They Spent Over $9K On 5,000 Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets. So How Much Did They Win?

Staff from the RocketNews24 website spent 5 days scratching the 5,000 tickets.

Here's the idea. Buy 5,000 scratch-off tickets with a potential of $US233,000 in prizes. Get a team to scratch them over the next 5 days. Then buy a house, a Ferrari, and travel the world on the profits.

So a group from the Japanese website RocketNews24 headed by Yoshio visited their local lotto store to start the test, which was an event by itself. They were swarmed by spectators as they purchased the National Lottery of Japan's scratch-off tickets in bulk.

According to the team's calculators, they would expect to at least recoup about 378,000 yen (US$3,500) of the initial 1 million yen (US$9,000)  investment. What happened?

Their guess was right. After a grueling scratchathon, they made back 365,200 yen (US$3,400) of their initial cost – a mere 36% return. They had lost US$5,500.

As one of the group, Mike, summed up: "We suppose it’s good to have a glass-half-full kind of attitude at times like this."

SOURCE: RocketNews24

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Travel Is The Top Of The List For This Canadian Lotto 649 Couple

Winning a major prize is an earthshaking event for most people. When winner Ian Hirsch of Coquitlam, B.C. looked at his ticket, he didn’t just double-check it, he had partner Diane triple check it to make sure it was real.

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Gut Feeling Told Woman To Get In Her Car And Buy A $150,000 Scratch Ticket

Susan Trainham got in her car instead of going to bed one night. She told Virginia Lottery officials “something just told her to go to the store and buy a Lottery ticket.” That why

Susan Trainham said she left her Henrico home late one night instead of getting into bed and going to sleep. She is very happy she followed her gut feeling.

After winning $20 from a lottery ticket she bought at Friend’s Mart on Horsepen Road, she scratched off a $150,000 winner.

“I’m very excited,” she said as she claimed her prize. “This is a blessing and there’s no way to describe it.”

Trainham’s husband was initially upset when he got the late night call from his wife. He was worried something bad had happened.

“I told [her] she shouldn’t be at the store this late at night,” he said.

Trainham won playing the Red, White and Blue Winnings game. She said she would use the money to help pay off her mortgage.