Getting all three scritchy scratchy endings and beating every challenge requires a smart mix of luck upgrades and gadget automation. You will start off manually washing dirty dishes for spare change, but soon you will be scratching tickets, dodging negative symbols, and building an automated empire. To survive the brutal endgame, you need to know exactly how to manage your prestige points and prepare for the final ticket.
We are going to break down the core mechanics of the game, explain how to set up your gadgets for optimal efficiency, and walk you through every ending. Plus, you will get concrete strategies for tackling the game’s toughest challenges without going broke.
Scritchy Scratchy Progression Basics
When you first jump in, you are stuck scrubbing plates at level 1 for a measly $1 each. Once you finally unlock the scratch ticket catalogue, things speed up massively, allowing you to buy tickets and cash in on their payouts.
Just keep in mind that gambling is a trap, even here. Tickets like Apple Tree can actively drain your wallet if you scratch losing symbols, so don’t just mindlessly scrape every single card from top to bottom.
How to Make Money in the Early Game
- Scratch only a tiny corner first to reveal the active symbols before committing.
- Instantly stop scratching if a negative symbol pops up.
- Spend your cash on the tickets that offer the highest potential profit margins.
- Grab the Trash Can for $2 early so you can toss bad tickets.
- Max out your Scratch Luck before wasting money on high-tier, expensive tickets.
Raking in cash unlocks higher-tier tickets, permanent upgrades, and automation tools. This cuts down on the physical wrist strain of scratching manually while exploding your passive income.
Upgrades Explained
Inside the upgrade menu, you will find three primary statistics that dictate how fast you can progress through the game.
- Scratch Luck: Costs $200 and boosts the spawn rate of winning symbols while suppressing duds. Note that each ticket has a hard cap on how much luck affects it.
- Scratch Size: Costs $500 B and expands your scratcher’s area of effect, letting you clear tickets much faster.
- Coin: Costs $500 T and acts as a gateway upgrade for handling the absolute most expensive tickets.
If you hit a wall and can’t seem to turn a profit on a newly unlocked ticket, dump your money into Scratch Luck. Just make sure you aren’t already sitting at that specific card’s luck cap before you blow your savings.
Every Gadget and Its Function
Automating your workflow is the real secret to success. Different gadgets handle purchasing, scratching, and cleaning up your workspace so you can sit back and watch the numbers climb.
| Gadget | Cost or purpose |
|---|---|
| Trash Can | Costs $2. Toss out losing tickets manually. Upgrading it lets Mundo dispose of bad tickets too. |
| Sticky Mat | Costs $50K. Shields specific tickets from being grabbed by your Fan or Scratch Bot. |
| Badge Collection | Costs $50M. Exchanges your earned achievement points for fun cosmetic upgrades. |
| Scratch Bot | Clears your tickets automatically. Upgrades boost its speed, total capacity, and scratching strength. |
| Fan | Blows newly bought cards straight into the Scratch Bot’s path. Needs manual activation and runs on a battery. |
| Mundo | A helpful critter that cleans up finished tickets. Spend JP to unlock Picky Eater so Mundo tosses out losers instead of claiming them. |
| Spell Book | Instantly clears any card or triggers a Super Jackpot. Recharges passively, and upgrades lower the cooldown. |
| Subscription Bot | Keeps buying your designated tickets automatically. Upgrade it to speed up the purchase rate. |
| Egg Timer | Supercharges the operation speed of all other gadgets. Requires manual recharging; upgrades boost capacity and warp speed. |
| The Machine | Costs $1,000 once you open all four catalogues. Turns hard cash into souls and boosts prize multipliers. Essential for reaching the endgame. |
Best Gadget Upgrade Priority
Focus heavily on the Scratch Bot, Fan, and Mundo to establish a solid automatic grinding loop. Once your baseline economy is rolling, invest in the Egg Timer to crank your overall setup speed into overdrive.
Whatever you do, do not leave Mundo running on long, unattended sessions without the Picky Eater upgrade active. This tripped me up early on—without it, the little guy will blindly claim losing tickets and drain your bank account.
The Sticky Mat is highly situational but absolutely invaluable for specific challenges. It allows you to isolate cards so your automated bots don’t accidentally scratch or merge things you are trying to save.
Catalogues, Prestige, and the Final Chance
Progression is broken up into four distinct catalogues. Each new book unlocks fresh ticket types that pave the way toward your ultimate confrontation with the final stage.
Conquering the First Two Catalogues
Completing your first catalogue awards you a special Final Chance ticket. Scraping this ticket immediately ends your life and terminates the active run, forcing a reset.
Don’t panic when you die, because you can spend your newly earned Jackpot Points (JP) on permanent prestige upgrades. These buffs persist across all future runs, making the early grind much easier next time around.
Finishing the second catalogue leads to another Final Chance ticket. If you feel stuck, you do not have to wait for this point to prestige—you can trigger a soft reset early if you want to purchase helpful upgrades.
Here is a quick tip: while hitting a Jackpot or Super Jackpot awards JP, you can only claim this reward once per ticket type per run. Starting a new run resets this limit, and tickets from the higher-tier catalogues pay out significantly more JP.
Preparing The Machine for Final Chance
Once you unlock all four catalogues, you can build The Machine. Feed it your spare cash to generate souls, which serve as the primary currency for surviving the final stage of the game.
Make sure you are fully prepared before diving into the final encounter. Here is what you should check off first:
- Ensure your Scratch Luck is upgraded to its maximum efficiency.
- Hoard at least 200 to 250 souls.
- Ensure you have enough cash on hand to purchase around 200 to 250 Final Chance tickets.
Your automated Scratch Bot is safe to use for scratching these tickets, but you must keep Mundo disabled. Claiming these costs a single soul per attempt until you hit the winning combination, and running dry on souls will completely ruin your run.
Once you hit the winning combination on the card, you are faced with a crucial choice that determines which ending you receive.
- Claim the card yourself: This rewards you with the True Ending.
- Leave the card alone for 5 to 10 minutes: The Evil Corporation will eventually sweep in and steal it, giving you the alternative ending.
You will need to trigger both pathways across separate runs if you want to claim 100% completion.
How to Unlock All Three Endings
There are three total endings you can unlock in the game, ranging from standard finishes to a highly secret final path.
True Ending
Unlock every catalogue, run The Machine to manufacture a large pile of souls, and upgrade your Scratch Luck. Accumulate enough money to buy a massive stack of Final Chance tickets.
Once you scratch the winning ticket, immediately claim it yourself to initiate the game’s standard True Ending credits.
Alternative Ending
Set up your run exactly as you would for the True Ending. Once you hold the winning ticket, resist the urge to claim it.
Leave the game running untouched for about 5 to 10 minutes. The Evil Corporation will show up to confiscate the ticket, triggering the alternative ending.
Secret Ending: No More Gambling
Grabbing the No More Gambling achievement requires quite a bit of extra effort and is only possible after you have fully completed all other in-game challenges.
- Successfully complete every single challenge in the game first.
- Boot up a fresh, standard run and start grinding cash.
- Wait for a phone call that introduces the secret catalogue once you hit the secret money and progression thresholds.
- Buy and unlock all three unique tickets featured in this hidden catalogue.
- Hit a Jackpot on all three of those secret tickets.
- Keep scratching the final ticket to hit a Jackpot until a map displaying only the word Claim appears on your screen.
- Answer the incoming phone call and finish the Final Chance ticket sequence.
- Claim the ticket and scratch the remaining items that pop up right after.
Completing this sequence triggers the hidden ending and unlocks the highly coveted No More Gambling achievement.
All Challenges and Strategies
The challenge expansion added three progression-based achievements for players to collect:
- Challenge Apprentice: Awarded for completing your first challenge.
- Challenge Novice: Unlocked after beating five challenges.
- Challenge Master: Earned by successfully clearing all nine challenges.
There are nine unique challenges to beat, and each one completely changes the game rules. You will need to adapt your strategy for every run rather than relying on a single build.
Student Loans Challenge
Goal: Accumulate $50K cash while managed by three heavy loans.
This challenge strips away all your permanent upgrades and skills right at the start. To make matters worse, your loans inflate ticket prices, slash your rewards by 30%, and impose a flat 20% chance that you will receive a cheap ticket or a simple plate instead of what you actually bought.
Make sure to adjust your scratching speed and proceed carefully, because you cannot use the Trash Can here, even if you spend the money to unlock it.
