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Quote: Originally posted by onlymoney on Oct 9, 2012
I totally agree with that. Those two bit tickets suck.
My only point was that the 500 dollar wins I've seen have higher odds than 1,000 to 1, actually If I remember correctly, they go well above 1,000, so I'd rather try to beat a game which has a cap of 1,000 to 1 with pick-3.
Of course not everyone plays the 20 dollar tickets soley for the 500 payout, they're happy If they win 100 bucks, but for me personally, I like to play a game which I have some control over, not pre-determined payouts. That's why I don't like playing slots at the casinos. The house decides when someone wins based on a computer algorithm. I like playing black/red roulette, or any table game where I have some influence.
Are your 1000 to 1 tickets $1. in price ?? Because the AZ $20 scratch ticket is 600 to 1 for the $500. prise but the cost of 1 ticket is $20. so that is actual odds per dollar of 12,000 to 1
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Quote: Originally posted by onlymoney on Oct 9, 2012
I totally agree with that. Those two bit tickets suck.
My only point was that the 500 dollar wins I've seen have higher odds than 1,000 to 1, actually If I remember correctly, they go well above 1,000, so I'd rather try to beat a game which has a cap of 1,000 to 1 with pick-3.
Of course not everyone plays the 20 dollar tickets soley for the 500 payout, they're happy If they win 100 bucks, but for me personally, I like to play a game which I have some control over, not pre-determined payouts. That's why I don't like playing slots at the casinos. The house decides when someone wins based on a computer algorithm. I like playing black/red roulette, or any table game where I have some influence.
"I like to play a game which I have some control over..."
onlymoney, I couldn't have said it any better and I've definitely made the same comment in many of my posts. Pick 3 and Pick 4 are, without a doubt, games that can be controlled with the right combination of numbers, money, timing, and PATIENCE.
In terms of scratch-offs, the higher dollar tickets will always pay more back more often. But, it's still a really, really bad idea to spend hundreds of dollars at a time on ANY scratch-off due to the pre-determined odds you've already mentioned. See, after the guaranteed payouts listed on the back, it becomes anybody's game...which makes it truly random.
I might purchase (5) $20 tickets and get back $20 while the very next person only buys (1), the "next ticket", and ends up hitting for $1,000!! For this very reason, I never purchase over (2) of the same tickets from the same roll...I bounce around because I feel it just might help me be the guy that get's that "next ticket" from a given roll.
Nice post onlymoney.
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Quote: Originally posted by shyguitar on Oct 9, 2012
Hi everyone,
I have a question. I've noticed that some people who post on this site have great wins on scratch tickets but I wonder if some people are spending a lot of money to get some decent wins. In my case I might win every now and then on a scratch ticket but continue to stay on budget and wonder if some people might be winning more because they are able to spend more trying to get the big wins. It's just making me wonder about how lucky some people can be or if spending a lot of money buying scratch tickets would yield more winning tickets as opposed to someone who doesn't have much money to spend on scratch tickets. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Anyone who consistently posts larger scratch ticket winners ($200, $500, etc) is spending a ton of money on them. It has little to do with luck and everything to do with statistics. It's one thing to get a larger winner once in a while, but to consistently get them means they are buying a lot of tickets (with the vast majority of large quantity ticket buyers losing much more than they are winning).
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Quote: Originally posted by Ronnie316 on Oct 9, 2012
Are your 1000 to 1 tickets $1. in price ?? Because the AZ $20 scratch ticket is 600 to 1 for the $500. prise but the cost of 1 ticket is $20. so that is actual odds per dollar of 12,000 to 1
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Quote: Originally posted by Lucky Loser on Oct 9, 2012
"I like to play a game which I have some control over..."
onlymoney, I couldn't have said it any better and I've definitely made the same comment in many of my posts. Pick 3 and Pick 4 are, without a doubt, games that can be controlled with the right combination of numbers, money, timing, and PATIENCE.
In terms of scratch-offs, the higher dollar tickets will always pay more back more often. But, it's still a really, really bad idea to spend hundreds of dollars at a time on ANY scratch-off due to the pre-determined odds you've already mentioned. See, after the guaranteed payouts listed on the back, it becomes anybody's game...which makes it truly random.
I might purchase (5) $20 tickets and get back $20 while the very next person only buys (1), the "next ticket", and ends up hitting for $1,000!! For this very reason, I never purchase over (2) of the same tickets from the same roll...I bounce around because I feel it just might help me be the guy that get's that "next ticket" from a given roll.