Are low numbers or high numbers better with payout?

Reply #12

TheOtherOne — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:10:47 GMT

I am with you, rdgrnr. Same exact stuff happens to me.

If it isnt that, it's crooked store clerks getting the better of me (okay, so part of that could just be paranoia, but I have my reasons for thinking it).

Reply #11

rdgrnr — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:15:43 GMT

Conventional wisdom says that although the odds are 1 in 5 tickets is a winner that there also may be only one winner in a 15 ticket consecutive string, which means as few as two winners in 30 tickets is possible.

That's how my luck goes with scratchers. It makes no difference what ticket number I buy.

If I buy a string of 28 tickets numbered from 2 to 29, the winners will have been number1 and number 30. LOL

That's why I rarely buy them anymore.

Good luck to all you scratcher player... [ More ]

Reply #10

TheOtherOne — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:53:14 GMT

great info Vergie6, thank you for posting

Reply #9

tendercat — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:05:52 GMT

The number on the ticket makes no difference at all. Ive seen a lot of winners on 000 ( first of book ) and a lot of winners on the last ticket. Plenty of winners are found all throughout the book too.

Reply #8

Vergie6 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:31:53 GMT

I'm beginning to think it doesn't make a difference. I have won $200 three times with no. 9 on our only $20 card here in NC and have lost a few times with no. 9 too...also won with 000 and lost with it also...bought one and lost so bought the next one 001 and won $100.

I won $500 with no. 15 and have also lost with that no. on the $20 card.

I kept a list of all of the numbers I had won with on $5 cards on up and won lost with the same numbers so now I don't think it makes much difference w... [ More ]

Reply #7

lorramil — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:09:36 GMT

We had a mega winning scratch several years ago, stolen, and it was the last ticket on the roll 149. A winning scratch in our township several years ago was the first ticket on the roll 000 or if the agent put the roll in with the 000 on the bottom of the pack, it was still then 149. A lot of agents now realize the big winner of a larger cost ticket is still the last ticket on the roll and some will take off these premium tickets for their best customers. We have found winners mid pack too on th... [ More ]

Reply #6

catfan2002 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:38:38 GMT

the 500 dollar winner i bought last night was #159 out of 200 so for me its been higher numbers #158 was only a 2 dolar winner so it could go either way.

Reply #5

jwhou — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:19:30 GMT

The two companies that print lottery tickets are both in Atlanta but I doubt they would do tours. Security is one of their selling points.

Reply #4

TheOtherOne — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:50:41 GMT

Hey good point.

I think the lottery tickets are printed in the US, if not in the state they are sold in, so it would be nice to have the opportunity to check that out.

I wonder if they even offer tours at all.

Reply #3

jwhou — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:32:41 GMT

What I would like is a tour of the printing facilities and a presentation on how they actually allocate the winning tickets and obfuscate which tickets are which. It would take too much capital to verify the possibilities and If I had the capital to do any significant tests then I wouldn't be interested in the lottery.

Reply #2

TheOtherOne — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:17:34 GMT

I wish I had more capital to do more personal running tests on this subject

Reply #1

jwhou — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:48:54 GMT

On the Texas lottery website, you can view the pdf files of the contract terms with the printers and each alternate pack is printed head to tail with it's neighbors i.e.: each column of tickets in a sheet is a pack and one column would be numbered from the top of the sheet while the next would be from the bottom of the sheet. This means that there is no effective difference between low number or high number tickets, both low and high number tickets are tickets that were close to the top or botto... [ More ]

Are low numbers or high numbers better with payout?

TheOtherOne — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:30:46 GMT

Seems to me more argue that the lower numbers payout better. In my experience, I would lean this way too.

Of course, some rolls have upwards of 300 tickets on them so you then could argue the 'middle' of the roll is better.

What is your experience on this