First scratch off I ever bought was $1 and I won $600 🙂

My mom totally gets this, except, we were buying $20 tickets, my mom hit a 10X for $200, I bought a couple more of them against her advice but I got SUPER LUCKY and hit for $1000. Highly unlikely but it does happen!

Figure it’s worth mentioning- if you ask them, the claim center will make you a copy of your winning ticket for you to keep. Thanks for the great vid!

This is the most informative upload for scratchers on KZfaq. Thanks!

I just bought a $20 ticket and a $5 ticket ($5 ticket I won $10 and the $20 I won $400) - $410 in total for PA lottery

Watched vid Went to gas station spent 10$ won 500$ thanks m8

Ok, I just have to say THANK YOU for making this understandable with the cards! Very very helpful 👏🏾

TX gives a lot more information than some other states, which I'm jealous of. I think it's also important to know what the overall payout of a ticket is. There are also tickets where the prize structure suits different types of players: high risk (where more money is allocated to the top prizes) and lower risk (where more money is allocated to the lower and mid tier prizes). I think states hide those figures from players so that we will play in ignorance (which allows the state to offer tickets with lower and lower payouts). I'm a GA player, and I take the limited information they give us, break down the numbers, and post videos so that folks can play smart and pick tickets that are right for their style of play.

Awesome video. It's about time one of you professionals put something like this out.👍

That was very interesting, ;)) tyvm for sharing info! We don't have odds on back tickets, well not on the 1,2,3,4,5,10.. I've not looked on a 50,or100. So it's lucky dip for us lol.. xxx So glad I watched this xxx

I'm new to playing scratchers. This video is very helpful. TFS

One more tip I would like to add is, " Get to know your store clerk". Don't be hesitant to ask if someone recently bought a big winner from a ticket you want to purchase. Or take a peek in the trash for multiple losing tickets. A clerk told me, someone lost on 6 straight Winner's Circle tickets and left the last one behind. Clerk suggested I buy it. It was a $1000 winner!!

Absolutely correct.."randomness"

This was a 2X the charm session!😊 "Congratulations!"👍👍👍

my friend just won 10,000 on a scratch off

Great information, you explained that well! Thank w!

Great video! That's how I play to just randomly. Chasing rarely pays off

Thank you for sharing this helped a lot. I have a much better understanding.

Thank you, very well done explaining the odds. Love your videos. Have a blessed day and good luck. 🍀

Informative and explained well! Thanks!

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I’m going to have to watch this at least 3x to understand 😩

Thank you for helping us with this information. I really appreciate the knowledge.

Thank You For This Video, I've Learned Something New Today!!😊

I like how you did the deck of cards to show how they can be spread out,and the courtesy booth at the grocery store is a good place to cash tickets over $100(up to $599) without any problems!

Very informative, thanks for the information continue on with you're excellent Analytics.

Great! Thanks for explaining so great.

Thanks for this video! It really helped me with the way the odds are broke down. I own 500$ on a 3$ ticket before but that’s the most I have done.

Great information now it's time to go get the claimers 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for the great tips. I now ask the clerk what number ticket is on the roll. I have won so much more money now playing tickets that are on a new pack. Example : I asked the clerk on a $10 ticket which number it was on and she said 1. I asked her for the next ticket, it was 2. So obviously it was starting from the beginning of the pack. Bought 10 cards, 3rd card in I hit it for $100 followed by 60 and 20. Easy $80 profit just by odds being in my favor. Thanks a lot

Great explanation, I have more understanding of the odds!🙌🏾

Wow...this is and awesome video....thanks for sharing 😍

Great video FTS! Congrats! 😸

Okay I found I learned a lot from that video thank you for for having that video taught me a lot

That was crazy you had the $30 card on number 23 and then that was the winning number! What are the odds lol 👍🏻👍🏻

Great video. Thanks for the info

Great video, very informative.

Thank you Matt for this info

Thank you for the information. You are right the more tickets play increase your win. A person will win on increase prize tickets.

ok... I got it. Now I understand some "unusual" things like 10 losers in a row and 4 wins out of 5. This make sense.

Thank you for the info. Good to know. I never new how ot work.

This was so helpful! Thank you!!!!

This was very helpful info. Thank you!👍

I live in the northeast near New Jersey and the store limit up to $ 2,500 anything more than that we have to go to the claims office

Great video. In Portugal the odds are completely different. 1 in 6,4 have prize, but if the scratch card is 5 eur you win 5 eur and that’s it. They should learn with the USA 🇺🇸. Great explanation. I just love your videos. Portuguese hugs.

Thanks for sharing 💕

thanks FTC great info.

Thanks for the info☘

Wow thank you for sharing 😊😊😊👍👍

Thank You sooooo much I learn a lot from you thanks.

Great video. Very much enjoyed that..I’ll try to incorporate some of those tips when I’m shopping for tickets for my videos‼️ trust me I need the tips 🤣😭

Nice win and good info! People tend to rely on what the back of the ticket says and don't realize what that actually means. Have a good one Matt!

Great info !!!

Love the channel! Are you a magician? I only have ever seen other magicians with a blank face deck :)

Great video!

Matt, I'm going to add a couple of items to your info (very accurate and well-presented, by the way)... 1. In most states, you can mail, or take, winners of ANY amount to a lottery claim center for payment. If you mail the tickets for payment, allow approximately 2 weeks for processing and shipment of your check. (You can also use this method if you buy tickets while traveling through another state -- allow 3 weeks for processing and shipment.) 2. Some states (like my Colorado) will allow you to redeem smaller winning tickets (e.g. $50 or under) through lottery vending machines -- however, you can only use that money to purchase additional lottery tickets; no cash back is given. 3. You did not discuss the subject of second-chance drawings. A game's second-chance drawing(s) could provide enough value to make it a better play than another game with similar or marginally better analytics. Of course, this requires even more mathematical analysis of the value of the prize(s) being offered in the drawing(s); i.e. computing the "expected value" of the second-chance prize(s) and adding it to the "guaranteed/expected value" of a ticket in the game, then comparing as normal. The bottom line is a second-chance drawing can add a reason to play one game over another. Still, this video should be required viewing for any scratch ticket player anywhere. Well done.

I always buy new tickets and always buy 6 this strategy has won me a lot just today hit for 300

Nice break down on tickets.... Do you play pick 3? I win sometimes but love to win once or twice a week 😆.....

Great info 👍 thanks for sharing FTS 😀👍✌

Thank you for explaining still was a little confusing but think I get it for the most part lol

Such a great watch! Thank you! So if I have $20 to spend on tickets do you think I should buy 4 different tickets or 4 of the same in the roll?

I buy the low tickets first I use the money on the low tickets I win on to buy the high-dollar tickets 51 little over $500 just from the 1 2 3 dollar tickets this year I started to buy $5 tickets I won around sixty bucks on the five dollar tickets I was mostly winning 10 to $20 dollars , I would go to different stores pile up the money , on a $2 weekly grand I won $40 , I would win 10 to $20 on a $1 tickets switch strategy is keep piling up your money and keep buying I play everyday I win one there three times every day

Makes you see it a little different thanks for the video

Interesting! Can't argue with Math! Many would benefit from watching this!

Michigan does not break the tickets down like this. We only see beginning amounts and balance of what that ticket starts at and it is updated every day as the winning tickets are cashed in. It would be great if it was like Texas.

Hi if I chase on $5 tickets starting at 0, do you recommend this to be a good strategy To go till I get a win? 😊 great video.

Thanks for explaining this

100% correct I've seen and experienced in NY going almost 15 $25 tickets in a row with no win but at the same time I've had $1000 $100 $50 $10 b2b2b2b before it's all timing where they are placed you'll never know

great explanation ..

I sold a $100,000 ..the winner came back and gave me 5k..he was sooo happy..lol

Thanks for sharing, nice 👍🤑

Nice have a bless day brother

Some like the beginning of the books and leave the last tickets ive seen on the the site jackpots on the last ticket in the roll i always check the trash can to see if any is chasing then i buy in 4

Another thing people don't talk about.. Sometimes the cashier gives you the wrong ticket for a reason. Some of my better wins have been on tickets I didn't even ask for.

Thanks for sharing

whats better, buy a ticket from the dispenser machine or from gas station cashier?

Oh n Nice Win on ya LUCKY #23 ;)))

great video thanks

Wow how awesome u brakd down th odds,thnx

This is the strategy I use. Kentucky has a $50 Ticket with the guaranteed top prize being either $100, $300, or $500. I got the $100 in the first third of one roll and stopped playing. A few days later I went in and the 2 cashiers looked at each other and one said, "are you going to tell him?" Right away I had an idea a Big Winner had been hit since $10000 was being hit all over the state. I said, "Did someone get the $10000?" They said, "No, $50000" and proceeded to show me the picture of it. 😂

Good information

Nice win, and great info!

Best video on the subject 🙏🏽

Good video very informative I buy 4 or more from the same roll I've won $40 on one ticket and $100 on another so according to your odd in video that roll has no big winner left?

How can i get that chart for the odds in 1? It only shows the odds per amount of people

If I want to buy a particular ticket, how do I find it? Is there a way to find where they are sold or do I have to go searching for it; gas station, to gas station?

I always check the website. I also like playing games that are closing that sold already most of the tickets and with some descent winners left.

Very. Good. Thank. You😀

In kingsville pineville Louisiana on may 9 i went to circle k to cash 26 in tickets one being a 20 dollar win when the clerk came back after scanning she say i have 6 dollars she took 20 ticket and said i didnt give her 20 ticket she was calm when i asked about ticket she has done this before and im sure she will keep doing it

Nice information

how come i dont see scratchers in shrink wrap in california?

Do the lottery ppl randomly distribute the big winning tickets to cities /towns or do you think they know and choose the areas the tickets are in?

Great Video

I lost $20 in that 1st scratch off ticket. Texas is so stingy when it comes to giving out money

So if none of the top prizes have been won...why would low traffic vendors make a difference if statistically the odds of winning are the same? 🤔

This is the video I've been looking for. Why are scratch off games so difficult. Do you play those crossword puzzle games. I always see those thrown around the city🗽

Your are so nice..thank you.. For sharing

Great vid

very nice vid matt congrats on 1000$ win

So if there is one empty, and if i ask them if they can replace that one, and they replace with with a brand new roll, and i basically buy the whole roll, there is a jackpot winning in the rolls too?