Scratchcards

pragmatic1

Has anyone here ever won big money on them. I havent won more than a tenner on them and dont know anyone who has. Are they just a big scam?

LH Pathe

No, no... It's just a big scam. Selective printing. Portion control

sarahbro

I think so. Work in a supermarket with a lotto desk and the most money I've ever given out was €25. Never seen any higher than that

saywhatyousee

I won 50 once.My Grandad won 250 about 4 or 5 years ago at Christmas.That is the biggest i ever heard anyone winning.

LH Pathe

You'll win a whole lot of tenners, if even. Few fifties

Sauve

All I ever got from a scratchcard was a dirty fingernail and a crushed dream....

MrStuffins

Scrathcards are a load of my arse! The idea behind it really boggles my mind. Why do people do it!

Also, you always hear "Well won €50 on one once so you DO win money on them".

Er... yeah. But that makes you the kind of person who buys scratchcards, so you've obviously spent over €50 on them on the past. You've actually lost money!

minidazzler

They are just a stealth tax on people who are bad at math.

My mam has won 250 on it a couple of times though.

BeerDrinker

I would agree with 'Portion control' above being the best answer to describe them.

I have heard legally they are meant to produce 'X' amount of prizes for 'X' amount of cards sold whilst obviously allowing a profit. But being honest I dont hold much faith in them following the rules.


Simple answer is: maths game. you print up 50,000 tickets at a cost of €1 each. But the total amount of prizes amounts to, say €20,000. Profit city.

dxhound2005

That TV thing with Marty Whelan is fake. I never heard of any real person going on it.

AnonoBoy

I won 10 grand off one once.

MrStuffins

"1 in 8 of these cards reveals a prize"


Oh look, I bought the 1 winner of the 8. Let's see what I won..........


A free scratchcard :rolleyes:

saywhatyousee

MrStuffins wrote: »

"1 in 8 of these cards reveals a prize"


Oh look, I bought the 1 winner of the 8. Let's see what I won..........


A free scratchcard :rolleyes:

It actually say's "Cash prize"

LH Pathe

Why are you happy at having won a tenner at your eleventh attempt, nan.

That kind of thing

pragmatic1

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I won 10 grand off one once.

You did my bollix.

MrStuffins

saywhatyousee wrote: »

It actually say's "Cash prize"

I wouldn't know having never been stupid enough to throw my money away on one!

Access

Worked in a supermarket during summer hols in late 90s... was covering the till when a local woman came in and asked for fags and two scratch cards, paid and headed off... she ran into the shop about 3/4 mins later and ran over to me and nearly hopped over the counter to hug me...

I didnt know what was going on... but she was in floods of tears and showed me that she had won 10,000 (pounds/punts) on one of the cards!

I and the rest of the staff remember being chuffed at the time cause she was a regular customer who always looked like she was down on her luck.

Chuck Stone

You're losing the minute you buy one.

Play poker instead.

Aenaes

My father won 500 pounds/euros about 10 years ago. The shopkeeper looked at him as if he had 2 heads. Went to Dublin to collect the money, big rigmarole checking the ticket etc.
Convinced us it was a rare occurence to ever win so we stopped buying them.

On a side note, ever notice how it's always the miserable feckers who always buy them?

LH Pathe

busted into a shop when young well actually another guy did, upstairs was a squat n he tore up the floor n it was out of order

But we sat in the park after, must have scratchd hudreds of those things n won very little. In fact we got bored n deemed em most useless of all the plunder, left sheets of em - that's potential money regardless particularly when that young but after what we'd been through we forsaw not much.

MrStuffins

LH Pathe wrote: »

busted into a shop when young well actually another guy did, upstairs was a squat n he tore up the floor n it was out of order

But we sat in the park after, must have scratchd hudreds of those things n won very little. In fact we got bored n deemed em most useless of all the plunder, left sheets of em - that's potential money regardless particularly when that young but after what we'd been through we forsaw not much.

Yeah, it's happened to us all!

_AVALANCHE_

I have personally seen a €25,000 winning ticket.

It wasn't mine.:(:(:rolleyes:

Silly bitch had nothing to show for it when it was gone.

Purple Lemons

Neighbour won 25k on a bingo scratch card, lucky bitch also appeared on winning streak and won a fair few bob on that

I buy a bingo card every payday and win most weeks, it could be 5, 10 or as little as 4 quid but won 100 once

LH Pathe

MrStuffins wrote: »

Yeah, it's happened to us all!

well it very much happened to me I was the real victim under the influence of that.. sheepskin bombered beatnik n the shopkeeper folded after that. think he was just dismayed by breach of trust

but it's a good example you'd be lucky to win anything on those n obviously the more, the luckier

MickySticks

Scratchcards, a fools lottery.

AnonoBoy

MickySticks wrote: »

Scratchcards, a fools lottery.

Eh.... the lottery is a fool's lottery isn't it?

MickySticks

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Eh.... the lottery is a fool's lottery isn't it?

Is it? I don't know, I'm stupid sure. I buy 10 scratchcards a day.

AgileMyth

A cousin of mine has one 2000 and 5000 on separate occasions from scratchcards.

Lapin

A cousin of mine loves Joe Dolan.

Akrasia

I won a BMW z3 on one of those free scratchcards that fall out of the Sunday world. Honest! No wait, Actually they were just lying

TeddyTedson

I've only ever bought one and I won 20quid on it so left it at that. An all cash.

44leto

I never buy them, but I did win 25Euro on a birthday one. But till I seen this thread I never heard of anyone winning decent on them.

I regard them and the lotto as a tax on the stupid.

cosanostra

Won €1000 on a €1 scratchcard which i bought after winning €5 with 3 no on the lotto, It was my 1st and only time doing the lotto.

The National lottery is a scam by the Government so they can go out to Sports fields etc and get their photos taken as if they gave the money personally, then the community will go out in droves to vote for that politician telling everyone how wonderful he/she is

Raditub

ten pounds i think..haha deffo spent more on them like! But sher its a bit of fun! I enjoy em! :P

44leto

cosanostra wrote: »

Won €1000 on a €1 scratchcard which i bought after winning €5 with 3 no on the lotto, It was my 1st and only time doing the lotto.

The National lottery is a scam by the Government so they can go out to Sports fields etc and get their photos taken as if they gave the money personally, then the community will go out in droves to vote for that politician telling everyone how wonderful he/she is

And there you have it, succinctly put, great post.

Joe10000

Won 25 last week with the card I got from getting 3 numbers in the bonus lotto draw.