Popular YouTube group buy ever scratch card on Ryanair flight
Popular YouTubers The Sidemen have filmed themselves buying every scratch card on a Ryanair flight, to see if it was worth it.
The YouTube group, who boast over 22million subscribers on their official channel, comprise of seven popular YouTubers, with the most notable being JJ 'KSI' Olatunji.
Member of the group Vikram 'Vikkstar' Singh Barn, as well as Ethan 'Behzinga' Payne and Harry 'W2S' Lewis were on a Ryanair flight where the lads, in an impromptu challenge, bought every available scratch card on the flight that Ryanair sell. Popular YouTubers The Sidemen have filmed themselves buying every scratch card on a Ryanair flight, to see if it was worth it. Pic: Getty Images
Of course, scratch cards and playing the lotto in general have long been called a tax on stupidity, but then again if you have YouTuber money you can probably afford to buy hundreds and hundreds of the cards — which is exactly what the lads did, and filmed it for Vikk's Instagram.
'We're on a Ryanair flight, and this man Ethan has bought every single scratch card on the flight,' Vikk told his followers, before revealing how he got on — saying 'I've opened about 100 scratch cards… we have not won a single thing.'
Ethan bought a further 68 packs of the scratch cards, but got absolutely zero joy; with Vikk saying 'we've opened all of these [shuffles through scratch cards] and not a single one [has won].' The lads then asked if anyone on the flight at all has won money, with no one saying that they have, with Vikk saying that they'll keep going before Harry interjects to say 'no we won't.' View this post on Instagram
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For those wondering if there was to be an improbable happy ending, of course, that wasn't going to happen — as when they disembarked the plane, they revealed that they'd won a grand total of €0.
The video, surprisingly, served well as a cautionary tale on the waste of time and money that are scratchers; with one person commenting on the video: 'I don't think I've ever seen a better advert against buying scratch cards.'
'Them boys buying hundreds of scratch cards and winning £0 has Ryanair sweating,' one joked, while another commented: 'This was made in public interest to warn gamblers obvs.' Vikkstar and Behzinga bought 'every' scratch card on the flight, and won a grand total of €0. Pic: Vikkstar/Instagram
Ryanair's scratch cards came under fire a number of years ago, after it was revealed that anyone who 'wins' on the scratch card's jackpot is then entered into a separate draw for the chance of winning the €1million prize.
The 2016 report found that the 'lucky' winner would then be invited into a room with 125 envelopes that they must choose, with just one having the top prize. It was also revealed that the actual odds of winning the jackpot in the draw, which was found in the fine print, were 1.2billion to one.
For comparison, the odds of winning the Lotto here are 10.7million to one, while the odds of winning the EuroMillions are 139.8million to one.
The last draw where someone got the chance to win €1million was won in March, where the lucky winner won a (still impressive) €100,000.
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