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• palonso1971

  

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  Just looking for some input as I grabbed 2 of the 5 million 50.00 fortune and both tickets were 100.00 winners, so i gamble and buy another and its a loser, next ticket is 200.00 winner, loser, then 100.00, next 75, next 100.00, then a loser, then bam, 1000.00 winner, so i have 150.00 in there and just out of pushing my luck the next is a loser, and then another 200.00 and i stopped. i have never seen anything like this at least with that many winners, Are there loaded books that i should keep going, lol
• OhSoClose

  

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  Congrats on your lucky streak. I think the short answer is that there are some books that turn a profit, but it's a bit like chasing a unicorn. There are a fair number of youtube channels devoted to players scratching PA tickets. A few of them do entire books from time to time and I've seen them end up with a profit but more often than not, they end up counting themselves lucky to get half their money back. So tread cautiously.

  One thing I have found that's a bit puzzling. If you look at the Winners Map on the PA lottery website, jackpot hits vary more than you'd expect from county to county. Tickets are supposed to be distributed randomly but a couple years ago I noticed that one particular $20 Christmas scratcher that had a total of 5 one million dollar jackpots statewide had 3 of the 5 claimed in the same county. If all 5 should have been distributed randomly, how did 3 of them end up in the same county? And the county was somewhere in the northwest of the state.

  Best of luck in all your plays.
• Todd

  

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  Please post in the appropriate forum ... thank you.
• Cape $cratcher

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by palonso1971 on Oct 5, 2023

  Just looking for some input as I grabbed 2 of the 5 million 50.00 fortune and both tickets were 100.00 winners, so i gamble and buy another and its a loser, next ticket is 200.00 winner, loser, then 100.00, next 75, next 100.00, then a loser, then bam, 1000.00 winner, so i have 150.00 in there and just out of pushing my luck the next is a loser, and then another 200.00 and i stopped. i have never seen anything like this at least with that many winners, Are there loaded books that i should keep going, lol

  This is the closest I've come to what I'd call a Hot Book...$50 500X.  BTW I've not yet scratched anything further with the tickets featured in this vid.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HGmhEE91w
• skeptic

  

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  Hey PALONSO !! GREAT wins on the $500K ...... nice nice nice !! Back some 9 years ago I bought 8 '100X The Cash' tickets off a roll at a Sunoco station ....I almost fell over ......I scratched them right in the store ...... showed them to the manager and his eyes popped out of his head :) 

  two $1K's and  three $500's !!  $3,500 total win  ........... these "cluster wins" as I call them only happen once in a blue moon and we both experienced it ......

  only proof I have is a print out from Fl Lot showing two $1K winners on the same day - 6/26/2014 ........ there's a second sheet showing wins after 2019 ....

  Take Care and keep scratching !! Tickets or whatever :)

  $20K WCC -    $10K Jubilee -    $5K 200MS    454 $500's     52 $1k's       9  $400's
• Cape $cratcher

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by skeptic on Oct 29, 2023

  Hey PALONSO !! GREAT wins on the $500K ...... nice nice nice !! Back some 9 years ago I bought 8 '100X The Cash' tickets off a roll at a Sunoco station ....I almost fell over ......I scratched them right in the store ...... showed them to the manager and his eyes popped out of his head :) 

  two $1K's and  three $500's !!  $3,500 total win  ........... these "cluster wins" as I call them only happen once in a blue moon and we both experienced it ......

  only proof I have is a print out from Fl Lot showing two $1K winners on the same day - 6/26/2014 ........ there's a second sheet showing wins after 2019 ....

  Take Care and keep scratching !! Tickets or whatever :)

  Wow, I doubt I'll come close to that, but  I'm planning to do a holiday reveal later next month, if timing looks good.