I am wondering if anyone knows if the lottery scratch tickets are made to win by the numbers on the bottom of the tickets. My uncle swears by his method that if he buys a scratch ticket that wins and it is an odd or even numbered ticket, he will only buy those numbered tickets that won. So if an odd numbered $3 ticket won him $5, he will buy only odd numbered tickets of the same tickets, believing that only those odd tickets will win. Now this seems to me to be a myth and I know that not only does this not work all the time but it has seemed to work sometimes depending on the type of scratch ticket and the store you go to to buy the ticket.
Is there anyone out there who is a scratch ticket king or queen? Anyone who can help me and my uncle clear up this dispute about the scratch ticket myth? Do lottery companies really set up rolls of tickets to pay off depending on the numbered tickets wether they are odd or even?
I’m just guessing here, but I’d say that those numbers on the bottom of the ticket are either serial numbers or for authentification purposes or both and have absolutely nothing to do with whether it’s a winner or not. It just wouldnt make any sense at all for them to provide that info on the outside of the ticket, and in fact, it would invite fraud.
I’ve never seen a store that let you choose what ticket you got. You just tell them “Gimme that pretty blue $2 scratchoff” and they rip the next one off the roll and give it to you. I can’t see any place allowing you to pilfer through the roll.
Plus it sounds too easy. The idea is to let you win just enough to keep you spending money. Surely if there was a pattern someone would have figured it out by now and gotten rich.
if there’s a simple way to win, they’d get rid of it. Randomness is to the lottery commission’s (or the casino’s) benefit; why would they intentionally give gamblers an edge?
In Georgia (US) The tickets are on a roll, and now more often found in veding machines… no choice of which ticket you get. I would have to agree that an easy win would not exist. If it did, I would suggest that its life span was less than 24 hours. While not in Calif, I recall some other states (East Coast/New England) also had the serial numbers covered, with a “Void if scratched” notice.
Interesting side note, I have found for GA tickets, the play area will spell out the prize with the letters in random places… (A “w” will be to the upper left, a “t” would be lower right, a “o” would be off center, If the ticket was not a winning ticket, the three letters would not spell a word. The letters are always three no more no less. A free GA ticket would be “T” “I” “C” I haven’t memorized higher prizes, the rare times I win. I have not seen any literature on this method, but I used it once on a ticket I thought I lost… I double checked, and thankfuly got two bucks.
I bet there are ‘secrets’ for lotto, but never ever in the players favor.