I Spent $30,000 On Lottery Tickets And Won ____

In this YouTube video, MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) and his crew purchase 1,000 $30 scratch‑off lottery tickets, spending a total of $30,000. To speed up the process they use a lottery‑app scanner instead of manually scratching each ticket. Over three days they reveal each ticket’s outcome, showing a mix of tiny wins ($30‑$100) and occasional larger prizes ($300, $500, $1,000). By the end they have earned $20,380, leaving a net loss of about $9,500. The video intersperses humor, crew banter, and references to upcoming challenges (24‑hour slime). The conclusion is a clear warning: buying scratch‑off tickets is essentially a losing gamble, and viewers are advised not to try it themselves.
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I spent $30,000 on lottery tickets, scratch-off tickets, whatever you want to call them. These tickets are $30 apiece and I bought 1,000 of them. The top prize for these tickets is $10 million, so I could win $10 million or a couple million dollars or a couple hundred thousand dollars, or I could lose tens of thousands of dollars. Who knows? Originally we were going to scratch off each card individually, but after doing that for like 10 hours, we realized that would take like a really long time, so we thought of a better solution. How about we just use the lottery app to scan This app said this ticket won $50. So this was a $30 ticket that won. Ticket number 2, no prize. Chris! All right, so we're negative $10 right now. The third ticket didn't win. All right, we're negative $40 now. So, so far we've won $110, but we spent $120, so we're negative $10. There's 1,000 of these. There is a chance there could be a $10 million ticket in one of these. Like, if I won $10 million, imagine how much I could give to Twitch streamers. That's a $100 ticket. Whoa, wow. Look. Can you see that? $100. They even gave me confetti. Ethan, are you time-lapsing me right now? $100. So we're $50 negative. Good thing we still have $29,000 to go. No way. What? It says winner, claim at Regal office.
Wait, what?
Hold on, let's scratch it. Scratch it. Scratch it. Hold on. Wait, wait.
50 times 50.
50, what is it times 50? Chris, what if this— what if that says $10,000? Oh wait, 20.
It's $1,000.
Oh, so it was the absolute minimum. Oh man, I know you guys are probably like, wow, you guys are super spoiled. My last video I spent $25,000 and it wasn't even sponsored, so like $1,000 like barely even covers a fraction of one of my videos, but it's still cool. Darn it, the hype thing. I know, I was so hyped, like I thought it was $10 million. Good thing we still have a crapload of tickets.
And 20.
Hey, we won $100. Hey! Hey!
40.
40. Let me scan this ticket real quick. Let's see if this ticket won $10 million. It didn't. It won nothing.
You gotta tell me how much it won.
60.
60.
Yes.
You're not good at your job.
What, you trying to fight?
Yeah. Oh, no.
All right, well, I'm gonna throw this loser at you. Get outta here, you no money winning having ticket ass.
We're officially at $1,200.
Hey!
Officially at $1,230.
Spit. So, so far we're up $500. Ooh, $100. It likes when I clap. Let's try our secret method again. No prize. $50. All right, switching the stack worked. $30. $30. Heck yeah. We're on a win streak. I mean, we're not making money though. They're just breaking even. $50. Hey, there we go. $100. Ooh. $50, $60, $30, $50, $40. Scratch-off.
You hit my face back there.
Good. And now he's crying. I wonder what. Screw you. Hi, side camera. I won $40 again, side camera. Oh wait, that was $100. Stupid side camera distracting me. I'm talking to you guys again. That camera sucks. All right guys, you better pray I win because if I win you're all getting a dollar. 50!
There we go.
Is that what you wanted?
That is what I wanted.
40! So far guys, this is our pile of winners. Look how it measures up to the cards we haven't scratched. Another loser. Holy crap, I haven't won in forever. Is this a winner?
30.
Hey, you got your wish. So far we've We've recouped $3,500 of the $30,000. 30. 30. 30.
Getting 30 on a scratch-off ticket is like getting socks for Christmas.
Worse, it's like getting batteries for Christmas. 30.
But usually if you get batteries for Christmas, that means you got something cool that takes batteries. Unless your family just buys you batteries.
50. Just like, here you go, Johnny, here's some batteries. 60. Yay! Ticket's upside down. According to Chris, this shouldn't work, but it did.
But it's still a loser. 30.
$100.
$100? Yeah. Whoa!
Oh my goodness. Hey dude. Ding-a-ling-a-ling! We have officially crossed $4,000 earned. Hell yeah. $4,050 now. Jake, can you take over for 2 seconds while I reply to my texts? Sure. 30. 50! Oh really? Hey, quit winning money without me. 100! Hey! That's enough to buy like a lot of Snickers from every Walmart. It's enough to buy one leaf blower, but you need like 100 to fly. Tickets! We can buy a leaf blower.
There you go.
And then we can try to fly. That's what we should do. We should use all this money to buy more leaf blowers to combine with the leaf blowers we have to actually fly.
50!
Hey dude, they're funding them. 50! 40! Johnny doo-doo-doo-dooh-boo-doo— Doodoo Johnny dodoop doodoodadoo... Doobidoodle Johnnies? 50 dollars?! I'm gonna be real with you fam squad. How much have we used this camera?
I don't know.
I don't know. Yeah, exactly. Guys, have you noticed this camera? No, so cut that off 'cause this SD card's almost full. Yeah, goodbye. Be gone, thought. $30. $500. Really? Yeah. 5— Hey! 500 smackeroonies. I don't know why I'm showing the camera. You can see it on the phone, which is clearly right there, but 500 smackeroonies. So we've scanned around 200 tickets, which is $6,000 and down, down, down, down. Down, down, down. $60, $60. Da, ha, ha, ha. These are all the tickets we've lost on. See all the losses we've taken? All right, let's keep scanning. You would think gambling like this would be fun, but after a while, it kind of sucks. Just want to know, did I win $10 million or was this a waste of a lot of money? My mom's laughing at me. Mom, do you want to scan one? Sure! I was hoping you would say no. Hey guys, fun story. After this, I'm spending 24 hours in slime, and that was $30, but I don't feel like picking it up. $100. This is like my 10-hour challenge with Stifty. You just slowly see my energy crashing the more we do.
Don't worry, we're doing a 24-hour challenge afterwards.
Yeah, right after this I'm spending 24 hours in slime. Fun. Like, unlike the water one, I think I'll actually be able to nap, so it shouldn't be too bad. So currently we're about $2,000 negative, so if I just wouldn't have done this, I'd have 2 grand more than I have now. You lost us, Jake. What is one lesbian— Oh, that was $100!
Oh my god!
Which one was it? Was it this one? Dude, it took so long to load. I was just like, loser. And then I was like, $100. I'm like, no. I really want to win $10 million. Can you— you'll probably throw it behind you.
I knew that was coming.
Nope. All right, I got that one. That was a $50 ticket. Please tell me this is it. Okay, I got it. I got it, dude. It like literally is like nothing, and then I throw it, it's like, oh, you won. I want the $10 million one. Is that so much to ask for? $50 Actually, yes, yes, actually it is. $500. That was a $500 ticket.
Do you want those?
Oh, you want to throw it? $500.
Really? Yeah, we just won $1,000 off 2 tickets.
At this rate, I feel like I'm gonna lose like 10 grand off all these tickets. $500. What, another one? Yeah, let's do it. We keep getting the $500 smackarooneys. 40.
40.
So far we've won $8,500. 50. 50. 60. $100. $100. No way. Good job. Was it really? Yep. All right, food break. Don't take your anger out on the camera, yo Viking.
He said food break, not break the camera.
Must smash. 40. Ooh!
The one you just dropped?
I don't know, was it the one I just dropped?
I don't know, was it the one you just dropped?
I don't know. 40. Hey Jake, what do polar bears listen to? The radio.
So, a duck walks into a bar.
Okay.
Shits on the floor and then leaves. What's green and has wheels? What? Grass, I lied about the wheels.
I'm good at long challenges when they don't require manpower. It's like those people that like when I was counting to 100,000, they're like, "20 hours in, you missed one number." Like, okay, sorry. All right, it's time to kick this into hyperdrive, boys. Right one's 30, left one's nothing. We're doing 2 at a time now, boys. Kicking this into overdrive. 40. $100, nice. Hey, hey, so far of my $30,000, I've made 10 of it back. To you, this might have been a couple minutes, but I've literally— hey, $60— been sitting here all day. And actually, we've been doing this for 3 days straight.
Please subscribe.
I just want them to know, like, if I look like a zombie, that's why. Hey, $30. We've been doing this for 3 days now. Mr. Chris, this is Alex calling you from Break TV. How are you doing today?
I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing?
I'm also good, thank you very much for asking me.
I'm actually working right now, but can I get you to call me back? Alright, thank you.
You're welcome, sir. Have a great day. Bye-bye. Someone's going to be like, what I clicked on, $30,000 scratch-off tickets, what I got, and it's going to cut to this. That was real. Jake, please leave. That was real. That was disgusting. Smells like Viking farts in here now.
They should bottle that, make it a perfume. Wait, fill the back side of that piece piece of paper. It feels cool.
Feels like high-low— high-low—
high-low— Kylo Ren? High—
high-low-griffics?
High-low-griffics?
See, it's not as easy.
It's not easy when you're saying the wrong thing.
Hieroglyphics? Kylo Ren? 40.
40.
30. 30. All I wanna do.
Hey. Hey.
Uh, that was a $500 ticket.
Are you serious?
Are you serious?
Jimmy might have just lost $500 on the ground.
Is it this one? No. I threw the card before I saw the result and now we gotta find it. These are all the tickets and one of these tickets is $500. Whoops. I found it. This is a $500 ticket. Mouth open. Ethan, edit smoke here. Show off your GFX. Wait, you've got to be kidding me. Are we almost through this? We're coming down the final stretch. I think we're like $5,000, $6,000 negative. And I think we've scratched off like 70% of them. We're doing good. No, actually, we're not doing good, but— $30. Okay, this is working. $50. $40. $30. Wow. $60. Um, if you're like a little kid, don't gamble. As you can see, I'm currently negative. I'm actually losing money. So, uh, yeah, gambling's not fun. I'm actually losing money. Bad. Don't do it. Okay, well, this one was $300.
Holy crap. I've never seen $300 before.
Actually, I never had. I thought it was only $500. 30. We started off the year with 2 million subscribers, Chris, and now we're on 8 million. We've 4x'd this year. That's so impressive. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, we're so good. 30. We're like literally the greatest. You know what's funny? Because like we're saying it ironically, but there are YouTubers that say shit like that not ironically. Dude, I hate when people are arrogant on like YouTube. It's like so annoying. 60. It's funny too because someone's probably gonna take that and then like in 2 years I'm gonna say something slightly arrogant and they're gonna be like I'm gonna be like, "I'm the best!" And it's gonna be like, "I hate when people are arrogant, it's so annoying." Everyone save that clip for when I say something arrogant and then be like, put it like in a meme. Also, should we do another one of these? Let us know. $40. If this one's $10 million, I'll do another one. It was nothing. Dozen— $15. Dozens of hours this week just literally scratching off tickets and this. Don't you hate it when all scratch-off tickets do is take all your money? $10. And I'm sorry, for most of this video I've been looking at the screen on the side instead of looking at you directly. I apologize. All right guys, we're coming down the final stretch. Um, no prize. Hopefully we win $10 million or all this was in vain. Scanning error. What the frick? Basically all these cards come back with scanning errors, so we're gonna have to manually check them, which manually checking these cards because there's like 100 numbers takes forever, so We'll see you guys in a couple hours. $30,000 was spent. Only $20,380 was earned. Over $9,500 was lost. Chris, what could you buy with $9,500?
Two fences. Three fences.
Four fences. Four fences was lost. These were our winners of the tickets. As you can imagine, there was way more tickets. In conclusion, I spent $30,000 on scratch-off tickets and lost $9,000 so you don't have to. I know that's what you've been wanting to do. Don't. You're basically just gonna lose money. Don't buy scratch-off tickets. Let me do it for you. We're gonna cash these in. Don't try to rob us. By the time this video is uploaded, these will be cashed in. All right, I'm gonna go take a nap. This literally took like 30 hours. Ethan, put the outro song on this. Where's my old outro song? Hey, hey, put my old outro song on this video. I want MrBeast. Oh, MrBeast. Oh. Mr. Biso.










