Scratcher Simulator & Weekly Lottery Guide
Adjust luck and ticket cost at the top to simulate 20-credit scratch cards and view theoretical expected returns. For the 25-credit weekly numbered lottery, read the dedicated guide below—wait for Saturday's newspaper draw, match your 6 numbers, and use a winning ticket once to cash out.
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One ticket costs 20 credits. Reveal all three symbols to settle the ticket: two matching symbols pay 10 (or 30 for Nutrifruit), and three matching symbols pay 75 (or 350 for Nutrifruit).
The same inputs and seed repeat this scenario; they do not predict the game’s next random outcome.
Weekly Lottery: Buying Tickets, Saturday Draws & Redemption
Weekly numbered lottery tickets use a completely separate system from instant scratch cards. Each ticket prints six unique numbers between 1 and 49.
| Matching Numbers | Payout (Credits) |
|---|---|
| 0–1 | 0 |
| 2 | 35 |
| 3 | 300 |
| 4 | 2500 |
| 5 | 100000 |
| 6 | 1000000 |
Weekly tickets normally unlock after Day 14 (or earlier if you start with the Gambling Addiction trait) and cost 25 credits each. The six numbers are generated automatically on each ticket rather than chosen manually.
Buy tickets when the lottery representative visits your counter—finish their introductory dialogue first to open their inventory. Each winning ticket can be redeemed once; using it consumes the ticket and pays out cash.
Hold onto current-edition tickets until Saturday morning's draw. Match your ticket's edition number and six numbers against that Saturday's station newspaper (numbers from other weeks do not apply), then trigger the ticket's Use action to collect your prize.
Luck evaluates candidate draws across the combined prize total of all current-edition tickets you hold. Positive luck keeps the best total payout across candidate draws, while negative luck keeps the worst—it does not add a flat percentage to prizes or guarantee a winning ticket.
Effective draw luck equals the maximum of your current luck and the luck value recorded on your owned tickets for that draw. With absolute luck L, the game rolls floor(L / 100) extra candidate draws plus a (L mod 100)% chance for one additional roll, comparing total batch payout. Note: the scratcher simulator above does not model this weekly draw.
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