Big Scratch
Big Scratch-Off Ticket Glitch Caused Winners to Be Told They Lost—How It Happened Malachi Jacobs / Shutterstock If gambling feels too high stakes but you still want a piece of the action, scratch-offs might be your best bet (no pun intended). Scratch-offs can range from $1 to $50 per ticket, and typically have better odds of winning—or at least, breaking even—than Powerball or Mega Millions. Of course, that’s contingent on the lottery machine actually working that day, as one scratch-off winner recently learned....