Where would you draw the line?

Reply #15

Maverick — Thu, 19 May 2005 21:04:07 GMT

The best odds for a $5 scratcher I've seen in NY is Million Dollar Mania at 1:4.58... the sad thing is as of 5/15/05, there's only 2 Million Dollar Mania top prizes left, and only 1 Max A Million top prize left. Personally I'm not gonna pay $5 to try to catch a $5,000 second prize. I'll just wait until a new batch comes out.Also, I hope they're not lying about the 1-2 top prizes left, only to keep the game running longer to try to sell off those second prize tickets. I mean who would know... [ More ]

Reply #14

JimmySand9 — Thu, 19 May 2005 15:46:27 GMT

New York has awful scratch tickets. The odds are unbearable. The best odds I've seen is for that Max-A-Million game, and that's counting the free Mega Millions play.

Reply #13

RJOh — Thu, 19 May 2005 15:43:34 GMT

I draw the line at $5 per ticket regardless of the odds because if the big winner has not been placed in the town that you're buying your tickets, you're not going to win no matter the number of tickets you buy.RJOh

Reply #12

Tnplayer805 — Thu, 19 May 2005 15:34:17 GMT

I've noticed on average when I buy tickets if the odds say 1:4 I usually win something if I buy 6 tickets, however, if I buy 4, chances are I don't win anything. I think some people get overall odds confused. If every 3rd ticket was a winner there would be a lot of cheating going on with retailers too.

Reply #11

four4me — Thu, 19 May 2005 15:19:12 GMT

even though a book of tickets may have great odd of winning some sort of prize the odd are miss leading. you might get three winners in a row then no winners for 12 more tickets . then get one winner ever other ticket for three trys. then no winners for 10 trys. If the odds were exact and say for instance 1 :3 then every third ticket should be a winner but that's just not the case.

Reply #10

CASH Only — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:51:08 GMT

Some NY scratch tickets ARE crap.

Reply #9

Maverick — Tue, 10 May 2005 00:20:51 GMT

Jesus Christ you guys got better odds than NY!Psst, nylottery are you gonna take this crap from the other states

Reply #8

DoctorEw220 — Mon, 09 May 2005 21:41:07 GMT

here's how i would draw the line. $1 1 in 5$2 1 in 4$3 1 in 3.5$5 1 in 3$10 1 in 2.5$20 1 in 2 with a minimum prize of $10.

Reply #7

LOTTOMIKE — Mon, 09 May 2005 10:55:30 GMT

i especially like jumbo bucks.

Reply #6

LOTTOMIKE — Mon, 09 May 2005 10:55:08 GMT

tennessee odds are pretty good.

Reply #5

CASH Only — Sun, 08 May 2005 17:29:23 GMT

The really bad NY scratches are annuity-only (including three versions of Lose for Life).

Reply #4

Tnplayer805 — Sun, 08 May 2005 00:08:30 GMT

In TN the odds are great. I've seen other states and I'm not impressed. TN's 5 dollar ticket odds range from 1:3-1:3.3. $10 range from 1:2.46 to 1:2.6. Pretty good in my opinion.

Reply #3

JimmySand9 — Sat, 07 May 2005 22:24:20 GMT

NY's scratch odds are really bad. Go to another state if you can.

Reply #2

Maverick — Sat, 07 May 2005 22:20:23 GMT

Interesting. I was just looking at scratch tickets in my state last night. I didn't notice any $5 or $10 ticket with odds at 2 points. Lowest I saw was a $10 ticket at 1:3.70.... maybe when NY has $20 tickets (not that I want a $20 ticket).

Reply #1

mcooldude — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:21:48 GMT

For me the line would be as follow$1.00 4.66 odds$2.00 4.52 odds$3.00 3.99 odds$5.00 3.87 odds$10.00 3.07 odds$20.00 2.75 odds

Where would you draw the line?

Tnplayer805 — Sat, 07 May 2005 18:40:07 GMT

I'm talking overall odds. Where would you draw the line?For me I wouldn't buy a $1 ticket if the odds were more than 1:4.9$2 would be 1:4.2$3 would be 1:3.9$5 would be 1:3.3$10 would be 1:2.7$20 would be 1:2.1