I mean, where do you put a million pound scratch card? My other son thought it was one of those trick ones. He then said, "Should I keep it safe on my boat? I said, "Get lost — it might sink in the night!
I think being given the wrong card was meant to be. But I'm not money-oriented; I don't drive, I hate the sun, hate the water — so I wasn't going to buy a flash car, a holiday or a cruise.
I carried on working for another two years. It paid off my mortgage and gave me security, but it hasn't changed who I am. I still occasionally buy them. When it's happened again that they've pointed to the wrong one, I always say I'll take that anyway. But money is not everything. I won in November, and then the son who had been with me died at the age of 37 in May from an aneurysm. I would have given it back to change everything. For a long time I've blamed the money — don't ask me why; it's stupid, I know.
Camelot asked me if I'd meet up with winners in London. They put you up in a five star hotel — I tell you what: I would have rather gone to a chippy. I've never had a more obscure dinner in my life. We had guinea fowl — which looked like a shrunken pigeon — with golf balls of cabbage! It was awful.
I said to the waitress, "Is there a KFC around here? One couple stood out for me. They were a mother and daughter, and the next day, before [a trip organised by Camelot], they got lost. They finally turned up in the craziest ballgowns, considering it was early morning. When Camelot asked where the hell they'd been, they said, "Well, how long do you think it takes for us to get ready? I was at work and was struggling at the time, as four years before, a year relationship had ended and I have health problems.
I was in total shock when I won and called my mum with the news before calling Camelot. I stayed in my main job, paid off my debts and told my sons to write lists of what they would like, as they were amazing when we were struggling, selling their used toys and my belongings at car boot sales to survive.
I bought into the business I was working at, managed to turn it around and am now a sole trader. Camelot were fantastic at first. The payment goes through an insurance broker in London who initially visited me to sort it out, but apart from a letter I haven't heard from them.
I've been managing it alone, which is hard as a single parent. They said going public shouldn't cause me a problem as it's not like I had won millions, just a "wage". Be subtle, but it could be the key to a big win. You never know, you might pick up on a mistake you might have made at a later date. In some cases, jackpots are never won, so the manufacturer requests losing tickets to pick a best loser. It can happen. There is always the chance you might have missed something.
They analyze the layout and design of a scratch card to pick up on patterns that can give clues as to whether a scratch card has certain numbers, symbols, or combinations that can lead to a win. Most scratch card manufacturers have caught onto this strategy and a large number now design their scratch cards to work against it. This just seems to make logical sense. If you stick with a game and keep playing it then you will either win, or every losing ticket you play will be one more losing ticket out of the equation.
However, if you spread your spending over a number of games then you could just endlessly be hitting losing scratch cards. We may not have been able to show you how to win scratch offs every time if there was one simple trick, everyone would be doing it and companies would stop creating them! By Ethan Baker June 16, Most Popular. Guides Strategy. November 10, — 5 min read. Insider Insights. October 23, — 5 min read.
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