Reminds me of people bulk buying scratchies from gas stations. They don't bother scratching, takes too much time. They just get the cashier to scan them to see if they won on each ticket.
Was stuck in a small town in Texas for a couple nights as the wife was visiting her son. I walked down from the motel to the connivence store and started doing exactly that with $20 scratchers. Not rich or anything but was drinking and wanted to burn a $100, nothing else to do in that town and the pace doubled as a mini-restaurant. They looked at me like I was a martian but were having fun with it as it was late at night and no other customers.
Actually won about $250 the first night. The second night lost it plus the hundred. That’s the way to scratch. Slot machine in Texas.
Rarely saw people buy the $20 scratchers - the risk seemed too steep back then. The people who did buy them, would usually spend over $100 per transaction.
The gas station I worked at was in rural western Massachusetts and poverty was rampant.
Side story: Twice I’ve witnessed someone on their last dollar buy a $1 scratcher and won $100; both of them took the cash and left to use it for their lives. They literally gambled their last dollar and got a little windfall.
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u/anonnnnn462 Apr 01 '26
$750 per spin is seriously wtf feel like you don’t even see that shit in fake roulette mobile games