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Chapter 5 Scratch-off lottery tickets, the odds are 50/50.
The lottery shop owner was a thin old man. He stood up unsteadily and asked Chen Zhou:

"Which one do you want to play, you student?"

In principle, lottery shops are not allowed to sell lottery tickets to minors.

But that's just in theory. In reality, who cares if you're an adult or not? As long as you can make money, that's all that matters.

Moreover, although Chen Zhou looks like a student, he is actually eighteen years old this year and has the legal right to pay taxes.

Yes, I just turned eighteen.
Chen Zhou looked at the dazzling array of scratch-off lottery tickets in the counter and knew that they were all pretty much the same, with a 50/50 chance of winning or losing.

"50/50" means that regardless of winning or losing, you lose half the money if you bet on it.

As for the remaining half, whether it's a profit or a loss depends on luck.

But today is different. Chen Zhou came with a lucky buff, so it's a bit different.

That's right, he plans to test the quality of the attribute effects at the lottery shop.

If I'm lucky enough to win a thousand or so dollars, wouldn't I be able to clean up my debts and get back on my feet right away?

Chen Zhou looked at the scratch card and brought up the system interface, activating the attribute effect:
"Wow! Golden Legend!"

At this moment, everything is ready.

If we could play the background music from "God of Gamblers," that would be even more fitting.

He nudged Jiang Xia and said:
"Here, you choose."

The best way to respect a sponsor is to give them a sense of participation.

Jiang Xia knew in his heart that he couldn't go against Chen Zhou's wishes. Since the twenty yuan was going to go down the drain anyway, he might as well do some research himself.

Maybe with a stroke of luck, you can even make your money back.

She walked to the counter, her eyes fixed on the scratch-off lottery tickets, carefully examining each one.

After looking at them for a while, she found that all the scratch cards looked pretty much the same, and she couldn't figure out what made them special.

After hesitating for a while, she finally chose a panda-shaped scratch-off lottery ticket, looked up, and said with a hint of uncertainty:

"Is it this panda one?"

In her mind, at least the panda design looked cute.

Even if the money is wasted, just consider it money spent on bamboo for the pandas to eat.

Seeing Chen Zhou hand over a fifty-yuan note, the old man slowly tore off a panda-patterned scratch-off lottery ticket from the counter.

Then, he took out a gas card from the side, gently placed it in front of Chen Zhou, and chuckled:

"Hope you win the grand prize, kid!"

"thank you boss!"

After receiving the scratch-off lottery ticket, Chen Zhou first carefully read the rules.

The rules for this national treasure series of scratch-off lottery tickets are very simple: there are three rows and six columns at the bottom, totaling eighteen patterns.

Once you scratch off the pattern and the words "National Treasure" appear, you can win the corresponding amount below, ranging from tens to millions of yuan.

Chen Zhou took a deep breath, gripped the gas card, placed it on the first pattern of the scratch card, and gently began to scratch.

The scraped powder fell off little by little, revealing a small portion of the amount.

Jiangxia held his breath, stretching his neck out as far as he could.

Her eyes were glued to the scratch-off lottery ticket, and she muttered to herself unconsciously:

"100...1000?"

She asked Chen Zhou:

"Does this count as winning?"

Chen Zhou shook his head and continued to scratch the next pattern, explaining:
"You only win if the words 'national treasure' appear; nothing else matters."

Jiang Xia nodded, watching the scratch-off lottery ticket process with a sense of novelty.

It's quite fun, but it's too expensive.

The thought that he was using his own money made Jiang Xia's heart ache even more.

As one pattern after another was scratched off, none of the "national treasures" appeared in the first row.

"It wasn't that easy after all."

she thought to herself.

If Chen Zhou tries to buy lottery tickets again next time, I must stop him.

Even if you're rich, you can't just throw money away. Looking at the row of useless patterns...

Chen Zhou himself was starting to have doubts about life.

System, is this effect reliable?
Where's the promised lucky critical hit?

Chen Zhou shook his head, no longer holding out hope, and casually scratched off the next pattern.

But just then.

Chen Zhou paused slightly:
"bingo!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xia leaned closer in disbelief.

She stared at the scratch-off lottery ticket, and when she saw the prominent words "National Treasure" and the corresponding amount "20" below, a smile immediately spread across her face.
"Not bad, not bad, at least we didn't lose money!"

"Nice!"

Chen Zhou also excitedly pumped his fist.

Watching the two men overjoyed at winning 20 yuan, the old man stood aside, chuckling to himself.

It's good to be young; you can be so happy even with just a small amount of money.

He's been running this lottery shop for so many years, he's seen it all.

For scratch-off lottery tickets like these, it's relatively easy to break even, but if you want to win big, it's harder than climbing to heaven, and the odds are even lower than winning the lottery.

Based on his years of experience running a shop, he figured the card had reached its limit and he could probably win another 20 yuan at most.

Sure enough, a short while later, he heard Jiang Xia's surprised shout again:
"You won again?"

The old man looked in the direction of the sound and saw another 20 below "national treasure," and couldn't help but laugh and say:

"The kid was lucky, he even made 20!"

Chen Zhou nodded repeatedly, feeling somewhat disappointed with the attribute effect, but he subtly said:

"You're really lucky."

Seeing that there was only one row of patterns left, Jiang Xia's face lit up with a bright smile, and she said expectantly:
"It would be great if I could scrape off another 20."

The old man chuckled and said:
"20 is the smallest number, 40, 60 and 100 are also quite common. The most you can win is one million. If you students are lucky, you might win a house with just one of these cards."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xia's eyes lit up like bright stars, and he asked curiously:
"Grandpa, has anyone here ever won a million dollars?"

The old man slowly shook his head, a look of reminiscence on his face, and said:
"I've run this shop for ten years, and the most I've ever won in a lottery is 200,000 yuan. That was three years ago, when I was still young..."

As the old man recounted his youthful days, Chen Zhou continued scraping.

"No, still no..."

Jiang Xia watched as Chen Zhou scratched off one amount after another, but the words "national treasure" never appeared, and she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

However, she quickly reminded herself:
It's good enough to make money; one shouldn't be too greedy.

Before the last pattern was even scratched off, two "national treasures" with the number 20 had already appeared on the card, meaning they had already made a net profit of 20 yuan.

Chen Zhou carefully scratched off the last pattern. Having gone through the previous scratch cards, he was now quite experienced.

If the amount is very large, exceeding 100, then it is highly likely that there are no national treasures on it.

But if there are only 20, the probability of finding a national treasure is very high.

He slowly scratched off the amount at the bottom, counting the digits softly as he did so:

"Tens, hundreds, thousands..."

Looking at the long list of figures totaling 1000000, Chen Zhou sighed slightly.

With such a large sum of money, there's no doubt it's not a national treasure.

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