Many players tend to discard their rolls of losing tickets. Don't be one of them! Many locations often run second-chance lottos. These allow you to send in the old tickets from certain games for a drawing. Avoid any package promotions though.
Retailers tend to repackage old stock comprising of tickets in which the winners have already been paid out. Set your budget for buying the roll of tickets and stick with it. Don't overspend, as you might develop a habit you can't afford.
World View. Buy Smart Typically, scratch-off tickets are sold in different odds, styles and designs. Perhaps the number 17 was repeated three times, and the number 38 was repeated twice.
And a few numbers appeared only once on the entire card. Srivastava's startling insight was that he could separate the winning tickets from the losing tickets by looking at the number of times each of the digits occurred on the tic-tac-toe boards. In other words, he didn't look at the ticket as a sequence of 72 random digits.
Instead, he categorized each number according to its frequency, counting how many times a given number showed up on a given ticket. He realized that the singletons were almost always repeated under the latex coating. If three singletons appeared in a row on one of the eight boards, that ticket was probably a winner. The next day, on his way into work, he stopped at the gas station and bought a few more tickets. Sure enough, all of these tickets contained the telltale pattern. The day after that he picked up even more tickets from different stores.
These were also breakable. After analyzing his results, Srivastava realized that the singleton trick worked about 90 percent of the time, allowing him to pick the winning tickets before they were scratched.
His next thought was utterly predictable: "I remember thinking, I'm gonna be rich! I'm gonna plunder the lottery! However, these grandiose dreams soon gave way to more practical concerns.
That's not bad. But to be honest, I make more as a consultant , and I find consulting to be a lot more interesting than scratch lottery tickets. Instead of secretly plundering the game, he decided to go to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
Srivastava thought its top officials might want to know about his discovery. Who knows, maybe they'd even hire him to give them statistical advice. I'd simply done the math and concluded that beating the game wasn't worth my time. When Srivastava reported his finding, he was referred to Rob Zufelt, a member of the lottery corporation's security team.
After failing to make contact for a few days, he began to get frustrated: Why wasn't Zufelt taking his revelation more seriously? No wonder they didn't want to talk to me. He bought 20 tic-tac-toe tickets and sorted them, unscratched, into piles of winners and losers. Then, he couriered the package to Zufelt along with the following note:.
In the enclosed envelopes, I have sent you two groups of 10 TicTacToe tickets that I purchased from various outlets around Toronto in the past week You go ahead and scratch off the cards. Maybe you can give one batch to your lottery ticket specialist. After you've scratched them off, you should have a pretty solid sense for whether or not there's something fishy here. The package was sent at 10 am. Two hours later, he received a call from Zufelt.
Srivastava had correctly predicted 19 out of the 20 tickets. The next day, the tic-tac-toe game was pulled from stores. The first lottery Mohan Srivastava decoded was a tic-tac-toe game run by the Ontario Lottery in He was able to identify winning tickets with 90 percent accuracy. Here's how it works. You'll be hunting for so-called singletons—numbers on the visible tic-tac-toe grid that appear only once on the whole card. If, for example, a cell has a 26 in it and the number 26 occurs one other time somewhere on the card, mark that cell with a 2.
If any of the singletons appear in a tic-tac-toe then the ticket is almost certainly a winner: The numbers in these cells will appear under the latex coating at the left side of the ticket. Keep the ticket. Scratch off the latex. You've got a winner! Not surprisingly, after Srivastava alerted the Ontario Lottery to his technique, the game was pulled from stores. The official explanation from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is that the tic-tac-toe game suffered from a "design flaw.
The story of the broken game got little public attention. It was, however, cited in a investigative report by the Ontario ombudsman, who was investigating retailer fraud. Srivastava, meanwhile, was becoming even more interested in scratch tickets. What were the odds that I just happened to stumble upon the only breakable game the very first time I played the lottery? Of course, I knew it was possible that every other scratch game was totally secure. I just didn't think it was very likely.
This can be difficult. There are websites that will perform the calculations for you. Helpful 4 Not Helpful 1. Helpful 5 Not Helpful 1. If you buy a ticket with a white line just above or, just below the prefer ration that separates each ticket. More than likely it or the adjoining ticket is a winner i. If you bought a ticket, and at the bottom there was a white line going across it. If that ticket happened to be a loser quickly go in, and purchase the next ticket of that same game.
It's almost guaranteed a winner. However if the line is at the top of your ticket. The winning ticket is either in your hand or it was the previous ticket. Helpful 17 Not Helpful 6. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. Do not play more than you can afford to lose. Helpful Not Helpful While these tips can help and doing some math will help even more , playing scratch offs is gambling and you will still almost always lose more than you win.
Helpful 30 Not Helpful Related wikiHows How to. How to. Co-authors: Updated: May 17, Categories: Lotteries and Scratchcard Games. Article Summary X Before buying your scratch-off tickets, compare the odds listed on the back of the tickets and buy the ones that have the highest odds of wining. Deutsch: Rubbellose gewinnen. Nederlands: Meer winnen met krasloten. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 3,, times.
He humored me, but he would chuckle a little bit. We don't play that often, but 12 years and significantly more winnings than him, it's most excellent to see my theories published online!
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