Played Magic at Adam’s again today. It was a draw: two wins each on four rounds using 8 different decks! As always it was a lot of fun and I wish we could play more than once a year! It’s his birthday in a few days as well; wish him a happy one if you see him 🙂

The above are forty connected $1 scratch-off tickets. To be specific, this particular scratch-off:

I bought forty connected ones just because I was curious to see how many were winners. Last night mum and I scratched them all and these were the winners:

There were three $3 winners, six $2 winners and one free ticket (the blue one), so the total prize was $21 and a free ticket. Since these cost $40, the return was just over 50%, which is of course abysmal but at the same time higher than I expected.

The official win rate for one of these tickets (as published by Australia’s Lotteries) is 1 in 4. Our ticket win rate was exactly as published although the prize win rate was twice as high. I’m sure it’s random, but the prize tickets I won were six cats and four dogs.

Here’s the thing: scratching so many tickets at once isn’t fun. I’m not the biggest fan of these things and very rarely buy them at home, but it’s a bit of a tradition when I visit here and this experiment has shown it’s more fun to buy a $5 ticket and win $2 than $40 worth of tickets to win $21 🙂