The Lottery Experiment June
The Lottery experiment, June . So, I kind of fell off on the whole Simpsons thing. I keep trying to get back into it but it became such a slog that I wasn't looking forward to it. I needed a new project to blog about and thanks to a change at my job I find myself working at a place that sells scratcher lottery tickets. What was meant to be temporarily filling in for someone turned into a full time position with a lot more responsibility, but no pay raise. Anyhow I was bored at work and started to wonder, can you actually win at scratcher tickets? I have a few regulars who come in and buy a lot of tickets, and win some, but what is the win to loss on their purchases. I figured I would try for myself, however I don't want to waste a lot of money and I came up with a plan. Here's the plan, once a week I'm going to buy a scratcher ticket although I'm not going to play the actual game, I'm going to scratch off the confirmation bar code and then scan it on the main l...