Weird Conspiracy, But I Believe it To Be True. And It's Scary. Scratch Off Tickets.

Erm ,,, they bin milking the gamblers dry for some time , just maybe more so now...

Just put some 10, 50, 100 dollars bills in random envelops. You can scratch your ass and then reward yourself the dopamine receptor with one of those envelopes.

I hardly believe that you ever got more than you spent.

Or you just hit a cold streak

Someone who sold them at work was telling me about this. I forget exactly what he said, but it was something like every fifth ticket was a winner and he'd keep some on the side for friends.

I've had this conspiracy for a few years. Before the pandemic, going back like 5+ years I had noticed something was up with scratchers too.

Well, the lottery system in general.
Now, I live in VA so I can't say the same was true everywhere (although I'm sure it is the case) but years back I just so happen to reading something on the back of the ticket and I noticed at the bot tom of a small font-paragraph, a barcode and a signature. Typed below it, it read "Paula L. Otto. Executive Director"

It blew my mind. I started thinking
WTF ARE THE ODDS this woman gets to the position of executive director of the LOTTERY?! PAULA-LOTTO /PAYALOTTO /PAULA L. Otto?! she either changed her name, was literally born for this, or it's some fraudulent bs.

Add to the situation they could easily siphon off as much as they want. They donate so much to public schools and they get it back in taxes....They write billions off. How would the public know what the true odds are. They could pay off oversight /inspections. Its addictive, lucrative, and flush with cash 24/7....smells like something that our government would get a hard on for. It'd be crazier to think that the lottery would be the ONLY multi billion dollar company that has::
1.) No involvement in money laundering
2.) Moral ethics that outweigh the never-ending cash supply 3.) Products, much like heroin or cigarettes, they know is addictive and potentially hazardous so they change, or stop sales for the better good.
4.put people over profits
5. No stakeholder obligations or agendas to maximize profits at a loss to the consumer..

and like you were saying
I agree...
The win rate is so low its not possible that they are giving out what they claim,

There is some evidence that a very similar thing has happened with regards to changed odds re pokie machines/slot machines in Australia in recent years...

Investigators are looking into this.

So say good night to the bad guy. It's the last time you gonna see a bad guy like this.

Hot diggity dog , it's hot dog.

The lights need to go out soon

Let's get the show on the road

I'm ready for some excitement

They found six winning lotto numbers in Epstein's safe and you still play lotto?

It's called variance.. It is possible to win a million times in a row and just as possible to loose a million times in a row; It's just not that probable. You have Gambler's Fallacy.

I'm thinking of a two digit number both numbers different.

I never have and never will play the lottery and have never even bought so much as one scratch off ticket.

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I never play those things. Some meth-head in a tiny town 30 miles from here won 70K on a scratcher from the only gas station within 100 miles. She spent most of it on bail for her meth-head boyfriend.

Last Edited by Adam Henry on 05/09/2022 01:31 AM

Too be fair, most people dont tell others that they have won. Ir just males evwryone ask you for money, especially family.

Bingo

This idea makes perfect lovuc to me. By the time regulator discover anything, the entire lottery would probably be shut down anyways

Coupling this with rich strike winning the Derby would love to see the people who had money on that.

Same thing in Virginia. You can't win shit with Virginia's scratch offs. You can literally buy 10 of the same and win nothing. 10 years ago, 3 of those tickets would have been a winner.

Scractchers have changed in CA too. I would always pick up a couple $1 $3 and $5 ones when they come out new and always would have at least one winner most times... did this for years... now I employ the same technique and most times zilch!

I just stopped buying altogether because they have obviously reduced the odds of winning. total scam.

80 to 1. I think op is onto it.

This is the lamest, most tired, and honestly the laziest observation out there. But thanks for your worthless contribution.

Maybe you're onto something!

I haven't played any scratch off tickets lately, but I used to once in awhile. Our state doesn't sell scratch offs, but if I knew I was gonna be in the next state over, I'd go to the lottery site to check the odds to see which games I was interested in playing.

Well, I just checked the site now to see what games they have to choose from.

I just looked at two different $1 games. The odds of winning $1 are 1 in 6.45, meaning if I were to buy 7 tickets in a row I'm pretty much guaranteed to win $1! $1 back out of $7 spent, only 14% return on my money? That's crazy! I wouldn't waste my money on a game like that! In addition, the largest prize available is only $2,000! I'm used to seeing games where your odds of winning were like 1 in 3 or something like that so I could get by with buying 3 to maybe 4 tickets and still walk away with something.

One other thing, the site used to say how many prizes were yet to be claimed in each game, so if I saw that all or most of the big prizes had already been claimed in a particular game, I'd spend money on a different game that had lots of big prizes still out there.

I don't see that on the site anymore! Either both of those games I checked are new and they haven't had any winners at all, or they just quit reporting on them. Why spend $7 on a game when there's not even a chance of winning $2,000 since all of the big prizes have already been claimed?

I'll do some more checking. Maybe that information is still hidden somewhere on the site. The thing is, I don't plan on making a trip to buy any tickets anytime soon. Still, I'd like to see if the odds of winning anything are that poor on all the games or just the 2 I've looked at.

But if you don't already, check your state lottery sites before buying any tickets. That information, the odds of winning and the number of big prizes still out there, could improve your odds of winning, even if is just by a little bit!

I theorize that all lotto drawings are scams.

Think about how many times each state draws for multi million dollar winners.

There should be tens of thousands of lotto millionaires right now.

Yet I haven't heard from any but that "$5 million Bucks!!" guy, Curtis Sharpe, from 1985.

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Also, remember in the Obama administration how Power Ball and Mega Millions would set a record jackpot seemingly every month?
Why did that stop?

Not to mention they want to go paperless at every turn for bills and creating ways to pay that don’t require paper checks. Now they want paperless gambling too!

Lottery proceeds and tobacco taxes were supposed to be buying us better schools. I think they stole the money because the schools aren't any better.