Washington State Lottery

I am totally, completely, embarrassingly, insanely, addicted to Bingo Bingo scratch tickets… I’ll even play Slingo and Diamond Bingo…
I am down $ 10 total (after playing LOTS of cards, so really not too bad at all) but these scratch tickets are more like a game. Less find a quarter and scratch and more of a sit down and concentrate game. So it keeps me busy when I have too much time to think!
The most I have won on one ticket was $ 25. I typically buy 4 – 5 tickets and takes me a week to get through them. One here, one there.
Someone please stop me.

Never thought of writing a review of the lottery until I goofled in trying to find out when winning tickets expired (180 days).
Unlike my fellow reviewers, I’m not a serious gambler, I (sometimes) pick up one ticket for each of the multi-​state lotteries when they go over a certain amount. (1 $ 2 ticket for Powerball when it’s over $ 100 million & $ 1 dollar for Megamillions when it’s over $ 50 million). That’s it.
My low review is based on:
Many states have their tickets expire one year after the drawing, Washington should too. It would be a good PR thing for a none too upstanding business. It’s a dirty way to up the take.
The tickets have become more «fragile» over the years. Once again, why «cheat» when the game is already (massively) rigged in the houses favor?
One type of the lottery machines works so poorly that it takes twice to three times as long to get a ticket, or check a ticket. Replace them with the better machines.
In general, state lotteries are bad: High overhead to profit ratio for the state. Poor odds for the gamblers. Loud advertisements trying to hook people, while fine print says don’t get hooked. Politicians addicted to the revenue. Etc… So even the best of them wouldn’t get more than 3 stars from me… (Unless I won a large jackpot :)
And finally: I haven’t won a jackpot.
Fix the above, I raise the stars.

This is a bit of a double-​edged sword-​on one hand if I give them one star I’m effectively crapping down the throat of the Karma God but on the other hand how can I give five stars to something that has so consistently failed to deliver? So instead I will elect for a nice safe three in the hope that good things might still come my way…
Where to start? Having recently given up smoking and in search of another safer vice the lottery seemed ripe with promise, like an 8-​ball on a Friday night or a 1967 Triumph motorcycle and a 4 day weekend. Instead the disappointment has been crushing akin to ordering Sea Monkeys from the back off a comic at 10 years old and finding no fancy King and Queen but humble brine Shrimp Yet I continue to pay my dollar (or 5 dollars…) a couple of times a week confident that this time is my time, like Sly Stone in 1969 or Elvis in 56 but each and every time I feel like Carrie at the Prom… Why are they laughing? Aren’t my numbers good enough? Why does it have to be so hard? The odds say 1 in 40 but I think I had a better chance of getting cancer if I kept smoking! Oh well,…At least I don’t live in Vegas…