£10 scratchcard

Would you buy a £10 scratchcard

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 8.3%

  • No

    Votes: 66 91.7%
  • Total voters
    72
  • Poll closed .
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Whilst down in the village this morning, buying the paper and bread, milk etc... I happened to notice you could buy a £10 scratchcard with a jackpot of £4m.

Occasionally I'll buy a £1 one or even rarer a £2 one................ but £10 on a scratchcard? Would you?
 
It looks somebody has already won one of the 4 top prizes too.
 
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I'd sooner take £10 into a bookies and place some educated bets rather than leave it to pure luck.
 
Voted yes but there's a story to go with it -
Had some change the other week so bought a Euro luck dip & a £1 scratch card. Won a fiver on the scratch card so bought a £5 card (as has still only spent £1). I won £30 on that card, so put £10 in my pocket, bought 5 more lucky dip for the euro millions and a £10 scratch card. I won another £30 off of that, pocketed £20 and bought a few more scratch cards and won £3.
Basically from the £1 I ended up with £33 in my pocket and 5 extra luck dip for the Euro (none of which won a damned thing). To be fair though, under ordinary circumstances I would definitely not have bought a £10 scratch card.
 
Com'on - it's hard getting through all the benefits each week without Camelot's help (although in fairness HMRC's tex treatment of cigarettes is helping the burden).
 
No way.Plud I've only ever bought a fiver scratch card if I've won a fiver on a pound one.
Incidentally since their release we have sold approx 4x as many £10 cards compared to £5 ones.
 
I buy the odd £1 and £2 card but I'd not spend £10 on one.

I had a close call recently with a £2 scratchcard.

I sctratched to reveal a total of a £100 win and being in a rush I asked the guy in the shop if he could just quickly check that i was reading it right. He confirmed it was indeed a £100 win and then asked if I wanted to cash it. I said no as i like to keep them for when I'm skint.

Anyway a week later I went to cash it (same shop) only to be told that it had already been claimed.

Seems the lad had 'beeped' it when i asked him to confirm it was a winner and that recorded that the card had been cashed in.

Fortunately the manager of the shop was about and explained that he'd put the £100 aside as he had realised what had happened when they counted up the till at the end of that day.
 
I don't do the lottery, and I don't buy scratchcards. These I consider a waste of money, but I will quite happily go to a casino and blow a few hundred quid :LOL:
It's just more fun

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No Rather spend it on the lotto or euro when there`s a super jackpot
 
But how many of you would spend £1 or £2, 5 or 10 times :p
 
Never bought one, and not bought a lottery ticket since the first draw.
I've probably saved more than a 4 number win over the years :)
 
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Never bought one, and not bought a lottery ticket since the first draw.
I've probably saved more than a 4 number win over the years :)
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Agreed. I'm firmly of the belief that the lottery is a Fool's Tax. But who am I to say how other's should spend their money? If they can afford it then fine. The slightly more concerning aspect is the number of poor people who play the lottery in the hope of becoming incredibly wealthy when mathematically it's actually an exceptionally poor way to invest money that they can't necessarily afford to waste.
 
I don't generally play the lottery or buy scratchcards . . . but having said that back last year I did buy a £5 card from the supermarket on a mad impulse and ended up winning £65.

On that basis I've voted "yes", I suppose I might buy one if I ever get that impulse again - and the odds of getting your money back are far better than winning something in the main lottery :shrug:
 
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