I live in Boone NC and have been playing the NC Scratch Offs for about 4 years now...
For a long time I had different ideas about the best way to play these Scratch offs. Sure it's Blind Luck but there are strategies such as spending $20 on Several different $2, $3, or $5 tickets, or buying 5-10 at a time in a row, etc. etc. etc.
My main idea was I only spend $20 at a time and I liked to buy several different scratch offs of LOW amounts $1, $2, $3, $5, the occasional $10 etc..
The results were ok.. Winning a few LOW amounts, and keeping track of what I spent vs what I won I ended up losing about 50% of what I spent... Typical results from Scratch offs.. BUT..
Over the Years I've bought Scratch Offs, I have been lucky. I've won $500 once on a Green Gold Ticket. I've won $100 Three times on various $5 tickets and I've won several $20, $50 prizes along with a lot of Break Even Amounts...
Then I Started Thinking... And I Stumbled upon a Strategy that Truly Seems to work and result in Consistent Big Wins in the $100 range or better...
I've found that the $20 Tickets Pay VERY Well...
I started buying ONE $20 Ticket at a time. Perhaps One a Day or Whatever.. I don't buy these 2-3 at a time I only buy ONE at a time at any ONE location.
BUT.. I've been winning a LOT more...
Here's Why...
When you buy a $20 NC Scratch off Ticket there are 2 Outcomes from your purchase.
The First Possible Outcome is... You'll have a Losing Ticket and you lost your $20. So be it... Live to try again...
Or..
The Second Outcome is.. You have a WINNING Ticket which means you get your $20 Back in FULL and Hopefully Even MORE... ANY WINNER is going to be at the very LEAST the $20 you spent BACK in your Pocket!! I like this way more than spending $20 on various Low Dollar tickets and only getting say $8 back after spending $20 on various low dollar tickets.
The Best thing about the $20 tickets however is... I get a LOT MORE FREQUENT WINS than with the other Low Dollar Tickets... $20 Tickets are about 1 in 3 Odds... And, I've found that when I DO get a Winning $20 Ticket, it's often a LOT MORE than the $20 I spent. I make a PROFIT from the ticket when I win... Very Often I'll win $50 or even $100 from a $20 ticket...
Since I started playing the $20 tickets I've done Very Well... I'm still hoping to hit a nice $1000+ win!!
So My advice is, if your GOING to play the Scratch Offs, go for the $20 tickets... It's a Lot more Satisfying to get a nice Chunk of your Money Back if you do win!!