In this YouTube vlog, 18‑year‑old Antonio Moniz (Speaker A) documents his first experience buying and scratching lottery scratch‑off tickets. He begins by explaining his motivation—curiosity and fun rather than expecting a big win—and humorously performs a “bleach‑for‑luck” ritual while introducing a silent companion named Steve. He walks viewers through the mechanics of the tickets: matching two identical symbols for a $50 instant prize, matching numbers for various cash prizes, and special symbols (like a 7) that trigger instant payouts. Moniz scratches several tickets, narrating each reveal. On the first set of tickets he wins small amounts ($5, $10, $15, $25) but also loses on others, ending the set with a net loss of $5. He then opens a second set (Carolina Black tickets), again explaining the rules, and records mixed outcomes: a $5 double‑prize from a dollar‑bill symbol, a $10 win, and several tickets with no payout. After all tickets are scratched, he totals his spending ($20 per ticket, multiple tickets) and reports an overall loss of $20. He concludes with a cautionary note about the risks of gambling on scratch‑offs, advising viewers not to repeat his mistake.
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What's up guys? Yesterday I realized I'm 18 years old, which means I can buy scratch-off tickets. Now, some of these have like the possibility of winning millions of dollars. I'm not an idiot. I know I'm not going to win the million-dollar jackpot or even get thousands of dollars. I'm more just doing this for fun, just to experience it. I've never done a scratch-off before. There is a chance I could win millions. There's multiple chances I could win tens of thousands. More than likely, I probably won't even make my money back. Who knows? Let's just scratch them off and, uh, hopefully I don't get addicted. Sorry, Mom. All right guys, before we get started, I must rub the bottle of bleach for luck. Please bless these scratch-offs. And, uh, we have Steve here. No one loves you, Steve. All right, so step 1, if we match any 2 identical symbols, we win $50 instantly. So I'm just going to go ahead and scratch that off and, uh, see if we win anything on this one. And no, so these two don't match these two symbols, which means I don't win that. Now same thing here, but this time it's $100. Uh, let's see, I'd be crazy if I won. I'd instantly win back all the money I spent. Uh, no. Okay, so right off the bat, we didn't win those two. Now I still scratch out the rest of these, but I'm gonna go ahead and do that on all the cards real quick and see if I won on any of them. Hey, what a shock, none of the symbols on any of the cards matched. Honestly, I'm not that surprised. Alright, so step 2 is, uh, I scratch off these, these are the winning numbers, and I try to match these numbers up here with any of the numbers down here, and if they match, then I get the prize. So basically I just gotta scratch all this off. Oh, okay, so right off the bat we matched a 30 with a 30. Okay, yeah, so that means— wow, I was actually not expecting to win anything. It's probably nothing I won, but so that's the 30 up here, so I'm pretty sure that means whatever the prize below this I won. I won $5, guys! $5! I paid $20 for this ticket and I won a whole $5. Guys, I feel so special right now. This is insane. Uh, I'm going to become a scratch-off— oh wow, that's crazy. Wait, so 14 is one of the numbers up here. This is a 14, so that also means I get this prize. Oh, that means we're up to 15 out of 20. So, so far I've only lost $5. I'm not going to lie, I wasn't expecting to actually win anything. Oh, okay. So as you'll see down here at the bottom, it says if you have a 7, you instantly win the prize shown for that symbol. So, uh, yeah, I have a 7, so let's see what prize that is. Wow, so the 7 gave me $10. Okay, so basically on the first card I matched a 30 and got $5. I matched a 14, which puts my total up to $15, and then I hit a 7, which is an instant prize. So basically on the first card I actually made $5. Okay, so what a shock, on card number 2, paid $20 for the card, didn't win anything. Not surprised though. Let's move on to card number 3. Oh! Okay, so right off the bat, 39's up here, we got a 39 right here. So let's just go ahead and see what I won. Oh, $10! Woohoo! Half the money I spent on the card. Okay. Oh wait, wow, that's a 29, that's a 29. Wow, so I actually won this one as well. Hey, so if they stack, which I'm not 100% sure yet— I'm sure someone will correct me— then that's 10, that's 10. So I already made my money back off this card. Even though I didn't make anything off the last card, but we'll keep going. You guys see that? The first 3 were all winners. That's— I don't know, I've never done this before. I feel like that's uncommon. Let's see what it is. Hey, so I've made $5 off this card. Woohoo! Wasn't a complete waste. Eh, okay. So we have a 14 up there and a 14 down here. The prize is— whoa, okay, so this card won $25 already and I'm not even done with it. There's a 14 up there and that's 14. Awesome. Ah, all right, so this card won me $25. That's, uh, it's pretty nice. I can live with the free $5. All right, time for round 2. This time we're doing Carolina Black. Same thing, match these numbers with those. Reveal certain symbols, I'll let you know if I get them, yada yada, instantly win. All right, so my numbers this time are 39, 25, 8, and 9. All right, got those right there. Let's go, boys. What is mine? No, 31, no, 10, no, 34, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right, so this first card won me nothing. Yay! Alright, our numbers this time around are 23, 35, 24, and 17. Let's go! Oh, okay, so let me pick this up real quick. So we scratched off a dollar bill and now it says, "Reveal a dollar bill symbol, win double the prize shown." So whatever this prize is, hopefully it says $10,000, we get double. This is, oh, $5. Yeah. Hey, hey. Well, seeing how this ticket costs $5, I just doubled my money. That's pretty nice. I know. We know. I know. You know, let's go. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling lucky on this card. This is the good card. Hah, we won nothing. Sad face. Alright, this is my last card. Let's go boys, come on. I need a new pair of shoes. Isn't that the saying? I don't even know why that's the saying, because I like my shoes. We got 4, 6, 18, and 8. Feeling it. Ah, okay, well, this is the last scratch. Come on, please, please. No. Oh man. All right guys, so 4 tickets, these 4 didn't win me anything. 4 tickets won me money. For all this, I lost $20. Had some fun. Hopefully you guys enjoyed watching. That should teach you not to gamble on scratch-offs because I ended up losing $20, and yeah, that's $20 I'll never get back for nothing. So you definitely should not buy these. See you later.
