Originally Posted by elchivito

What am I missing here? So the guy can look at a handful of scratch tickets and predict which ones are winners and which ones aren't. Where's the practicality? When you go to buy a scratch ticket in AZ at least, it comes off a roll of tickets. You don't get to sort through a bunch of them and decide which ones you want. If you buy, say, five one dollar tickets and can see that two of them are winners, whoopee! You're going to find out they're winners when you scratch them anyhow. It's interesting math, but doesn't have much practical use other than maybe as a cool trick for amusing people at parties. I play Powerball, and am neither poor nor uneducated. 4 dollars a month seems like a pretty cheap chance at a lot of money, in spite of the astronomical odds. Somebody wins eventually and it won't be me if I didn't buy a ticket, that much is for sure. Nothing else is.