One final tip when buying scratch-off tickets is to check the odds of winning a prize. You can also use your state's lottery website to view the odds of winning each scratch-off ticket game.

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A bus stop in Silver Spring, Md., bears an ad for a Maryland Lottery scratch-off game. The Willy Wonka-themed game is not designed to appeal to children, the head of Maryland's lottery commission ...

A $20 scratch-off lottery ticket turned into a $1 million win for a Deer Park man, ... and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels.

The example he gave was a $500 Loaded scratch card offered by the California State Lottery.He says that with these all-or-nothing cards he’s seen people win big. On the flip side of that coin ...

The group would buy entire books of tickets from dozens of convenience stores and gas stations. The granddaddy of all of them was a scratch-off ticket in Missouri that netted a $5 million top ...

STUART, Fla. — When a Florida Lottery vendor noticed “micro-scratches” on $50 and $10 scratch-off tickets for sale at a convenience store last June, the discovery led investigators to a ...

WILLMAR -- An empty gas tank led to a Willmar man's winning $300,000. According to a news release from the Minnesota Lottery, Thomas Jensen of Willmar said he stopped for gas Thursday at Casey's ...

Richard Lustig won seven state-sponsored lottery games between 1993 and 2010. Lustig's wins amount to a total of $1,052,205.58 before taxes, news reports show. One lottery win was $10,000 from a ...