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We’ve been studying the secrets behind the Virginia Lottery Scratcher system to really understand the ways the Average Joe can maximize his chances. Here’s some tips you should remember before you buy any lottery scratcher: 1. Check the scratcher prize odds first. Many don’t realize it but the Virginia Lottery commission posts all the odds …

The excitement of scratching off a ticket to reveal if you’re a winner is a thrill many enjoy. Besides the immediate gratification of revealing a prize, each scratcher ticket contains something less visible but equally important: a validation code. In this article, we delve into what validation codes are, how they work, and why they …

ScratcherStats.com aims to provide lottery enthusiasts and scratcher players with the data tools to make the best choices when standing at the convenience store counter. And you can get this data on remaining prizes for many US states in the same place! Sure, you can look at the data on the official lottery commission websites, …

We’ve been studying the secrets behind the California Lottery Scratcher system to really understand the ways the Average Joe can maximize his chances. Here’s some tips you should remember before you buy any lottery scratcher: 1. Check the scratcher prize odds first. Many don’t realize it but the California Lottery commission posts all the odds …

Would it be a good strategy to buy lottery scratchers when there are no top prizes remaining? Once the top prize is gone, the odds of winning it will be zero. Many state lotteries allow games to continue even if no one has a chance to win the top prize. But maybe the game offers …

We’ve been studying the secrets behind the Arizona Lottery Scratcher system to really understand the ways the Average Joe can maximize his chances. Here’s some tips you should remember before you buy any lottery scratcher: 1. Check the scratcher prize odds first. Many don’t realize it but the Arizona Lottery commission posts all the odds …

In 2014, the Georgia Lottery Commission issued 270 denial letters to winners of $1,000 or more in the previous four years. Among those who the Commission issued these letters, 63 percent were people of Indian, Asian or Hispanic descent. People with the common last name Patel made up 23 percent of the denial letters as …

There’s a dirty secret behind lottery scratchers: for some of those scratchoff tickets you see behind the counter, the top prize is already missing from the number of remaining tickets in circulation. The Virginia Lottery does post the number of remaining tickets and the odds of winning prizes on its website. That information is crucial …

If you win money with lottery scratchers, make sure you can keep as much of your earnings as possible. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allows you to claim gambling losses as a deduction on your tax return. And any losing tickets prove that you had losses to claim. So keep those losers in an envelope …

You ever see these videos where some guy buys a whole roll of lottery scratchers and films himself scratching them off one by one? The logic seems natural – buying a whole roll has to return some big winners, right? But take a look at the odds of any scratcher: even if you had $4,000 …

A Test for Maximal Winnings What’s the ideal number of tickets to buy? This question has vexed me for years. There must be a number that maximizes potential returns from scratcher prizes that also limits losses. That number could even allow you to propel your occasional prize winnings forward to more scratchers.  Buying too many …

For a long time this website only offered data for lottery scratchers tickets in Virginia. It’s where we live, it’s where we tested out our math. Now, we’ve added tools for you to explore the best scratchers odds in California! Here you can find California scratchers ranked by the best probability of winning a prize, …

Start of an Obsession with Lottery Scratch-offs The lottery is a fool’s errand. Everyone knows that, right? Still, every now and then I would buy a lottery scratcher ticket at the counter. There’s a joy in scratching off each section of the game, revealing the possible prize to meet the hope in your heart. Then …

Whenever the lottery releases new scratchers, people buy the new scratch-off games on the blind faith that the newer the game the better the chances to getting the remaining prizes before they’re claimed. But is buying new scratchers really the best strategy?  We took a look at the data, and the answer is: Not really. …

For a long time this website only offered data for lottery scratchers tickets in Virginia. It’s where we live, it’s where we tested out our math. Now, we’ve added tools for you to explore the best scratchers odds in North Carolina. Here you can find North Carolina scratch-offs ranked by the best probability of winning …