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N.J. Lottery scratch games called 'paper slot machines'News Story
Stephen Sunny Big Guy Bernath buys a fistful of instant lottery tickets every day and takes his place on a wooden bench next to a garbage can in front of the Krauszer's R J Food Store in Perth Amboy.There, the heavyset 70-year-old man rubs each ticket with a finger, cusses at it, then tosses it in the trash.Rub, cuss, toss.Rub, cuss, toss.He has been known to do this for hours, filling the garbage can with his losers before going back into the store to try his luck again. Crossword. Betty Boop
Dec 5, 2005, 1:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery Scratch Games' Empty PromisesNews Story
Most players know the odds of getting rich from the Georgia Lottery are slim, but a recent investigation found you have no chance of winning the top cash prize when you play some scratch-off games.One of those games is 5 Karat Gold, a $1 instant game. Records from the Georgia Lottery show the game has no top prizes left because they were all claimed by mid-November.If I already knew that, then there's no way I'd buy this ticket, said player Brian Wright. That would be a false investment. Additio
Feb 15, 2005, 11:31 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee Adds Four New Scratch GamesNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery will add more instant games to its repertoire this weekend, giving players four more choices of games to play and more ways to win, officials said.The colorful tickets, which contain fields of play that players must scratch in order to win, will offer prizes ranging from a free ticket to $1 million. Due to the tremendous amount of interest during our first 10 days, we're answering the demands of retailers and players by introducing four new games a few days ahead of sched
Jan 30, 2004, 2:45 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Maryland woman forgot where she hid $50,000 lottery ticketReply
For scratch games, the expiration date is usually calculated from when the game is canceled.
Dec 9, 2022, 3:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$257 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot expandsReply
Doesn't sound like you have a lot of experience with scratch games. Most scratch games have odds of 1-in-3 to 1-in-4 and even the $1 games (which I never play) have odds of 1-in-5. But these basic stats are not the whole story. Scratch games are different from all other lotto/draw games. They do not follow the same rules of probability and randomness that you would expect. Scratch game prizes are not random, they are a predetermined pseudo-random schedule. Do you know what minimum pack val
Dec 3, 2013, 4:06 am - Jon D - Lottery News

Final Wyoming Senate vote on lottery bill coming FridayReply
yeah right! the lottery causes divorce and crimes...lol....that is just a myth the people against a lottery always use to say it is bad...also the one where if Wyoming were to get a lottery the poor people would be spending all their money on it....studies have shown poor people are most likely to spend their money on scratch tickets since they want the instant win not the jackpot wins where they have to wait until the drawing and the Wyoming Lottery Bill does not allow for instant games, scratc
Feb 22, 2013, 12:58 pm - johnb1957 - Lottery News

Big scratch games reinvigorate lottery salesNews Story
High-priced scratch-off tickets have revived lottery sales, restoring growth to a state-run business that had sagged in the face of casino and Internet gambling. The introduction of instant-win tickets that cost $10, $20 and $30 - and offer top prizes of $1 million or more - has set lottery sales on fire in many states. Scratch-off ticket sales soared 59% from 2001 to 2005. That's six times as much as the 10% increase during that time for Powerball, Mega Millions and other traditional lottery
Jun 26, 2006, 7:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery mistake gives players extra chance to winReply
Scratch games count as losing tickets also right?
Feb 27, 2005, 6:07 pm - Maverick - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery selling scratch games after top prize goneNews Story
It's called The Golden Pack, a Michigan Lottery game that costs you $10 to play, with the promise that you can walk away a millionaire. But in truth, you can't come anywhere near the top prize -- it was won long ago.Only two Golden Pack tickets were truly golden, but the rest are still for sale.What's left is a maximum prize of $10,000, but lottery officials say they're not deceiving anyone. Read the small print, they say, or check the lottery's Web site, which lists weekly grand prize updates.T
Feb 22, 2005, 10:39 am - Todd - Lottery News

Thief's 1000s of stolen lottery tickets nearly all losersReply
RJOh,Excellent points, which are the main reasons that I rarely play scratch games.
May 25, 2004, 2:56 pm - Todd - Lottery News