 All right, today we have on njbru 22.com vlog 17. I think 17, yeah. We're gonna do something different today. We're gonna talk about the New Jersey Lottery and specifically the crossword games. The objective of this series is to talk to you about the easiest and fastest way to scant the scratch these tickets. Now I know some people use scratch these tickets off as a pastime. They just wanna pass the time for five bucks with a chance to win or 10 or 20 or whatever the dollars are. They'll scratch each letter off one by one and go through all the letters. And that's a fine way of doing it if you wanna pass the time. But I wanna know, other than just scratching off the barcode and scanning it at the store with your smartphone, there's no point. This is a game, but I like doing the game as fast as possible. And I'm gonna show you a way to scratch it really fast using one simple trick. What I like to do first is I like to look at the tickets. Let's take a look at these tickets for a minute. Here we go. You look at the letters and sometimes I'm guessing there's gonna be no A up there because there's so many A's here. I bet you there's gonna be no A. That's what I like to guess. But here's my technique. Let's start off with this one first. I'm gonna show you my technique. The technique is to scratch off all the letters and count the vowels and see which vowels aren't there. And we're gonna eliminate each word entirely. So we never have to check the letters again. So you know, I'm gonna give you an example here. So I'm gonna scratch off all the letters at once. I like scratching the barcode off. That's like a superstition. So we have all the letters scratch off. There is an A there. Well, behold, but you count all the vowels. So there's five vowels, A, E, I, O, U. What you do is you see which vowels aren't there. There's an A, a U, an I, and an E. There's no O. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go through the entire puzzle here and scratch off all the words entirely that don't have the letter O. This is encouraging to me actually because there's probably another major letter that's missing, but so you go through all the words. Anything that doesn't have an O, you scratch off and you never check those letters again. Mover, father, I'm gonna show you. This is fun. Turn O, I like doing horizontal then vertical. And then you go down, down, down. Earthworm is not gonna be up. Seldom, we already know that. Ravioli is not gonna be a word. Torch isn't gonna be a word. Lion isn't gonna be a word. So we know on this first puzzle here that those words are not going to win because there's no O. And then you start one by one. I'll start with mug. There's no L. See, there's no L in male. So L has to start with L. There's no L, so that you eliminate all the Ls next. Male, no good. Lamp is no good. You scratch off all the ones that aren't winners. Athletic isn't gonna win. We're already in a line. A lit isn't gonna win. So now you look at this and you can say, okay, the maximum I can win on this puzzle now is one. There's no G, we already know that, but let's say we didn't know there was no G. One, two, there. Anyway, let's just figure this out here. There's no G. So then now you scratch off mug, age, charge. That's it. There's no other words with a G. So then we'll say, I, there are Y. There is no Y. So anything with a Y in it now gets scratched off. It gets tough with the three letter words. Okay, that's the only word on this puzzle with a Y. And then we'll look at the next available word. Is there a T? There is. Is there an R? There is not. So that kinda screws us over. This puzzle can't win now. Rate, ears done, chart is done. Now we already saw this L isn't there either. So there's only two words left that don't have a scratch off. I bet you those are the words that are there. So I don't even care, because you need three words to win. So I'm done with this puzzle. So I'm gonna go back over here. You sort of have to remember there's no O, okay? So that mob comes out, rhino comes out, forever comes out, reservoir comes out, posit comes out, dissolve, yoga, note. I think that's it. So I can't always get them perfect every time, but then the next one we decided that we didn't have was L. There's no L. So let's get rid of all the L's here. Myself, no good. Man, who knows? Maybe I have a chance here. Now I can already see there's a lot of G's. Did I get all the L's? Yeah. And what did we say? There's no G's. And there's no R's. There's no G's and R's. So shrimp is already done. A jar is done. And tire is done. Let's just get the G's out of the way, dude. Gag and this and this. See, you just start scratching off all the letters you don't, you already know you don't have. And you end up discovering more as you go through the puzzle. And we said there was no Y, right? There's no Y. So yes is done. Entry is done. Bay is done. And I already checked up here, there's no H. So aha is done. Cyan is done. So I probably have met and amiss. M-E-T and A-M-I-S-S. So I only have two on this one too. So this is done. See how fast that was? Let's try again with this puzzle. I'll try and do it faster this time. Scratch off all the letters. I'm not gonna analyze this ticket this time. Like there's no A. I got the wrong ticket. This is no A. There's no A in these letters here. This is such a drag. I don't buy a lot of these tickets too often. But when I do, I try to win. That's the first thing you look for is no A. Tattoo, technical. So you gotta get a good coin because sometimes they don't scratch good. Meaning, dancing, groan, grant. Oh, please. It gets disappointing when you go through all these that don't have the letter A. And you gotta watch out. I already know that sometimes you'll have one space left. You have to really pay attention. So I got rid of all the A's. And we already know there's no R or Y. Oh wait, that was the last ticket. So you gotta play your cards correctly here. You don't wanna confuse the tickets. You can always scan the ticket on your smartphone or at the lottery store just to be sure. So it's always good to do that with crosswords because sometimes they trick you. So there's no A in this first puzzle. So what's the next word? Hitch. So we'll go H-I. There's no T. T's a big letter. So we're gonna go scratch off all the T's. Modest. I mean, I don't think I want anything on this ticket. Tenner. So that's stride. No good. So we're running out of options here. So H-I-S is. H-I. There's no S. What a drag. So that kills a lot of letters here. Describe. No more S's. So coincide. C-O-I-N-C-I. Yeah, I think I got that. No, there's no D. Jesus Christ. There's no D. So that already kills this entire puzzle. There's only two letters, two words left. Actually no rope. R-O-P. There's rope. See, this was a trick here because. So we got rope. We got R. There's no Y. There's no Y. Y is done and U is done. So there's only one freaking word I got. Horrible. So let's start with this next puzzle again. There's no A. I'm not gonna win this ticket. I can already tell. You can tell when you're just not gonna win. Rambler. Mad. Deal. So all the A's. Audit. Evade. So then what's the next word? Sum. S. There's no S. So there's no sum. There's no excuse. No excuse. No sleeves. For the summertime you have no sleeves. Brazian. So we'll find the next word that we can possibly get under. You got U and no D's. Under can go. Avocado can go. We're running out of time here. Is there a P? P-I. There's no T. I mean if you have no S and a T you can't really make any words. So T kills this ticket here. Let's see, is there an H? H-O. There's no W's. It's like crap. No W's. So how is done. Wife is done. That's what they say. So we have basically three words left that we can win on. And that's yell, bog, yell, bog, blue and recognize. Is there a B? I bet you there's no B either. I'll kill the ticket. See there's no B. Blue and bog are done. So the two winning words are probably gonna be recognize and yell. So you got, wait, there was no Y either. Crap. I bet you recognize is the only word. No blue. No, there was no B. This didn't win. Crap. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna scan the two tickets real quick here. Check your ticket, right? Check your ticket and you scan it. Sorry, not a winning ticket. And then you do it again. Sorry, not a winning ticket. So that's it. Boring. I mean, that's the fast way to do it. I'll show you next time I buy these, a fast way, the fast way to do it. That's it. Maybe next time I'll win. But that's the fast way to do it is to look at the vowels and start eliminating letters rather than doing it one by one. It would take me forever to do it one by one. And that's it for this vlog. Have a good weekend or week. And that's it.