As far as this type of stuff goes, it seems mostly harmless. It also seemed like a mix of stuff for rich assholes to blow their money on and brag about as well as fun little things everyone can get involved with and maybe win a prize.
There was actually a bit of drama around the pt cruiser car where someone turned off the GPS tracking on it and was trying to drive it back to her state
Now that sounds more likely than jumping it into a lake or off a cliff or some other dumb nonsense. The fact somebody would figure out a way to turn off the GPS shows they had serious intent.
MSCHF is satirical, they're way more clever than hypebeast nonsense like Supreme. I honestly think they're really cool. My favourite was the ATM with a leaderboard at some bourgie art museum
Tontine's still going on btw. I'm in it. We're at 277 players left. I've been having a lot of fun with it, and it's been a good way to practice programming and data science.
Great vid guyz, but sorry in advance for this but i've got a request: Make Matt sing the Spongebob quare pants theme, just a lil cover ^^ (maybe with tech wordings/parody it, sorry again, but something tells me were a lot wanting it hihi
Well according to one person here in the comments someone did disable the GPS tracker and try to drive it to a different state. And another comment said the car was quote both "dead" and "stuck". So apparently the story didn't exactly have a happy ending.
tiffany actually makes a lot of trophies, they make the superbowl, afc and nfc championship trophies for football, the major nba trophies and wnba championship trophy. they also did 2 trophies for lol tournaments. im sure theres more but i dont watch other sports and tiffany making the league trophy is hilarious to me
Honestly, compared to a lot of this hypebeast crap this actually seems really fun. It's not meant to be taken seriously it's meant to be ridiculous and it does exactly what it sets out to do. This is like what bansky is/was to art as these guys are to the culture of hype.
12:50 You joke about that, yet, at least with Google Assistant, even when my dad or I didn't say "OK Google" while we were talking together, his phone's Google Assistant randomly gave us a search result about a topic of what we had been talking about. This has happened on several occasions for a ton of people, too. Not only that, but I swear it often happened to me that, even though I don't use Google Assistant myself, oftentimes I would surf the web and see random ads for things that I had recently been talking about, or even TH-cam videos in the "Recommended" area about stuff I talked about. So, call me paranoid or whatever, but I am 100% certain that Alexa would still be listening in on your conversations even when muted, at best, it just wouldn't respond to anything being said, at worst, it would give you responses sometime later just completely randomly.
Honestly if you have anything like an Alexa in your house you may as well have a spy in your house. It's only paranoia if there isn't obvious proof that it is exactly what it seems to be. We've already seen that proven because Amazon also owns ring video doorbell cameras.
Someone else mentioned that apparently someone from the discord disabled the GPS and tried to drive it to another state apparently. The fact it's dead sounds about right though. I have no idea the longevity of a PT cruiser.
I absolutely agree and I mean that in the broadest sense like it's a total waste of time to buy literally anything. We're all just temporary in this reality why burden ourselves with garbage.
The one of me a buzz me about this company is 50% of the products are real products and the other 50% is like a scam fake products Like mystery boxes that just has a key to the next mystery box
I forgot all about that Mschf car thingy! I didn't think it was actually real. I was confused what it was and it sounded to bizarre to be real. I'm glad tbh tho that it is still going on and no one has ruined it by totaling it or the government shutting it down. Lol.
Well, according to a couple people here in the comments that's not entirely true. One comment said that a woman disabled the GPS and tried to drive it to another state. And another said that the car was both "dead" and "stuck".
Here's how I do my taxes each year in Norway where I live: Login to my social welfare page (because that's where I get my money as I don't work) and find the "Taxation percentage" page Then I choose a taxation percentage that is a little higher than it was previously set at, Now I logoff, and I am done. Don't have to do anything else for the taxes, cause the tax office handles pretty much absolutely everything for us. So that taxation game would be worthless for me xD
Sadly that isn't how it works in the US we basically have to keep up with everything then make guesses with some stuff as it wasn't told to us and if we get it wrong we owe a lot of money or receive jail time.
Unfortunately, I had discovered MSCHF within one or two days of the launch of their mystery box, so of course, they were already sold out. That is unfortunate, because it would have been a decent investment for me. I would have chosen to just hold onto the box, only to return it at the appropriate time to maximize my return on investment. I would have had practically zero temptation to open my box. It would have been easy money for me!!! As Austin stated, this is a no-brainer . . . return the box unopened and receive a guaranteed return on it, or take a huge risk by opening it, in the hopes of winning one of the few prizes that would have had a greater value than what one would receive by returning the unopened box. One element Austin and Matt failed to mention was that MSCHF had a list of all the "prizes" that were sent out in these boxes, including the quantity of each prize available. This list would be updated whenever a participant would open their box, and claim their prize. This way, the list would serve as a further temptation to some participants, making it all that much more difficult for many to successfully wait out the time for maximum return on their investment, while not giving in to temptation to open the box . . . partly out of gambling greed to potentially win a more valuable prize, and partially directly derived from plain, old curiosity. The list being consistently updated with the quantity of each unclaimed prize would simply be far too much for some to handle. This was designed to be a further temptation to the players, hence making it that much more difficult to hold out and return the box unopened. I believe the most valued prized was somewhere around $25k! However, I wouldn't care if there were only two unclaimed prizes left, and one was the top prize . . . as long as that remaining second prize wasn't valued more than what I was guaranteed to win by returning my unopened box, I would not risk it. I would have no problem going with the sure win, rather than gambling it away. Unfortunately, I was a day late, and a dollar short. The only thing I have ever gambled on consistently is myself, and that has always been, and will continue to be, wagering on my skill in billiards against other players. Whenever I enter a pool hall, I consider the money which I have on me, outside of the potential cost of table time, in addition to food, and drinks, to already be gone. If I go with $120 in my pocket, and I set aside $20 for table time, food, and drinks, then I picture the remaining $100 as nonexistent, like it was never there . . . for it could actually turn out to be the exact equivalence of such a condition. That way, if I can not afford to lose that money, then I don't take the chance of gambling it away . . . because you can't, and you won't win them all . . . even if you only gamble on yourself, because most players would rather be lucky any day of the week than to be highly skilled. Often, skill will not triumph over luck, and with just enough luck, anyone could beat any other player. Luck can beat Efren Reyes, not consistently, not even often, but it still has the potential, and once in a blue moon, it will even reign supreme over Efren! Lew, from Unbox Therapy, received one of these boxes from MSCHF, to unbox in a video. I believe he received it as a promotional item of which he did not pay for. So naturally, with no money on the line, and having a channel titled "Unbox Therapy", he went ahead and opened the box. Any guesses as to the quality of prize his box contained? He actually came out pretty good, even if he had paid for the box. He won one of the top line DJI drones. I mean, I would be incredibly satisfied with winning such a prize, but it would never happen, because I would never be tempted enough to open my box. I couldn't help but wonder if MSCHF had knowingly sent him the drone intentionally as further temptation for the participants when seeing how easy it was to win a decent prize, or if Lew just managed to have luck on his side that day. Typically, when it came to billiards, I would usually come out on top, but there were plenty of times where I had lost all of the greenback I was carrying on me. Thus, I developed a highly useful manner of perspective to keep me out of any gambling problems. I would always imagine any money I was willing to gamble with as being already lost, and I would ask myself, "Am I okay with losing this money?" Of course, I'm not okay with losing that money, or any money for that matter, so allow me to rephrase that question. "Will I be okay if the forces that be should see to it that I shall lose all of this money?", and if I wasn't completely aware that I would be okay, then I simply would not gamble with it. This is how, and partly why, billiards is the only thing I will gamble upon, and only when it's gambling on me. When you gamble on yourself, then you know what you are capable of performing, and you only have yourself to blame if you lose . . . except for those instances of somebody else's dumb luck. One other note about gambling. I have worked at a few convenience stores in a couple of different states, and there were always the addicts, what with the selling of nicotine, ephedrine, alcohol, even caffeine, and of course lottery tickets, and scratchers/instant win tickets. I assume that it was partially the inexpensive ticket price that made it so easy for some to develop an addiction to that form of gambling. It was but a mere dollar or two, here and there, no real harm as they would believe, but then it would grow and grow to more and more tickets eventually becoming $20 a day during their stop at the store after work, then it would be $20 twice a day, before and after work. Then on to $50, and so forth. One of the biggest addicts I had at one convenience store was a middle-aged lady who worked as a Black Jack dealer on the riverboat casino, go figure! These tickets would come to the store in rolls of 300 tickets, on the back, the odds of winning were clearly marked, typically about 1 in 5 back in those days. I had the number of winning tickets for each scratch off game pretty much memorized because they were all so similar, at least all of the $1 tickets were compared to other $1 tickets, same for the $2 tickets, and even the $5 tickets. For example, and this is a rough estimate from what I can recall, but each 300 ticket roll would have around 20 free tickets winners, maybe 15 $1 winners, 10 $2 winners, 5 $5 dollar winners, 5 $10 winners, 2 $20 winners, and 1 $40 (or $50) winner. The breakdown would be something similar to that example, except you also had the big prizes which would rare winners and not guaranteed to be in every roll. The highest winning amount basically guaranteed in any of the 300 ticket rolls of $1 tickets would be either a $40 prize or a $50 dollar prize, and there would be exactly one per roll. So, that is 58 winners out of 300, just two winning tickets shy of having the winning odds be 1 in 5, while the total winning prize payout from a roll netting the store $300 in sales, in this case, would be about $200, which is much more than I remember, so my example must be rather off. However, I can definitely vouch for there being only one of the $40 or $50 winners in a roll, and typically two of the $20 winners, the rest is rather fuzzy after so much time. However, watching these people spend so much of their money, to eventually win $40 or $50 was sad, mostly because it would bring them so much joy for winning $40 after spending $60, they simply could not see that they were losing more money than winning. I have only seen a bigger winner twice, I believe, and that would have a devastating effect upon the addicts because they could never fathom how much money they had lost to win that $500 or whatever it was. Thus, they would falsely believe that they were up on the system for quite some time from that big win, when they were actually still under. Most would not take the tickets with them to play later, rather they needed to get their fix immediately, and they would play right there at my cash register. So, in watching these addicts play over and over, I could usually sense when a certain scratch off game was due to hit, and this twisted the odds in my favor. I wouldn't play as often as the addicts, let alone spend as much money, but I would be a more frequent winner than they ever were . . . and once in a while, I would find winning tickets atop of the ashtray/garbage cans where the addicts would typically dispose of lines of multiple untorn tickets. I didn't even have to read the rules of the game, I would just scratch off the entire ticket, and examine the code which was a three letter code: TKT = free ticket, ONE = $1, TWO = $2, FVE = $5, TEN = $10, TWY= $20, FRY = $40, FFY = $50. Fairly simple, right? I always double checked the tickets against the rules of the game to be sure, but also to be sure it wasn't a big winner, for the one big winner where I had seen the code, it was not logical like the previous examples, something akin to the likes of GJZ being a code for a $200 winner. Eventually, I would come to view these state scratcher/instant tickets, and the lottery tickets as being nothing more than a basic idiot tax, which I no longer pay. However, after moving to Arizona, and buying scratchers for the first time, I had won $50 off of a $5 ticket, and I believe $10 off a $1 ticket, I returned to claim my money, and got two more tickets, where I won an addition $20. I took my money, and said thank you, Arizona, I have beaten you, even if it was only around $68, that is still a positive $68!!! And in the nearly 30 years since, I have not once purchase another lottery ticket of any kind in Arizona, or any other state!!! I beat the system . . . at least in regards to Arizona's, so I find contentment in that achievement, and I remain a winner!!!
sorry guys couldn't come in to work at This Is all last week cause my 2005 PT cruiser got stolen by one of the other 4,999 key holders
So legal grand theft auto?
@@AceOfToast that's still not legal lol
Sorry to hear that. Time for an upgrade!
One day I will actually find that car.
You were missed!
As far as this type of stuff goes, it seems mostly harmless. It also seemed like a mix of stuff for rich assholes to blow their money on and brag about as well as fun little things everyone can get involved with and maybe win a prize.
And honestly between maybe winning some money and Rich douchebags throwing their money down a rathole it's win-win.
I have the feeling that the guys at mschf laugh about the rich asshohles as much as we do.
I just thought the waifu did my taxes because she loved me so much 😢
She does
uWu Aron's getting audited uWu
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@the-heavenly-desender why at least someone loves him.
I’m such a simp for faze that I actually invested in some of there stocks uWu. Wht a joke😂😂
There was actually a bit of drama around the pt cruiser car where someone turned off the GPS tracking on it and was trying to drive it back to her state
Now that sounds more likely than jumping it into a lake or off a cliff or some other dumb nonsense. The fact somebody would figure out a way to turn off the GPS shows they had serious intent.
I remember this. It was a girl that claimed she did it "for her safety" in using the car.
It would be fun to be a product dev working for that company, that's for sure.
Fun fact, the first world championship baseball trophy was made by Tiffany. So they've actually been in the trophy making business a while.
actually the alexagate is based on an open source project which is *MUCH COOLER*, where you can set custom commands, and custom names, and stuff
5:56 @Vitaminechan is the CG artist for those who are enjoying her design. ;)
My money is on Ken wanting to file his taxes like that.
You're just saying what we're all thinking.
The Alexagate seems along the sames lines of those Faraday Cages for your router that are just a paper holder rebranded
MSCHF is satirical, they're way more clever than hypebeast nonsense like Supreme. I honestly think they're really cool. My favourite was the ATM with a leaderboard at some bourgie art museum
Lol it wasn’t an art museum. It was Art Basel.
My favourite product of theres was the fenty gloss & ketchup packets. As it just seemed so odd even for them 😂
Their best product is definitely the Dead Startups collection. I really want my own Theranos and Juicero...
Whoah I just noticed the Chainbear shirt, nice.
Why is the feet pix number from Broome County NY
*I don't care who the IRS sends, I'm not paying my taxes*
Hahah I wanna see how that goes bud……..ha dumbass
Tontine's still going on btw. I'm in it. We're at 277 players left. I've been having a lot of fun with it, and it's been a good way to practice programming and data science.
Waifu Tax : Uwu your going to federal jail 😳👉👈
Tiffany makes trophies for all major sports in the US. They even make Esports trophies now.
only the yearly created trophies, not the ones that are kept by the leagues until the championship games…
No way they didint cover the big red boots
The tony hawk pro skater sound effects always get me 😂
Great vid guyz, but sorry in advance for this but i've got a request: Make Matt sing the Spongebob quare pants theme, just a lil cover ^^ (maybe with tech wordings/parody it, sorry again, but something tells me were a lot wanting it hihi
Austin didn't realize that kids don't do taxes
that ending: they called his bluff and he had to cover himself legally
I'm surprised no-one did a simple ignition swap and keep the car
Well according to one person here in the comments someone did disable the GPS tracker and try to drive it to a different state. And another comment said the car was quote both "dead" and "stuck".
So apparently the story didn't exactly have a happy ending.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu oof
tiffany actually makes a lot of trophies, they make the superbowl, afc and nfc championship trophies for football, the major nba trophies and wnba championship trophy. they also did 2 trophies for lol tournaments. im sure theres more but i dont watch other sports and tiffany making the league trophy is hilarious to me
You've gone a long way Duncan... I'm proud ❤.
I'm sorry finding the milk was took so long... I'm back. Daddy's back ❤❤❤
Honestly, compared to a lot of this hypebeast crap this actually seems really fun. It's not meant to be taken seriously it's meant to be ridiculous and it does exactly what it sets out to do.
This is like what bansky is/was to art as these guys are to the culture of hype.
Except they also make money and screw others out of it.
@@EmeraldHill-vo1cs
Yeah that too.
I get this one more than other stuff but it doesn't mean I would actually participate in it.
When you kept saying dots, I thought like candy dots.
I just got two of the mschfmag Vol 5 and Vol 6
the Hole one is really cool don’t be haters
You should purchase the items from all the youtube ads!!! Show all the scams!
It's Ken. You are talking about Ken. Lol
Nothing surprises me with art one artist sold tins of his his own feces for like 200k or the artist who literally sold a empty plinth
because of this ,went and downloaded the Chair Simulator game . lol
The magic the gathering secret lair had some sick art!
Love the NY love Matt's showing with the Genesee beer shirt.
No way mschf is giving you money to send a box back
12:50 You joke about that, yet, at least with Google Assistant, even when my dad or I didn't say "OK Google" while we were talking together, his phone's Google Assistant randomly gave us a search result about a topic of what we had been talking about. This has happened on several occasions for a ton of people, too. Not only that, but I swear it often happened to me that, even though I don't use Google Assistant myself, oftentimes I would surf the web and see random ads for things that I had recently been talking about, or even TH-cam videos in the "Recommended" area about stuff I talked about. So, call me paranoid or whatever, but I am 100% certain that Alexa would still be listening in on your conversations even when muted, at best, it just wouldn't respond to anything being said, at worst, it would give you responses sometime later just completely randomly.
Honestly if you have anything like an Alexa in your house you may as well have a spy in your house.
It's only paranoia if there isn't obvious proof that it is exactly what it seems to be.
We've already seen that proven because Amazon also owns ring video doorbell cameras.
As someone both with a Key and in the Discord.
I can say you got quite a bit wrong lmao.
The car is both dead and stuck atm
Someone else mentioned that apparently someone from the discord disabled the GPS and tried to drive it to another state apparently. The fact it's dead sounds about right though.
I have no idea the longevity of a PT cruiser.
The PT Cruiser story reminded me of hitchBOT
Is that a chain bear shirt?
We know it was Ken that wanted to use the tax thing
Everything a waste of money.
I absolutely agree and I mean that in the broadest sense like it's a total waste of time to buy literally anything.
We're all just temporary in this reality why burden ourselves with garbage.
So in other words they sell overprice unneeded items to idiots who think they're cool
Tiffany actually has made trophies for NASCAR
The Lombardi trophy for the Super Bowl is made by Tiffany
My Favorite was the mystery box like drop 16 i think, or the FamousMouse coin
The feet is funny LMAO!!!
The one of me a buzz me about this company is 50% of the products are real products and the other 50% is like a scam fake products
Like mystery boxes that just has a key to the next mystery box
Could you imagine the lawsuit tho if someone got their sin number stolen cause the game
I got the blur money a few years back
I forgot all about that Mschf car thingy! I didn't think it was actually real. I was confused what it was and it sounded to bizarre to be real. I'm glad tbh tho that it is still going on and no one has ruined it by totaling it or the government shutting it down. Lol.
Well, according to a couple people here in the comments that's not entirely true.
One comment said that a woman disabled the GPS and tried to drive it to another state. And another said that the car was both "dead" and "stuck".
No the toasters are still being sold, bought one for my brother as gag gift lol
Stonks📈📈📈
Build a gaming PC with parts from Temu
I have a key. I also have one of the Warhols.
Vowels are overrated. Can confirm.
Someone please, buy my FAZE Clan stonks I will sell them to you for a packet of Gushers at this point
No
A package of gushers???!!!!!! you insult us sir.
So Matt just really loves 30 Rock, huh?
Like for Matt's Genny Shirt.
ayo he looks like austin evans
Welp I wasnt subscribed and you called me out by name guess i better hit that button!
Jimmy really don't understand right? everyone! will do anything for money!... this is super dangerous... glad I didn't heard about it
Mschf is fire
Why is the comment section so dead now for this channel
they really doing what alot of artist talk about they really trolling but they trolling with pure creativity feel like duchamp on acid
Here's how I do my taxes each year in Norway where I live:
Login to my social welfare page (because that's where I get my money as I don't work) and find the "Taxation percentage" page
Then I choose a taxation percentage that is a little higher than it was previously set at,
Now I logoff, and I am done.
Don't have to do anything else for the taxes, cause the tax office handles pretty much absolutely everything for us.
So that taxation game would be worthless for me xD
Must be nice to have a smoothly functioning government. Oh how I wish we had one.
Sadly that isn't how it works in the US we basically have to keep up with everything then make guesses with some stuff as it wasn't told to us and if we get it wrong we owe a lot of money or receive jail time.
WOULD BUY THE BOX AND XRAY IT :D
wait wait wait hahaha some of the dudes of fazeclan crying about their stocks XD true hahahah idiots good one Austin
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Unfortunately, I had discovered MSCHF within one or two days of the launch of their mystery box, so of course, they were already sold out. That is unfortunate, because it would have been a decent investment for me. I would have chosen to just hold onto the box, only to return it at the appropriate time to maximize my return on investment. I would have had practically zero temptation to open my box. It would have been easy money for me!!! As Austin stated, this is a no-brainer . . . return the box unopened and receive a guaranteed return on it, or take a huge risk by opening it, in the hopes of winning one of the few prizes that would have had a greater value than what one would receive by returning the unopened box.
One element Austin and Matt failed to mention was that MSCHF had a list of all the "prizes" that were sent out in these boxes, including the quantity of each prize available. This list would be updated whenever a participant would open their box, and claim their prize. This way, the list would serve as a further temptation to some participants, making it all that much more difficult for many to successfully wait out the time for maximum return on their investment, while not giving in to temptation to open the box . . . partly out of gambling greed to potentially win a more valuable prize, and partially directly derived from plain, old curiosity. The list being consistently updated with the quantity of each unclaimed prize would simply be far too much for some to handle. This was designed to be a further temptation to the players, hence making it that much more difficult to hold out and return the box unopened.
I believe the most valued prized was somewhere around $25k! However, I wouldn't care if there were only two unclaimed prizes left, and one was the top prize . . . as long as that remaining second prize wasn't valued more than what I was guaranteed to win by returning my unopened box, I would not risk it. I would have no problem going with the sure win, rather than gambling it away. Unfortunately, I was a day late, and a dollar short.
The only thing I have ever gambled on consistently is myself, and that has always been, and will continue to be, wagering on my skill in billiards against other players. Whenever I enter a pool hall, I consider the money which I have on me, outside of the potential cost of table time, in addition to food, and drinks, to already be gone. If I go with $120 in my pocket, and I set aside $20 for table time, food, and drinks, then I picture the remaining $100 as nonexistent, like it was never there . . . for it could actually turn out to be the exact equivalence of such a condition. That way, if I can not afford to lose that money, then I don't take the chance of gambling it away . . . because you can't, and you won't win them all . . . even if you only gamble on yourself, because most players would rather be lucky any day of the week than to be highly skilled. Often, skill will not triumph over luck, and with just enough luck, anyone could beat any other player. Luck can beat Efren Reyes, not consistently, not even often, but it still has the potential, and once in a blue moon, it will even reign supreme over Efren!
Lew, from Unbox Therapy, received one of these boxes from MSCHF, to unbox in a video. I believe he received it as a promotional item of which he did not pay for. So naturally, with no money on the line, and having a channel titled "Unbox Therapy", he went ahead and opened the box. Any guesses as to the quality of prize his box contained? He actually came out pretty good, even if he had paid for the box. He won one of the top line DJI drones. I mean, I would be incredibly satisfied with winning such a prize, but it would never happen, because I would never be tempted enough to open my box. I couldn't help but wonder if MSCHF had knowingly sent him the drone intentionally as further temptation for the participants when seeing how easy it was to win a decent prize, or if Lew just managed to have luck on his side that day.
Typically, when it came to billiards, I would usually come out on top, but there were plenty of times where I had lost all of the greenback I was carrying on me. Thus, I developed a highly useful manner of perspective to keep me out of any gambling problems. I would always imagine any money I was willing to gamble with as being already lost, and I would ask myself, "Am I okay with losing this money?" Of course, I'm not okay with losing that money, or any money for that matter, so allow me to rephrase that question. "Will I be okay if the forces that be should see to it that I shall lose all of this money?", and if I wasn't completely aware that I would be okay, then I simply would not gamble with it. This is how, and partly why, billiards is the only thing I will gamble upon, and only when it's gambling on me. When you gamble on yourself, then you know what you are capable of performing, and you only have yourself to blame if you lose . . . except for those instances of somebody else's dumb luck.
One other note about gambling. I have worked at a few convenience stores in a couple of different states, and there were always the addicts, what with the selling of nicotine, ephedrine, alcohol, even caffeine, and of course lottery tickets, and scratchers/instant win tickets. I assume that it was partially the inexpensive ticket price that made it so easy for some to develop an addiction to that form of gambling. It was but a mere dollar or two, here and there, no real harm as they would believe, but then it would grow and grow to more and more tickets eventually becoming $20 a day during their stop at the store after work, then it would be $20 twice a day, before and after work. Then on to $50, and so forth. One of the biggest addicts I had at one convenience store was a middle-aged lady who worked as a Black Jack dealer on the riverboat casino, go figure! These tickets would come to the store in rolls of 300 tickets, on the back, the odds of winning were clearly marked, typically about 1 in 5 back in those days. I had the number of winning tickets for each scratch off game pretty much memorized because they were all so similar, at least all of the $1 tickets were compared to other $1 tickets, same for the $2 tickets, and even the $5 tickets. For example, and this is a rough estimate from what I can recall, but each 300 ticket roll would have around 20 free tickets winners, maybe 15 $1 winners, 10 $2 winners, 5 $5 dollar winners, 5 $10 winners, 2 $20 winners, and 1 $40 (or $50) winner. The breakdown would be something similar to that example, except you also had the big prizes which would rare winners and not guaranteed to be in every roll. The highest winning amount basically guaranteed in any of the 300 ticket rolls of $1 tickets would be either a $40 prize or a $50 dollar prize, and there would be exactly one per roll. So, that is 58 winners out of 300, just two winning tickets shy of having the winning odds be 1 in 5, while the total winning prize payout from a roll netting the store $300 in sales, in this case, would be about $200, which is much more than I remember, so my example must be rather off. However, I can definitely vouch for there being only one of the $40 or $50 winners in a roll, and typically two of the $20 winners, the rest is rather fuzzy after so much time. However, watching these people spend so much of their money, to eventually win $40 or $50 was sad, mostly because it would bring them so much joy for winning $40 after spending $60, they simply could not see that they were losing more money than winning. I have only seen a bigger winner twice, I believe, and that would have a devastating effect upon the addicts because they could never fathom how much money they had lost to win that $500 or whatever it was. Thus, they would falsely believe that they were up on the system for quite some time from that big win, when they were actually still under. Most would not take the tickets with them to play later, rather they needed to get their fix immediately, and they would play right there at my cash register. So, in watching these addicts play over and over, I could usually sense when a certain scratch off game was due to hit, and this twisted the odds in my favor. I wouldn't play as often as the addicts, let alone spend as much money, but I would be a more frequent winner than they ever were . . . and once in a while, I would find winning tickets atop of the ashtray/garbage cans where the addicts would typically dispose of lines of multiple untorn tickets. I didn't even have to read the rules of the game, I would just scratch off the entire ticket, and examine the code which was a three letter code: TKT = free ticket, ONE = $1, TWO = $2, FVE = $5, TEN = $10, TWY= $20, FRY = $40, FFY = $50. Fairly simple, right? I always double checked the tickets against the rules of the game to be sure, but also to be sure it wasn't a big winner, for the one big winner where I had seen the code, it was not logical like the previous examples, something akin to the likes of GJZ being a code for a $200 winner. Eventually, I would come to view these state scratcher/instant tickets, and the lottery tickets as being nothing more than a basic idiot tax, which I no longer pay. However, after moving to Arizona, and buying scratchers for the first time, I had won $50 off of a $5 ticket, and I believe $10 off a $1 ticket, I returned to claim my money, and got two more tickets, where I won an addition $20. I took my money, and said thank you, Arizona, I have beaten you, even if it was only around $68, that is still a positive $68!!! And in the nearly 30 years since, I have not once purchase another lottery ticket of any kind in Arizona, or any other state!!! I beat the system . . . at least in regards to Arizona's, so I find contentment in that achievement, and I remain a winner!!!