Yay !! Finally a scratch card winner !!

easyeason3 · 08-09-2010 10:38AM

Does anyone else think the OP may be in cahoots with the National Lottery to boost sales of scratch cards?

They give him a grand to tell us about his 'windfall' & we all go out to buy scratch cards. I've never wanted to buy a scratch card as much in my life after reading this thread.

/ gets coat & heads to the nearest Lotto agent.

Saruman · 08-09-2010 11:03AM

easyeason3 wrote: »

/ gets coat & heads to the nearest Lotto agent.

Don't forget the sticky notes....

Jesus Wept · 08-09-2010 11:26AM

Beginners luck.

four18 · 08-09-2010 11:39AM

easyeason3 wrote: »

Does anyone else think the OP may be in cahoots with the National Lottery to boost sales of scratch cards?

They give him a grand to tell us about his 'windfall' & we all go out to buy scratch cards. I've never wanted to buy a scratch card as much in my life after reading this thread.

/ gets coat & heads to the nearest Lotto agent.

:D

Copper23 · 08-09-2010 06:44PM

Fuzzy wrote: »

Lol, there is a trick to winning?
And here I was thinking that this was just another way of taxing the lower class.

lol, the trick to winning money is to spend more.. lol... this place just gets better by the minute...

PeterIanStaker · 08-09-2010 06:55PM

Congrats, I've only ever got €4 at most.

phasers · 08-09-2010 06:58PM

Most I've ever won is €50, congratulations OP

BigBenRoeth · 08-09-2010 06:58PM

SniperSight wrote: »

Last year, bought a €1 ticket from the shop I work in on my break. €5,000, very happy days!!!

Bullshít

Denisejcc · 08-09-2010 06:59PM

Cool

Congrats! Its years since Ive won anthing and €50 was the most I won.. must start buying them again now that I know there are actually winning tickets out there:rolleyes:

Presume you dont work for the National Lottery and this is a cunning ploy to get us buying scratch cards;);):D

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 08-09-2010 07:36PM

I win €1,000 every time I decide not to buy 500 scratch cards... guaranteed.

candlelover wrote: »

Trick is go for the €3 ones aka bingo/crossword...etc they have a 1 in3.9 odds where the €1/2 ones have a 1 in 7!

Odds of what though? Winning €2 or getting a free scratch-card? The odds seem like a useless number if that's the case.

silverspoon · 08-09-2010 07:59PM

D-Generate wrote: »

I was on my way to a friend/acquaintance's 21st before and was a bit late in buying the present. I had budgeted €20 as a present to give to him but it was pissing rain and I was like "fook this, I will get a taxi and give him €10 worth of scratchcards instead!". I nipped in to the shop, slammed the €20 on the counter and asked for 5 scratch-cards, got the €10 back and hopped in the taxi patting myself on the back for a job well done.

Two days later I get a text from the birthday lad in question. Jammy bastard made a €1000 on one card and €100 on another card! That was my luck reserves for the next lifetime depleted and I used it for someone else. That will teach me to be a cheap-skate.

Ha, reminds me of my time working in a newsagent's, when a woman had given her boss a few scratch cards for his/her birthday and of course, E1000 on one. Her boss.

Congrats anyway OP, most I've won is a decanter and two glasses. Though that wasn't to do with the Lotto. And I was 12.

That was a shit day.

eimearcmh · 08-09-2010 09:37PM

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

Congrats, I've only ever got €4 at most.

My biggest win on a scratch card is €5. We're big winners:D

vicecreamsundae · 09-09-2010 05:14AM

i got a scratch card with my dominos pizza order tonight. won a free portion of potato wedges on my next order.
so i know how you feel OP.

09-09-2010 08:47AM

I "won" a free coffee at work today and a few last week on the scratchcards

Kimono-Girl · 09-09-2010 10:40AM

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

I win €1,000 every time I decide not to buy 500 scratch cards... guaranteed.

Odds of what though? Winning €2 or getting a free scratch-card? The odds seem like a useless number if that's the case.

The lowest you can win is €4 (on the €2.50 bingo card)
i usually win €6/8 more times then not, occasionally i get €25 once i won €500, rarely i get nothing, my boss (an accountant) was sceptical too when i told him, but after seeing me Friday after Friday constantly and consistently winning he gave in and bought two and lost on one and won €6 so he broke even :rolleyes:

it's better odds then winning the lotto any ways

\and its less of a money waster then th €2 ones where you have worse off odds and even when you win its ust a 'free' one!! and they are waay more fun to play! the monopoly ones were really good fun! and someone i know won the €25,000 on that one!

i guess im just one of the lucky ones

bonerm · 09-09-2010 12:02PM

Des Carter wrote: »

I won 3 stars once.

That's a nice constellation prize.

Marcin_diy · 26-01-2011 01:47PM

i went to the shop yesterday, got 2e scratch card, and collected 5 e . I bought another card today and again 5 euro. I think I should start playing euromillions now.

admiralofthefleet · 26-01-2011 01:55PM

most i ever one was €25 and a few 3 stars. well done op

RichieC · 26-01-2011 01:55PM

I cant stand the feeling of scratching them :X

thenutflush · 26-01-2011 02:40PM

I emailed the national lottery a few months back about the odds of winning the different prizes on three of their scratchcards and these are the odds they gave me. Bear in mind that a new series of cards is released every few months so the odds may change very slightly but I'll never buy a scratchcard again..

Winning Streak - cost €3

Prize Number per 1 million tickets

€5 - 104,500
€6 - 54,500
€8 - 23,500
€10 - 15,000
€25 - 6,500
€50 - 300
€100 - 150
€250 - 44
€500 - 16
€1000 - 6
€5000 - 0.5
€25000 - 0.5
€100,000 - 0.2

All Cash Gold - cost €2

Prize Number per 1 million tickets

Free Tickets - 89,000
€4 - 117,000
€5 - 54,000
€8 - 8,000
€10 - 6,000
€25 - 1,000
€40 - 600
€50 - 300
€80 - 104
€100 - 60
€250 - 20
€1,000 - 4
€10,000 - 1

All Cash - cost €1

Prize Number per 1 million tickets

Free Ticket - 55,000
€2 - 119,500
€4 - 24,500
€8 - 6,000
€25 - 5,000
€50 - 700
€500 - 24
€5,000 - 2

So if the op won 1000 euro from a 2 euro scratchcard, they actually hit a 250000 to 1 shot , which would have paid 500 grand in a bookies, not 1 grand..

Irish Guitarist · 26-01-2011 02:52PM

Congratulations.

I think the most I ever won was €8.00. Having said that I don't buy many. I think I've bought about fifteen or twenty in my entire life.

titsmahgee · 26-01-2011 04:00PM

thenutflush wrote: »

I emailed the national lottery a few months back

Hm cant see why anyone would go to these lenghts when its all for a bit of craic?

thenutflush · 26-01-2011 04:19PM

titsmahgee wrote: »

Hm cant see why anyone would go to these lenghts when its all for a bit of craic?

Ah sure I was just curious, seeing as prizes of 25 quid and over seem to be very rare. The best prize (taking into account the price of the scratchcard) I've ever won on one was 8 euro from a 1 euro scatchcard, which as the odds above show was about a 166 to 1 shot. The worst value gambling around in my opinion. Prize bonds give a very poor return on average too but at least you can get your money back any time, although inflation will have eroded it slightly.

Sometimes when I find myself wanting to buy a scratchcard when standing in the queue at a shop, I refrain from doing so and instead I go home and put 2 euro on a 80/1 shot etc on paddypower (eg underestimated underdog being 2-0 up at half-time) and I've hit these types of bets a couple of times..

Yay !! Finally a scratch card winner !!

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