Scratcher tricks to success

Thank you.  Spent $40 and won $45! lol  $5 profit.  It was exciting though. I never had a 4 row win before.  I was hoping for a jackpot.

I love to buy scratchers here and there, the fact that some of you buy a roll at a time is amazing!  

The $1 tickets don't interest me at all, but I love those 5, 10 and 20 dollar tickets, which begs the question, are the $20 tickets worth it? The prizes are 1 mil and 4 mil. Now I would take either one! I play a ticket or two every other week and have won my money back, and $100 last year. The $20 is brand new by the way. Thoughts?

$20 tickets has the best odds of winning a big prize but when you lose, you also lose big.  In your case it would not hurt u that much by buying 1 ticket.  IMHO it is not worth it.  I prefer $5 and $10 tickets.  Good luck.

Thanks for the luck! Yes, the $20 are costly, I buy one at a time, and like you, I stick to the $5 and $10 tickets, though the 10 are my favorites, I tend to buy two at a time.

Someone in my State won the 4 mil on the 20 ticket, so that leaves just two of the 4 mil jackpots, but I'll take a million!

Pogo, I love that rule.  NC scratchers seem to be a waste of time!!!  It seems as if they send all the big winners to the more wealthy cities in NC.  I live in Northeastern NC, and its very rare that we have big winners here.

That's too bad, I noticed for a time that the winners seem to be in St. Louis, as did other folks who wrote to the lottery office about it. Now, there seems to be a bit of balance.

Recently, 3 folks split a million dollar ticket in Independence, so that's saying something. Someone just won the 4 million grand prize in Branson, and they weren't over the age of 60, again, that's something.

If you've noticed that the winners are coming in a concentrated area, speak up! I do hope the lottery in NC gets a clue. I'm happy to see others win, and yes, I want a fair chance just like you. Good luck!

I emailed NC lottery before, and asked them if they knew where they send the most winning tickets.  They said no, "The tickets are mailed at random".  Which means, they don't have a clue to where they are being sent.  I just don't believe that!!!

Ouch today.  I bought 2/$20 tickets and they were losers.  I thought about buying another but decided to pass.  I can't imagine the feeling winning $5 million from a $20 ticket.  I hope I win. 

I don't buy scratch offs, but I observed a couple of things : some players check the three digit number at the bottom right corner of the ticket and only purchase if the number is within a specific range. I also heard that tickets that were torn at the perforation and have a piece of the previous ticket on it are considered good luck. I think most scratch off players are superstious and they are basicially trying to find a needle in a haystack. Bottom line is they are the lottery's bread and butter. As far as randomness goes A company prints millions of tickets, covers them with nylon, and they are distributed state wide. There's probably a pattern as to where the majority of jackpot winners show up repeatedly, but I wouldn't invest any money to find out.

Illogic reasoning runs rampant in my work town. About two weeks back a customer walks into a store, buys 1 $20 scratcher and hits for 250,000$. Word gets out and folks flock to various stores around the area to specifically buy THAT particular game. Why is this illogical? First off, geographically speaking its rare that TWO LARGE WINS from that series would hit in the same area. Duh! Secondly, if someone hit it, you aint gonna. Its that simple. No math required, just common sense.

Later that day after going to the one store I buy my weekly tickets, I asked the guy, Is it true you got wiped out of the $20.00 ones that someone hit on? He grinned ad said, yup and not a one came in to claim anything over 100$. Go figure. In which I replied, I did figure, thats why I didnt go on the craze bus and even touch that series. There was only Three high amounts like that in the state and lightening doesnt strike in this town twice.  To those who do get consecutive hitting tickets, be the pusher as I call it and be the one who buys 15 of that series and not get a dern hit. Been there and can tell you the ratio of losers is always greater.