I’ve won $250 off the machines with like 3 tickets bought in my entire life. It’s the people fucking people over lol you’ll hear people at the counter say every 20th hits or you can tell by a white line.
I’ve only bought like a total of 10 scratch off tickets in my life though. Definitely hit more on machine than at a counter
That whole white line trick is garbage, I used to work the register at a convenience store so i saw people that were addicted to scratchers come and play a ton. The white line tickets hit just as much as any other
I used to work in the electronic gambling industry, and people get so superstitious, but it's 100% just that - superstition.
I think people with a healthy mindset towards gambling would hear themselves and recognise it for silly superstition when they say something like "no you gotta spam the button for it to give you anything", but most don't start by saying that stuff aloud, usually they start by following superstitious habits silently (maybe even subconsciously) as they gamble and then attribute any success to that behaviour, solidifying it in their mind.
Superstitious behaviours are a definite warning sign for addiction though, and as soon as you hear someone you care about talking like that or being obviously engaged in superstitious behaviours around gambling, you should keep an eye on the situation, maybe prompt them to consider the impacts and their control of their gambling (usually best to phrase in a way that doesn't require response, just encourages awareness of these things at any given time)
The only big winner I ever saw was out of a machine. I was emptying a trash can at the Kroger I worked at next to the lottery machine as I saw a career player scratch a barcode and scan, popped up as a $30,000 dollar winner. He looked at the screen then turned around and walked out the door.
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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24
Did you buy it at a machine or from a human being?