Scratch Tickets and the Like!

[Guest BifEverchad]

Hey, I dunno if this thread was ever started before or not, so forgive me if it was. Anyways, scratch tickets are latest obsessions. I love them. I'm not addicted to them or anything, but they're fun and it seems like lately, all I do is win. I'm on a 8 ticket winning streak and I just scratched off a 'Crossword Deluxe' ticket and won $20. Nothing big, but still...

 

Pro-Line is also another obsession for me, but I havent played that since the NFL playoffs. Pro-Line is a lottery style ticket you buy where you can wager from $2-$25 on 3-6 professional sporting events. I usually play it every week when the NFL season starts, and usually during the NHL playoffs too. You can play it safe and win a decent amount, or you can go against the odds and win a bundle. My highest win was a couple of years ago, when I won $845 on 3 Football games, 2 NHL games and a Basketball game. the catch, you have to get all predictions correct.

 

Anyways, I live in Atlantic Canada, so I'm sure everyone's games and gambles are different.

So what's your obsessions, if any?

 

 

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[Guest RugbyDiva]

I use to have an obsession with scratch tickets... but that has passed. Right now I really don't have any 'obsessions' so to speak. Well... besides the obvious one.

-Lis'

[Guest Angle-plex]

I found a scratch ticket on the ground once and won $100 dollars off it.

 

The money was most likely spent on 100 more scratch tickets, which I won nothing from.

[Guest BiOHaZaRD EX]

Well, my mom buys them once in a while, and she always buys me a ticket. Not addicted though.....

[Guest Kinetic]

Right now I really don't have any 'obsessions' so to speak. Well... besides the obvious one.

She means me.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Balderdash. That emoticon screams Spoony Love.

[Guest Sandman9000]

I used to play a scratch ticket every week, years ago.

 

Now I just get a dozen on major holidays and lose every time.

 

Fuck, 20 is the most I've ever won.

[Guest Kingpk]

You want a scratch ticket addict? Look at my mother, she buys at least $5 worth at the store and goes to their little lottery counter to scratch them. Sometimes we spend 15 extra minutes there if she keeps winning $2 - 4.

 

She did win $400 twice in one week, though.

[Guest MaxPower27]

I've never won more than another ticket. I usually only play $1 BlackJack though.

 

I bought a new Florida Lotto ticket that was $10!!! I won NOTHING.

[Guest The Amazing Rando]

yeah...stay away from that Florida 10 buck one.... I've been told in a few various convenience stores and Publix that they haven't seen a single person win...

 

Go with the 5 dollar ones...they OWN... I won a few hundred on those

[Guest MaxPower27]

I still laugh at the advertisements for the actual scratch tickets on TV/Radio.

 

"Odds of winning are # in ###########. Please play responsibly"

 

Just the thought of some asshole blowing his entire paycheck and not being able to pay his bills because he spent $400 on a bunch of scratch tickets is pretty amusing to me.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Having worked at a convenience store before, I can honestly say that lottery people are a different breed.

 

BTW: This tidbit was interesting, since we're on the topic of scratch tickets...

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78181,00.html

 

"—U.S. residents spent over $38 billion on lottery tickets in 2001, with about $2 of every $5 going toward instant scratch-off games."

[Guest razazteca]

the scratch games in Texas are match 3 of a kind or get 2 of a kind and the special symbol for the big prize. Or some sort of matching scheme.

 

Never really won big on this other than free ticket or $5. Now the LOTTO is a different story.