Some of them are named for other games, such as the Monopoly X5, the Double Blackjack, and the Family Feud, but most are straightforward about the point of buying them: Show Me $10,000!, $100,000 Lucky, Money Explosion, Cash Is King, Blazing Hot Cash, Big Cash Riches.
When you are looking at a solid wall of them, they also resemble-based on the palette, font choices, and general flashy hecticness-the mid-nineties Internet. The dominant themes are primary colors, dollar signs, and shiny, as in gold bars, shooting stars, glinting horseshoes, and stacks of silver coins. To do so, you must be at least eighteen years old, even though the tickets look like the décor for a kindergarten classroom. At my local convenience store, and almost surely at yours, too, it is possible to buy upward of fifty different kinds of scratch-off lottery tickets.
