For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.

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    1 year ago

    my thinking goes that the longer a particular ticket has gone without hitting, the closer it is to a winner

    If the tickets were perfectly random, this would not be true. But they are not really random at all.

    In reality, everything about the game has been carefully designed to control payouts and entice the consumer.