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Have you ever won much on a scratch card

  • 16-06-2013 11:32PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭


    Bought one today for the laugh.got a free ticket...then i got 4quid.I went for two more and got 8 quid

    Should have banked it but went to another shop for 4 more and my luck ran out

    I got greedy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    I bought 2 €2 ones and won €25 and €4.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭FreshKnickers


    No.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Most I've won is €25 on a single card.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    £50 in old money in the mid 90's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭johnayo


    I got 3 stars once.:mad:


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Myself and a mate bought 40 tickets one day for the craic....won feck all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭Captain Slow IRL


    €25 was the most.

    I was in the Dr.'s surgery waiting room one day when a woman there scratched one and nearly **** herself when she won €500.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭mewe


    I think 8 quid was the most i've ever won. Heard somewhere before that people who are addicted to scratch cards get their buzz from the anticipation when scratching not the actual winning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    Found a tenner before walking to the shop when I was broke so bought two €1 tickets won €2 on one and €25 on the other :) happy days!


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


    No.

    I hate scratch cards how they tease you with 2 €10,000 reveals on the first line. Getting your hopes up nice and early.


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9905/27/fringe/australia.luckiest.man/
    Australian truck driver Bill Morgan's extraordinary string of luck began, strangely enough, when he was crushed in a truck accident and suffered a fatal heart attack.

    Clinically dead for more than 14 minutes, Morgan was revived. After 12 days in a coma -- during which time his family was advised to unplug life support -- he awoke with all of his facilities intact. A year after his heart stopped, he proposed to his girlfriend, Lisa Wells. She said yes.

    And then two weeks ago, he bought a scratch-off lottery ticket and won a car worth $17,000. A Melbourne TV station was so impressed with his run of luck, it decided to do a story on Morgan and re-enact his scratching of the ticket.

    As the cameras rolled, Wells won a jackpot worth $170,000 (250,000 Australia dollars). He plans to use the money to buy a house for his bride.

    After such extraordinary luck, Morgan is giving up the scratch cards. He says his only wish now is for continuing health and happiness, a sentiment Wells shares.

    "I just hope he hasn't used all his good luck up," she said.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Garzard


    The most I've ever won was €4, when I should have won €500. That's what I despise about them - they can promise you hundreds if not thousands, then snatch it away as soon as you scratch away the last of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭willah


    €25 on all cash gold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭mossy2390


    Friend won €20,000 once, got the scratchcard in a good luck card for his leaving cert.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭Jumboman


    Gambling is a mugs game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    €25 twice last week on the new €10 cards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭racso1975


    25 a couple of times. that was the most


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭SniperSight


    Won €5,000 on a €1 All Cash a few years back....that was a good lunch break!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    The most i won on a €3 scratch-card was €25


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭baboo800


    €25 was the most.

    I was in the Dr.'s surgery waiting room one day when a woman there scratched one and nearly **** herself when she won €500.

    She wasn't going to see the doctor with constipation anyway


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭ilovebiology


    Specialun wrote: »
    Bought one today for the laugh.got a free ticket...then i got 4quid.I went for two more and got 8 quid

    Should have banked it but went to another shop for 4 more and my luck ran out

    I got greedy

    I once won E25 on a scratch card. I also won a High Court case though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,005 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Scratchcards are just another way of taxing the poor


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I 'won' a few hundred by never buying them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    some people are such spoilsports...just hate to see people having fun...most ive ever won was 500 but id usually buy a good few...if yer in a shop buying something and it comes to around 7-8 euro make it up to the tenner with scratchcards :D
    also, today got the aul lad a one of the new tenner scratchards to add some weight to the aul fathers day card...fecker pulled 5000 out of it...


  • Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    25 on a 2euro all cash.

    The lowest form of gambling


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,076 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    One day a few years ago; I was one amount away of winning either €10k or €100k after buying a Winning Streak Scratch Card from my local filling station.

    But I than won about €8 on it for that day, not a cent more. My heart was racing like mad though.

    The only ones I would win money are the Winning Streak cards. The rest are fit for the bin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭Bench Press


    €25 myself, cousin won £1000 in old money years ago


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Has anyone ever won anything on the non-Lotto ones I wonder? The ones they sell outside supermarkets for charity.


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


    €50 last year. I very rarely buy them, maybe one every few months, so it was a nice surprise. :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    I got 21 scratchcards for my 21st birthday

    I wont nothing, not even a free.


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