Buying Lottery Scratch Off Tickets In Bulk [video]

You have to be fairly brave to risk buying whole rolls of scratch off lottery tickets in one go. Or do you..?

Well, here’s one guy who did exactly that. And not just once either (spending a total of $2,700). I won’t spoil the surprise of how much he ends up winning – you’ll have to watch yourself to find out 🙂

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Don’t forget that out of any roll of tickets you’re certain to win back at least some of your initial outlay.

If you check the back of the tickets the ‘win something’ rate is typically about 1 ticket out of 4, on average. Which means if there are 50 tickets in a roll then about 12 of them will be winners. You just don’t know how many of those winners are going to be worth anything decent. That’s the tricky bit 🙂

Where To Buy A Roll Of Scratch Off Tickets?

You can buy a roll of scratch off tickets anywhere you would normally buy your tickets. There’s no rules stopping you.

The only problem you might encounter is ‘lazy assistant syndrome’, i.e. they can’t be bothered to go and fetch you a whole roll out of the back, and activate it, before selling it to you.

If it’s the owner of the store, they aren’t going to mind at all because it’s a nice sale for them (and they may get bonuses too if you win big). 🙂

How To Buy A Whole Roll Of Scratch Offs

To make buying a whole roll easier, get to know your regular store staff. And/or buy your scratchers from less busy locations where people have the time to serve you.

Choose the best scratchers to buy (this changes all the time). And make sure they get you a fresh (sealed) roll of lottery tickets and they don’t forget to activate it (using their lottery terminal) before they sell it to you. Otherwise you won’t be able to claim your winners until they do (it’s a security measure to stop people stealing tickets in bulk).

Playing An Entire Roll Of Scratch Offs

You’ve got two main choices here. You can do like the guy in the video did and just scratch the barcodes so you can scan each ticket for instant results.

It might entertain the store assistant. But that’s not quite so interesting for you.

Instead, play the games as they were meant to be played. Scratch the panels, take your time and enjoy it. 🙂 You can go crazy and scratch the whole lot in one go and make a huge pile of silvery mess. Or do one a day till they run out. But if you’re buying a whole roll do at least get some value from actually playing.

How Many Lottery Tickets Are in a Roll?

The number of tickets in a roll depends on the price of the ticket. And as standard the rolls will have a total sale value of $300 or $600. So with the most common scratch off ticket prices being $2, $3, $5, $10 and $20 this makes the number of tickets per roll range from 30 to 150 tickets.

But some states also sell tickets for $1. And higher priced tickets are becoming more common too at $30, $50 and now even $100. So the number of lottery tickets in a roll will continue to vary according to the individual ticket price.

What’s the most scratchers you’ve ever bought in one go? Have you ever bought a whole roll? How did you do? Add a comment below.

P.S. If you live in the USA do NOT miss Dave’s service here. You get weekly reports that tell you exactly which scratchers are the best to play in your State (sorry, US only) – and it only costs $20 for an entire YEAR. So it’s a no-brainer!

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84 Comments so far ↓

  • Jeanette Reed

    In California is there a half back guarantee on books?

  • ChrisJ

    I just got back into scratchers since ScratchSmarter is now sending data from the California scratcher games again (the state changed the website a while back and chose not to release payouts for all the prizes; they’d probably claim it was too time – or computer-resource intensive). Never bought a full roll; I’m not that flush with cash.

    Sorry/not sorry to hear of Lustig’s passing but his service/university wasn’t worth it; it was pretty much a recruiting front for LottoLishus (a ticket buying service and syndicate). I stopped with that because they didn’t process my order one week (it’s set up on recurring so don’t know how that happened) and three of my numbers came up (granted you only win half) so I quit that.

    I follow ScratchSmarter’s recomendations should my usual retailers have the games listed. Most of the time when the preferred/high factor games (usually the $10+range) aren’t available, I’ll opt for a $3-5 game and just buy in groups of ten… so kind of a Lustig strategy but mainly because some retailers get irked when you play one ticket at a time (and I only do this at smaller, less busy boutique retailers, not gas stations or 7-Elevens) and never buy tickets from a machine (that’s just me).

    I’ll generally get 2-3 wins from a 10 ticket buy but sometimes I’ll get four (like this week). Of course there was the time I was 0/10 on a $5 game, buying one ticket at a time with a win/quit goal with a winning ticket (the attendant wasn’t happy either because she had to work). Until today I’ve never had consecutive winning tickets; I’ve had series a couple times with alternating winners/loser but not back to back winners (a ‘ticket’ win and $5).

    Have some sort of a plan, strategy, budget and stick to it. Might win, will probably lose but with bars closed due to COVID-19 it’s from my bar tab/entertainment budget anyway.

  • Charles

    The lottery is designed to take your money, they do not put enough big winners out there on scratch offs. And don’t care if that was your last dollar spent. Unless your 1 in millions to get lucky. You stand a better chance playing the stock market.

    • LG

      The lottery is a business so of course they are designed to make a profit, they wouldn’t exist otherwise. 🙂

      I totally disagree with your stock market comparison though. Not only can you lose money there too anyway – but you cannot turn $1 into $1 Million with stocks. So that’s the point. 🙂

    • John

      Good luck making any kind of significant bank on the stock market with a small budget. That’s the point of the lottery, it gives people who aren’t financially well off a chance to win a lot of money with a very small investment

    • Glenda

      Sure and then when it crashes?

  • Sal V

    How many $20 scratchers come in a sealed pack sold at my local mini mart? (CA.)

  • Karen Davis

    I bought four $10 tickets and prayed to god before I scraped. He simply gave me what I needed, exclusive amount, amen. It’s not luck if you believe in god?

  • TT Swindlehurst

    Interesting video this. Probably not a good long term strategy though!

  • Derek Distefano

    I bought books of $10 tickets. It was 100 for $1,000. I got $565 six times and $1,100 once.

  • Marie

    I did it once, spent three hundred (was a bucket list). When it was all over I cashed out at $297. Though I didn’t make money I wasn’t unhappy, cause it was fun to scratch them all off. When I knew I had a winner I waited until I was all done to see what I had won. Wouldn’t do it again but at least it’s one thing off my list.

  • Patrick

    I just purchased a full pack of 10X the cash! It’s a new $2 California lottery ticket. This is my first time buying in bulk & it took me forever to scratch them all, but well worth the time. I have 39 winning tickets for a grand total of $6,400! I can’t believe this! I’ll be buying more full rolls in the future and if you’re financially able I strongly recommend trying your luck buying full packs?

  • LisaLisa

    The $10 scratch offs seem to offer very good winning odds when purchased at least six at a clip. A $60 weekly investment. TRY IT.

    • LG

      Higher ticket prices do normally mean better odds, but if you factor in the ticket price it doesn’t really make much difference (i.e. you can buy 60 $1 scratchers for the same money). What does matter though is the size of the jackpot – a $1 scratcher is rarely big enough for anyone, so it makes sense to choose the right game to start with 🙂

  • Chris

    Quite interesting to see a lively debate of random people expressing their beliefs and opinions. I took the research and investigation approach. Google has a link to a resource that outlines patents. Following the chain of upgrades and revisions reveals the suspected liabilities and loopholes that have been discovered along the way.

    The code lies within the code. The algorithm reveals itself. From production to deployment to sale to validation to verification – and everywhere between – revealing the key to connecting the algorithms becomes the solution to the riddle.

    To have enough relevant data to evaluate with any hopes of getting enough clues to work with, buying entire books of scratch offs becomes individual puzzle pieces. From there it is merely a matter of putting the picture together. Once you have the picture, buying only a couple tickets at a time and recognizing where they fit in the picture will determine the potential profitability of returning to keep buying any more from that same book of tickets.

    Once a person recognizes which leaf of the immense and overwhelming tree they are grasping, there is absolutely nothing random about it. They know exactly how many winners there are. They know exactly what packs they are in. But, they do not know where those packs are until the winners are claimed.

    The individual player has the ability to bridge the gap between production and potential discovery… simply by figuring out where they are in the maze with what they are currently holding. Can’t do that buying a ticket a week from random places at random times.

    Want to win? Pay your dues, buy a few books of tickets, and crunch the numbers within the numbers. Or… hope to get lucky.

    All of the $10 (or greater) tickets tout odds greater than 1:4 with a payout of 80%+. Remove even some of the element of randomization and there exists an amazing amount of opportunity.

    Robbing other players? Stealing? Cheating? Taking advantage? Sounds like the people who don’t like to lose… probably shouldn’t be gambling.

    The lottery is no different than the stock market. The more you know, the better the chances… but, even knowing little doesn’t guarantee failure. Sometimes luck still reigns.

    • LG

      Hmm, OK. Yes, we know exactly how many winners there are because they do (generally) tell us that up front. But knowing for certain which pack the winners are in but not where the packs are? I’m not really sure what that means.

  • Joe Joe

    I have bought now 5 rolls of the same $2 ticket (150 tix – $300), most I came out with is $197 for a $103 LOSS. The lowest I returned was $151 for a $149 loss. On average there have been 33 winning tickets in each. In my eyes it isn’t worth it. When you think about all the gas stations, convenience stores and even little smoke shops. In my eyes you have to get just as lucky hitting a big prize on a roll as you do walking into a random spot and buying one ticket and obviously a lot less to lose. That being said I will probably go buy a roll today because it’s so much fun haha good luck!

  • Jaks

    No matter what lottery officials tell you, distribution is controlled. I check the scratch-off winners in my state and the major jackpot winners are ALWAYS in the same part of the state where distribution originates, and this is by design. The theory that one area has more winners as they sell more tickets couldn’t be further from the truth. If the jackpot tickets are in one specific location, it doesn’t matter how many everyone else sells, it’s a losing battle. Lottery knows where the jackpot winners are placed, it can’t be a coincidence that they are consistently showing up in the same areas.

    • LG

      I’ve never seen any lottery where all the winners were from one area, so which one are you referring to? Or did you mean ‘lots’ rather than ‘always’?

      What are the actual figures of jackpot winners broken down by area? Because if you don’t have the figures you’re just letting your perception reinforce your theory. Which even just logically doesn’t make any sense. “Let’s only distribute the jackpot tickets to one area, and all the losing tickets elsewhere” – why..? Isn’t it just more likely they are randomly placed and areas with higher population buy more tickets and therefore create more winners?

    • Beth

      I totally agree with this statement as I too thought… why in Trenton, NJ, where the Lottery sends out the tickets, are the majority of the winners saturated in that area? So perhaps where officials family and friends live? Not coincidental! On many occasions I thought about driving up in that area to purchase my tickets. Totally will increase the odds!

      • LG

        But are you backing this up with any real data, or it is just an impression? Can you put some numbers to it? e.g. how many winners are there by area over the last 12 months. How does that compare with the population of those areas. Unless you look at it more scientifically what you’re saying is just meaningless conspiracy theory 🙂

  • TT Swindlehurst

    Surely the best idea is to buy them direct from the manufacturers and not retail!

  • Mary Chi

    I hope this helps someone. In NJ, this is how I play once a week, then once I win a prize, I stop and don’t play again until the next week.

    First, I check out my state lottery web page to see which tickets have large prizes left on them. Did you know vendors can continue to sell tickets that don’t have any large prizes left?

    I buy 3 scratch offs, and more than 50% of the time, I win something. If I don’t get a winner, I buy 2 more tickets and more than 50% of the time, I win something. If I don’t get a winner, I buy 1 more ticket. That 6 is my limit for the week. Only once in the last 2 years did I NOT win anything in my 6 tickets. So far, I’ve won free tickets and I’ve won $20. According to my record books, I’ve been ahead by $14 and I’ve been at a loss of $10. Less risk here than buying whole rolls.

  • San

    If I buy a bundle of scratch off $20 tickets, how much can I win?

    • LG

      It depends on the game. Jackpots can be anywhere up to $10 Million on a $20 ticket. Some games have fewer jackpot prizes that are larger, other games may have $1 Million jackpots but lots more of them. It’s just one of the reasons why you need to choose carefully which game to play.

  • Daniel

    Always remember when remember when getting scratch offs to buy in tens, and buy the same kind of tickets. Plus when playing number games always pick your own numbers never do the auto pick, and keep playing the same numbers over to increase your chances to get more tricks and increase your chances.

    • LG

      Unfortunately most of what you said doesn’t help. You’ve been listening to that Mr. Lustig again – please don’t waste your money there. 🙂

      • Brooke

        That is upsetting to hear. My husband just talked me into paying for his lottery university program. So far I haven’t noticed anything that will be that helpful. Do you have any pointers on how I can find something else to help me learn how to increase chances of winning? I know some people just know how to hit those draws a couple times a week. I would love to learn how.

      • LG

        Yes, sadly his ‘University’ is very expensive and very little use in my opinion. There’s far better in my tips here (which don’t cost anything).

      • Jamel

        Lustig is right. There’s no need to take his course, buy his book, or go to any “university.” He literally tells you everything you need to know, between all of the videos and interviews he’s done. Just watch them all and you’ll have the answer. He’s won 7 times. Period. End of story.

        I’ve used his method together with Gail Howard’s software and have won 2nd place twice in the Take 5 lottery and several other times in virtual games (games played only on my computer). Winning the smaller prizes is EASY, using this combined method. You just can’t profit on those.

        I’ve done what he said with the scratch-offs and have won some small prizes, as well. More often than not, I win something, when buying 10 at a time. The key is patience. There’s no winning overnight, unless you’re lucky. Richard even tells you that you should expect to play at least 6 months on your numbers, before hitting anything special.

      • LG

        That’s not proof of anything though is it. Just as lots of people win all the time with quick picks… does that mean quick picks are more likely to win? No, it doesn’t. If I win more often when I buy tickets wearing blue trousers than when I wear black trousers, does it mean my blue trousers are lucky? (Or did I just wear them a lot more often…)

        If you play a lot you’re going to win something sometimes no matter what.

  • Ivy

    So where can I buy a whole roll of scratch offs? Do I just walk in to a gas station and ask for a new roll? How does that work?

  • John

    You can’t win big on scratchers. The lottery companies prey on the poor communities… meanwhile all the jackpot prizes are in the high class neighborhoods… amen.

    • LG

      Not true at all John. Look at any indepedent local news site and you’ll see plenty of big scratch winners who don’t come from high class areas. Most prizes go to the places that buy the most tickets.

      • Tdawg

        I personally worked with a lady that won $250,000 on a scratch off. So yes people do win big!

  • Geoff Sallis

    In Australia they do not publish if prizes have already been won on strachies. Why would they? People would stop buying them. Also about 20 or more years ago I bought 10 x $2 stratchies and did not win 1 prize. So the theory about buying a whole book is garbage. I stopped buying them for 20 years after that only resuming buying them in recent years because my earnings are higher and I cannot afford to buy a few every week. It’s better to buy just 1 at a time I’ve found and from different agencies.

  • Vic

    In my place scratchers are not sold in “bunches”, so I usually buy 10-20 consecutive tickets. Interestingly, my general balance is always a positive one. Which – pity – cannot be said about my normal lottery games, where I am a net loser 🙁

  • Joe Horner

    I wanna know how many tickets are in a whole pack of 30$ MD lottery scratch offs?

    • LG

      Typically around 30 tickets for the higher priced games, sometimes up to 50. It varies by state and game.

      But for a specific game just ask the retailer – they’ll be happy to tell you.

  • Stephanie G

    Buying a roll is like purchasing single tickets – the odds are the same. I bought plenty of rolls, and here is another fun fact – if your first winning ticket of that roll is cash or a symbol, that’s what the rest of any winning ticket in that pack will be. You will not find cash and symbol tickets in that roll.

    • LG

      That’s right – the odds of each individual ticket are exactly the same no matter how many you buy. Each ticket is a unique game/play that can’t affect the outcome of any other. But obviously buying more increases the chances that at least one of them will be a winner (buy 2 double your chances etc).

      I wasn’t really sure what you meant about a winning ticket being cash or a symbol, but tickets are randomly placed.

  • Eddy

    My son once bought a whole roll of $20 tickets (30 tics on the roll) for a $600 outlay. After scratching them, he had only “won back” about $350 or so! Fortunately, the tickets he bought were also included in a second chance drawing. About a week later, he started registering the losing tickets into his second chance account. One of his losing tickets kept reading “invalid entry”. He then reevaluated the ticket to find he had a matching number, and it was a $1000 winner. He got lucky there for sure, and, as far as I know, hasn’t done it again.

  • Steve

    I have a question about the scratchers. I am sure the lottery knows where every winners, every roll is scanned in at the stores, every winner is scanned, you can’t enter winners into a second chance drawing if they are winners, so, yes they do know. My question then is, do they take the available prizes left off at the time of sale or at the time it is claimed. If it is when they are claimed, then there could be a lot of winners that are held onto, some don’t expire for 6 months and some don’t expire for a year, plus you have to account for the tickets that they take back that aren’t sold by the end of sale date?

    • LG

      Hi Steve

      Sorry, I don’t really understand your question. Does who take the available prizes left off – do you mean the retailer or the lottery company? And do they take it off of what? The amount the retailer pays the lottery company? Or something else?

      • Steve

        My question was, how does the lottery officials actually know how many prizes are left for a particular scratch game? Can they tell when the ticket is sold because it is scanned at the time of sale and they know a winner was sold, the same way they know when you enter a winning ticket for a second chance drawing? Usually winning second chance tickets can’t be entered and it will show invalid entry. Do they wait until the winner claims the prize? How do they get an accurate count of how many prizes are left?

      • LG

        Ah OK, I understand now.

        From the top. No, I don’t believe any lottery company knows where the winning tickets are, or what rolls they are in. There’s no need. They are simply randomly allocated throughout the whole print run. All the lottery company need to know is that there are the right number of prizes, and the right number of tickets.

        They also don’t know when a winning ticket is sold, as nothing is scanned at that point. But they don’t really need to that know either :-).

        They do know when a prize is claimed, because the retailer scans the ticket (or for larger wins they handle the claims anyway). So a prize is therefore ‘remaining’ until it’s claimed.

        Theoretically that means a ‘remaining prize’ (or unclaimed prize as some companies term it) may never be claimed as the ticket could have been lost.

        The funds to pay out any remaining prizes is held for some time, typically for 6-12 months, after the game is closed/withdraw from sale. Any tickets unclaimed after that are no longer valid and the funds are released back into the lottery coffers.

  • Frederick

    I’d like to try Dave’s service but I can’t afford the 20 dollar price and even if I could, I can’t afford to buy scratchers or any other lottery tickets. Oh well.

  • BobP

    Exactly, there are the overall odds and then there are your personal odds on whether the store you are standing in has any ticket worth over $100 in the case or machine. If there are thousands of stores and hundreds of good first and second tier prizes not all stores can have good prizes. And as Dave’s service can help, the number of prizes still available factor in, only three top tier prizes left, what are the odds your store has one of them.

    • LG

      Not really. Your personal odds always depend on how many tickets are left overall and how many prizes remain. There’s no data available at a store level. So you can’t derive anything usable from the number of stores.

      Even if every store sold an equal number of tickets (they differ enormously anyway), knowing that there are a thousand stores just tells you that there are lots of places to buy tickets :-).

      There’s probably just as many rolls of tickets in secure storage ready to resupply the stores.

    • Jake

      Completely agree. It’s about having a chance to be in the same store as a winning ticket otherwise you are buying from a worthless location.

      • LG

        But there’s no such thing as a ‘worthless location’. Tickets are placed totally at random. There is no way to know which store has winning tickets.

  • BobP

    The total number of scratch off sellers in your state versus the total number of prizes worth winning still available is an important part of your actual odds of winning.

    • LG

      Not sure I follow you Bob – the amount of tickets left on sale does matter, but I don’t see how the total number of sellers makes any difference?

      • BobP

        Say there are 3000 retailers and 100 prizes left worth winning, what are the odds your retailer has one of them? With lotto you make your own luck, you don’t have to worry whether your seller even has a worthwhile prize in the case.

      • LG

        I kind of see what you mean. But there are a specific number of tickets printed for each game – and that’s what determines your overall chances, not how many stores sell tickets. You can enhance your chances of winning by figuring out which games have the most prizes left (big and small) and the least tickets remaining. But it’s a hassle, which is why Dave’s service is such good value.

  • Kevin Garnetto

    I just wanted to know if you buy ten $5 scratch offs and don’t win anything, do you get your money back. Please email me back, thank you!

    • LG

      Sadly no you don’t Kevin. If only :-). But some lottery companies run ‘last chance draws’ for losing tickets – which may give you one more chance to win (check the website of your lottery company to see if they do).

      Maybe you’re thinking of the overall odds figures they give for tickets? You’ll often see something like “Overall chance of winning a prize: 1 in 5”. But it doesn’t guarantee that you will win if you buy 5 tickets, because this is ‘on average’. Which means if they printed 100,000 tickets, then 20,000 of them would be winners. But they are randomly placed, so you could buy 5 tickets and not win at all, or you could buy 5 tickets and win twice.

  • Michael Sloan

    Yes I did several years ago… 200 x $1.00 tickets from the Ohio Lottery… only got 1/4 th return on my money… Mike.

    • Lottery Minion

      Sounds like how my friend plays. A roll has never net him more than he puts in, but as he told me he isn’t getting whole packs to win back half or 3/4 the roll price, he’s getting them all because all it takes is to miss that one ticket out of a roll and a jackpot has slipped through your fingers.

  • Lynea J Ransom

    Chattanooga, TN never have big winner, just a lot of free tickets. I played all over the place and never win over $100! I play the losing tickets online and still never won nothing.

  • P Ryan

    I live in the UK and I tried this over here with some scratchcards priced at £10 each, I paid £200 in total and won £180 which is a loss of £20 in total. I guess the house always wins as they say but my loss could have been much worse!

  • Gary Theisz

    What about the odds on all those 2nd chances! I bet they are much lower.

  • Steve

    They didn’t actually spend $2,700 outright. They BOUGHT $2,700 of tickets.

  • Romy

    I buy a ticket here and there, sometimes I even find them on the Florida lottery because I have a feeling they could be a winner. But I am not willing to spend money I don’t have. I am aware the government is aware of people playing and hoping to win. Thanks for the information.

  • Frederick

    Yes I’d have to be extremely rich before I’d buy a roll and even then it doesn’t sound like the smartest thing to do. Personally I’d just as soon put my money in a piggy bank and not have to pay the 50% vigorish, for what it’s worth.

  • Lottery Minion

    I have never bought a roll, but I have bought half before (got $80 back out of $50 worth). I do know someone who religiously buys rolls every month. Most of the time all he gets back is half what he starts with. A roll of Louisiana scratch tickets cost $250 for a $5 & $10 roll game. Most odds on these are 1:4 ( I’ve seen him lose on 7 tickets with no win). He nets 7 wins out of each roll of 25 tickets. I’ve researched his playing for nearly 5 years, and the most he’s won is $100 on a ticket every so often, which never gives his money back for the solid roll. I’ve never seen him get more than 70% back of what the roll costs which has lead me to theorize that most packs as a whole are losers if bought in bulk rolls, but there are winners throughout. I also know someone who has won $1000 from getting a roll, so that is why it seems to be a distribution issue of where, and when you get your tickets… not so much in how many you buy.

    • LG

      Well most packs do have to be losers overall as there aren’t enough big winners for there to be one in each. And the lottery company have to make a profit selling them.

      A lot of people get confused by the 1:4 tickets win (most notably Richard Lustig who is famous for getting this wrong). It’s ‘on average’ of course, meaning that because tickets are randomly placed you can buy 10 in a row and not win anything. But then the next 3 might all be winners. If you bought every single ticket printed then 1 out of 4 of them would be winners, and 3 out of 4 would be losers.

      • Lottery Minion

        I spoke to my friend who buys whole rolls, and he actually got only 5 tickets for one. He won $100. It was the last 5 tickets in the pack. Amazing because going by research (in Louisiana scratch games) I have never seen a bigger win happen out of a whole pack multiple times. Meaning he will buy a whole role of $5 or $10 scratch tickets and if he hits $100 that’s the highest value for that whole pack. Everything remaining is of a lesser value unless there’s a $500, $1,000, $5,000, or $jackpot somewhere else in the roll (which he hasn’t won yet).

      • Samuel J Crisafulli

        OK, so here it is. If you buy a whole roll you are guaranteed to win at least half back. So if you bought a roll of $5 tickets which has 60 tickets in it and pay $300, you will win back at least $150. If not then they screwed up, like yesterday day I bought every ticket in 2 rolls back to back the same ticket. I spent $600 total and only won back $175 total from both rolls, and only had 13 winners out of 120 tickets. I even scanned them all too I’m pretty sure that’s grounds for suing the lottery company.

      • LG

        Er no, you are NOT guaranteed to win at least half back. What made you think that?

        It’s possible to buy a whole roll and become an instant multi-millionaire. But it’s also possible to buy a whole roll and win absolutely nothing!

        The lottery company do not provide any guarantees about how many winning tickets there will be per roll, or per number of tickets bought. They simply state how many of the total are winning tickets, then randomly place them.

  • Lottery Minion

    It’seems all about distribution. Anyone here knows how scratch tickets are distributed? I’ve been monitoring the process from a consumer perspective, and have noticed in a 10 year period certain areas of the state I’m in (LA) only distributes winners in a 10-20 mile radius of other winners, while other parts of the state have never had a single jackpot win. This was alarming to me. I thought the distribution was random, but in fact (from my view) it seems controlled through the distribution process.
    Note: This doesn’t prove anything exactly, but my research is making me question how scratch tickets are sold.

    • LottoAl

      Lottery Minion, I must agree with you. I have been following the Texas Lottery scratch-offs for quite some time and it’s the same way here; certain areas win more often than others. I guess all lotteries follow the same formula or a variation of it.

      • LG

        They do follow the same formula – but that formula is simply randomly distributing ticket rolls 🙂

        Certain areas have more winners because certain areas sell more tickets.

      • Lottery Minion

        LG is right, though the distribution is actually a factor in the winning process. I recently have been checking with 3 places to see how fast they sell tickets (note: some actually order them in advance and have a stash in the back).
        A) is in a slow business district
        B) is right in the heart of a business district
        C) is on the corner of a grocery store
        Which do you think sells the most tickets? It’s “B” (which means more tickets pass through that area giving them a slighter higher chance of getting a jackpot). They went through 10 rolls of tickets all for the same game in a week (that’s high for the end of the month and nowhere near a holiday I was told). While “A” is on it’s 5th roll. “C” was only on it’s 2nd roll which surprised me. Also I have been checking the code number on the back to see if it was in a row in the order they stock them, and it wasn’t at all. One was number 027065 while the next was 268095. Completely out of order.

    • Gwendolyn Brathwaite

      I bought 20 of the $1.00 tickets, sometimes $20.00, $100.00, and sometimes I didn’t win anything. I quit.

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