Man Spends 20 Years and £80,000 on the World’s Biggest Scratchcard Collection

Most people buy a lottery ticket or a scratchcard in the hope of winning a big prize, but a Cheshire man has amassed a collection of 100,000 National Lottery scratchcards and, amazingly, 10,000 of the cards remain unscratched.

Dave Mannix, 42, collected the cards over twenty years and has spent £80,000 buying new and used cards. The collection contains almost every scratchcard released since 1994, when they were first introduced, and takes up an entire room in the house he shares with his partner Sue. Most of the unscratched cards have now expired, so Mr Mannix cannot collect any winnings.

Mr Mannix now hopes to sell the collection for £500,000, although he’s been told it could fetch up to £5 million. If he can find a willing buyer, it’ll turn out to have been a pretty tidy investment.