Beginner route

How to play Scritchy Scratchy

Scritchy Scratchy starts as a scratch-card game, then turns into an incremental routing problem. Your goal is to turn manual cash into better tickets, then into gadgets, then into stronger future runs.

Earn seed cash

Use the Day Job loop to get enough money for early tickets. Do not treat the first minutes as a jackpot hunt; they are about creating a stable base.

Buy readable tickets

Start with tickets you can afford to lose. Scratch manually long enough to learn payout rhythm, penalties, and when a card is too volatile for your current run.

Upgrade consistency

Prioritize upgrades that make the next few tickets easier to fund. A steady route usually beats chasing one expensive, high-risk card too early.

Unlock automation

Scratch Bot, Fan, Sticky Mat, Mundo, Autobuyer, Egg Timer, Spellbook, and the Machine each remove a different kind of friction from the loop.

Prestige deliberately

Reset when permanent progress will make the next run cleaner than continuing the current grind. Jack Points are future-run power, not just a score.

First-run priorities

PhaseFocusAvoid
Opening minutesBuild cash, understand ticket results, and keep the route simple.Spending everything on high-volatility tickets before you know the loop.
Early upgradesBuy consistency and speed that make repeat tickets easier.Mixing achievement cleanup into a normal progression run.
AutomationFeed Scratch Bot and support it with movement, stability, and claim tools.Assuming one gadget solves every bottleneck by itself.

Next

Prestige planning

Learn when a reset is stronger than stretching the current run.

Open prestige guide

Systems

Gadget glossary

See what each automation tool does and which bottleneck it fixes.

Open gadget guide