One day I won $500 and this was on Monday and then on Wednesday, I won $500 more. This same thing happened again in 2021. Both on the same days. I always help my family and slide people some who I feel are struggling. That's part of how I celebrate. God Bless everyone and everything!
I've been playing lottery scratcher for 15 years, I spend about 50 to 80 bucks a week and the highest I won was 200 bucks from a 30 dollar ticket. I win win quite a bit of 50 dollar winners on 5 dollar tickets which is nice to get back some of my money back. I've tried every strategy or tips or whatever you want to call it to help win more but what I found out is that winning the lottery is buying a ticket at the right place and right time, when the universe just happens to line up for you. That's it. My friend who played scratches only a few times bought a 5 dollar ticket and won 50k. Good luck to all you scratchers out there.
That’s so true. I’ve been playing for years and the highest I won was $500 on a take 5 drawing. And then I read stories about some people who won $10 million twice or a guy who played mega millions once and won big on his first try 😅. It truly is all about luck. But that’s ok cuz I just enjoy playing scratch offs and hopefully maybe one day I will get lucky.
I doubt people that play these games would play them with no expectations to win a jackpot! I wouldn’t. The hardcore players are really serious about their gambling, but they have an advantage in a sense because they can afford it. The ones that can’t afford it are buying the most tickets, and that’s sad if you think about it.
Agreed. I buy four, five dollar scratch offs every Friday. I buy the same ticket, sequentially. Since starting this two months ago, I have won five dollars a week. However, I look at it as I have lost 15 dollars a week. It is fun, but if I had put that 20 aside instead of playing it on scratch offs, I would have 160 dollars right now instead of a measly 40. Live and learn. Or in my case, keep doing the same thing again and again expecting a different outcome. 😄
No one ever got anywhere without taking risks.(Paris Hilton’s father took the big risk that’ll last for generations) Someone playing lotto responsibly is no different from a investor in real estate or stocks. Heck even selecting the best person to get in a relationship with or marry is no different or picking a major in college. You’re taking a risk. So don’t judge those who take risks responsibly.
I used to play scratchers sometimes, until I moved next door to someone that worked at the lottery and talked to them about how it works. You have to understand when the lottery orders a game from the printer, they have 35 million or so tickets printed. These tickets arrive to the lottery on a dedicated semi truck. In all those tickets, generally there are 2 or 3 grand prize winners (depends on the game of course). The lottery pulls and tests a large group of tickets to make sure they meet the specifications of the game. I wondered what would happen if they pulled one of the grand prize tickets for the test because it seemed to me that would mess up the odds on the game and ruin the game. He said it has never happened, but it wouldn't mess up the game at all because the grand prizes don't really effect the overall odds very much. It's a terrible wager. He had lots of good stories about people trying to cheat the system. The cashiers used to be able to scan a ticket (like they do when making a payout) to see if it was a winner and then only buy the tickets that were winners. They can still do that actually, but they can only scan a couple of losing tickets a day (because the only scans should be of winning tickets for payout). If they scan more losers than that, they have to enter a code that is under the scratched out part of the ticket to see if it is a winner. Once, a UPS driver figured out he was delivering lottery tickets to a lottery reseller. He decided to steal the tickets and play them himself. He didn't know the tickets aren't even active in the system until the reseller has verified they have been received so he couldn't collect on any winners and got himself arrested, and fired of course. This was all 30+ years ago as I moved to a different state and lost contact with my neighbor, so it might even be very different now. But he was one interesting guy to talk to.
Thanks for sharing😊. I was surprised to find out that cashiers could actually scan a ticket to see if there winning tickets and then buy also the winning tickets.
Yes they have to activate the book and also count the lottery and keep track of what ticket is on what number at the end of the shift. Also ips that the tickets aren’t active either until being scanned and sold but I’m not positive in the last part.
1rwfcm No wonder the Indian people around here won't scan my ticket without me scratching it first. One instance the other day I went in bought a ticket and scratched the bar code on the bottom. I handed him the ticket and he started scratching the top slowly. I was in a hurry and just wanted to know He scratched it and said Sorry not a winnah
It should be illegal to sell scratch off that have 0 chances for getting any prize. When it reaches that point the seller of the scratch off should be required to remove them from sale til there is a prize available. Otherwise this amounts to blindly robbing the player.
Dude. It’s called gambling. Should it be illegal for the slot machines in Vegas to not guarantee a win?? This is what you sign up for when you buy a ticket. You are wagering that ticket price. Sometimes you lose. I’m not sure what you’re struggling with here.
There are always "winners" in the pack, just not grand prize or claim winners. That's how they get away with selling games where "all prizes" have been claimed.
I agree! Once all prizes are claimed, they should stop selling them. But we have the ability to look that up. Too bad some people do not know or have access to the internet to see that.
One thing I've noticed about the winners in my state is that a lot of the big prizes won were on tickets that were bought and played in small out of the way towns, many of which I've never heard of. There are some big prizes won in larger cities but most prizes are won in the smaller towns.
The lottery spreads all scratch tickets randomly. Some stores will get more tickets because they’re selling more in bigger cities so more winners come out from those areas.
My research says ur right the lottery sends a lot of high winner tickets to rural areas I don’t know why but it doesn’t give the rest of us a chance it not fair
That's because there are more smaller towns than big cities, dumbass. Also, the dumber people tend to live in rural areas and dumb people play the lottery more often.
This is so true. I said that very same thing the other day when I bought 4 scratch offs. I won $5.00 but I said the big wins are out in the middle of nowhere
That is certainly NOT the case in Florida. The truck leaves Tallahassee and drive down to the southern most part of Florida then work it's way back up toward Tallahassee. Thus, the largest wins take place mostly in the Tampa area and the outer perimeter, Miami, Jacksonville, then back towards Pensacola. All of these are large cities.
@Tonette Lewis prob has more to do with the type of people congregating in said areas being more prone to this unhealthy addiction. People in "high society" know lottery is a poor tax, Joe Shmo the farmer doesn't and is the normal clientele.
So I just learned that nothing works really except researching your state for how many prizes left on a particular scratch off and buying at least 10 of those scratch offs at a time
Some scratch off depending on your state do have 2nd chances. You might be able to luck out online instead if you place all your tickets thru the deadline and increase your chances as it gets closer. I'm in vermont people love these things
This all BS. I made scratch offs at SG games in GA. Out of an order of 58 million tickets every 6 months we would pluck ( duplicate winning tickets.) They are all random based on a computer program that makes them when printed. The lottery chooses when and where they want the tickets to go, so they could hold winning tickets for awhile if they wanted to.
Never won much at scratchers. But at the same casino from just 3 visits, each a year apart, I put $40 each time in the same slot machine. Won $750 then $1,259 then $250 lol I couldn't believe it. Just a couple spins each time. Then cashed out and walked away each time
Casinos and sports books have much better odds than lotteries. 90 % or more. I've won much more in a casino than any lottery. I can't see buying another lottery ticket again in my life.
A woman that worked for me used to spend about $65 a day on scratch-offs. She was absolutely thrilled when she won $5 dollars one day. $325 for the week, and she was on cloud nine because she won $5. Apparently the "Thrill of the win" was worth $320 in losses.
I don't buy that for on minute i spend about the same as you said lady and won five different times 500 and a bunch of 100 no way just 5 you are not being told the truth by her...
Some of the scratcher RUclipsrs on here do seem like mere gambling addicts tbh. Hope their incomes match up with them buying stacks of tickets at a time.
@@twdjt6245 You don't think they have the money for the tickets? So where does the ticket buying money come from then? I only buy what last years excess allows me to but everyone is different...
A lot of winners & losers for scratch offs are not chance, let me explain. To begin with and feel free to correct me, winning scratch off tickets are sent to particular locations to play, they are not distributed randomly. Specifically, if there are 10,000 store locations scratch offs are sold they are not randomly shipped to these 10,000 stores. IE, the locations of the Grand Prize Tickets are known by the distributer beforehand. I happen to live near a Lottery Headquarters. As far as I know & I think its deliberate. there have never been Grand Prize tickets sold at any location within the small City/town of the Lottery Headquarters!
Thats a misconception. The "odds" is for the "total number of tixs in the series" not a "book" thats why you can pull 15 in a row and lose 15 in a row. Sometimes you luck but thats not the true meaning of it. Just some insight. I wish it was that easy with what it say on the back of a ticket (refering to book) ...naw unfortunately its more complicated.
I believe that the proper way to think of this is to use a geometric probability distribution. With that you can model the probability of the first win.
Texas Lottery: I worked for a retail store that sold hundreds of thousands of tickets. The only way to increase your odds is to buy into the first rolls. They Salt the first rolls sent out to pay out high. You're guaranteed to break even or better in any run of 5 tickets in a $5 or higher game and any run of 10 tickets in a $1, $2, or up to $5 game. New game, first roll, buy it out. Otherwise there is no system that guarantees a break-even or better after the salted roll.
Great video !! I've always said only use money you don't need for anything else if you wish to buy some scratch off tickets. I play a bit and have won a few thousand dollars, but I have also lost money with losing tickets so I never go overboard. I will continue to buy a ticket once in a while and if I get lucky that's great.
The only exploit I found was to attempt to snowball any new tickets when they are very new. It feels like the first rolls out the door are very profitable . Win 100 keep 50 and then visit 5 places and buy more tickets . Continue until the day is over. Ran up 1700$ on 2$ one time.
I have a coworker who has won more than I make in a year off of scratch offs. His strategy is to buy from stores in the poorer section of town because he believes they actually sell more tickets. So since their inventory of tickets rolls over faster he gets a winning ticket more often.
@Jim Beanie it’s not a ridiculous comment as he is correct that lower income areas sell more lottery tickets. As for the “better” odds, there is no strategy to win more on scratch offs just as there is no strategy to win at the slot machines, it’s all just luck.
@@jimbeanie3610 enough about all of this negative talk about the odds of winning. You've already beat the odds. You're alive. You were a one in several trillion chance to make it here and here you are. You've already beat the biggest odds of all. The lottery doesn't seem so big anymore now does it?? Fuck the odds.
Because it’s the same thing. Odds of winning and odds of winning a cash prize are the same thing. They can’t have different odds of winning on a particular game.
Remember Bill Cosby? He had a funny joke and when something like this, “hi would you like to play Keno? Sure I’ll play how much is it? It’s only a dollar and you could win 1 million. OK I’ll play here’s a dollar. 10 seconds later, OK you lose would you like to play again.”
Florida lottery has a search bar at the top of their website so you just type in "prizes remaining" and it'll pull up everything left!!! What all winners have been paid out and what's left. 😊😊
Hi Professor Essa. I remember you as one of my regulars at Chamblins cafe. You once made me rich with tips and now with great scratch off strategies : D It’s great to see you are doing well! This channel is awesome
She doesn't have a clue how scratch off lottery works..the website only tells you 2 facts in regard to the tickets on that actual date...the original prizes in each dollar category, than prizes left to claim in each category. This doesn't take into acct. Actual losing tickets still left.
@@LilDuece54 You're lottery agent has a website with all remaining prizes. Generally, the newest tickets are the best odds of winning, but sometimes old games have outstanding prizes and nobody is buying those tickets anymore. Cheers!
For weeks I've won over and over and it finally ended. I started with $10 in scratchers. That's it! And then won 21. Then 25. Then 27. Then 32. Then 37. Then 49. And everything I won I put back into getting more cards since it was for entertainment. And then it went down to 30.... and then 17. And now $1. So my lucky streak ended.
Does the lottery know if a jackpot winning scratch ticket was sold but never turned in if there is still plenty of tickets left to purchase? Someone hunting to buy the remaining tickets thinking they will for sure get that big jackpot may be disappointed.
Thank you for running the experiment. Great job! I like scratch off. We have $50 with one major prize left. I keep playing hoping to win that last $5 million prize. There’s one $5 million grand prize left, and one $100,000 and $50,000 10 more 10,000 and so on and so on. 🍀🤞😉
I recently started playing the lottery after having a random dream of winning. So far, I've spend about $10-$50 a week combing the purchase of quick picks, using the numbers from my dream and a few scratchers. I have won $4 total over a 3 month period buying quick picks; using my lucky dream numbers I have won anywhere from $2 - $24 each week. I purchased a $30 scratcher and won $50; and once I purchased 53 $1 scratchers and won a total of $50. For now, I will stick with my lucky numbers and scratchers. Playing the lottery should be fun, not stressful, just have fun and see how it goes. Best of luck to all you lottery players!
What I would truly like to know is how is that so many of the same people win the California State Lottery "2nd Chance prizes." Those are the non-winning scratcher cards that you scan into the system and winners are supposedly randomly selected the next week. How?
Each dollar played is 1 entry up to 500 entries a month. If you play $5 scratchers and i play $30 scratchers. I will have 15,000 entries to your 2,500, with 10m total entries. So odds go roughly 1 in 1000 vs 1 in 10,000. Also it could be there are 6 different jay snow's but only 1 old friend.
HOLY SNAP , honestly didn't even think that the prizes could have been won. now that i look online at my area, only the 10$ tickets or more seem to still have their prizes
How does the printing work? For example if there are 1 million tickets of a specific game does the lottery send them out to distributors untill there are non left and then only then do they print a new set?
I always did the best when I played between two gas stations across from each other daily and always asked what was won on each roll or pack of the tickets I bought. I won 1000$ twice $250 a few times and 100$ several times off of 10$ tickets, but my bread and butter were 2$ and 5$ tickets. I won 100$ on 3 different 2$ ticket rolls at the same time. If someone had won 100$ or 50$ on a 2$ or 5$ ticket from a roll I wouldn't buy off it until it was switched out, but if nothing was turned in I would buy off of them, and keep track of what numbers I had bought and what number the rolls were on. I would usually get at the very least a 100$ winner every two or three days on a 2$ or 5$ and sometimes multiple times a day, every week, not including all the 2,5,10,15,20,40,50$ winners. I usually bought my 2$ in rows of 3, 5, or 10 from 2 or 3 games. My 5$ tickets in rows of 2, 3, 4, or 5 from 2 or 3 games. My 10$ usually 1 or 2 from maybe 2 or more games depending on circumstances. Rarely bought 20$ tickets but would usually win 20$ to 100$ every few or so times I played them, Rarely bought 30$ tickets, usually won 30$ to 100$ every few or so as well. I moved away from those gas stations and never kept up like that again, and I gamble far less now as well.
I was mad at my husband for telling me to get a powerball ticket on the way home. So instead, I got a gold rush $10 ticket. I won $5000. Mind you, I am NOT one to gamble! That was sheer LUCK!
Not trying to be negative, but all of this is common sense. I tend to win WAY more often when I buy tickets at least a couple weeks after they’ve been restocked and I lose my money nearly every time I buy tickets right after they’ve been restocked.
I usually go into the store and start hitting ticket after ticket in the same roll until i get a prize, then i move on to the next ticket. yesterday i went to the store with $106 and left with $283. i hit $100 twice and $50 once but u gotta spend some to win some. 😂
@@kyigemz4420 yeah I heard that also my sister does that spend some good money and gets good returns back.. cuz if u just going to spend a bit then u don't have a chance unless u put some some good money ull get a better return..
I bought 200$ of a 2 dollar ticket, every time rebought same tickets with winnings at a new retail. ended up scratching over 700$ in tickets before I ran out of money and made it to the seventh prize out of ten different payouts. The 8th tier was 3x to 5x the 700$ total to reach based on the math, it is a losing game and it pure luck to top prize. That was 10 years ago when I decided craps, or roulette is a better bet.
can't beat that logic. Turn in the crap odds lottery for literally the worst odds game in a casino (still better odds than scrathoffs though). The "better bet" is to not play games where you have less than a 50% chance to come out on top.... in the long run you will always lose.
Question regarding expected value. How do you find out the number of total tickets remaining? Im in Michigan and I dont see that data on their web site
I’m also in michigan but I’m pretty sure in any state you can ask them to print you out the odds. I used to sell them in NM. The machine that prints out the lotto tickets can print out the scratch off remaining prizes. I forget what it’s technically called but they should know what you mean. Good luck.
Super kewl insight into how the lotto publishes how many prizes are remaining. Had no idea they did that, I could have been buying auto-losing tickets for years. Thanks!!
I know a reformed criminal who used someone's CC to buy a trashbag worth of scratchoffs (about $1500) there were less than $200 in winners. Even worse was the majority of the winning tickets were just giving the price of the ticket back. I never bought a scratcher after hearing that.
I used to work at the printing factory where they were printed… there is no math and probability goes out the window the amount of cards printed on a print roll vs winning cards are slim. The machine that prints the symbols are completely random. I will never buy a scratchy, save you money.
In florida, they publish the number of tickets, the number of winning tickets, and the remaining unclaimed winning ticket count on their website. Hard to find but best to buy into a game with a large unclaimed number of tickets, all else equal. Seek out that info and your odds should improve dramatically. Myself, I played a number through a bookie in 1972, hit it straight and collected 1200. That was also the last time I played.
In SD we have crappy tickets. Our highest available prize is only $300,000 @ $20 each ticket. I bought 2 different unused rolls for 2 different games that cost $300 per set. Didn't matter the value each one paid out $175 for each roll. So SD has a 60% take on their ticket sales versus the 87% on the example on the video. Buying in SD means you'll lose 40% every time unless you "luck out". I need to move.. wages suck, the lottery here sucks and I am going to have a tarp for a roof too. SUCKS!!
the problem is that when patterns are discovered and exploited, they get corrected. i used to own a small convenience store, and trust me when i say i've heard some pretty dumb 'strategies,' all of the based on confirmation bias. it's basically the same psychological basis of slot machines. there is absolutely nothing on a lottery card that's random in the way it's printed. it has nothing to do with winners, of course, but it's part of the printing process itself. a 'white line' isn't a misprint, it's there for a manufacturing reason. they're called books. i've seen people go through literally entire books and not win so much as a fraction of their money back. i've had books with lots of winners in there. you never know. and, it doesn't matter the dollar value of the tickets. people don't pick the distribution, computers do.
I collect losing tickets from friends and only play the second chance for free. It's a waiting game, and not much fun to play but I won't be out money for losing and any win is a pleasant surprise.
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I'm going to have to do some more research on the top prize thing, because I believe in NY they are required by law to remove the ticket once all the top prizes are sold because they know exactly when every tip prize was printed and what store it went to
But how can you pick the cards you want to play....you can't tell the guy behind the counter to take the roll out and I'll pick though which cards i want
I always buy multiples of the same ticket one less than 5 to 10 of the same ticket. And I always come out winning something. You may not get all your money back but at least half.
i usually buy 4 or more of the same ticket. One time i spent $200 on (20) $10 tickets and ALL were loosers, i was PIST 🤬 But then a year later i spend $50 on a $50 ticket and won $10,000.00
Share that !!I learned the hard way but kinda hard when the store retailer continously to scans but tell u 1$ when you n nearly million dollars or 250.000?
I've been playing scratch off tickets for years and won alot and lost a lot your my best wins when I go to stores with the machine in store and get six of same ones and go to another store with scratch off tickets with machine and do same thing and I'm ahead in my winnings.i keep track I've spent probably 5 Grand this year but with my winnings I'm ahead 3000 i won alot of 500 on 50 dollar scratch tickets.hope that helps.
There is no way to increase your odds. I had friends that used to work at a gas station and would buy hundreds of dollars worth at a time, scratch them and pay off the cost with the winnings. It always evens out. You can't win. It's false hope for poor people.
that calculation of 10 tickets odds being 10,000 seems wrong? I have frequently read of statisticians/mathematicians saying if for example odds of winning are 1 in 14 mil with one ticket, then if you buy 10 tickets, the odds are....10 in 14 mil. The second number does not lower ever.
I need to stop playing. I have a favorite game and I have won a few times- not over $100. I am sure I spend more than I win. It's addicting. I use to never play til the person in front of me at the store won $160,000. I thought it could have been me. If I put the $5- $10 away instead of playing I would have saved more money than I win. State lottery will always come out ahead - that's just how it goes. We all play hoping we are lucky enough to get a big win
One day I won $500 and this was on Monday and then on Wednesday, I won $500 more. This same thing happened again in 2021. Both on the same days. I always help my family and slide people some who I feel are struggling. That's part of how I celebrate. God Bless everyone and everything!
And then u woke up lol
I doubt god wants you to play the lottery!
Karla Duncan Thank you. I was blessed that way one day and believe me I needed it.
@Karla Duncan, that is so caring and lovely of you to do that. May the gods of luck and prosperity bless you and yours continually!
@@alvaroakatico9188 ?? That makes no sense at all. I think you could have misread what Karla Duncan said.
Back in 1997, I bought 400 $1 lottery tickets. It was 4 different games, 100 of each ticket. There was only $17 in winners among them.
Ouch 🤕
The $1 tickets have the worst odds and the lowest payout. You would of been much better buying $5-$20 tickets with your $400.
Yup .. not always does buying a bunch turn out that sucks I did something similar
Yep the govt is the real winner
You don't got to make up stories we still like you
My cousin bought a 20 dollar scratcher. She won a free card or her 20 back. She traded it for another 20 dollar card and won 2 million dollars.
Congratulations to your cousin 👏
I've been playing lottery scratcher for 15 years, I spend about 50 to 80 bucks a week and the highest I won was 200 bucks from a 30 dollar ticket. I win win quite a bit of 50 dollar winners on 5 dollar tickets which is nice to get back some of my money back. I've tried every strategy or tips or whatever you want to call it to help win more but what I found out is that winning the lottery is buying a ticket at the right place and right time, when the universe just happens to line up for you. That's it. My friend who played scratches only a few times bought a 5 dollar ticket and won 50k. Good luck to all you scratchers out there.
wow, that's a lot of money you spend on those tickets... 😳 but I agree - it's only a lucky chance thing
Did your friend only buy one ticket?
That’s so true. I’ve been playing for years and the highest I won was $500 on a take 5 drawing. And then I read stories about some people who won $10 million twice or a guy who played mega millions once and won big on his first try 😅. It truly is all about luck. But that’s ok cuz I just enjoy playing scratch offs and hopefully maybe one day I will get lucky.
Greatly said 💯
@@nadiab7764 You will win big!
Play with no expectations, Spend money that is towards scratch tickets. . Never do it to get rich. If it happens it happens . Have fun . 😉
I doubt people that play these games would play them with no expectations to win a jackpot! I wouldn’t. The hardcore players are really serious about their gambling, but they have an advantage in a sense because they can afford it. The ones that can’t afford it are buying the most tickets, and that’s sad if you think about it.
Bad advice
Agreed. I buy four, five dollar scratch offs every Friday. I buy the same ticket, sequentially. Since starting this two months ago, I have won five dollars a week. However, I look at it as I have lost 15 dollars a week. It is fun, but if I had put that 20 aside instead of playing it on scratch offs, I would have 160 dollars right now instead of a measly 40. Live and learn. Or in my case, keep doing the same thing again and again expecting a different outcome. 😄
No one ever got anywhere without taking risks.(Paris Hilton’s father took the big risk that’ll last for generations)
Someone playing lotto responsibly is no different from a investor in real estate or stocks.
Heck even selecting the best person to get in a relationship with or marry is no different or picking a major in college.
You’re taking a risk.
So don’t judge those who take risks responsibly.
Couldn’t have said it better
I used to play scratchers sometimes, until I moved next door to someone that worked at the lottery and talked to them about how it works. You have to understand when the lottery orders a game from the printer, they have 35 million or so tickets printed. These tickets arrive to the lottery on a dedicated semi truck. In all those tickets, generally there are 2 or 3 grand prize winners (depends on the game of course). The lottery pulls and tests a large group of tickets to make sure they meet the specifications of the game. I wondered what would happen if they pulled one of the grand prize tickets for the test because it seemed to me that would mess up the odds on the game and ruin the game. He said it has never happened, but it wouldn't mess up the game at all because the grand prizes don't really effect the overall odds very much. It's a terrible wager.
He had lots of good stories about people trying to cheat the system. The cashiers used to be able to scan a ticket (like they do when making a payout) to see if it was a winner and then only buy the tickets that were winners. They can still do that actually, but they can only scan a couple of losing tickets a day (because the only scans should be of winning tickets for payout). If they scan more losers than that, they have to enter a code that is under the scratched out part of the ticket to see if it is a winner. Once, a UPS driver figured out he was delivering lottery tickets to a lottery reseller. He decided to steal the tickets and play them himself. He didn't know the tickets aren't even active in the system until the reseller has verified they have been received so he couldn't collect on any winners and got himself arrested, and fired of course. This was all 30+ years ago as I moved to a different state and lost contact with my neighbor, so it might even be very different now. But he was one interesting guy to talk to.
Thanks for sharing😊. I was surprised to find out that cashiers could actually scan a ticket to see if there winning tickets and then buy also the winning tickets.
the lottery is for dumb people.
Very interesting 🤔
Yes they have to activate the book and also count the lottery and keep track of what ticket is on what number at the end of the shift. Also ips that the tickets aren’t active either until being scanned and sold but I’m not positive in the last part.
1rwfcm
No wonder the Indian people around here won't scan my ticket without me scratching it first.
One instance the other day I went in bought a ticket and scratched the bar code on the bottom.
I handed him the ticket and he started scratching the top slowly.
I was in a hurry and just wanted to know
He scratched it and said
Sorry not a winnah
It should be illegal to sell scratch off that have 0 chances for getting any prize. When it reaches that point the seller of the scratch off should be required to remove them from sale til there is a prize available. Otherwise this amounts to blindly robbing the player.
There’s the lottery for you
Dude. It’s called gambling. Should it be illegal for the slot machines in Vegas to not guarantee a win?? This is what you sign up for when you buy a ticket. You are wagering that ticket price. Sometimes you lose. I’m not sure what you’re struggling with here.
There are always "winners" in the pack, just not grand prize or claim winners. That's how they get away with selling games where "all prizes" have been claimed.
In Michigan, you can go online to see how many winning tickets are still available in each game.
I agree! Once all prizes are claimed, they should stop selling them. But we have the ability to look that up. Too bad some people do not know or have access to the internet to see that.
Even if they did have cues on the cards, your cashier isn’t going to let you look at them first before buying.
Was literally just thinking this when she said this lol
U can pull until u say stop bro u gambling they be piss but oh we'll
Some gas stations do, if they don't seem like someone with an attitude, then they typically let me see the card
@brit besos 😂
Exactly.
Best way to double your money is to fold it and put in your wallet.
That's not double but a better than lottery
Lol 😂
Folding it doubles it. It's a fact.
@@james10739 you must be a mathematician
That what you get for dropping out of grade school 🤣
One thing I've noticed about the winners in my state is that a lot of the big prizes won were on tickets that were bought and played in small out of the way towns, many of which I've never heard of. There are some big prizes won in larger cities but most prizes are won in the smaller towns.
@Loch Ness Monster Lassie i dont think you understood the comment
The lottery spreads all scratch tickets randomly. Some stores will get more tickets because they’re selling more in bigger cities so more winners come out from those areas.
My research says ur right the lottery sends a lot of high winner tickets to rural areas I don’t know why but it doesn’t give the rest of us a chance it not fair
That's because there are more smaller towns than big cities, dumbass.
Also, the dumber people tend to live in rural areas and dumb people play the lottery more often.
@@stuwest5862 And don’t forget more dumb people come in here to comment just because 😼
This is helpful. I never thought to check to see how many winning tickets were left.
My buddies uncle won $77K in California a couple months ago. I went on the California lottery website... The odds were 1 in 1,200,000.... Pure luck!!
I dont think there are any winning tickets in NYC. They put winning tickets in rural areas in NY. Gas stations in the middle of nowhere 🤣.
This is so true. I said that very same thing the other day when I bought 4 scratch offs. I won $5.00 but I said the big wins are out in the middle of nowhere
Maybe you all need to take a drive upstate.. 🙂
That is certainly NOT the case in Florida. The truck leaves Tallahassee and drive down to the southern most part of Florida then work it's way back up toward Tallahassee. Thus, the largest wins take place mostly in the Tampa area and the outer perimeter, Miami, Jacksonville, then back towards Pensacola. All of these are large cities.
@Tonette Lewis prob has more to do with the type of people congregating in said areas being more prone to this unhealthy addiction. People in "high society" know lottery is a poor tax, Joe Shmo the farmer doesn't and is the normal clientele.
I've been subscribed to you for YEARS and now it's literally paying off!!! Great to see so many uploads lately!
I appreciate it! I'm having more fun as I go along :)
So I just learned that nothing works really except researching your state for how many prizes left on a particular scratch off and buying at least 10 of those scratch offs at a time
Some scratch off depending on your state do have 2nd chances. You might be able to luck out online instead if you place all your tickets thru the deadline and increase your chances as it gets closer. I'm in vermont people love these things
I bought 5 $20 tickets on Christmas Eve and all 5 were winners. I won $310!
So if I understand this right, you made a video on beating the odds mathematically and lost by a large percentage?
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well ya, that's just normal scrath off player logic.
A man walked into my little local convenience store bought a $10 scratch card and won $375,000.
What are the odds of that?? Pure luck, that's what.
Wow! Are you freaking kidding me?!
@S00DamJazzy Nope. Serious as a heart attack.
This all BS. I made scratch offs at SG games in GA. Out of an order of 58 million tickets every 6 months we would pluck ( duplicate winning tickets.) They are all random based on a computer program that makes them when printed. The lottery chooses when and where they want the tickets to go, so they could hold winning tickets for awhile if they wanted to.
The reason most lose the lottery is because they don't expect to win. You receive from God or The Universe, what you expect or have faith in.
Never won much at scratchers. But at the same casino from just 3 visits, each a year apart, I put $40 each time in the same slot machine. Won $750 then $1,259 then $250 lol I couldn't believe it. Just a couple spins each time. Then cashed out and walked away each time
That's the best way to do it!
Smart man beat the odds and kept it that way
Casinos and sports books have much better odds than lotteries.
90 % or more.
I've won much more in a casino than any lottery. I can't see buying another lottery ticket again in my life.
A woman that worked for me used to spend about $65 a day on scratch-offs. She was absolutely thrilled when she won $5 dollars one day. $325 for the week, and she was on cloud nine because she won $5. Apparently the "Thrill of the win" was worth $320 in losses.
i dont think it clicked in her head that she was actually... spending money on those
I don't buy that for on minute i spend about the same as you said lady and won five different times 500 and a bunch of 100 no way just 5 you are not being told the truth by her...
I am a lifetime looser but I still love to gamble everyday....
Some of the scratcher RUclipsrs on here do seem like mere gambling addicts tbh. Hope their incomes match up with them buying stacks of tickets at a time.
@@twdjt6245 You don't think they have the money for the tickets? So where does the ticket buying money come from then? I only buy what last years excess allows me to but everyone is different...
A lot of winners & losers for scratch offs are not chance, let me explain. To begin with and feel free to correct me, winning scratch off tickets are sent to particular locations to play, they are not distributed randomly. Specifically, if there are 10,000 store locations scratch offs are sold they are not randomly shipped to these 10,000 stores. IE, the locations of the Grand Prize Tickets are known by the distributer beforehand. I happen to live near a Lottery Headquarters. As far as I know & I think its deliberate. there have never been Grand Prize tickets sold at any location within the small City/town of the Lottery Headquarters!
The white line thing is a joke.
True
I love the way she so peaceful in explaining...
On the back of the ticket are odds. For example 1 in 3.08 - you need to buy 4 in a row to win the least winning dollar amount.
Thats a misconception. The "odds" is for the "total number of tixs in the series" not a "book" thats why you can pull 15 in a row and lose 15 in a row. Sometimes you luck but thats not the true meaning of it. Just some insight. I wish it was that easy with what it say on the back of a ticket (refering to book) ...naw unfortunately its more complicated.
I believe that the proper way to think of this is to use a geometric probability distribution. With that you can model the probability of the first win.
Not true, you can buy 10 in a row with Zero winners, it's the odds for all tickets produced, no guarantees if you buy 4 or more even.
Texas Lottery: I worked for a retail store that sold hundreds of thousands of tickets. The only way to increase your odds is to buy into the first rolls. They Salt the first rolls sent out to pay out high. You're guaranteed to break even or better in any run of 5 tickets in a $5 or higher game and any run of 10 tickets in a $1, $2, or up to $5 game. New game, first roll, buy it out. Otherwise there is no system that guarantees a break-even or better after the salted roll.
Great video !! I've always said only use money you don't need for anything else if you wish to buy some scratch off tickets. I play a bit and have won a few thousand dollars, but I have also lost money with losing tickets so I never go overboard. I will continue to buy a ticket once in a while and if I get lucky that's great.
You have lost more than you've won
The only exploit I found was to attempt to snowball any new tickets when they are very new. It feels like the first rolls out the door are very profitable . Win 100 keep 50 and then visit 5 places and buy more tickets . Continue until the day is over.
Ran up 1700$ on 2$ one time.
I have a coworker who has won more than I make in a year off of scratch offs. His strategy is to buy from stores in the poorer section of town because he believes they actually sell more tickets. So since their inventory of tickets rolls over faster he gets a winning ticket more often.
@Jim Beanie it’s not a ridiculous comment as he is correct that lower income areas sell more lottery tickets. As for the “better” odds, there is no strategy to win more on scratch offs just as there is no strategy to win at the slot machines, it’s all just luck.
@@jimbeanie3610 enough about all of this negative talk about the odds of winning. You've already beat the odds. You're alive. You were a one in several trillion chance to make it here and here you are. You've already beat the biggest odds of all. The lottery doesn't seem so big anymore now does it?? Fuck the odds.
Yea I'm sure he makes a whole living doing scratch off tickets lmao
Always fun to hear people's beliefs when you know statistics 100% debunk them as purely fallacy.
Dont play shinny or fun? Think thats what she said. More expensive better odds. Check online state which still have prises left
Utilize your state’s lottery app so you can find out if the big prizes have been won instead of going off memory!
The winning tickets are not in one place🤷♀️
If you buy 10 big pay out tickets for one game, are the odds better if buy the game/scratcher from 10 different stores, gas stations, etc?
Good detail. What does it mean when the game's overall odds of winning and odds of winning a cash prize are the same?
Because it’s the same thing. Odds of winning and odds of winning a cash prize are the same thing. They can’t have different odds of winning on a particular game.
Remember Bill Cosby? He had a funny joke and when something like this, “hi would you like to play Keno? Sure I’ll play how much is it? It’s only a dollar and you could win 1 million. OK I’ll play here’s a dollar. 10 seconds later, OK you lose would you like to play again.”
How did you find out how many tickets were remaining for fast road to $1,000,000? I have been searching for this information and could not find it.
Florida has an app your state should
Check the app for your state.you can find out about every ticket and what prizes are left ,expiring etc
Florida lottery has a search bar at the top of their website so you just type in "prizes remaining" and it'll pull up everything left!!! What all winners have been paid out and what's left. 😊😊
@@forw4rdp422 yesss! It would be very helpful to know the number of prizes remaining in relation to how many tickets are remaining.
The house always wins.
Cool video! If you don't play you can't win. It just takes one ticket to win!
There are no big winning tickets its a scam your giving money to the goverment
If this really worked rich people would buy all of them and make more money
They’d have to pay taxes on their winnings, that’s what keeps them away
@@stop08it NOT in the UK, you don't... 🙂 Anyway, didn't the Prof give one example of a millionaire who bought a million of the things??
Why have I never thought this until now 🤯
Hi Professor Essa. I remember you as one of my regulars at Chamblins cafe. You once made me rich with tips and now with great scratch off strategies : D It’s great to see you are doing well! This channel is awesome
She doesn't have a clue how scratch off lottery works..the website only tells you 2 facts in regard to the tickets on that actual date...the original prizes in each dollar category, than prizes left to claim in each category. This doesn't take into acct. Actual losing tickets still left.
Well I didn't buy them much before and this convinced me to continue just saving my money. It will grow much faster that way.
I’ve recently found this info out on my own. I only buy the tickets that have the highest remaining prizes. 👍🏽
How do u know which ones have the remaining prizes if u don’t mind
@@LilDuece54 You're lottery agent has a website with all remaining prizes. Generally, the newest tickets are the best odds of winning, but sometimes old games have outstanding prizes and nobody is buying those tickets anymore. Cheers!
For weeks I've won over and over and it finally ended. I started with $10 in scratchers. That's it! And then won 21. Then 25. Then 27. Then 32. Then 37. Then 49. And everything I won I put back into getting more cards since it was for entertainment. And then it went down to 30.... and then 17. And now $1. So my lucky streak ended.
Does the lottery know if a jackpot winning scratch ticket was sold but never turned in if there is still plenty of tickets left to purchase? Someone hunting to buy the remaining tickets thinking they will for sure get that big jackpot may be disappointed.
Thank you for running the experiment. Great job! I like scratch off. We have $50 with one major prize left. I keep playing hoping to win that last $5 million prize. There’s one $5 million grand prize left, and one $100,000 and $50,000 10 more 10,000 and so on and so on.
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besides you don't just get to pick what ticket you get.so looking different wouldn't matter.since they just rip 1 off and give it to you
De donde son estos scratch tickets?
I wished everyone would just get to the point of the video and stop yapping about everything and anything but the point ! I love it !!!!!!!!
I recently started playing the lottery after having a random dream of winning. So far, I've spend about $10-$50 a week combing the purchase of quick picks, using the numbers from my dream and a few scratchers. I have won $4 total over a 3 month period buying quick picks; using my lucky dream numbers I have won anywhere from $2 - $24 each week. I purchased a $30 scratcher and won $50; and once I purchased 53 $1 scratchers and won a total of $50. For now, I will stick with my lucky numbers and scratchers. Playing the lottery should be fun, not stressful, just have fun and see how it goes. Best of luck to all you lottery players!
What I would truly like to know is how is that so many of the same people win the California State Lottery "2nd Chance prizes." Those are the non-winning scratcher cards that you scan into the system and winners are supposedly randomly selected the next week. How?
Each dollar played is 1 entry up to 500 entries a month.
If you play $5 scratchers and i play $30 scratchers. I will have 15,000 entries to your 2,500, with 10m total entries. So odds go roughly 1 in 1000 vs 1 in 10,000.
Also it could be there are 6 different jay snow's but only 1 old friend.
I won 20k on that fastest road to 1 million. I won it about a year ago.
I did this a few years ago. No one believes me, that with some simple math you can figure out how many tickets you need to buy to win.
HOLY SNAP , honestly didn't even think that the prizes could have been won. now that i look online at my area, only the 10$ tickets or more seem to still have their prizes
Does her tips work in the US?
She has an accent … so I’m wondering if this is a regional thing.
I so need to win!2020 1st heart attack second heart attack 2021 and out of work
Hope you get well soon and win big!
How does the printing work? For example if there are 1 million tickets of a specific game does the lottery send them out to distributors untill there are non left and then only then do they print a new set?
When all prizes are won they have to pull the rolls left. They go back to the scratcher company
I always did the best when I played between two gas stations across from each other daily and always asked what was won on each roll or pack of the tickets I bought. I won 1000$ twice $250 a few times and 100$ several times off of 10$ tickets, but my bread and butter were 2$ and 5$ tickets. I won 100$ on 3 different 2$ ticket rolls at the same time. If someone had won 100$ or 50$ on a 2$ or 5$ ticket from a roll I wouldn't buy off it until it was switched out, but if nothing was turned in I would buy off of them, and keep track of what numbers I had bought and what number the rolls were on. I would usually get at the very least a 100$ winner every two or three days on a 2$ or 5$ and sometimes multiple times a day, every week, not including all the 2,5,10,15,20,40,50$ winners. I usually bought my 2$ in rows of 3, 5, or 10 from 2 or 3 games. My 5$ tickets in rows of 2, 3, 4, or 5 from 2 or 3 games. My 10$ usually 1 or 2 from maybe 2 or more games depending on circumstances. Rarely bought 20$ tickets but would usually win 20$ to 100$ every few or so times I played them, Rarely bought 30$ tickets, usually won 30$ to 100$ every few or so as well. I moved away from those gas stations and never kept up like that again, and I gamble far less now as well.
I was mad at my husband for telling me to get a powerball ticket on the way home. So instead, I got a gold rush $10 ticket. I won $5000. Mind you, I am NOT one to gamble! That was sheer LUCK!
Not trying to be negative, but all of this is common sense. I tend to win WAY more often when I buy tickets at least a couple weeks after they’ve been restocked and I lose my money nearly every time I buy tickets right after they’ve been restocked.
I usually go into the store and start hitting ticket after ticket in the same roll until i get a prize, then i move on to the next ticket. yesterday i went to the store with $106 and left with $283. i hit $100 twice and $50 once but u gotta spend some to win some. 😂
That the truth about gambling u gotta spend some to get some.
@@kyigemz4420 yeah I heard that also my sister does that spend some good money and gets good returns back.. cuz if u just going to spend a bit then u don't have a chance unless u put some some good money ull get a better return..
Well how does that work when most tickets are in a machine under the desk or in a box at least were I am from in minnesota
I bought 200$ of a 2 dollar ticket, every time rebought same tickets with winnings at a new retail. ended up scratching over 700$ in tickets before I ran out of money and made it to the seventh prize out of ten different payouts. The 8th tier was 3x to 5x the 700$ total to reach based on the math, it is a losing game and it pure luck to top prize. That was 10 years ago when I decided craps, or roulette is a better bet.
can't beat that logic. Turn in the crap odds lottery for literally the worst odds game in a casino (still better odds than scrathoffs though). The "better bet" is to not play games where you have less than a 50% chance to come out on top.... in the long run you will always lose.
Who knew math could be so exciting! Thanks for the tips
I'm a regular instant kiwi buyer here in New Zealand 🇳🇿 nothing big but my new trick is keep buying from that same roll daily.
Trust me $1 and $2 Tickets are a WASTE of MONEY!! Those tickets have the Worst ODDS!!
Good tips but how to use them when you can't pick your cards?
Right folded or compound stocks and divdends.
I do it just for fun, but only pay for them with the money I've won from tickets.
Well that's an impossible strategy to start :D
Im sorry but irts ahrd to understand you somwe times. at 8:30 did you say 70 or 17 percent?
She said 70%! I don’t feel so bad anymore. I have been doing better than that.
Enjoyed this a lot! Love videos like this.
If I had millions to play with I wouldn't need to play.
Question regarding expected value. How do you find out the number of total tickets remaining? Im in Michigan and I dont see that data on their web site
I’m also in michigan but I’m pretty sure in any state you can ask them to print you out the odds. I used to sell them in NM. The machine that prints out the lotto tickets can print out the scratch off remaining prizes. I forget what it’s technically called but they should know what you mean. Good luck.
Instant tickets left remaining prizes in Michigan or the Michigan lottery app
Super kewl insight into how the lotto publishes how many prizes are remaining. Had no idea they did that, I could have been buying auto-losing tickets for years. Thanks!!
I know a reformed criminal who used someone's CC to buy a trashbag worth of scratchoffs (about $1500)
there were less than $200 in winners. Even worse was the majority of the winning tickets were just giving the price of the ticket back.
I never bought a scratcher after hearing that.
I used to work at the printing factory where they were printed… there is no math and probability goes out the window the amount of cards printed on a print roll vs winning cards are slim.
The machine that prints the symbols are completely random.
I will never buy a scratchy, save you money.
In florida, they publish the number of tickets, the number of winning tickets, and the remaining unclaimed winning ticket count on their website. Hard to find but best to buy into a game with a large unclaimed number of tickets, all else equal. Seek out that info and your odds should improve dramatically. Myself, I played a number through a bookie in 1972, hit it straight and collected 1200. That was also the last time I played.
In SD we have crappy tickets. Our highest available prize is only $300,000 @ $20 each ticket. I bought 2 different unused rolls for 2 different games that cost $300 per set. Didn't matter the value each one paid out $175 for each roll. So SD has a 60% take on their ticket sales versus the 87% on the example on the video. Buying in SD means you'll lose 40% every time unless you "luck out". I need to move.. wages suck, the lottery here sucks and I am going to have a tarp for a roof too. SUCKS!!
That really SUCKS!
Stop playing your money away
5 dollar tickets in ma have a grand prize of 1 million
Our twenty dollar tickets have grand prizes of 10 million.
Your state just doesn’t have the population for big instant ticket prizes.
the problem is that when patterns are discovered and exploited, they get corrected. i used to own a small convenience store, and trust me when i say i've heard some pretty dumb 'strategies,' all of the based on confirmation bias. it's basically the same psychological basis of slot machines.
there is absolutely nothing on a lottery card that's random in the way it's printed. it has nothing to do with winners, of course, but it's part of the printing process itself. a 'white line' isn't a misprint, it's there for a manufacturing reason.
they're called books. i've seen people go through literally entire books and not win so much as a fraction of their money back. i've had books with lots of winners in there. you never know. and, it doesn't matter the dollar value of the tickets. people don't pick the distribution, computers do.
Your channel is so underrated, I love every second of the video
Thank you for watching !
I collect losing tickets from friends and only play the second chance for free. It's a waiting game, and not much fun to play but I won't be out money for losing and any win is a pleasant surprise.
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Hi, Jerry, I don't actually own the website, but I will pass your comment onto the folks that do :).
I'm going to have to do some more research on the top prize thing, because I believe in NY they are required by law to remove the ticket once all the top prizes are sold because they know exactly when every tip prize was printed and what store it went to
But how can you pick the cards you want to play....you can't tell the guy behind the counter to take the roll out and I'll pick though which cards i want
I always buy multiples of the same ticket one less than 5 to 10 of the same ticket. And I always come out winning something. You may not get all your money back but at least half.
If I win I keep half and play with half
That’s very true, always winners if you buy a bunch of the same ticket instead buying a variety of tickets.
i usually buy 4 or more of the same ticket.
One time i spent $200 on (20) $10 tickets and ALL were loosers, i was PIST 🤬
But then a year later i spend $50 on a $50 ticket and won $10,000.00
Are you a graff writer??? That’s a lot of spray paint and it’s pretty well organized!
Thanks for the video. Learned nothing new but I didn't lose anything ✌🏼️
Share that !!I learned the hard way but kinda hard when the store retailer continously to scans but tell u 1$ when you n nearly million dollars or 250.000?
It would really be nice to hear what you're saying. Volume on my tablet is at maximum and I still can't hear you.
Do I need to buy more tickets to increase my odds of winning?
I've been playing scratch off tickets for years and won alot and lost a lot your my best wins when I go to stores with the machine in store and get six of same ones and go to another store with scratch off tickets with machine and do same thing and I'm ahead in my winnings.i keep track I've spent probably 5 Grand this year but with my winnings I'm ahead 3000 i won alot of 500 on 50 dollar scratch tickets.hope that helps.
The problem with that is that they sell tickets all over the place and where you purchase my not even have winning tickets in their roll
But no one knows what the winning numbers are till their announced 😅
Thanks for the tips!😉👍
So the odds of making money with your 401k and scratch offs at the moment are about the same. 🤷🏼♂️
Absolutely awesome explanation. Thank you. I will share this with my wife.
There is no way to increase your odds. I had friends that used to work at a gas station and would buy hundreds of dollars worth at a time, scratch them and pay off the cost with the winnings. It always evens out. You can't win. It's false hope for poor people.
"How to Increase Your Probability of a Win."
Translation: How to Make More Pathological Excuses For Your Gambling Addiction.
How to use math to know my odds for buying multiple cards?
that calculation of 10 tickets odds being 10,000 seems wrong? I have frequently read of statisticians/mathematicians saying if for example odds of winning are 1 in 14 mil with one ticket, then if you buy 10 tickets, the odds are....10 in 14 mil. The second number does not lower ever.
I need to stop playing. I have a favorite game and I have won a few times- not over $100. I am sure I spend more than I win. It's addicting. I use to never play til the person in front of me at the store won $160,000. I thought it could have been me. If I put the $5- $10 away instead of playing I would have saved more money than I win. State lottery will always come out ahead - that's just how it goes. We all play hoping we are lucky enough to get a big win
I am addicted too and I just play once a week now so I don’t go crazy.
How to double your winnings? Make a video on talking about it then profit from RUclips revenue
The government operates gambling in such a way that IF private business did it they would be shut down and arrested