Older soda and beer drinkers will remember the pull-away tabs that you'd either throw on the ground or drop into the can itself, hoping it wouldn't cut your lip when you went to take a sip.

Like scratch-off cards, pull tab winnings aren’t “quit your job asap” amounts of cash. The most one can win with pull tabs is $500 or $250, depending on the game. It's enough to buy a round ...