USA SCRATCH CARDS

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New Scratch-Off

WIN $250

HOW TO PLAY

WIN $250 is a $5 game that offers 18,340 top prizes of $250.

Match any of YOUR NUMBERS to any of the WINNING NUMBERS, win PRIZE shown.

Reveal a "5X" symbol, win 5 times PRIZE shown.

Reveal a "Win $250" symbol, win $250!

If you won, redeem your prize!

REPORT SCAMS!
Report any attempted scam to the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-HELP or at the FTC Consumer Information website.

If you need more information, contact the New York Lottery Security Unit at 518-388-3416.

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WIN $250

CHANCES OF WIN

Price of ticket: 5 $

Top prize: 250 $

Other prizes: 100 $ – 50 $ – 20 $ – 15 $ – 10 $ – 5 $

Winning percentage: 22.83% of tickets is winning

Overall chances of winning a prize: 1 in 4.38

Chances of winning a top prize: 1 in 498.06

Win Approximate No. Of Winners Per 9 134 700 Tickets Approximate Odds Are 1 In:
250 $ 18 340 498.06
100 $ 36 601 249.57
50 $ 91 347 100
20 $ 114 152 80.02
15 $ 137 074 66.64
10 $ 913 440 10
5 $ 776 378 11.77
Total 2 087 332 winning tickets of 9 134 700 tickets 1 ticket winning in 4.38 tickets

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WHAT IS A SCRATCHCARD?

A scratchcard (also called a scratch off, scratch ticket, scratcher, scratchum, scratch-it, scratch game, scratch-and-win, instant game, instant lottery, or in England a scratchie, lot scrots, or scritchies) is a card, often made of thin paper-based card for competitions and plastic to conceal PINs, where one or more areas contain concealed information which can be revealed by scratching off an opaque covering.

Applications include cards sold for gambling (especially lottery games and quizzes), free-of-charge cards for quizzes, fraudulent free cards encouraging calls to premium rate phone services, and to conceal confidential information such as PINs for telephone calling cards (otherwise known as recharge cards) and other prepaid services.

In some cases the entire scratchable area needs to be scratched to see whether a prize has been won—the card is printed either to be a winner or not—or to reveal the secret code; the result does not depend upon what portions are scratched off. In other cases, some but not all areas have to be scratched; this may apply in a quiz, where the area corresponding to the right answer is scratched, or in some gambling applications where, depending on which areas are scratched, the card wins or loses. In these cases the card becomes invalid if too many areas are scratched. After losing one can scratch all areas to see if, how, and what one could have won with this card.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratchcard