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1977 Ranked #21,430

The Winning Ticket

A lottery trading game has players buy, win, sell, and trade tickets across three lotteries to build the most money. Unclaimed lottery money rolls forward, making each drawing and ticket deal affect later opportunities.

Economic Roll / Spin and Move Trading

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

5.94

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

You pick a token and roll a dice moving around the board similar to monopoly and as you move around the board you buy lottery tickets and win sweepstakes. You can make trades and sell tickets to other players.

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You pick a token and roll a dice moving around the board similar to monopoly and as you move around the board you buy lottery tickets and win sweepstakes. You can make trades and sell tickets to other players. There are three lotteries; red, white and blue with tickets to match. If no one wins one lottery the money is moved to the next lottery. The person with the most money after the last lottery is held is the winner

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2
Play time
120 min
Age
8+
Complexity
2.0/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Sid Sackson

Publishers

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Ideal

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