Top 5 Strange Things Kids Can’t Buy on their Own Anymore

4. Lottery Tickets

Missouri State lottery tickets, which are ostensibly used to fund the state-operated education system, may not be sold or redeemed by minors. This means that instead of adults sending kids into the store to purchase lottery tickets for them, when kids want to gamble away their own money, they have to send in adults to buy their tickets.

I don’t actually buy lottery tickets myself, but this is information that I picked up by talking to kids. They are very knowledgeable about just what it is they are not allowed to do and what you have to do to get around it.

One suggestion I heard: “Get an adult to buy and redeem your ticket, but go in with him, to make sure he doesn’t just pocket the money.”