Except scratch cards are a guaranteed statistical loss. Trading cards, if you're skilled and know what you're doing, can be a sensible side-income.
It's the difference between poker and roulette...
It's the difference between poker and roulette...
The real winners are probably the people reselling the unopened packs for slightly higher than retail since they have removed the gambling aspect.
Speaking of trading cards as a side hustle, a couple of my friends used to drive around the region buying boxes of baseball cards. They'd weigh them to figure out if some specific special cards was in it, return the light boxes, and throw out most of the other cards from the boxes they opened. Now that same card series has unopened boxes going for like $2k