scratch off tickets...play the odds and you're more likely to win?

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Ok here is one for the Guiness Book. Last year my wife gave out $1 lottery tickets to guests at a party she threw. She had 5 left which she gave to me. Five different winning numbers nd I had 5 numbers of mine. I uncovered the five winng numbers first. Then I began on MY numbers.. The first one I uncoverd matched a winning number 41 PRIZE, Each succeeding number I uncovered matched matched a winning number with the same result $1PRIZE, Man was I pissed,

I'm not sure I follow what pissed you.....I am confused by how you put it.

I prefer horses. Betting on horses is 100% succesful if you play it right.

The trick is to bet on the 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 horse to help keep your odds up without having to delve into the minutia of horse racing. Each time you bet you double your bet. Just make sure that you don't run out of money. When you do win you will turn a handy profit.

The money gets big quick though. $2 to $4 to $8 to $16 to $32 to $64. If you win on your $64 bet you'll win $190 while having only spent $124.

sounds like he hit the whole card but there were all 1.00 each i have had that happen

What your talking about is called the Martingale system. It doesn't work. If the odds aren't in your favor at $2, they won't be in your favor at $4 either, or $4,000.

What the OP is talking about is playing in a way that shifts the odds into your favor, by trying to only play when the odds of winning are better. This won't work though, because even if the odds of winning are better at the beginning of a stack of tickets, they still are not in your favor, guaranteed!

when I was a store clerk in the 80's . Use to check the winners on the lottery check off sheet , if there were 10 or more tickets sold out of a roll with no winners. I would buy the next five tickets in that roll. Use to pocket an average of 250 a week doing it. So the odds are not as much in your favore as you may think.

the lottery is a fools game

don't waste your money

better off spending it on silver
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+1

I still play an occasional ticket, or put tickets in a birthday card for someone else.

It surely IS a wast of money for a small amount of entertainment, or diversionary time.

It's like those tickets are a delusion, or a dream being sold.

If only, maybe if, next time...etc...

Interesting......how often would there be no winners in your estimation out of 10 or more?

So after seeing a post here earlier about playing the early part of rolls of tickets to get a better chance of winning on any given scratch ticket, and also the trick of buying them in bulk......I decided to try my luck at some tickets here.

Normally if buy, which isn't a lot.....very rare actually, both cause don't have a ton to spend and don't wanna get into a habit of overdoing it like my mom has over the years....I buy a ticket or two....sometimes a few different types and usually don't have much success.

This time though.....after looking at the prize odds on the Michigan lottery website....and seeing a $1 game that had a bunch of prizes still available (aka it looked like a fairly new set of tickets relative to other games), I did something different and bought a pack of 10. On those, I ended up with 2 winners totaling $7, $5 on one, and $2 on another. So for spending $10 I gained 2/3 of that back, not bad.

When I got back home I got to thinking....could it be the best chances to win are when you play according to the odds? Like for these $1 tickets...the odds were about 1 in 5....and sure enough it had worked out for me where each batch of 5 had 1 winner in the bunch. I didn't entirely break even course, but I came fairly close and I'd like to think over time if I played according to this strategy and according to the games that had the most prizes available at a given time...I'd be liable to not only do that but maybe even get ahead by quite a bit after a while.

I am not intending to play a ton per se over time now.....just what I could afford to do, maybe capping at $50 over a certain period of time depending on what my budget is....but I am gonna start keeping track of this, as to the number of tickets I buy, the amount spent on them and the net gain/loss from that. I honestly do think there is a way here to take what for most is really a losers game, and turn the odds in your favor.

Anyone else ever try something like this with any type of success?

i just played a new 2 dollar ticket hit 50 bucks

im in ohio they have a 30 dollar ticket now to rich for me though