As a general rule, the more expensive the ticket, the larger it will be: The one-dollar one is about the size of a business card. Unremarkable in design. But the twenty-dollar one is big, and fat, and shiny with glistening glimmers of ecstasy-inducing money baths.
One of the one-dollar games is called "The Udder One." It's about cows. You scratch off the udders and see if you see a milk bottle. If you do, you win the amount of money that is shown directly beneath the winning udder.
Some people do not care to spend the effort to ask for it by its proper name. They just say, "I want the cow one."
Another one of the one-dollar games is called "Super Splatters." In it, birds on a wire strung above, presumably, a parking lot or car dealership go poop onto the cars. If you scratch off all five boxes and you find poop as opposed to, say, a leaf, or an inchworm, or a pamphlet, then you win!
The three-dollar tickets involve more brainpower. They have poker games and bingo games. Some people buy only bingo games because they "don't like to play poker." I got a dirty look when I pointed out that it's not really poker --that it's just a computer generated, statistically precise algorithm with a plasticky picture of poker printed on it.
The five-dollar tickets continue the same theme, but they are about five inches long. The tens are about eight, and the twenty has got to be a foot square.
So there's a science to fleecing people out of their money.
Maybe I'll write more about the scratch-off lottery ticket set later.
