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Success rate on scratch cards-lets test it AH

  • 06-06-2014 11:20pm
    #1
    Specialun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭


    Was chatting to a mate today about the success rate vs luck on all cash E1 scratch cards

    I says lets say we test how many winners we can get

    I purpose we invest E2 for two all cash scratch cards and lets see who wins and test the ratio

    Just the two quid for whoever wants to do it..( obviously your paying for your own cards)

    So AH s what you think of it

    P.s mods if not happy with thread feel free to delete..just an mad idea by me

    If your in lets do it in the morning..


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  • #2
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Scratching them before you buy them is the trick.


  • #3
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    Why test it when the percentage of winning cards is already published?


  • #4
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Not buying them at all is the trick.


  • #5
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    I've just won €5000, twice. Thanks OP, this should be in Bargain Alerts.


  • #6
    robertxxx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭robertxxx


    I just 5 €2 scratch cards today for a present, one had €4 on it.
    I've never heard of anymore than €25 being won.


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  • #7
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    Why test it when the percentage of winning cards is already published?

    fivers and free cards dont count ;)


  • #8
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    robertxxx wrote: »
    I just 5 €2 scratch cards today for a present, one had €4 on it.
    I've never heard of anymore than €25 being won.

    See my post above.


  • #9
    Tardful Slakerly
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Tardful Slakerly


    A scratch card is the most depressing commodity in the world.


  • #10
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Tardful Slakerly wrote: »
    A scratch card is the most depressing commodity in the world.

    Wrong, those small one person tins of beans is. :D


  • #11
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Tardful Slakerly wrote: »
    A scratch card is the most depressing commodity in the world.

    Yep. Anything where the company has control over how much they're going to allow the buyers to win and how often is a waste of money. Just like gambling machines.


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  • #12
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Would they not need to be purchased in one location to fully test the theory? How would we know if a winning card was bought before or after ours?


  • #13
    Specialun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    Why test it when the percentage of winning cards is already published?


    Dont be a moaning michael


  • #14
    Specialun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Would they not need to be purchased in one location to fully test the theory? How would we know if a winning card was bought before or after ours?


    Thats too much thinking there man..i just say we invest two quid, buy from wherever and just see if AH is lucky


  • #15
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Would they not need to be purchased in one location to fully test the theory? How would we know if a winning card was bought before or after ours?

    I will answer all of your questions if you let me do the scratchy.


  • #16
    Tardful Slakerly
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Tardful Slakerly


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    Wrong, those small one person tins of beans is. :D

    In fairness you can eat them, and they're a good size for pegging at people (is something that always enters my mind when I see them). :D


  • #17
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    keith16 wrote: »
    I will answer all of your questions if you let me do the scratchy.
    I'll collect the money, you do the scratchy. We tell everyone we won €2 and a free ticket. :cool:


  • #18
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Havant done one for years but once did 500 (punt) twice in the same year without scratching that many. I was a student and working in a garage that sold them so used to steal a few from time to time.


  • #19
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Why pay to scratch a card when I've got a perfectly itchy taint for free.


  • #20
    donegal__road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭donegal__road


    €10 a couple of times and that is since 1990 odd..


  • #21
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    I'll collect the money, you do the scratchy. We tell everyone we won €2 and a free ticket. :cool:

    A free ticket out of this thread baby :cool:


    Sorry for saying "baby"


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  • #22
    Dont call me Shirley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Dont call me Shirley


    I'm reliably informed that Rehab are very successful with their scratch cards. ;)


  • #23
    Aphex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    Don't know about All Cash, but the Aussie scratch cards seem to be generous enough! (the annoying sound goes away after 15 seconds or so)



  • #24
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,026 ✭✭✭Wossack


    Aphex wrote: »
    Don't know about All Cash, but the Aussie scratch cards seem to be generous enough! (the annoying sound goes away after 15 seconds or so)

    Lies! The austrialian accent is throughout the clip


  • #25
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    I actually bought two today. Won two euro :)


  • #26
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Used the two euro i won to get two more this morning. Won 2 euro on each one.

    Total profit of 2 euro. Rolling in it :D


  • #27
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    A guy came to my house one night selling scratch cards, I scratched off three hurling sticks and got the shıte knocked out of me.


  • #28
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    €50. I don't buy them very often so it was a lovely surprise :)


  • #29
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    How long have you been working for the Lottery op?


  • #30
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    A friend. Of mine bloke I know , let's call him Scorebag one night decided to rob a newsagent with his girlfriend let's call her Syringe , can you get where I'm going with the names ? ..... Anyway the take from the job was about 53 Euros and bout 200 scratch cards .
    The two of them scratched away in their lovenest and out of two hundred cards they won about 40 Euros .

    When he went to cash the cards in the shop he robbed them from , the newsagent rang the Gardai who arrived mob handed for the crime of the century and after a brief punch up he was dragged off , the Gardai told him that the serial numbers of the cards allowed them all to recognised as being robbed.

    The profit for him was 18 months accommodation with full board in the MountjoyHilton , his girlfriend got 5 months in the Ladyjoy.


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  • #31
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    corner of hells wrote: »
    A friend. Of mine bloke I know , let's call him Scorebag one night decided to rob a newsagent with his girlfriend let's call her Syringe , can you get where I'm going with the names ? ..... Anyway the take from the job was about 53 Euros and bout 200 scratch cards .
    The two of them scratched away in their lovenest and out of two hundred cards they won about 40 Euros .

    When he went to cash the cards in the shop he robbed them from , the newsagent rang the Gardai who arrived mob handed for the crime of the century and after a brief punch up he was dragged off , the Gardai told him that the serial numbers of the cards allowed them all to recognised as being robbed.

    The profit for him was 18 months accommodation with full board in the MountjoyHilton , his girlfriend got 5 months in the Ladyjoy.


    What a fcuking pair of donuts.

    Of course they'd have serial numbers, but attempting to cash in forty euros worth from the very place you robbed them..........

    Noobs. :D


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