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You scratch. A whole channel of videos of scratch card play.
What kind of goldmine of entertainment have I stumbled upon?

Oh good heavens.

Would you trust the USPS to deliver a $1,000+ winning ticket to its destination nowadays? Need transportation to the state lottery office. The odds are ridiculous and the HA is always 35.5%. But there's the 2nd chance drawing that most people wouldn't waste their time on, so maybe that's winnable? Nah! The problem with this video is he refused to scratch off any prize amounts associated with his losing scratches, so we can't see how rigged or teasing it was. It could have said $5,000 three times on each ticket, but had a losing match scratch. I suppose he doesn't need that kind of drama in his scratches.

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You scratch. A whole channel of videos of scratch card play.
What kind of goldmine of entertainment have I stumbled upon?

Your comment made me laugh out loud

On the second chance drawings, when I last checked, the drawings were more popular than I thought.

I know I've seen people fishing non-winning tickets out of the trash so they can get extra entries.

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On the second chance drawings, when I last checked, the drawings were more popular than I thought.

I know I've seen people fishing non-winning tickets out of the trash so they can get extra entries.
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We had a second chance drawing where I live and the prizes were decent enough that I was considering dumpster diving but the drawing is for my whole state and I also figured someone already is trying that so I decided against it

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On the second chance drawings, when I last checked, the drawings were more popular than I thought.

I know I've seen people fishing non-winning tickets out of the trash so they can get extra entries.
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The talk about "second chance drawing" and "dumpster diving" reminds me of a story about the California lottery a few decades ago. One scratch-off game was poker hand based, and if you had something like five cards with jokers on them, you sent them in to enter a drawing to spin the lottery wheel for the million-dollar prize. Somebody did that, and then discovered that on those original tickets, the Jokers were not only wild, but if you used one to make a winning hand, the normal prize doubled - and realized that one of this tickets had a Joker and two Aces, which was the highest prize available in that game. He asked for permission from the lottery commission to go through the ticket envelopes to see if he could find his, and they let him do it, but only for 30 minutes. I never found out if he found his envelope (or, for that matter, if it really did have a winning ticket) or not.

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On the second chance drawings, when I last checked, the drawings were more popular than I thought.

I know I've seen people fishing non-winning tickets out of the trash so they can get extra entries.
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We had a second chance drawing where I live and the prizes were decent enough that I was considering dumpster diving but the drawing is for my whole state and I also figured someone already is trying that so I decided against it
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I wouldn't go dumpster diving in an actual dumpster.
I would make an acquaintance at the neighborhood store if I saw someone standing at the lottery counter tearing through scratchers.

I don't remember how many entries can be mailed in on a single stamp, but I seem to recall that the usual number of drawing entries multiplied by the price of postage was approximately the value of the second chance drawing prize.

I haven't done any dumpster diving, but I always enter 2nd chance lottery tickets. I have won twice. I got a board game table from the Indiana lottery and won a 4 day stay at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island from the Michigan lottery.

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I haven't done any dumpster diving, but I always enter 2nd chance lottery tickets. I have won twice. I got a board game table from the Indiana lottery and won a 4 day stay at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island from the Michigan lottery.
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I didn't know that the Lottery gives board games for second chance drawings. I assumed it was only cash prizes. 🤔

I don't know if it's true or not, but it's a fun story.

Allegedly, there was a bartender who won $100,000 on a scratcher one day. She was well loved at her bar, so all her patrons would give her all their losing scratchers for the rest of the year. She wrote those off on her taxes to reduce her $100,000 win down to $0.

Scratch tickets are cash only sale, so no way to prove she didn't buy all those tickets.

The scratch off ticket had a Monopoly theme. The prize was a table containing an assortment of board games including Monopoly, chess, checkers, backgammon, etc.

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The scratch off ticket had a Monopoly theme. The prize was a table containing an assortment of board games including Monopoly, chess, checkers, backgammon, etc.
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Hmm. I automatically assumed that the board game you got from the lottery was an actual board game. I didn't know it was a Monopoly Ticket game. 💡

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I don't know if it's true or not, but it's a fun story.

Allegedly, there was a bartender who won $100,000 on a scratcher one day. She was well loved at her bar, so all her patrons would give her all their losing scratchers for the rest of the year. She wrote those off on her taxes to reduce her $100,000 win down to $0.

Scratch tickets are cash only sale, so no way to prove she didn't buy all those tickets.
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You may have just suggested a tax strategy for any gambler with a high tax liability, not just her. Probably risking prosecution if caught.

One of my favorite Lottery scratch off ticket videos is the one where a Woman said something like,"This Lottery ticket is a losing ticket." Lo and behold Number 10 was CLEARLY a winner. It was worth like $100 or something like that. Comments were saying something like,"You won $100 with Number 10!" The Uploader said something like,"How did I NOT see that number 10 was a $100 Winner when I was uploading, LMAO!" 🤭🤣🤔💡

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I don't know if it's true or not, but it's a fun story.

Allegedly, there was a bartender who won $100,000 on a scratcher one day. She was well loved at her bar, so all her patrons would give her all their losing scratchers for the rest of the year. She wrote those off on her taxes to reduce her $100,000 win down to $0.

Scratch tickets are cash only sale, so no way to prove she didn't buy all those tickets.
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You may have just suggested a tax strategy for any gambler with a high tax liability, not just her. Probably risking prosecution if caught.
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I've read about multiple cases over the years where gamblers were caught doing exactly that. Here's one article about it.

One way they catch cheaters on printed tickets is that they're date- and time-stamped, and probably location-stamped. So it would be physically impossible for someone to have purchased tickets in opposite sides of the state at the same time.

In another case, a cheater presented tens of thousands of losing tickets, but somehow in tens of thousands of plays he never had any *winning* tickets.