I bought an entire book of $20 GA tickets - $3,000,000 Taxes Paid

Reply #20

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:11:49 GMT

When we were in Texas last month a clerk suggested that we buy a roll of the $20.00 Texas Block Buster. He said someone won $1,000.00 doing this ......there are 25 tickets on a roll so his profit was $500.00(not including taxes) which he could of won on a single ticket.... also there was a guy in Rio Vista Texas that won $2.5 million on the Texas Block Buster it was the last ticket on the roll.... Keep in mind know one knows where the Jackpot ticket is on a roll it could be the first ticket........ [ More ]

Reply #19

TheOtherOne — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:04:46 GMT

I am thinking you should write that book! Certainly very good info.

Often while scratching tickets I think to myself there HAS to be an algorithm to it all. I mean I have bought several tikets together and noticed similarities between just the numbers you reveal, and i wonder if there is something behind those numbers, or maybe even the coded numbers that tell the roll number, ticket number, game number, etc.

For instance, on a $2 Jumbo Bucks you might be given a 12 and 5 to match. Then on... [ More ]

Reply #18

CarHauler — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:21:53 GMT

As many of you have read, I HAD come to the conclusion that the lottery was in fact random, but now I am forced to eat my own words. I am currently in the process of reading this story on LP: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/227079, in which a statistician supposedly breaks the code to scratch offs. Given I have not finished reading it, it is very interesting so far. One FACT that we all tend to overlook is that the scratch lottery CANNOT truly be random, it only appears that way. The lottery MU... [ More ]

Reply #17

Jon D — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:49:40 GMT

I never bought an entire book, probably never will. Although a few stores have such low turnover, I practically bought most of one particular book. And I guess peoples experiences of buying entire books is typically not that great anyway.

I was looking at some of the stats for Scratch winners in my area, and it was disappointing to see that throughout the course of a year, most stores only had a couple of winners in the $600-$1000 range, and anything more or higher was very rare. So the odds

Reply #16

TheOtherOne — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:34:22 GMT

How exciting to buy a whole roll. Too bad that $300 winner wasnt on BOTH -- the ticket your wife scratched AND that whole roll you bought.

I sometimes consider buying an entire roll but more and more when I consider it I figure it best to go in with a friend. Besides, I just dont have that type of capital to throw at a whole book so I just stick with one or 2 every now and again.

And CarHauler you mention that your wife revealed the biggest winner to date -- that is funny, it used to ALWAY... [ More ]

Reply #15

CarHauler — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:47:24 GMT

That really sucks. I hope you have better luck. I needed roughly a $500 winner last year to bring myself back to even, but I cleared the books (at least in my own mind) for the new year. Due to computer problems, I have not kept as good records, but alas I have started keeping hardcopy records, until I fix mine up. I am pretty sure that I am ahead for the year, if not pretty close to even with this $300 winner. I will most likely take it easy pretty soon, after these new $20 tickets get old. I l... [ More ]

Reply #14

CarHauler — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:30:42 GMT

RJOh,

I am glad I got that out of my system. I expect they have to sell a lot of losers to make a profit. They just sent me a bunch of coupons, but they are not much, most are buy 1 online game and get a QP free, or $1 off an instant ticket, limit 1. Really more of a tease than anything else, but maybe it gets the casual player to spend more, it just does not seem like too much of a temptation to me. I wish it were a percentage off instead, or buy 1 get 1 free instant ticket.

If I had just... [ More ]

Reply #13

CarHauler — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:58:24 GMT

You got that one right! I went to claim the $130 of my winnings tonight at a QuickTrip. I was going to get some more there, but my gut really strongly objected to the idea for some reason. I turned in $90 worth, meaning to turn in $100 worth (they will only pay out up to $100 cash, After that it is a money order, which I did not feel like dealing with). Against my better judgement, I asked if I could turn in the remaining $40 ticket for more scratch offs. The clerk said no, and went into this lo... [ More ]

Reply #12

James1 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:09:19 GMT

Im addicted too but I know how to force myself away for a few days.

My worst habit is chasing winners, dropping $200 in 10 minutes, then getting more money to win back the lost $200 AND make a profit while at it. This has dropped me in a hole. Only way out now is a big winner minimum $5K.

Reply #11

TnTicketlosers — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:55:37 GMT

Ive bought several books here in Tennessee over the past few years myself,the results are very disturbing also.I had to admit to myself I was to addicted to getting that winning ticket.There are a few things inn my life I love more than a scratch off.It is a hard habit to break but it can be done.I'm living proof,And boy it feels good too.

Reply #10

RJOh — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:51:13 GMT

CarHauler,

Didn't you realize how many losing $20 tickets they had to sell to pay for a $3,000,000 taxes paid prize? Well at least you did something you had wanted to do for a while. I've found most lottery retailers don't know any more about the games they sell than their customers.

Reply #9

four4me — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:33:22 GMT

I explained this to you a few times now they printed 20 million or more tickets, it's not about how many you buy it's about being in the right place at the right time.

you could go to 10 stores and buy a book in each one of them and you might get lucky or not. get up the next day and do it all over with the same results.

I've seen the two old guys throw away their pension checks every month buying whole books and scratching the whole day they were addicted to it the very rarely if ever won... [ More ]

Reply #8

James1 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:14:31 GMT

What I have learned

1- Dont buy rolls of new scratchers after them having been out for 1 month and several jackpots have been claimed. This is when the lotto looks to make the most money and 90% of rolls will be cold. Rather buy the first week they hit the shelves or half a year into the game.

2- Dont buy whats popular at the moment

3- Dont buy rolls of dead scratchers ( tickets which have no jackpots remaining )

4- Dont trust clerks. Every time ive asked if there have been any winne... [ More ]

Reply #7

CarHauler — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:27:41 GMT

Once again, I agree, and it is just plain good for business. That helps ticket sales. If a book is stuck on the last 2 tickets, and no one will buy them, then that is money that the lotto is not getting.

Reply #6

CarHauler — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:25:21 GMT

No, not guaranteed, but I would think one or the other might have a winner. It is just good policy to have a fair amount of winners at the ends of the books. If you knew that ticket 000 or 014 never won, would you buy it? Me neither, but if there was that one time that I remembered winning $100 on it, I would be more likely to buy that number.

Reply #5

CarHauler — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:22:00 GMT

That is about what I got back (43%). I wonder if there is any way to tell if a book is good. Did you buy all 5 at the same time, or at the same place? My thinking was that if this one was so poor, that the next one might be good. Have you seen any tell tell signs, or serial numbers or combinations that were better than others

Reply #4

luisM — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:15:00 GMT

I wouldn't recommend buying an entire book

Reply #3

James1 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:08:52 GMT

More often then not the Lottery has its ways of putting the big winners on the very first or very last ticket.

Reply #2

B$Rizzle — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:58:24 GMT

I thought it particularly disturbing that not only did the first ticket not win, but neither did the last 3

And why did you find this disturbing?

I'm thinking you are under some type of assumption that the first couple and last couple are gauranteed winners

Reply #1

James1 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:52:42 GMT

Ive played through 5 books now. They usually return 40%. Best was $510 from a $600 book. If you dont hit a nice win or a few decent wins your screwed.

I bought an entire book of $20 GA tickets - $3,000,000 Taxes Paid

CarHauler — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:26:20 GMT

I have wanted to do this for a while, and the results were very disappointing, much worse than I expected. I purchased 15 of the $3,000,000 Taxes Paid tickets, numbers 000 through 014. The total cost of the book was $300. What did I get in return? Three free tickets, a $30 winner and a $40 winner, for a total of $130. I have won $60 once, and $30 twice just buying one or two tickets at a time, previously, which is what I suggest anyone reading this does.

I had been previously been told by a l... [ More ]