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>>58322590

Look at the odds on the back and you tell me.

>>58322590
Here where I live some cafes sell these, and there's always old people buying five of these at a time and scratching them there. We call them "poor tax", because it's basically just another way to siphon money from poor people.

Are you stupid?

>be gas station clerk
>Scan the back of lottery tickets and put back the losers
>Keep the winners
>Put the equivalent amount of the ticket in the till
I'm guessing this happens everywhere

>>58322870
This reminds of last Christmas I was in some jeet gas station buying lotto tickets at stocking stuffers, and they had boxes and boxes and boxes of tickets just sitting in the aisle. I often regret not grabbing one and leaving, I don't think the 50 year old guy would have even noticed.

>>58322870
Not sure if it’s like this everywhere, but I live in a state full of degenerate poor people that love playing the lotto. Because of that it’s actually pretty strict. My state government knows exactly where and when tickets are scanned/redeemed. So if a clerk was just scanning them all when they came in then they would get caught quickly and be punished severely.

>>58322929
As long as you aren't greedy I'm sure you could get away with a ticket or two a day
Also in my state lottery tickets are cash only

>>58322870
>>58322900
You’re both retarded. Lottery tickets have to get “activated” from an official lottery terminal in order to prevent theft like this. Simply having a winning scratch ticket that hasn’t been activated and without a receipt is basically worthless. Did you really think that the lottery industry raking in billions of dollars each year hasn’t put in even the most basic of safeguards to prevent employee and customer theft?

>>58322974
I've bought scratch offs before, they don't scan the tickets before they give it to you they just take your money and tear one of the roll

>>58322971
You really couldn’t, I promise you. That shit is tracked meticulously. Plus an attendant isn’t going to know which ones are big winners. So it’s an insane risk for potentially nothing. It is a straight to jail do not pass go offense.

>>58323008
The book is activated before the tickets are placed for sale

>>58322870
Not possible, scanning the back still requires the 3 pin number that is revealed from scratching the front. Go get your comedy routine from more 1990s episodes of simpsons nigger (the one where apu hires co workers)

>>58322714
1 in 4...sounds ok to me
>>58322767
dude sick

>>58322590
not if you just like the satisfaction of scratching them, just dont expect to win anything

>>58322590
Even the high price $100 scratchers have odds at 1:3 cash win

Yes it’s a scam but nuggets love them!

>>58324042
1 in 4 for any win. It doesn't tell you that there's 6 gorillion [break even] payouts and only 10 payouts above 1k
Unironically better off at a slots machine imo. Both terrible odds but at least slots make noise and flash lights

Imagine you see a shitcoin shilled here but the catch is a 1 in 4 chance to break even, most of those 1 in 4's would break even at best. Maybe 10% of those would double your investment. Then there's that one faggot that was one of 5 friends of the creator. That's scratch tickets

>>58322870
They fixed this years ago retard

>>58324373
This
>>58323571
They made it so scanning the back requires the 3 or 4 (varies by game) code that is part revealed from scratching the bottom of a game. The circled numbers are what you want

So I mean technically you could do it and just brute force 3 number combinations, but again 1 in 4 odds kek

Picrel is a shit example. They are never sequential numbers

>>58322870
>>58322900
Some pajeet did this in America there is YouTube video about him he ran a gas station started buying the tickets than started just stealing (not paying for em) and scratching them he had 4 or 5 big tubs still in his house I scratched

Yes just like investing in 2024s whateveryoucallit casino

>>58322974
>>58323554
>You’re both retarded. Lottery tickets have to get “activated” from an official lottery terminal in order to prevent theft like this. Simply having a winning scratch ticket that hasn’t been activated and without a receipt is basically worthless

Yeah this was the case when I worked at a place that sold them even in 2000. The "stack" had to be entered into the system before they were even active.

>>58322870
Once again even in 2000 you needed the digits / code underneath the scratch off portion to validate / check for a winner. Same as it is now

>>58322590
There’s a reason that you’ll never see a man in a suit buying a lottery ticket

>>58322590
If you buy them for entertainment, then no. If those are your retirement plans, then I've got bad news for you, man.

>>58322870
>>58322900
Knew some guys that robbed small town gas station
Stole booze and scratch tickets a long with the register
They won $300 on a ticket
They went to cash it at the same store they robbed
You can guess what happened next

Pretty much
The games with an instant results are the more addictive.
I see on daily basis people obsessed with this shit, spending 100s in a few minutes, and doing the same shit the next day.

I pay my retard tax with the lottery, i buy my ticket and daydream for a few days

>>58324042
Just play roulette. Bet on red, black is for nigs.