Topic: Scratch Offs (Read 588 times)

Many people regularly buy sketch cards of different amounts in the hope of getting a jackpot by scratching the sketch card. Many times it is seen that someone buys a card for one dollar and gets 1000 dollars or more and many times it is seen that after buying a card for 1000 dollars they get nothing, it is completely luck. Buying a card and what rewards can be obtained by swiping that card depends entirely on luck. But your skill or your experience is of no use in purchasing a card because no one knows what is inside that card and the people who made that card also don't know what is inside that card. I used to buy such cards in the beginning and scratch to see what rewards were waiting for me inside but here I failed most of the time because luck didn't help me.

It could be possible but you will have no way to know this, in a way this is like what happens with blackjack, in which each low card that comes up is one less card that the dealer can use against you, giving you a small edge if enough cards like that have appeared already.

So the more of those tickets appear without any major prize, the greater the chances you could win, but unless you could keep track of the results gotten by every single client that bought them, then you will have no way to accurately calculate your real odds to win a prize.

Yes that is is in case you have never seen one before. I think ultimately this is all luck. Some people have said that when it gets toward the end of the scratch off roll that it odds get better but i've never seen any evidence of this. Ultimately I put about 100 bucks in I won about half of the time and made a bunch of random $1 and $2 tickets, one time I got a $40 ticket that I reinvested and eventually lost the whole thing. Ultimately it was a lot of fun, I felt like a kid opening pokemon packs searching for the charizard, but I will say this that it can be addictive and I had to cut myself off of it lol. The Florida lottery is eye catching too that marketing team of theirs did a good job with the rebranding of the new tickets lol

I haven't seen a scratch card for many years, here in the country where I live they still exist, but as I place my bets online, the scratch card is a thing of the past... I remember there was a gas station that gave out scratch cards as a gift if you filled up with gas 30 liters of fuel, I got a cheese loaf with a can of Coca Cola... It wasn't worth money but products from the gas station's convenience store.

Theres a story of different lottery tickets but incase of scratch off seems like never seen a thread created here in the community.


If you tried to search a scratch off its card that has a shape that base on the name itself you need to scratch to see the result each pattern have a particular rewards and also most of them has a multiplier. Some people says there's a strategy on it and some people seek a loophole with this game so they can have a higher chance to win. If you check in the different gambler strategy story afaik there's a one story becomes a millionaire because of this game.

Any game can make us curious because we don't know if what results we can get which is always true especially in gambling. We can also get curious if we can't win and we think it may be a scam but our suspicion is mostly wrong. It's only normal that that the players will have a lower chance of winning than the owners.

In gambling games like scratch cards, winning may depend on our luck but I think we can increase it by buying more tickets. Still, this is not guaranteed, so I don't really advise this. We think we are financially capable or stable to afford a couple more tickets but we should realize that our costs can still add up and the total of them will still be huge.

If that would be the ratio of  ticket and per win , means there are only 25% of that 100% the chance to win.   but at least like you said that the money you used buying that ticket is your willing to risk amount.

I remember when my uncle is still alive as He is addicted in scratch and lottery ticket , he is summoning me to purchase ticket for Him and he will give me percent if he wins , but yeah it is a BS waiting but i receive nothing from him  

Congratulations on the tickets you won, and sorry for the ones you lost, i have not bought a scratch off ticket before, and i don't see where i can buy such in my location, maybe i would look around and see if i can buy one or two with my spare money sometime. However, do not get addicted to it, but if you are only buying with $1, then i don't think it is much, except you are buying too frequently. Goodluck.

That’s the real fun of scratch cards or any form of gambling that involves jackpot prize for small bet. You are expecting to win big that’s why you keep scratching cards despite the chance of winning it small. You will surely not enjoy it if you think how hard to win on this game rather than beating the odds of winning this game despite the difficulty. It’s like finishing a game on a hard mode. It’s painful but worth it when you finish



I’m not encouraging you to try but buying few tickets will not gonna hurt you because it’s very cheap.

The last time I used a scratch card was back when I was a child and there was a small shop nearby my home.
They used to sell these scratch cards which we need to scratch and get the reward right away.
Most of them were flops but I had won in few of the scratch cards.
Though the rewards were not much (mostly 1x and twice I had got 2x), it was fun to scratch those cards.

Everyone always expect everyday to be one of the Christmas days full of celebrations for them especially the gambler and the lottery winners but it is just impossible to maintain that posture.
Congratulations OP for your two times scratched winnings, I wish you good luck ahead your next move but you must understand that you would not be so lucky continuesly. Lol

I have not got on a scratch offs before and don't think I would even get to have a purchase just to try such luck.

It seems that you are getting addicted to scratch offs. That's the main way they manipulate people into thinking that they could win something. You spend 1 USD and get one USD back. To be honest, there's no point discussing scratch off tickets in the Gambling forum, because this isn't considered hardcore gambling. Scratch off tickets are more like the lottery, but it seems to me that the chance of winning the jackpots with such tickets is way lower. Lottery games were called "a tax on the stupid" and scratch off tickets are pretty much the same "tax on stupid" My grandmother was a little bit addicted into buying such tickets years ago. I remember trying to convince that this is a waste of money.

Since money is involed, it's still considered as gambling mate, But you're right, It's just like a game wherein you can enjoy and challenge yourself but then again, It is kinda addictive to play, you won't notice that you have already purchased many tickets because you've enjoy playing it. Been there done that, but I'm glad that I can manage myself and I have limited money from my school allowance because I'm a student back then when I tried Scratch Offs.

Thanks m8! That was fun to read. I will say that it was definitely fun to win even to break even, but when I went in today to cash in the winning ticket of course I got another random scratch off ticket and lost, I should have stayed with the same flavor of ticket and I probably would have won! haha. I'm curious what those carefully calculated odds are. And I wonder what the best ticket class is to get the highest dollar amount winner, for instance the $1 ticket, $2 ticket, $5 ticket yields upwards of what figure in the top 10% winning tickets on average?  I would be curious to know that information.  I'm not really interested to keep going back for more, but I am considering cashing in some of my change to fund a few more ticket purchases in pursuit of this lucky ticker! I have a good feeling about this that I will eventually find an extremely good prize ticket one day soon  

Ah yes, story of my life. The feeling of being able to buy another ticket using the money I won from another ticket felt like I was winning in life back when I first discovered about scratch tickets lol. It was rather enjoyable though, far from the initial idea I had about it before I tried it out.

I think the most I won was about $20? It was with a Go Banana scratch-it ticket, not sure if it's something local or what but it's your usual scratch-it with a multiplier bonus. Was pretty lucky with the x2 bonus and had matched a $10 result so it was an easy $20.

Your experience playing lottery gambling is quite interesting..!!! Organizing lottery tickets in several places is always a hot topic and interesting to talk about, because this is a type of gambling that can provide the opportunity to win big prizes with relatively small betting capital.
In your case, even though you only get a relatively small number of prizes, I think this experience can still give you sensation and excitement, so that you might be interested enough to play it again.

And the biggest result I ever achieved in this type of gambling, was only around 5 USD, yes, a little bigger than you, hahaha... And I personally don't play this type of gambling regularly, or even go to the shop to buy lottery tickets on purpose. , but sometimes when I'm on a long journey, when I stop at a shop to just rest and buy a drink, and because coincidentally almost every shop I stop at has lottery tickets available, in the end I decide to try my luck by buying some lottery tickets, which I usually buy are instant lottery tickets. And this was quite an exciting experience, so I want to try it again in the future, just to try my luck...

This doesn't sound like gambling. It's more of a game than gambling. We have something similar in my region. In this one, you'll buy a random number. Then the number is revealed this is whe you will know if you won or not. Usually theore numbers you get gmthe higher your chances of winning.

Facts, however, that's just how luck serves it purpose. For example, 500 quntities of $5 won't be continuously won by a single player simply because the 'rightful' cards are disseminated on the whole 'deck' as a whole. If you are lucky then you'd won some but given how luck plays, you won't be having it most of the time. Even if it is just limited, a goal of earning a few from the total number, and as long as it could be considered as profit, would matter. But indeed, the gambling provider will be the mist to take profit but as players, we should not be against it given that they provided the prize pool also the production of the game itself. A player against other player's luck should be more considered than player to provider competition.
Well, I'd say many people are not lucky enough to win big prizes most of the time. Some are really doing so but the only thing that could explain it, is their luck. Pushing our luck just to win the game will just result to bigger loss in the long run. Luck based games would only work thru luck and that means waiting for your 'turn' than to frustatedly get yourself closer to that turn by means of continuously betting.

Not my win, but a close friend of mine and I was there to witness it.

We're just about to go on an out of town trip to unwind and actually mobilize plans for a bootcamp that we're trying to setup with our closest friends and smartest acquaintances, and for the lols, after buying enough groceries for 2 days on a local chain/mall we decided that we'd play some scratch cards and see who gets closest to winning. In the Philippines we have this scratch card game called "Scratch it" that, along with the added benefit of knowing whether you won instantaneously or not, also gives the player the chance to claim his winnings right then and there should he win a prize.

Unfortunately I didn't win shit, but that friend of mine won what I guess would amount to 60 bucks in USD, which is not really a lot but still is the highest amount of win amongst our friend group. He won and treated us to some food that day.

To digress a little bit, I think the reason why we don't have scratch card threads in this board is because there's very little to talk about them. Unlike other forms of gambling that are unified and systematic, scratch cards are fragmented and each provider may offer a different spin towards scratch cards, this and the fact that you instantly know when you win or not just makes it not worthwhile to talk about in my opinion.

I have never been lucky to win such ticket but I have seen those who won them. In the case of the game or bet , it has numbers and prices to be won on the ticket and the prices are inform of cash or goods. So, It appears difficult to me to get a matching number with what is on the ticket against the price money or the goods specified against it. After much trier, I have given up on it though there are people who keep winning from the ticket they scratch.