know if it’s loaded backwards and what number you’re getting. Just won $50.00 on a 5$ ticket at the machine.

My personal luck is over the counter. All of my 11 claimers are over the counter. The best from a machine is 1 $500 in Gainesville Tx. In January of this year. Be safe and be blessed

I don't buy from vending machines because they ones I've seen either tell you there are tickets available or they're sold out. I play ten consecutive tickets from the same game and the fact that these machines don't dispense change is another reason I avoid them. At least buying from the counter the attendant can tell me, "oh, we're out" or "we only have 6-7-8, do you want them?" whereas the machine does not.

Good morning Matt! I’m in New York, and I like to buy my tickets from over the counter. I don’t seem to have any luck win I purchase from the vending machines. Good luck on your session! Thanks for sharing.

Good morning Mr.Fixen have a wonderful Day to you and your family.

I sold a whole roll of one-dollar tickets in a convenience store in Kentucky. I knew the one-dollar tickets were supposed to pay a minimum of $50 for each $1 roll of 300 tickets. But how it paid out that roll was a different story. People hoping for a $50 paid day with a $1 ticket were disappointed. The largest roll paid out from the purchase of a $1 ticket paid out $4 at most. That roll was loaded by the person from the Kentucky lottery at the beginning of my shift and the last ticket was sold in the last 15 minutes of my shift. It was a Saturday.

I don't buy scratch offs. I just buy one or two of the regular lottery tickets. You have more of a chance of hitting the lottery tickets, than scratch offs. Plus, they can be for many of millions. If you win.

Had my biggest winners out of a machine but I also prefer to buy from a cashier. People chase tickets and just scan the bar codes from the machines. Look in the trash next to the machine. If you see 8 of the same $30 ticket stay away from that one. Someone chased until they won.

My biggest thing with buying from a vending machine is not knowing what number the ticket is on. Especially if you are playing from the same pack that you did previously, etc. I wish they would allow you to view the ticket number and pack number before buying a ticket.

I really don't think it matters you just have to be at the right place at the right time I usually have better luck playing the slot machine.

That was an awesome challenge. I have never purchased tickets from a vending machine. The last ticket save was right on time. I didn't get car sick in the back seat. Y'all take care and stay safe. Blessings Always Ms. P. 👍🏼❤🤑👍🏼

I would always think machine would be best payout because some clerks play behind people and steal wins and tamper and it’s hard to do that via machine so I’d think it depends on the store clerk workers or the Lottery workers. I think they’re more likely to put big win in machines than in the hands of clerks. ❤️🍀

Good morning Matt and marmy best of luck to you sir I gotta try this challenge for sure maybe this Thursday I'll do it to see how it goes 🤑🤑🤑💥

I wish our Walmart sold Lotto tickets. But then again that might be dangerous 😜 for me😊 Great you won some $$ back. Have a great day

It's a coin toss either way, I've won pretty decent on both so good luck to whoever buys some tickets today!!

The Walmart machine is really neat, I've never seen one like that before! I prefer to do over the counter but mainly because I don't come across vending machines too often in my travels.

I go to my state’s lotto page and I study scratch offs. How many prizes are left in a game and if the grand prize is still there. It helps a little. I did that the other day and won 100. But I always subtract the money I used from the losers. So after my winning- I made 70 instead of 100. I tend to win more in the vending machines

I like the road trip in the beginning. Nice session

In California the bigger wins for me have been over the counter.

Good video! I watch your videos every day and I would like to show you my luck with these tickets as well. I hope you get a claimer soon.

Good morning. I like over the counter. But I had a claimer on the HEB vending machine. 2 claimers on over the counter. It's just being at the right place at the right time.

The vending machines here in Michigan don’t work most of the time so it’s over the counter for me now.

Last ticket for the save and this session was a edge of the seat video. Thank you for sharing 😎🤗 Happy Memorial Day weekend 🇺🇸🇺🇸

The most I ever won from a scratch off is $200. I'm hoping one day I'll hit the big prize. You never know. Based on my experience with OTC and vending machines, I had luck in both. Each has its equal share of winning and losing. It comes down to pure luck. You just never know what you'll get. One of my strategies to keep my emotions in check is to play as if I know I'm gonna lose. Well why would you do that? Because it keeps the expectations low therefore leading to little to no disappointment. And if I do see a winning then it will come off as a surprise.

Good morning Mr fixin and Mrs Fixin have blessed day 💞

Had a 1 million $ winner here last week in Port Arthur on a $50 scratch 50x ticket

I really like how the machines at Walmart show how many tickets are left. I’ve gotten quite a few winners using that feature.

All my big wins tickets have came out of the vending machine.. My 2,000$ dollar win came out of the Walmart type vending machine.. I like when it shows the tickets that about to run out..

There’s absolutely no difference..

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Thanks Fixing Family For This Informative Video, I Prefer Over The Counters Tickets. Good Lucks To You All.

I buy from both..it depends how i feel that day!

Fun session...I like the fact that the vending machine tells you how many tickets are left in the machine...congratulations on your wins

Over the counter for my husband and I. We like to pick our numbers. We have good luck with the 5 ticket method. We have ben doing it for 4 years now and have won a good amount of cash.

Very interesting video. Took a few moments to read the 'Wizard of Odds' section on the Texas Lottery. With an average return of 60% I'll stick with gambling here in Nevada (I think video poker is a better bet). However, it seems the high end tickets ($50) have the best return up at almost 80%, so maybe you are on to something. Good luck and thanks for sharing.

I love scratch offs . I like counter so I can see what # ticket it’s on. If it’s loaded forward or backwards.

Thank you Matt that was a close one and I am glad it wasn't a bust session and congrats 🥳🥳🥳

In the last 7 years, my best 5 Ohio wins were from vending machines.

Love when you take us on a tour of where you live it's beautiful

I've won a good amount from the machine.

It’s difficult to tell from just that one time comparison, would need to see it a few times

Good Afternoon Matt and Mrs Fixin 🙋🏽🍀🤞👍🏽.

I hardly won anything from those machines. But a few trips to a cool gas station and I was winning 100’s. Seriously I feel the machines are rigged.

To be FAIR ... every Ticket Book ...SHOULD .... HAVE .... AT LEAST .... ONE BIG PRIZE !!! But they do not, i don't know how many books goes by without a Grand Prize but it's a lot. Over the years since 1999 or so, i have purchased a FULL BOOK and I've NEVER gotten any tickets over $100 ,Let alone the grand prizes, and NO , i didn't buy them Every YEAR since then, just like every 3 or 4 years in the period i mentioned. Most times i got back LESS THAN HALF, twice i got back less than that. And ONCE ... i got back CLOSE ($275 from a $300 book) to what i paid to buy the full book. While i'm not gonna say "DON'T DO IT " , i will say: IT JUST HAS TO BE YOUR DAY.

You just made me feel so much better about all of my losses and small wins

I also wanted to add ….look at the bar codes on the back of any scratch off lotto tickets…winner tickets always have a different pattern than loser tickets…

Good evening Fixin Family. I prefer to get my tickets otc, so I can ask what # there on. And if they know you well enough, they'll tell you if someone won big on any tickets. I don't mind buying them out of the machine either, but I think that's the more riskier route. Love the challenge, but it would be more interesting if all the tickets you bought from both the vending and OTC were on the same #'s. Probably take you a while to get the same ticket # and you may have to go to 20 different places. Lol.

I have better luck when my favorite cashiers pick mine. They put off good vibes. If a cashier is having a bad day I won't even buy them there.

Did you happen to see on the bottom of that $50 ticket the white line I've always told that before or after that white line there's a winner and I don't know how many times that has come true that I've hit before or after that white line a lot of times on the ticket that has the white line

My family likes to make raffles out of lottery tickets. Several different kinds and blocks, lol sometimes buy several different types of scratch offs and throw them in a big mason jar and someone has to bid on that jar. Another one is making a bull’s-eye wheel out of different types of lottery tickets. And same thing, someone bids on that lottery ticket wheel, highest bidder wins it! Always our top seller! We do this for Jack and Jill parties fundraisers etc.

The biggest winner I ever had was a $500 winner from a vending machine …the ticket was a $5 ticket and it was a “match 2 symbols in one of the rows to win” not Match 3 like most tickets in my area and I almost threw it away but I had a habit of scratching off all the coating to reveal the 3 small letters and they looked different than losing ticket letters

I like both but I've won my biggest over the counter

I would be interested to know how many winners there are from online tickets versus over the counter for MegaMillions, Powerball and Lotto. I buy most of my tickets online and rarely win anything over $10

Bought one 2 dollar ticket scratch it off and won $200

Good afternoon Fixin Family.....what a session! Good for over the counter win! I was like something has to come through! Have a blessed day, see you tomorrow. 👶🐓🐇🐈🐈🐢🦎🍀🍀🍀🇺🇦

Hello from Florida! I definitely prefer to buy from the machines because it's easier if I decide to chase. Good luck all

Maybe do a cashword and bingo challenge

I haven't seen one of the new digital lottery machines at HEB or Walmart in San Antonio yet. Gotta go now. You left me curious.😁

My husband has been playing the 2nd chance for nearly one year and has not hit. Is this unusual for a 2nd chance hit to take this long? We reside in New Jersey.

Good morning Matt!!! Good luck buddy!!! I stopped at the gas station after dropping off my youngest at school this morning....I bought one Bucks and trucks....it was a loser.. I got one Lucky ticket...it was also a loser .. and I bought one of the new $5 crossword....it was a $100 winner!!!! Woohooo!!!! I was super stoked!!! It does only take 1 ticket!!!! 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🤑🤑🤑🤑 Big wins for u my friend!! I'll send a pic later if I don't forget..lol

I'm from NY and some of the biggest has been found in the machine

The machines give me anxiety because I feel it will take my money without giving me the ticket😲but I win more often because they constantly refill it with new tickets. I live close to a high volume Walmart and shell so I have some choices. I don't play like I used to. I moved from a city where they had real deal lottery stores , lines around the corner 🤣

Don’t think it matters where you buy from, nor the number, all matters about when you approach the store and that winner is sitting there waiting for you!!!

I have never won from a vending machine. I mean, never!! All of my wins have come from otc.

When you buy tickets at the machine, your hands grab the dropping tickets directly, your luck depends on your hands. OTC tickets are touched and grabbed by the clerks' hands, your luck relies on his or her hands. It's up to your choice.

I like over the counter reason being you cant see the tickets in a machine and I personally like buying tickets from the middle of the pack.

Niiice ! I’m hoping one day I win $100+ on a ticket ! I’ve never won more than $50 off of one ☝️

In Louisiana! You have to show your I.D. to buy a lottery ticket!

Hi mr fixin! Just wondering if you ever won on the 2nd chance? Thanks and good luck scratchin! Tim from Wisconsin

It’s just luck. Tickets get delivered by the state lottery dept and if the counter top is out they load from their inventory and if the machine is out they load from their inventory. It’s not like the state lottery dept says these tickets are only for the counter top and these are just for vending machines.