Author: Justin Walker

Cost: Free Every Christmas, my grandparents would purchase 10-20 scratch offs for all of the grandkids. Five bucks here, a dollar there, and sometimes we’d hit the jackpot: $10. It was all fun, with a little prize if you were lucky. Today, it’s easy to relive those memories with “Lucky Day,” an app with daily scratch offs that could land you with hundreds, possibly thousands, of dollars. It’s pretty simple. Just click on the available card, slide your finger across the “scratch” portion of it, and reveal three matching icons to win the prize. While hitting the big bucks...

Cost: Subscription based If you’re like me, you may get bored, or even depressed, while watching the news. The same monotone reporters covering murders, political scandals and national disasters, day in and day out. If it weren’t important to know what was happening in the world, you wouldn’t bother with it every day. But fret not, because people with a sense of humor who do keep up with current events are here to help. From the creators of the popular email subscription, “theSkimm,” comes the app version with the same name. With all the important happenings from the previous...