If you are physically buying scratch cards in supermarkets, newsagents, or petrol stations, the likelihood is that the scratch cards you buy will be from the National Lottery. It’s important to stress that lottery scratchers and lottery tickets are two entirely different things. With a lottery ticket, you need to wait until the official draw has been made to see if your ticket is a winner or not. With scratch cards, there is no need to wait—as soon as you buy one, you can scratch the panel to see if you are a winner. So, although they are owned by the same organisation, they are very different.