What’s the most you’ve won on a scratch card?

[Yesandnosayso]

I just won £2 thinking SURELY someone has won the big money on these. My day will come… 🥲😂

‘Yes maybe people have won the lottery but they have to let someone occasionally win or else nobody would do it’

Maybe? Hundreds, if not thousands win every week. It’s all regulated.

Eugh hate that there isn’t an edit!
This is the story behind the video

In 1999, Australian Bill Morgan was a truck driver who got in a pretty bad accident that let him in coma. After 12 days and despite doctors giving him zero chance of surviving, he miraculously woke up and was, shockingly, completely fine!

Feeling lucky for surviving, he went on and bought a scratch lottery ticket. The result? He won a AUD$17,000 car (today around AUD$26,000 or US$18,000). Normally winning a car wouldn’t have made it to the news but, because of Morgan’s accident story, Channel 9 decided to do a feature on the man who was ‘clinically dead and came back to win the lottery’.

And so they did.

While filming, they asked him to buy a lottery ticket so they could re-enact the winning scratch. He happily obliged and started scratching the ticket on camera. But suddenly he stopped. He looked at the camera, and said “I just won $250,000. I’m not joking”!

@Getawaywithit

‘Yes maybe people have won the lottery but they have to let someone occasionally win or else nobody would do it’

Maybe? Hundreds, if not thousands win every week. It’s all regulated.

Yes they have to let someone win else nobody would do it. Go to the shop now spend £50 on scratchcards and come back and tell us how much you have won.....

Anyway as they say 'the proof is in the pudding' I don't need to argue my case.

£50 on my 18th birthday!
I do love a scratch card, pre kids me and DH spent a fortune on them.

Wheres your proof hundreds and thousands of people win???

'Every week*

My friend's uncle won £250,000 on a scratch card.

My friend won £1,000.

Most I've won is about £4 - I very rarely buy them!

I know someone who won a million on a 10 pound scratchcard

£100

I know someone who had a big win. I don’t know exact figures as he wouldn’t tell but it was enough to buy a small house.

About £30. DB won £1-200. We often use them as stocking fillers for a bit of fun at Christmas.

I buy a £1 every so often and if I win up to about £10 I get more cards and sometimes get the more expensive ones that cost£5 because I'd never buy them. I sometimes win up to 4 times in a row and will keep any bigger winnings.

It's a tiny tiny amount of my disposable income and there's many things that other people spend a lot on that I never do, so don't consider the odd flutter a waste of money.

My sister's step son managed a local Sainsbury's and he got to know regular customers, a care assistant used to come in each week and buy her EuroMillions ticket and a scratch card. One Friday, she did her usual and went off to her car to scratch off her card, she won a million. Came back into the shop and literally was unable to speak, handed the card to the assistant who checked it with the machine and it had the ominous msg, ring the lottery HQ.

By this time she was a gibbering wreck, so DSS, took her into his office and made the call on her behalf, then had to call her husband to collect her. She came back the next day to collect her car and offered money to him and the assistant, which they refused. She paid off her mortgage and was able to stop working (she was in her 50s).

I think what made us all so happy was that DSS, was just so pleased for her and said she was a really nice lady, who deserved it.

@Shamsa03

You will never win a big amount just like the lottery its a complete waste of money. Yes maybe people have won the lottery but they have to let someone occasionally win or else nobody would do it.

Not sure I understand this, I don’t think the lottery is about “letting” people win, it’s just matching numbers. Albeit hard and unlikely, it isn’t impossible and not a case of “just giving it to someone”

@LatteLady

My sister's step son managed a local Sainsbury's and he got to know regular customers, a care assistant used to come in each week and buy her EuroMillions ticket and a scratch card. One Friday, she did her usual and went off to her car to scratch off her card, she won a million. Came back into the shop and literally was unable to speak, handed the card to the assistant who checked it with the machine and it had the ominous msg, ring the lottery HQ.

By this time she was a gibbering wreck, so DSS, took her into his office and made the call on her behalf, then had to call her husband to collect her. She came back the next day to collect her car and offered money to him and the assistant, which they refused. She paid off her mortgage and was able to stop working (she was in her 50s).

I think what made us all so happy was that DSS, was just so pleased for her and said she was a really nice lady, who deserved it.

Aww!! Stop! Imagine that. That must’ve been such an amazing feeling. What a lovely story

I knew someone who won half a million on a scratch card - about 15 years ago.
It's a really sad story though, ultimately. Certainly didn't bring the winner any lasting joy but they were very generous with it - think shoving £20 note in your hand and walking away telling the stunned recipient to "enjoy a little treat on me!"
Lovely, lovely person before and after who was the only person who couldn't see just how lovely they were.
As for me, I have won more often than not but then I only buy one very occasionally and usually get a feeling that I will win. £10 has been the max!😁

£140. It was one of those where you had lots of opportunities to win and I kept getting £20 and then £10 etc. My heart was pounding so hard, it was ace! My mum won £15k once though so it makes mine sound rather crap 😂

£1000 plus won the odd hundred here and there

I think it was around £70 must have been 13 years ago though! I have also had the odd £20 here and there.

Years ago I was absolutely skint, to the point of no food in the house or petrol in the car. I had put the lottery on the week or so previously so checked my ticket not expecting to have won. I had 4 numbers! Thought it was going to be a fortune, turned out to be £88 but I tell you what I was so grateful for that £88 and it really pulled me put of the dark place I was in at the time! I won't ever forget that little stroke of luck.

A quid.

One month, a few years ago, Glamour magazine had a free Body Shop gift card attached to each of its magazines and I had taken out a dirt cheap subscription (£9.90 for the year, including delivery). I think they were generally worth something like £2/£5 and you had to take them into a Body Shop to find out the value you had won.

I nearly didn’t bother taking mine in but, when I did, the shop assistants said mine looked different to the others they had seen. It was worth £100 so I did a (free) massive shopping spree right there and then!

£10-it’s normally £1/£2
I never buy more with my winnings
My daughter spent £10 on one on her 18th birthday and won nothing-she’s never bothered again

£5,000 was my biggest win.

I know someone who won a million on a scratch card. I think they’ve spent it all though and are now poor. I remember an episode of First Dates and one of the dates bought the other person a scratch card and they won £100k! The camera zoomed in on it and you could see it! I always wondered if the date shared the winnings with the other person?

Big fat zero here!