I Lost $100 on This Ticket, But Won't Quit
38sThe relentless chase after a big loss taps into viewers' love of gambling redemption arcs.
▶ Play Clip"The title accurately describes the attempt, but the video pads runtime with repetitive ticket chatter."
This video is a scratch-off lottery ticket session where the host plays a variety of tickets, including a $100 5 Million Fortune ticket, to see if he can win. He documents each ticket's outcome and tallies his total winnings. The session ends with a net loss, reflecting the high variance and low odds of scratch-off games.
Host begins the session with $300 worth of scratch-off tickets, including ticket #2 from the $100 5 Million Fortune roll.
Two $2 Break the Bank tickets win $4, returning the full $4 invested.
Two $3 Texas Loteria tickets win only $3, recovering half of the $6 spent.
Starting with four $5 Monaco Cash tickets, no significant wins are hit in the first wave.
Two $10 Monaco VIP tickets are played, but both fail to generate a win.
A Mega Blue ticket is scratched with no winning numbers, adding to the losing streak.
A $5 ticket hits a $30 prize, giving the host a small boost in the session.
One of the two $10 1 Million Riches tickets matches a number for a $10 prize, breaking even on that ticket.
A $5 Queens of Spades ticket wins $50, the largest single win of the session so far.
The $50 5Spectacular ticket fails to produce a win, despite several early matches.
Ticket #2 from the $100 5 Million Fortune game is played but comes up empty, completing the big-ticket failure.
After all tickets are scratched, the host counts $97 in total winnings against $300 spent, a net loss of $203.
The session illustrates the risky reality of scratch-off lottery tickets: despite several small wins, the host ends with a significant net loss. The excitement of playing is tempered by the mathematical house edge, which ensures the lottery is rarely profitable for players.
Commitment of $300
Demonstrates the scale of the gambling session and the risk involved.
00:01$30 win on a $5 ticket
A rare bright spot that shows how scratch-offs can produce occasional payouts.
10:02$50 win on Queens of Spades
The largest single win of the session, yet still not enough to overcome losses.
17:37High-priced ticket failure
The $100 5 Million Fortune ticket loses again, reinforcing the high variance of expensive scratch-offs.
22:16Net loss of $203
Key outcome that highlights the long-term negative expected value of lottery games.
24:09[00:01] you all are having a great day. We've got $300 tickets to play today. If you saw yesterday's video, I played the very first ticket off the roll of the $100 5 million fortune, lost on, also lost on the 500 times. I went back to the store.
[00:13] I'm not going to chase on this ticket. This is a really volatile ticket, so at 200 bucks. So, we'll give it one more try and see if we can win on ticket number two. Then if not, we will move on. I did get the next $50 5 and I was a
[00:25] little three spectacular ticket number five. I went back to the lucky 7-Eleven. Remember we played the first 10, only won $40 back, which meant there was at least 200 cuz the payback's 290, at least $250
[00:38] in those last 15 tickets. Well, I went back and of course somebody played quite a few, so we're going to play 18 through 20. Maybe we can get lucky on these three. Uh we have two of the $10 1 million riches 17, 18, two of the Monaco
[00:50] VIP and my lucky number 23, 24, mega blue 22, my lucky number 23. Uh they 7-Eleven of the $5 tickets, so I've got four of the Monaco cash. We got five
[01:02] Eight, yeah. Uh two $3 Texas Loteria 70, 71 and round it off we've got two of the $2 break the bank 27, 28. So, let's start the delve for the huge win on break the banks to match and win or a five times symbol.
[01:16] All right. Here we go. 14, 24, something with an X. Ooh, a something with an X. That's a great else? Anything else?
[01:34] Two times what? Two times four bucks, okay. Paid for these two. Right back to back. 24, 30.
[01:47] And no. All right, so four back out of four. Good start. loaded. But hopefully it's a little further back than like right in the middle. Uh $3 ticket 7071.
[02:04] play this ticket very often. I can get it one screenshot which is makes it easier to film. All right, wheel lone star wheel lone star. Rattlesnake and roadie roadie.
[02:20] Rattlesnake and roadie roadie. Bluebonnet and a windmill.
[02:32] How about covered wagon? Let's see saddle and a cowboy hat saddle. Oh, let's get both of these. Uh right here. Maracas and strawberry. Oh,
[02:45] nothing on that first one. We got one more. more. To get 71. just see if we can get lucky with three of those.
[02:59] of those. Boar bluebonnet.
[03:11] a spur. All right, we got this one we got this one we got to get this one here. Shoes and cactus. Cactus no and shoes. Windmill. Yes, wind. And moonrise. Let's add to it. How about
[03:25] a country newspaper? Newspaper. We might get pecan tree. It's got these weird prizes on it. Show me pecan tree. Oh, we didn't. Uh mockingbird and a wheel. Is there eights? I think there
[03:37] Yeah, there is a $8 prize. All right, $3 got half our money back there. All right, four Monaco cash. I was trying to get another ticket. I forget was it the this is the only other $8 ticket I had. All right, starting on five. Pretty
[03:50] fresh back. Match and win two or five times. All right. 16 36 26 17
[04:07] Maybe something with the X next to it on this one.
[04:20] 7 11 Got to be lucky, right? and 34. I can't believe I I missed out my opportunity of playing tickets from
[04:34] think that through. All right, ticket number six.
[05:07] And 14 29 30 and 13 Uh two Oh, two more. Yeah, two more. All right. Seven. Be the ticket.
[05:29] many shows, but we actually watched another one and that was Fly Me to the Moon. It was really good. Very good.
[05:48] One with the Scarlett Johansson in it. 17, 37, 22, and a six. It was funny. It All right. Eight.
[06:04] 29, 33, 10, 1, 3 multiplier. Let's see if we saved the best for last.
[06:22] All right, must be down here at the end. Not over till the last spot. 13, come on, last spot. All right, now it's over. Wow, four in a row.
[06:34] All right, let's try the $10 version, Monaco VIP. My lucky number 23, 24. All right, match and win, two, five, or 10 times symbol. Hey, just takes one.
[06:47] One ticket turns a whole session around. One ticket turns a whole session around. 50, 33, 36, 29, 22, 25.
[07:05] were there. I don't even remember where I got them from. The curse of being on my desk, let's see if they can if they can turn into something.
[07:32] 59 and 58. All right. One more One more ticket, 24.
[07:48] >> All right, someone feels lucky. Extra lucky. 38 17 24 50 26 42.
[08:23] Something huge at the end here. 15 7 59. Oh, gosh, nothing on that one. Okay. Mega blue, mega blue. Mega blue, mega blue. 22 and 23.
[08:40] Maybe it's all about the megas today. Desert horseshoe, desert horseshoe. Horseshoe desert? Don't see desert.
[08:52] They have a pretty good desert in West Texas, Monahans. Roadie and Bruce. It's a fun place. Hot, but fun. Can slide down sand dunes. Newspaper football.
[09:08] Newspaper football. Do they have either? Soccer ball? No football. How about a strawberry? Strawberry? No. Fire mockingbird. Ooh, get a cactus. Come on, cactus. It's setting up for
[09:22] cactus. Let's get a cactus. Uh cardinal and bluebonnet. Got a ship
[09:36] and a mortar pestle. I got a cactus. I got a cactus. Cherries and a bicycle. Cherries of cherries. No.
[10:02] win. Great. Uh pecan tree and a lone star. We have a We have a lone star with Did feel like a winner. Great. Let's get cactus going with it and get a really Uh am I missing anything else? We did get the right lone star and
[10:16] cherry. Yeah. Soccer ball oil rig. We got a soccer ball and we got an oil rig. Okay. I'm turning into something.
[10:29] Mr. lizard No gym. We got to get spear or covered wagon. Spear. Spear and maracas. Oh, we got to get one of those two. Uh spear and maracas. We got spear.
[10:43] Do we have maracas? No. Bun buns and a race car. Bun buns and a race car. We didn't get a guitar. Let's
[10:56] see. Oh, horse. Horse and chili pepper. Horse Oh, horse. Horse and chili pepper. Horse chili pepper and horse. So, just one win. Let's see if it's massive. Be huge. Be huge. Hey, $30. That's a great win.
[11:09] did we? No. All right. I do like those for the 30s. Let's go back to back on 23. My lucky number cuz it's my birthday. Not today. This would have been the 23rd.
[11:27] Chili pepper newspaper Chili pepper and newspaper Oh. Fire soccer ball. Fire. Fire soccer ball. Soccer ball Let me see
[11:42] a football. Cardinal moonrise. This is one take we've had a lot of back back wins on, so it's possible. back wins on, so it's possible. Saddle and buns.
[12:07] and no maracas. We got gym. I don't think Pretty sure we No.
[12:20] Race car covered wagon. Covered wagon. Spear desert. Ooh, got a spear.
[12:33] Ooh, got a spear. Just need pecan tree. Boar corn. Got a boar and got some corn.
[12:48] Bruce and Mr. Lizard. Mr. Lizard uh Bruce and no more Mr. Lizards. All right. Cowboy hat rattlesnake. Cowboy hat. Uh rattlesnake. Let's see rattlesnake
[13:01] made windmill, pecan tree. Ooh, windmill. A windmill, we get two wins. Let's see. Uh hen and pinata. Hen Hen and pinata pinata. No, we got to get
[13:15] Let's see. Cactus and spur. Cactus cactus was that the other one? No, maybe it's the other one. Okay. Then
[13:30] those. Roadie butterfly. Roadie, roadie, no second one. All right, 30 back out of 20, that's great. 1 million riches.
[13:43] 17, 18. All right, match and win or a two, five, All right, match and win or a two, five, or 10 times.
[14:05] Well, maybe this was the ticket I had in my death. I don't remember. It was a $10 my death. I don't remember. It was a $10 ticket. I just don't remember which one.
[14:23] I've bought a few tickets since then, so it's hard to keep track. do. I've been keeping them for years. I have bins and bins and bins of tickets. have bins and bins and bins of tickets. 35 33 and an eight.
[14:42] All right. 18. All right, be the big one.
[15:04] Ooh, got a 31. Got a winner. Got a winner, right.
[15:25] And 41 23 6 12 18 all right matching 31 about big zeros we have got we have got 10 bucks all right we got to have money back All right let's see how we do on three queens of spades let's see if that no
[15:38] hope it's on this one of these three all right starting on 18. All right match and win spade is five times queen is 100 bucks.
[15:54] That breeze feels great. 21 46 24 19 16 45.
[16:39] 23 28 And not on that one. See if it's on 19. All right three other tickets.
[16:53] thrilled. 35 23 28 18 13 7.
[17:08] You could almost bought the rest of the entire pack and only been down 50 bucks.
[17:22] decide to get three. See if that was a good call.
[17:37] 35, got a winner, great. 30 30 29 and 46. Come on, big zeros. Let's find that 100. We have got No. Hey, we got 50 bucks though. That
[17:49] helped. That helped a lot. Great. Well, let's see if we can't go back to back on 20. That's great. Better than break even. And now, let's find the big outlier. They can be hanging out anywhere.
[18:11] Maybe we can find that spade or queen. Come on, back to back. With that many, you know, wins left in the pack, you could get back to back. It's highly possible.
[18:23] It's highly possible. Since there's only two in the first 10.
[18:51] again. 31 14 27 14 27 23 and no 40. At least got found some of That's good. All right, the very next ticket of the $50 five and I was low
[19:04] three spectacular. Ticket number five, we played four yesterday. All right, let's see if it's worth going back. this guy. You know, two matching with 1, 2, 500,000. You play another play the
[19:16] symbols over here, we multiply the prize. prize. All right. Bird. Lemon.
[19:31] Gold bar. Nope. All right. So, we went early and often.
[20:12] you know. Cow. it's a it's going to be an outlier because we get two wins. Oh, come on.
[20:24] Oil rig. Soccer ball.
[20:43] We're getting a lot Or let's go ahead and get race car. Let's capitalize on all these matches. Chili pepper.
[21:07] Cherries. My gosh, look at all these. Give us up in here. Sunset. Cowboy hat. Bicycle.
[21:36] So many chances. All right, let's see if we're going to multiply something.
[21:49] candy. No, we're going to get all on its own, but we've got a chance. They like to keep your wins right here at the end. So let's see if we can get it.
[22:04] wait to the very last spot. Come on, last spot. Guitar. Oh, no win. All right, it's going to come down to our big ticket. 5 million fortune ticket number two. Again, no break evens. 200 bucks. What's
[22:16] so hard to win on? Two matching with bonuses to match and win five or a 10 times. We'll give it one more try. If not, we'll go back to Big Red. not, we'll go back to Big Red. All right.
[22:32] 50 grand, 200, or 500. How about the 50 grand? 500. 500, 500. Oh, it gets me every time with that one. Thought we had it for a moment there.
[22:47] here. Maybe we'll get us a multiplier today.
[23:01] 33 67 49 43 25 38 or something with the X next to it.
[23:53] 23 53 66 51 come on the last spot. 60 No, nothing on our big tickets again. Well, let's add them up, see how we did. Nice 50, uh
[24:09] the beautiful 30 for 80. Uh there's Oh, come back here. That's 80, there's 90, there's 93, and there's $97. That was a lot of fun, guys. Hope you enjoyed it. Y'all have a great and lucky rest of your day, and we'll talk to you later. I
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