To play the lottery in Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim, buy Lottery Tickets for Saturday draws or scratch Scratcher Tickets for immediate results.
These are separate items, with different win conditions and ways to collect the money. Choose a regular ticket if you want to follow the weekly draw, or a scratcher if you want to reveal symbols yourself. Keep ticket spending separate from the money your shop needs, because neither type guarantees a prize.
How to enter the weekly lottery
Buy a ticket from the Lottery Representative
The Lottery Representative visits your store and sells Lottery Tickets for 25 credits each. The representative also provides a Lower Levels Lottery Information document explaining the lottery.
Each ticket carries an edition number and six numbers. Keep the ticket so you can compare its combination with the draw results.
Keep the lottery rules close
Check the Saturday draw and claim a win
The winning combination appears in the Daily News on Saturday morning. You need at least three matching numbers to qualify for a prize.
Compare the entire combination before treating a ticket as a winner. This example shows a ticket and draw with only one number in common:
| Number set | Numbers |
|---|---|
| Purchased ticket, Edition #1406 | 08, 10, 24, 26, 40, 44 |
| Saturday winning combination | 02, 20, 38, 40, 42, 45 |
Only 40 matches, so that ticket does not qualify for a payout. A partial match below the minimum is still a losing result.
Take a winning regular Lottery Ticket to the Lottery Representative to redeem it. Revealing or checking the numbers does not collect the prize for you.
Set aside shop operating money before buying tickets. The Probably Stolen shop economy guide helps you separate stock and nightly costs from cash you can spare for a draw.
Where to get Scratcher Tickets
Scratcher Tickets are inventory items classified as both Lottery and Document items before use. You can obtain them through customer trades, goods offered at your counter, and scavenging.
Check Poor Scav barter offers
Poor Scav customers sometimes offer two Scratcher Tickets in exchange for food. A Cat Chocolate Bar is one example of an item that can fulfill a food-related barter.
Some barter requests have several rewards to choose from. Use the arrows beside the offer selection to inspect the alternatives. The interface can show Choose Offer: 1/3, with options such as two Blood Bags, three Scrap Metal, or two Scratcher Tickets.
Barter terms are fixed. You cannot negotiate them like a normal buying or selling transaction, and ongoing events do not change the offer.
Compare the requested food with its value as shop stock before accepting. The Probably Stolen best items to sell guide can help you decide which goods to keep for customers instead of exchanging for tickets.
Compare each barter reward
Walk-in Scavengers selling general goods can also carry Scratcher Tickets. Inspect their inventory before finishing a transaction if you want another way to collect cards.
Scavenge at the Dumping Grounds
The estimated chance of finding a Scratcher Ticket at the Dumping Grounds is approximately 2% per scavenging pull. Look for them while collecting other stock; the low drop chance makes a ticket an occasional find, not a dependable result from each visit.
You may also encounter an item named Stack of Scratcher Tickets (5). It contains five individual cards and has a base value of 100 credits.
How to scratch a ticket and collect its prize
Reveal all three panels
A Scratcher Ticket opens a card named Nutri Millionaire - Scratch 2 Win. Its three silver-covered panels hide the symbols that determine the result.
Follow these steps to uncover them:
- Open your inventory and double-click the Scratcher Ticket.
- Place the cursor inside a silver panel.
- Hold the left mouse button and move the cursor across the coating.
- Repeat until all three symbols are visible.
- Click the card's arrow to turn it over and inspect the How 2 Win prize chart.
Start each scratching motion inside a panel. Dragging from outside one can move the whole card window instead of removing the coating. Slower movements make it easier to clear the covered area.
Compare the four winning combinations
You need at least two matching symbols for a scratcher prize. Nutrifruit matches have their own payouts, which replace the ordinary matching-symbol reward.
| Revealed combination | Credit reward |
|---|---|
| Two matching non-Nutrifruit symbols | 10 credits |
| Three matching non-Nutrifruit symbols | 75 credits |
| Two Nutrifruit symbols | 30 credits |
| Three Nutrifruit symbols | 350 credits |
A card showing one Nutrifruit and two matching cans uses the ordinary two-symbol row. A single Nutrifruit does not upgrade another pair into the special fruit payout.
Redeem the winning card from your inventory
Scratching reveals the result, but the reward is not automatically added to your balance. Afterward, the winning card returns to your inventory with updated item information.
Its Lottery category disappears, leaving it as a Document. Its Estimated Value and Base Value change to the prize amount, and its tooltip displays Double-Click To Redeem It.
Double-click that winning card to collect the credits. A redemption confirmation appears, and the prize becomes available in your balance.
Should you keep scratchers unopened or chase Jackpot?
Keeping it unopened preserves that listed value; scratching commits the item to its revealed result.
Compare the listed value with the gamble
An unopened Scratcher Ticket has an Estimated Value and Base Value of 20 credits.
The smallest winning payout is below the unopened card's base value. A 10-credit winner therefore leaves you with a lower-value item, even though the card technically won. A ticket's listed value is also not money already collected in your balance.
Use these priorities to make the decision:
- Preserve item value: Leave the ticket unopened if you do not want to risk its current listed value.
- Take a chance on a larger payout: Scratch it when you can accept a small prize or no prize.
- Pursue the achievement: Open scratchers, because the regular Saturday lottery is a separate system.
If you are saving to buy the store in Probably Stolen, count redeemed winnings toward that goal, not a ticket's possible top prize.
Unlock the Jackpot achievement
The Jackpot Steam achievement requires the three-Nutrifruit result on one Scratcher Ticket. An ordinary three-symbol match does not qualify. No scratching technique guarantees the required symbols, so pursue that combination only with tickets you are willing to gamble, then redeem the winning card to collect the top prize.
