scratchies do you buy them

[latina4621]

i do on occasion  can't say i have ever won big the most i have won is 25.00

[kopenhagen5]

I give them as thanks for helping or sorry for the error. 

[latina4621]

Also today while in the newsagents waiting to be served a man bought 1,000 dollars worth of 5.00 scratchies.

 after i though  i wonder how much he gets out of that  a 1/4 or 1/2 his money back.

[kopenhagen5]

Wow, I think the chance given on most scratchies is something like 1 in 4 can win.

But maybe he just bought 200 without wins and the next person wins 10,000.

Hope it's a wealthy person and not a pensioner sucked in.

[latina4621]

i don't  know to be honest , some people you know it is hard to tell.

[ambercat16]

Nope, don't buy them

The main reason is, when the big prize goes, they don't stop selling that run of tickets.  Therefore I could be buying a ticket with absolutely no hope of winning the main prize.  

At least with a raffle everyone who buys a ticket has an equal chance of winning the main prize because the prize is not won until all the tickets are sold. 

With scratchies, once the $25,000 (or whatever the main prize is) is claimed, anyone buying a ticket subsequently can only win a minor prize.....but they have no idea that is the case.

[electric*mayhem*band]

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@latina4621 wrote:

Also today while in the newsagents waiting to be served a man bought 1,000 dollars worth of 5.00 scratchies.

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Yes, an absolute menace in Newsagents & Tobacconists. Not content with holding up the queues, they're bumping into people on their way out of the door, while the're scatching away on the cards with a coin, like manic mice.

[serendipityricho]

After reading the posts on this thread-had a thought.

Is it possible a newsagent knows how many tickets are left in a series.

If a big prize has not been collected--is it worth a mate buying

alll the remaining tickets in that series.....just saying......................Richo.

[lloydslights]

I can't find the exact figures now, but for example, it used to be 500,000 tickets per series spread across the State.

I had a customer once, bought a pack of 100 x $2 scratchies, he got about $90.00 cash and a few "free" scratchies that won nothing. 

The best odds of "winning a prize" is the $5 jackpot lottery ticket, although overall, I've yet to come out ahead with them too

DEB

[ooak3]

no .....never buy them used to get a odd one now and then years ago but wised up 

like Richo says the prize could have gone of weeks before 

dont even enter the lottos much hubby weakens every few weeks and gets a minimum one 

we want daughter to be settled and married first before we win big (haha) dont want to worry about gold diggers