Can I use scratch off lottery tickets I buy in 2010 to offset winnings in 2009

When I was a kid my mom used to buy me and my sisters scratch off tickets every now and then for the fun of it. We never won more than five dollars on them, and usually I think we just turned them in at the store we got them from for the money. But is that what you do if you won like, a thousand...

Do you get full face value of losing lottery scratch off tickets as a tax write off?

I started playing scratch off lottery tickets about two years ago an now I'm addicted. Sometimes I spend 100 dollars a day thinking I'm going to eventually hit that one big ticket. How do you cure this problem . I can't walk past a ticket machine without buying at least one. Let me correct...

The game is called Hold them Poker: My Cards were: Q J House Cards were: 10 9 both me and the house can draw three cards from the community cards which were: 7- J-A-8-J

If I win the lottery in pa. But live in md. Who state taxes do I have to pay? Or do I have to pay both states