people snapping up $30.00 scratch-off tickets??

Reply #18

Shelby Mustang — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:05:53 GMT

They probably do. I never even checked, its too many variables in that though and would spend more time thinking on it than playing if I went that particular route. I just try to keep of with how many top prizes had been won and just go off that, also when new tickets come out as well

Reply #17

LottoMetro — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:37:00 GMT

Does your state have minimums for the pack prizes? $100 on a $10 game could fulfill a chunk of that and would explain why you didn't win on any other tickets from the same game. If I win a prize higher than any that would fulfill the guarantee then I usually won't play the pack anymore. Like I mentioned earlier, there are only so many winners per pack. It's very possible to hit the biggest prizes in the first few tickets and the rest of the pack be duds.

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Reply #16

Shelby Mustang — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:01:24 GMT

Yeah I call crap on that theory. I had bought 3 $10 tickets back in Feb. won a $100 on one nothing on the other 2. So I took the hundo and bought 10 $10 scratchers same game, same store...you know how much I won? Not...one....thin.....dime. Yeah there is no rhyme nor reason to buy tickets, it's just random

Reply #15

bigbear29 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:30:47 GMT

I don't think it is rigged, unless they know where the big jackpot ticket is going. But I think when a new game comes out, the big jackpot ticket may not be released until later.

Reply #14

tony869 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:10:34 GMT

Well Richard Lustig says in his book about scratchers... If you buy 10 tickets of the same game in a row you will get 1or 3 winning tickets out of that 10 ticket scratchers... Put the money back into the same scratcher game and get 10 more tickets and you might hit the big winner so Richard says. Well i don't buy scratchers here in WA State and i think it is rigged..

Reply #13

bigbear29 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:04:08 GMT

You might be right about the addicts willing to buy the expensive tickets. I hope I never turn into an addict , or I might be and just don't know it yet.

Reply #12

maringoman — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:08:41 GMT

I think the lottery knows there are people who are like heroine addicts, just itching to scratch those darn cards no matter how expensive they are. It's only a matter of time before Texas drops a $100 scratch ticket. I think it's great though. These high rollers keep the lottery from changing the matrix of games that I like such as Cash 5 games and Lotto 6/49 or increasing their price.

Reply #11

bigbear29 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:51:45 GMT

That's good to hear LottoMetro. I'm still going to play scratch-off alittle more than I have been playing Pb and Mm.

Reply #10

LottoMetro — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:41:50 GMT

The only limit is on the number of winners per pack. The lottery's internal documents actually stipulate that there will be no more than X winners per pack. So a pack of 125 may have no more than 30 or so winners, for example. That leaves 95 tickets to be losers. It varies game to game but is usually quite similiar at identical price points. Naturally, the more tickets in a pack, the more likely you will encounter a streak of X losers (depending on the odds).

Reply #9

dr65 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:29:46 GMT

I see that rdgrnr and if I was thin-skinned I'd be an emotional wreck. They've got do not call lists and in cases like these I

adopt something similar: Do not care list. If it's too much to spell out the state name, 2 keystrokes would suffice...PA, CT,

OH, FL etc. but if that's even too much then I guess that's grounds for the Do not care list.

Kinda makes me wonder sometimes if the reason some people don't respond is they may have been someone else in another

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Reply #8

bigbear29 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:24:48 GMT

Arizona

Reply #7

rdgrnr — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:49:38 GMT

Well..what state are you in?

It appears he isn't taking questions, dr65.

Reply #6

mrcraft — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:23:55 GMT

No, there are more losing tickets than that in our pack of 30 ($20 game). I meant 5 losers in a row. In the Florida scratch forum, people were posting 10-15 straight $20 losing tickets. That's totally insane. $200-300 with no wins at all.

Reply #5

bigbear29 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:19:57 GMT

Are you saying there 5 or more losing tickets per pack? If so, that's why I try to play at stores that sell a lot of scratch-off tickets, and it is still no guarantee to win.

Reply #4

Shelby Mustang — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:17:31 GMT

Sometimes the best prizes are won when the high dollar tickets come out. That's how it is here. We had a $20 ticket that the main prize was 3 million, somebody hit it within the 1st 3 days

Reply #3

mrcraft — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:35:15 GMT

I don't even play $20 tickets. I hear there are routinely gaps of 5 losing tickets or more with our $20 Scratchers. I think the only time I might play is when I'm cashing in a moderate win and ask the clerk for one.

Reply #2

bigbear29 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:53:38 GMT

I'm surprised that they sold like hot cakes at that price. I would have to go and kill somebody if I bought 17 tickets and did not win anything. ( I not too much into killing myself

Reply #1

dr65 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:29:44 GMT

Well..what state are you in? When the $30 ticket came out here in PA...they sold like hot cakes. I couldn't believe the

amount of people buying them AND buying MULTIPLES at that. It only takes 3 tickets like that to spend nearly $100!

That's downright insanity. (

What if you DON'T win? Do people keep on going back for more or do they quit while they're BEHIND???

At THIRTY DOLLARS A POP???

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people snapping up $30.00 scratch-off tickets??

bigbear29 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:19:00 GMT

Hard to believe that people are snapping up $30.00 scratch-off tickets, or is this a lottey news story to get people to run out and buy the expensive tickets