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Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Feb 21, 2017
Welcome to LP!
To answer your question. I have won a little on scratchers, and a little on draw games. Now, I'm partial to draw games. For one, I like the anticipation of the drawing coming up. Scratchers are instant gratification. Because of that, at least in Texas, scratchers outsell every other game.
Probably, my biggest concern with scratchers is that you don't know if they have released all the top prizes, or if they EVER will release them. I've seen games closed before all the top prizes are claimed. That bothers me a lot.
If you want to take the time, go to the Florida thread in the Scratchoff forum. It is very enlightening, and entertaining. A couple of those guys won big. One of them won big 3 times last year. They also dropped an ungodly amount of money. Some of them spent so much, they ended up quitting after chasing and losing.
In short. It's the lottery. Whatever game you choose, you are VERY likely to lose more than you win. Draw games, or scratchoffs. Play for fun!
Good luck.
rcb
Hey rc, I believe one state was sued once because they continued to sell a scratch it game after all the jackpot prizes were claimed. The judge agreed with him. In NY where I live you can look up on the NYL website the "top prizes report" where it shows how many 1st place and 2nd place tickets are left in each current scratch off game. It would be considered fraud or false advertising if they kept selling tickets that didn't have a jackpot winner left.
I'm for numbers, people play scratchers more because they say, "at least I get something back". They wait and they wait for their number and it never comes, so they give up and go to scratchers. Pretty much. But the numbers I feel offer a better chance for winning a higher dollar amount.
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