Scratch offs

[Ericstac]

Who plays lottery scratch offs here?

How many tickets do you buy a week?

[jimlongley]

I never play them, or at least only a couple of times a year.

A woman my wife used to bowl with bought them so often that she had the winning codes memorized and didn't even have to scratch them. She never did much better than break even, but she did stay close to even.

[nyj]

Made that mistake once.

Obviously, you get better odds the more the ticket is. So, I played $50 tickets. Won $75 on the first one, and that it roped me in. I lost on the second one, and from there, kept rationalizing every time I won or lost. Luckily I stopped after losing $150. But, I really wanted to buy that last ticket, I was sure it was probably a winner.

[Teamless]

I might spend $40-$50 per year on scratch offs

[C-dub]

Not a dime. The only time I've done the lottery is when given tickets for a birthday or something and haven't won anything. I've done better at Monopoly with McDonald's.

[Ericstac]

Lol. Y'all are like me.. Someone gave me one the other day and I scratched it off and it took what felt like ten minutes to figure out if I won or not.

[Keith B]

The only scratch-off tickets I play come at Christmas in our stockings from Father-in-law. My niece also buys $5 worth to give out to each at my family's Christmas git together. I won $100 off of one of those tickets once. Think over the years I have maybe won around $200 total. Have had years where no one won anything out of the batches. Not bad for a little fun though.

[Dadtodabone]

Never participated in any games of chance. My wife reinforces the common sense of that decision, she grew up in Las Vegas, by asking me how I think Steve Wynn paid for all of those billion dollar hotel/casino complexes.

[Seventhsword]

I'll buy one every once in awhile...

[PUCKER]

Buddy of mine bought me forty $1 scratch offs for my 40th birthday...it was a nice gift...won around $22...turned that $ in on more tickets and it essentially halfed value each time until $0.

[KC5AV]

I worked in a convenience store the first summer that the lottery came to town. There was a lady that came in and used her entire welfare check ti buy lottery tickets... I think they were 500 tickets to a pack, and she bought an entire pack (I didn't sell them to her). Long story short, she won much less than she spent. I've never had a desire to spend my money on them.

[jmra]

One of the worst odds in gambling and simply put, a fools game - not to mention a self imposed tax (IMHO).

[pcernuch]

the lotto is a tax on people that are bad at math.

god bless.