This video provides a sobering look at the reality of negative expected value, effectively demystifying the "big win" fantasy through the mundane certainty of loss. It serves as a practical, real-world demonstration of the mathematical inevitability that the house always wins.
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$350 North Carolina Lottery Scratch-Offs!😳We Can’t Always Win Big!😳追加:
Hey all, it's CatScratch. Today I have $350 in tickets. Just one $50 Ultimate Blowout today.
Three $30 Millionaire Bucks, three $30 100,000 Cash Payday, three $20 100 Times the Cash, and three $20 uh what's this called? 20 Years? I got that one ticket.
All right.
Mr. Cat got me new glasses.
I got some better ones.
>> literally just delivered. Hot off the uh truck.
>> how >> [snorts] >> All right, let's see. How I have not really played this ticket very much. We need a star up here, a money roll or double money bag down here. All right, let's see how we can do with this ticket. Man, >> [clears throat] >> this is crazy. How >> [snorts] >> Gosh, disgusting.
>> Sorry. Jeez, wow. I couldn't get a suction on the straw. Holy all right, no star. That was gross. Actually, I should restart.
32 7 49 20 24 22 19 and 38. This ticket scratches really easily.
All right, so >> the ticket the ticket that scratches the best is the $50 ticket there. I like how it cleans.
I mean, to scratch it. That ticket's hard to scratch. Okay.
It's hard to go down through, right?
>> Mhm.
All right, come on ticket. I think I've only played this ticket one or two times. Oh.
This is a special ticket for the 20-year celebration of the North Carolina Lottery.
20 years of taking my money.
Yep.
Sure a lot of people feel that way.
Already, six. What 30.
16.
27.
And starting off with another winner.
>> [snorts] >> So, how do they look on me?
They look good on you. Look better than the other ones.
Yeah, they look good. All right, clear.
>> Black Oh, star, we got a win. Very clear.
Cool.
Why am I angry? All right, 43 15 19 45 7 44 16 20.
When did you start wearing glasses at?
When you were like five?
No, I didn't I didn't start till um I was like in my 20s. Like actual prescription glasses, right?
>> After I got hit in the eye with a rubber band. Yeah, that It was like a couple years after that that Yeah, Miss Cat >> wearing glasses.
>> Miss Cat worked at a bank. Yeah, we talked about this.
>> I know we talked about it, but for those who That's like That's like 400 videos ago. Do you know we're up to like almost 1,000 videos? Really? I think you have like 1,000 videos on the channel. What's it >> Wow, that's a lot of videos.
>> I'm seriously I think you got >> do one a day, so.
And don't No, 967.
Dang.
>> [clears throat] >> We should do something special for our 1,000th video.
>> What do you want to do?
A $1,000 in tickets?
All right, 13 five.
>> Four, that's not unusual for us.
11, just one star.
39.
>> [snorts] >> I'm like Look at them going nuts.
They're like playing in the tree. All right, one star, 20 bucks. So, we are on the board. Dang it, I thought I would have a match down here. All right, 20 bucks, we're on the board. The top prize on this $20 ticket is only a million dollars. Normally it's two million.
>> You mean Owen, did you see this? What?
>> I I just I just They're two They're going backwards in their pricing.
>> are.
The No, dude, the $20 ticket it should be two million dollars.
>> Uh-huh, yep. Cuz see, the top prize is $20 tickets. And all all the other ones are are two million. Yep. Right?
You would think for 20 years you should You know what this should have been? It should have been 20 million. Yeah. They should have made like a 20-year thing a 20 million dollar one that has >> There's like one in the Right, there's one in the entire state. They should have did that.
And then it's like never but never put it in circulation, you know? Yeah, exactly.
That's what they would do.
They would probably drive ticket sales through the roof, I bet.
Hey, we're going to make for the 20th anniversary we're going to print we're going to put one ticket out there with a 20 million dollar prize.
But we're not going to actually put it in circulation.
Never. That would be really That would That's a big deal, right?
>> bad. All right, 44 one off. Come on, ticket. 21.
Three.
39.
And six. Nope.
All right, we got 20 bucks out of those.
Uh let's try some 100 Times the Cash.
>> $100 tickets.
Four? I know there's a $100 lottery.
Yeah, there's that that like long one. It's like horizontal.
>> Lottery Supreme.
>> Yeah.
Five Million Fortune.
20 Million Supreme. Huh. And and then one that looks like our Black Titanium here, this the $30 ticket. It's called Five Million Titanium Black.
Gosh, why do all these call it Black Titanium?
>> Exactly.
I I'm going to I'm going to buy one.
You're not going to buy a whole pack of tickets.
>> Yeah, I'm guaranteed $950. No, you're not going to buy a whole pack of Please don't buy a whole pack of tickets.
[laughter] Just Just buy like a couple, baby. Don't buy a whole pack. Okay, get a whole pack.
Oh my god.
What?
This ticket's called 20 Million Supreme.
That's the top prize. Yeah, 20 million.
Why do you think it's called 20 Million Supreme? I thought it was like one of those ones that like >> the 80 Million Cash Blowout. Yeah, you know how they put like oh all this Yeah, right. They call it 80 Million Cash Blowout, but the top prize is 500 bucks.
Yeah.
Holy F.
The Lottery Supreme, guess what the top prize is?
Uh eight million. 7.5. Dang.
Texas is big. They They go big, I guess.
>> down there.
They go big with everything, even their lottery.
>> No, see okay. I I have to play a book.
>> All right. I think I'm going to do it.
>> 31.
>> [snorts] >> I I I think I'm going to do it.
>> 46. It's going to be Mr. Cat's fun hour.
33.
Four.
And 67. No.
I could be that person.
>> [clears throat] >> Uh while visiting the state of Texas on work trip Mr. Cat decided to take a chance at the lottery.
You know, visiting him from Charlotte wins lottery.
Oh, we got a match. First number.
>> Wow, this 20 Million Supreme ticket Yeah. it debuted When did it debut?
How do we know when it debuted? When They have all these statistics, but I don't see that.
So, are you going to be able to like check the tickets as you're scratching them because you're just going to have one phone, right?
Oh, I'll bring both phones. I'll bring that phone that only has wireless. Okay.
What the heck is the When did this ticket debut? And you got to make sure you line it up and everything.
>> I know. It's harder than you think. Oh, another match.
>> It's harder than it looks.
Okay. So, [clears throat] this No, this pack you're guaranteed 850 back. Mhm.
60. Now, get this.
41.
>> 20 Million Supreme.
69.
26.
36. Oh, 36 is a match. They printed four tickets in the entire state.
>> three matches. 10.
20.
30 bucks. All right, we got 50 bucks.
All right.
What spot?
Yes, I heard you. It goes 20 million and then 100,000.
Dang, that's crazy. They printed four of them. There's three left. Mhm, maybe you'll get one. 11 40 13 60 30 61 31 and seven. Look at that, 60 30 61 31.
Interesting numbers. All right, come on tickets. All right, we got 50 bucks out of 350.
Come on.
>> [snorts] >> 100 X. Two to 100 X are the multipliers on this ticket.
Bonus numbers. 64.
63.
29.
18.
And no 23. All right, so one winner on that ticket. Let's try some 100,000 Cash Payday. Top prize is 100,000.
Coins, gold bar, excuse me, or [clears throat] diamond here, three dollar burst, money bag, or 10 X down here.
All righty, coins. No clover.
Hat.
>> 20 Million Dollar ticket. Are [clears throat] you kidding me? What in the world?
I'm I just can't stop looking at this ticket.
I have to buy a book of them. Okay.
Please don't let me >> 255 47 53 27 13 58 20 48 and 23.
>> Hey, maybe I can just take this pack and put you in my my back [clears throat] pocket and bring you with me.
>> [snorts] >> Oh, pack what up? You. Oh, I cannot come with you. Well, I tell you what.
When I'm at the hotel what's just be like Gohan and Goku and do instant transmission and you just show up. Okay.
All right, come on 100,000.
>> And I'm hungry. I'm going to make lunch after this.
>> What are you going to make?
Uh I don't know.
Hey.
What?
Do you want to show everybody that that pasta salad you made? Oh, yeah. I guess I could show that.
>> That's good stuff, man. It's still in my mixing bowl, but I'll show it if I remember.
>> [snorts] >> All righty, last row, 39.
34.
>> them 67.
40.
22, one off. Dang it. You feel weird?
Like in what way?
Like in what way do you feel weird?
>> Well, I bought new clothes yesterday.
Oh, like your clothes are too tight? No.
Well, I had to buy I bought one pants >> [clears throat] >> and one shirt. That's actually a lot for Mr. Cat. That's a very successful shopping trip.
Did we ever talk about this or no?
Probably, but Did we talk about this? Did we Did we do session yesterday? I After we came home?
>> session yesterday. No, after we came home. Oh, yes. We did?
Yes, we did two.
>> [clears throat] >> I don't think we ever talked about it.
Yes, we did.
I mean, I guess I could try to >> [snorts] >> Do you have a headache?
I I My head doesn't ache.
Other parts ache.
Oh, like you worked out or something? I have a stomach ache. Oh, really?
>> ache. Oh, that sucks.
>> ache.
>> I'm sorry about that. Actually, not really.
>> heel. My heel aches. Well, that's Those are all self-inflicted, so I don't feel sorry for you. Okay.
Thanks, Miss Cat. Yep. See, I knew you were mad at me today about something.
Not mad. I don't get mad. I get even.
So something's upsetting you that I might Did I do something to annoy you?
Nothing uh Nothing out of the ordinary. Any other day.
>> good at deceiving me sometimes.
>> and one.
>> Cuz you're so smart. Like you can like walk around and do >> 39.
I really love you. 44.
Dang it. No.
All right. One more. So what are we going to do? Are we just going to sit on the couch? Rabbits. All right, I'm fine.
Lightning bolts, car.
Um Do you want to just chill?
>> to go like, you know, Chill? Um make the bed, I wash the sheets, do the laundry. I have stuff to do.
I'm just going to hang out in the house all day. I'm tired.
Is that why you seem cranky? I'm not cranky.
You know, [clears throat] my elbow still hurts from when I was at [snorts] the Cherokee Casino Park.
I don't know what happened to my my arm.
My elbow. Interesting.
Remember the vampire?
Yeah.
Come on, tickets. What?
One off. You just tell me I'm not winning. One off.
One off. Oh my gosh, this is all Dang it, I had a 70. [laughter] I was going to say Oh, it's a one off. Are all these one offs?
Oh, this whole row is one off. Oh my gosh.
That is ridiculous.
Wowzers.
Come on, $300 burst.
Oh, my 11.
Two? Nope.
All right, last chance. 63.
18. Got 19.
15.
One.
And 33, one off. Our new winner. Oh, dang it. All three of those were losers.
All right, one >> But you always win, I thought. Hey, we got 50 bucks so far. I don't Oh my god, this ticket smells like cologne or something. Oh.
Oh, uh Why does it smell like that?
>> a new fragrance.
Oh my god. Seriously, all right, $200 burst, 10 20 and some money roll. Bucks on the back. I don't know.
I've never had a ticket smell like cologne.
>> What?
Oh gosh, wow. That's pretty strong. Do the other ones smell?
Oh.
>> [laughter] >> Sorry. Sorry, honey. It's my >> Did you spray them? My urban musk Oh gosh. Ew. I need to get you a bottle of urban musk. Ew. All right, come on, bucks.
No. All right, we got 50 bucks out of >> Miss Cat cut my hair.
Oh, yeah, I did to cut your hair a little bit. Yeah.
Looks good. I think you did a really good job.
All righty. Is there nothing between there, honey? 45, 17, 58, 30.
64, 54, one.
35.
Oh my gosh, and 31. All right.
God, these are very strong smelling.
>> [laughter] >> Come on, tickets.
Where's Mr. Oh, they're both sleeping up there. Okay, I'll go We'll go say hi to them when we're done.
>> They're on the tree.
I'm sorry, honey.
All right.
Sorry.
I just can't wait for you to do your session cuz you're you're not going to succeed. Hey. Yeah, it's going to be fun.
>> What the heck?
At least it's going to be high-dollar tickets, so people people will will actually watch it, but Jeez. That's probably the only reason. Well, you're going to have to help me.
I'm not going to be there. You're going to be there in spirit. 26.
34.
16.
40.
I'm going to surprise you.
>> And 46, one off. Dang it. You watch how good I'm going to do. I'm going to I'm going to surpass you. I've learned all these tricks >> Then you can actually do some videos for me. I've learned all these tips from you.
Yeah, there's a difference between learning and then actually doing them.
All right.
You know, enough from the peanut gallery over here.
No bucks. Dang it. Come on, tickets.
52, 27, five, 61, 47, 54, 39, 38, 21, and 32.
Come on, millionaire bucks.
I feel like we haven't found many bursties lately.
Oh, 21 is a match. Yes, finally. Holy cow.
I don't know what I'm talking about.
See, you're already stressing. What am I going to talk about?
You just think of stuff as you scratch to talk about.
>> I I understand now, but I used to just do that with just you and like my own You can be quiet. It's okay.
There's no harm in being quiet.
Come on, tickets. Maybe it's one big match.
62, one off. All right, last row. 64.
>> on my face cream. 51.
24.
Miss Cat said I can't wear that. Nine.
>> it would improve my wrinkles.
>> 56.
All right, one match for 21. 30 bucks.
All right, $80. That's a good We'll take it. It's better than zero. Oh my gosh.
These tickets are rough today.
All righty. Oh, bucks. Yes.
Oh, I thought [clears throat] that was going to be two bucks.
>> [snorts] >> All right, bucks.
Bucks for Hey, 50 bucks.
Yeah. All right, something down the front.
Hey, that's good. 50 bucks. Usually it's like 20.
Awesome. Okay, 50 on the back.
Should be something on the front.
>> [laughter and gasps] >> 17, 28, 60, 33, 58, 63, 64, 11, 36, and 31.
Come on. I had to win $50.
>> [cough] [clears throat] >> Oh, man.
We have no singles.
No singles. Come on, something [clears throat] else. Please, please.
Pretty please with a lottery on top.
Oh, we did it.
>> Pretty please with lottery on top?
>> Yes, we got another win.
All right. Yeah, you got to be a funny person.
I'm a pretty cool chick to hang out with.
>> Oh, I think you are.
>> [laughter] >> You are Yes, you are. You are one cool chick, man.
Yeah, so like I'm going to be like >> 45 I I told one of my counterparts I was like, "Yo, homie."
I was like, "So, what do you do when you're not doing like this?" He's like, "Well, I like to do this and I do that." I'm like, "Yeah."
>> 43. All right, what's under our 28? We got 50 on the back. Hey, 50. 100 bucks.
Cool. Ooh, that helped us. All right, 180.
>> I was like, "My wife and I we run a pretty successful YouTube channel. What do you do on your YouTube channel?" I said, "Well, we scratch lottery tickets." He's like, "What?"
I'm like, "Yeah, I know. I think it's odd, too." All right, 180 out of 350.
It's odd? No, it's not.
>> I I just I remember I was like, "Why would I want to watch somebody scratch a lottery ticket?" Well, Cuz this is what you're doing.
>> Before I started my channel and I couldn't really like I didn't really buy a lot, then I used to like watching people.
>> But like how did you start actually watching it?
Like how did you just like Oh, you were on YouTube one day like doom scrolling and one thing led to another like, "Oh, what's this lottery thing?"
Like how did you find it?
We no longer had access to YouTube TV and I was like, "Huh, what am I going to do?"
>> Huh. So, I was like, "Well, what about regular YouTube?" So, I just went on regular YouTube and I don't know it just came It just came up in my like on my home screen like lottery scratchers and I was like, "Huh, North Carolina? This is pretty cool."
And then I just watched it and you know the more you watch something, the more it puts it in your feed.
>> yeah. And then I was like, "Oh, I really like North Carolina tickets. So, let me search North Carolina." And then I just spiraled.
>> Yeah, yeah. I know how you um It's spiraled.
>> to watch dude from Texas scratching, right? I started He's the one who came up in one of the first channels cuz he's one of the He's one of the biggest channels.
>> And then I was like, "Huh, this is pretty cool."
>> And then you're like and then you That's how and then you eventually found um Scratch Shack, right? And Country >> Yep.
And and then you're like, "Well, maybe I could do this." Yeah, and I was like, "I was like I could do this." I was like, "Well, yeah, man. Like anybody could do it if you got enough, you know, money." Yeah, it is take a little bit of an investment.
>> Money talks.
What does it say?
Shut up. [laughter] All right.
You know, you know, what in the heck?
Oh, gosh.
>> world? [snorts] All right, come on, ticket. Dang it.
Oh, these tickets. My goodness. I mean.
All right, last row.
47 I can't believe how bad my foot feels.
31 >> It doesn't feel like I'm I've lost my my heel. 24 six Oh, no. Dang it.
>> another loser. Another loser. All right, 180 out of 350. What's that?
>> What do you always win?
I mean, I win a little a little something.
>> 180 out of 350 >> Except for that one session.
>> half. Except for [snorts] that one session.
Let's go say hi to the boys. Hello, my boys.
Look at my cuties. Oh my gosh, they are so cute. You guys are so cute. All right, doll. Well, 180, what can you do?
Not many winners, but hey, at least we got that 100. Holy cow. All right, WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THAT SESSION. Please make sure to subscribe. Look at our trees. Oh my gosh, maybe it's going to rain.
Um make sure to subscribe. Leave us a comment. We thank all of you for watching and we will see you tomorrow.
I did.
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