SoulQueen asked:
I also checked out lottery checker - its pretty neat!
When you have a scratchcard that says ‘pick one of the three stars to scratch’ is there a way of telling which star the prize is under - other than a calculated guess is there a way to look through the silver scratchy stuff?
Tags: Stuff, Three Stars
March 8th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Not anymore.
Before you could shine a torch through them while holding the card up, but the makers found out and changed the silver stuff, so you can not do it any more.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:20 am
only with xray eyes
March 11th, 2009 at 8:41 am
i cant help exactly but i was told there was a way newsagents might know something about it
March 15th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
yes get a coin and slide it over the top
not scratching haha xD joke.
March 15th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
err…. no my love.. thats why they use it
sorry
March 17th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Mathematically there is a way, in much the same way as you can guess what cards somebody else has at a poker table.
But that’s just mathematical, you can know that one of 1000 or whatever has a small prize.
It would be a fairly major error to still make scratchcards which you didn’t have to scratch.
March 20th, 2009 at 3:24 am
Assuming that there was a way, do you think I would tell you and the rest of the world? The lotteries would quickly change the cards so it couldn’t be done.
I am sure that everything has been thought of including x-rays.
March 20th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I don’t think so — or all the convenience store clerks would be millionaires!
March 21st, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Yes there is, but i am not telling