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Sweet Kassy Molassy
Posts: 323/886		 Do they have a Tetris poker game? I thought not. Another win for the lottery. I wouldn't even be upset that I wasted $2 on one of those tickets.
Cynthia
Posts: 3495/5814		 The odds are only better if you possess some skill. If you just walk in there thinking you'll win, you'll probably lose.
neotransotaku
Posts: 1476/1860		 of course your odds are better...but you don't win as much
Randy53215
Posts: 362/726		 I say screw the lottery and go to the casino and play card games. Your odds are way better, yes WAY better.
Cynthia
Posts: 3487/5814		 And if you're wondering how the game works...

You scratch off the top portion and reveal 11 Tetris pieces out of a possible 19 (you know, all 7 blocks twisted every which way). Then you scratch the corresponding pieces off on the bottom portion. If you make a line, you win a prize. If you get a double, triple or Tetris, you get bonuses. (For example, I think a triple is $10 + whatever you win on those 3 lines.)
Sweet Kassy Molassy
Posts: 302/886		 Yep, that's awesome.

*wants one*
Alastor
Posts: 6328/8204		 ... wtf. That's illegibletastic. But hilarious.
Cynthia
Posts: 3482/5814		 SomerZ: I think that's a good front page. Certainly better than war or famine or anything like that. It's a feel-good thing.

Best pic of the Tetris scratch I could get, sorry.
Sweet Kassy Molassy
Posts: 262/886		 Colin, you have Tetris scratch off tickets? That's pretty awesome. I still wouldn't buy them, but I'd want to.
Salmon
Posts: 154/221		 Interestingly enough, VG (the biggest newspaper in Norway), had a thing on its front-page only a couple of days ago about a guy in his early twenties winning the national lottery. Now, VG is a crap newspaper with crap descicions when it comes to front-pages, but still, when they actually make a front-page story about a lottery-winner being young (his age was the focus of the story), then you know it's a rare occurence.
HyperHacker
Posts: 2476/5072
Originally posted by Danielle
From what I hear though, you have pretty good odds of winning SOMETHING with the scratchers. Might not be millions, but I'd take thousands any day.

Heck, my mom wins $2 on practically every third one.
Tatrion
Posts: 1728/2467		 I just got an idea. Not related to the main topic, but it's about lotteries. Couldn't a city set up a lottery, and give the winning ticket to someone affiliated with the city, and basically channel free money into the city?

I'd be amazingly suprised if that hasn't happened before and there is a law against it, but still. I forgot where I was going with this... maybe it had something to do with gambler's ruin and house edge, I don't recall...
Alastor
Posts: 6294/8204		 You didn't fix the rest of the post, though.
asdf
Posts: 2609/4077
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish
Originally posted by asdf
They say you have a better chance of winning the lottery than you do being struck by lightning.
Other way around, good sir.


...shit. I felt as though I screwed up a post sometime today, I just didn't know which. It's fixed now, though.
Danielle
Posts: 4981/6737		 From what I hear though, you have pretty good odds of winning SOMETHING with the scratchers. Might not be millions, but I'd take thousands any day.
Cynthia
Posts: 3469/5814		 Yeah, it's the other way with most lotteries. I'm sure that some which don't have 49 numbers or so might have similar or better odds, but for most of them you'll likely get zapped first.
Alastor
Posts: 6293/8204
Originally posted by asdf
They say you have a better chance of winning the lottery than you do being struck by lightning.
Other way around, good sir.
Deleted User
Posts: 36/-7750
Originally posted by Fluffy Colin Cuddlekins
It seems that I usually win on scratch tickets but that's only because I buy them once in a blue moon.

My mom would get those for me all the time when I was younger until something happened that made us stop getting them. Lately she's gotten a few, but we haven't had any luck. I had more luck as a child than my mom is having now.
Tarale
Posts: 1358/2713
Originally posted by Fluffy Colin Cuddlekins
It seems that I usually win on scratch tickets but that's only because I buy them once in a blue moon.

The Tetris one they have here is so good... *_*


I haven't played one of those since I was a kid. I used to have a family friend who used to buy them for me on birthdays and such.

I don't tend to bother with them now... see them as a waste of money actually
Cynthia
Posts: 3459/5814		 It seems that I usually win on scratch tickets but that's only because I buy them once in a blue moon.

The Tetris one they have here is so good... *_*
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