How You Play Your Ticket Is Up to YOU!

A photo of a recent winner’s ticket really got people talking, and it made us wonder: How do YOU play?

The player involved won a top prize earlier this month in the “$30,000 Crossword” scratch game. In the image of his ticket, you can see that he scratched off only the letters in the winning words on his ticket. He went word by word to see if he had all the letters involved.

Some people commented that they don’t play Crossword tickets that way – they scratch off the individual letters one at a time that they find in the “Your Letters” area and then look to see how many words they’ve completed in the Crossword puzzle. Others said they have their own unique systems: One woman said she scratches off three letters at a time.

Some players wondered if the way the man played the ticket meant that he was more likely to win. The answer to that question is no: The odds of winning are the same for every ticket in our games, and winning tickets are randomly distributed throughout our scratch games.

It’s fun to see the different ways that people play their tickets. It really brings home the concept of you do you! From our perspective, there are no wrong answers.

Comments

[Nikkila White]

I uncover all the your letters then I use a pen and slash then corresponding letters out. It's cleaner and easier to read

[Mary Neubauer]

LOVE all these responses about the way you play your tickets! There are no wrong answers to this one. :)

[Sherie Weipert]

I like to scratch one letter at a time then I go back through and double to make sure that I've scratched the correct letters off. I might go though avthird time before I scratched the corner off to check to see if I'm a loser it's usually because I don't have a date so that's what I do for the weekend after my grandkids leave or while they're sleeping.

[Gerald and kaye Risden]

I skip all over the ticket and do not scratch them in order.

[William Bahrenfuss]

I first look at the 20 letters then then memorize the 6 that are missing then scan the words 1st horizontally then vertically if I see any of the six letters in the word then I skip that word and go to the next word. If all the letters are missing from a word , I scratch it off.It works very fast for me I always verify my win or loss with the app , in case I made a mistake or missed something.