I'm sure this question has been asked before, but what the heck....its on my mind now.
I was just at the grocery store buying bottled water when I glanced over at the lottery scratcher machine and said in my head, "ok.....you know your holding my winning scratch ticket, I know your holding my winning scratch ticket....so why don't you just meet me half way...I'll give you the money......and you give me more money...agree?" After my water purchase, I started over to the machine, but noticed a leggy blonde in a pink mini and matching high heels putting a bill in the machine. She began pushing buttons to dispence tickets...one...after another......after another........after another.............AFTER ANOTHER! lol The noise the machine was making, I thought it was gonna blow up any minute. An oray or colorful tickets showed themselves over and over in the catcher tray. $1 ones...$2 ones...$3 ones. What the hell kind of bill did she put into it? When she was finally done, she walked away fixing her scratch tickets as if they were a deck of cards. I walked up to the machine...I swear I smelt smoke. Pulling out my lousy $1 and putting it in, choosing the ticket my state lottery website said still had 5/5 top prize left. I walked out of the store, clutching my ticket in hand. Sat in a shady, quiet area, and began scratching. NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING! lol Ya.....I know.......we can't all win all the time.
Ok..so I know that even purchasing 1 ticket can make you a winner both small........or big, I'm beginning to think that leggy blonde took my win! lol
Where is this going? I'm sorry.....I just had to vent.....my question is...when you purchase tickets....1,2,3,10...how ever many tickets..do you choose this one and then that one? Or is there a better chance of winning if say you feed the maching a $5 and buy 5 $1 tickets of the same game? Or putting in a $10 and buying 5 of the same $2 tickets? Thinking that theres a better chance of a winner if you buy 5 in a row of the same game and so on. My $1 purchase of $1 tickets is getting me no where fast lol. I do play quite often too. But I must say, I'm getting tired of winning nothing all the time. ( I also think winning my money back is not a win.....I get alot of those.) My last ticket I actually made more with was about 3 weeks ago. I put in a dollar........I won $2! Woo hoo! GO ME!