Scratch & Win

By GBH News

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Subscribers: 480
Reviews: 4
Episodes: 15


 Jan 29, 2025
Swapped feed to a different podcast because they didn't have confidence in their new podcast. Very disrespectful to both subscribers and staff.


 Mar 7, 2024

Mischa
 Nov 29, 2023
How is a podcast about infrastructure so gripping? What a wild ride and informative true tale.

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 Nov 7, 2023

Description

Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble, legally at least. We’ve got casinos, sports betting, online poker, keno — but it was all made possible by state lotteries, which brought gambling out of the shadows and into the public square — into the government itself. 

“Scratch & Win” follows the unlikely rise of America’s most successful lottery. We begin in 1970s Boston, with state bureaucrats going toe to toe with mafia bookmakers, and each other, as they struggle to launch the state's greatest innovation: the scratch ticket. But the story reaches all the way to the present moment. How do we feel about the gambling industry that lotteries helped summon into being? And should the state be in this business at all? 

“Scratch & Win” is made by the Peabody Award-winning team behind “The Big Dig,” produced by GBH News and distributed by PRX.

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Credits:

Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss

Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins

Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss

Story Editor: Lacy Roberts

Editorial Advisor: Jen McKim

Fact Checkers: Ryan Alderman and Isabel Hibbard

Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss

Graphic Design: Bill Miller

Project Manager: Meiqian He



Episode Date
Part 3: Have You Played Your Number?
Feb 05, 2025
Part 2: The Lottery Czar
Jan 29, 2025
Part 1: The Instant Ticket
Jan 29, 2025
Introducing: Scratch & Win
Jan 22, 2025
A note from The Big Dig team
Jun 12, 2024
Part 9: Hearts and Minds
Nov 15, 2023
Part 8: I Want Justice for What Happened
Nov 08, 2023
Part 7: The Turnpike Revolt
Nov 01, 2023
Part 6: The Up Down Charts
Oct 25, 2023
Part 5: Hatchet Man vs. the 800 Pound Gorilla
Oct 18, 2023
Part 4: The Double Cross
Oct 11, 2023
Part 3: All Politics is Local
Oct 04, 2023
Part 2: Unholy Alliance
Sep 27, 2023
Part 1: We Were Wrong
Sep 27, 2023
Introducing: The Big Dig
Sep 13, 2023