California State LotteryReviews of calottery.com

Stop playing the CA Lottery folks - literally doesn’t matter what game you play, the cost of the tickets, the odds, the different rolls, it’s all a load of losers and stress, it’s not fun when you don’t win a damn thing. It’s a total pipe dream to win a huge amount on a scratcher ticket, I’ve been playing scratchers for a good 10 years, over that time span I am 100% in the red, I had one period in this time span where I was buying only 20 /30 dollar tickets and for a about a month I got lucky with hitting a couple $500 wins and one $1k win, but for certain all that money has gone back to them with the hopes of “my luck must be turning around”, kept buying more tickets and just loss after loss. And now, over the course of the last 4 straight months (time period of August to now being December 2024) and have played mainly 20, 25 (the newer 2025 scratchers) and 30 denominations and literally, I mean LITERALLY, every single ticket I have purchased is a loser (dear CA lottery - if one spends $100+ on scratchers and can’t win a thing, it’s not fun, it’s just frustration, and the 100+ being spent is on same game, tickets in a row, just literally scratched [5] 20 dollar tickets and every one was a loser, and this has happened multiple times over the last 4 months, I don’t know why my brain keeps thinking today will be the day). Can’t even get a free ticket these days it seems. It’s a total joke, and we the people are the ones funding this joke of an operation in our state. If people just quit playing CA lottery scratchers maybe they will turn this BS around and start releasing more winning scratcher tickets, but for now, I’m done playing and I strongly suggest to others out there to quit too. Even reading the win below of $10K and can’t cash the check, wow. Hopefully the people that run this for our state actually read these reviews. I’m over the CA lottery scratchers and you should be too.

I did not want to give calottery not even one star. I hear and feel everyone's complaint on this post. I'm PISSED OFF. This tickets are sucking more & more by the minute. I like playing crossword SCRATCHERS IN 2015 I won 500 on $5.00 scratcher like 7 time and once $5000 on $5 Scratchr well never again has that happened. I can't even win a f@#ck ticket. What the HELL is going on BUNCH of rip off I quit. They say they have so many winners. Where the HELL at not here on earth. We will never know because it's not announced so is anyone really winning it or are they pocketing the money. Might as well have no lottery stop playing everyone We are making the government rich. We are Bunch of ALL DAY LOLLY POP'S SUCKERS ! Save your money

Everytime I played here in California I won a free ticket only! Barely win that. They are ripping us off. I'm gonna stop playing😡

I think that CA Lottery is so full of BS first of all they ripped us off for a $1000 scracher winner. They wont pay us for our $ we are owed. I dont see what the big deal to them is its only $1000 dollars that is chump change to them its nothing. Butfor people like me its every thing. So why do that to some one like me that needs that $. I spend so my $ on scrachers and never win more than $100 dollars. So that $1000 would help in more ways than that i can explain. Then on top of all that the 2nd chance deal is a joke. Ive been playing for so many years and summit so tickets but never have won i dont know any one that ever has. So i don't think its even real. I need to get me a new gambling habbit cause this ca lottery is BS and are a joke stealing from disabiled people that have nothing like myself

I’ve been playing 10th spot on hotspot for the last few months . I spend $100-$200 a day I play 50 to 100 times consecutively . I have yet to hit a jackpot. or anything close I’ve been playing patterns that I’ve seen and watched continuously. they bunch up a lot ! The difference between Powerball mega millions etc. and hotspot is while playing hotspot the computer knows exactly what numbers were picking before the game is played so it can avoids them . So I put it to the test. I played my patterns without actually purchasing a ticket and lo and behold I hit the jackpot. I also check all the results and during the week there’s maybe 10 to 15 people playing on the weekends maybe 20 to 30 on the 10 spot . And the average win is $2-$3 I was shocked when I saw that. My advice to you California lottery is let A few of us win . Loosen up the computer I feel like I’m playing at a tight casino in Vegas. PS I thoroughly enjoy playing the games it will be nice to win a bit more then chump change once in a while 😊🙏

They make you wait over 2 months for a check that you can't cash unless you have a bank account with one of the crooked bank institutions. I won 10k and got a check for 7600. I went to 6 different check cashing companies and none could(or would) cash it. I called the Sacramento lottery office to see what I can do and they just said sorry for my problems but they can't help me. NEVER PLAYING AGAIN!

The website has been down for days. No reason given typical bureaucratic farce!!

I won on lottery ticket. They do not want pay out. It's takes 10 weeks to process, now 16 weeks . Every time I call its new rules I mail my claim in and of August 2021.they still are not allow me to collect my winnings