Alabama reporter documents experience buying Mississippi lottery tickets

Comment #7

Stack47 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:00:18 GMT

I bought two $5 Mississippi Blues scratch-offs at a Shell gas station. I won $10 on the first card and a free scratch-off on the second. And because I'm a responsible young man with my whole life ahead of me, I decided the best investment was three more Mississippi Blues scratch-offs. I won nothing

An optimist might say he scratched five $5 tickets for $10, but a pessimist would say, he still WON NOTHING .

And not sure why they expected long lines for relatively small jackpots or why aft... [ More ]

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noise-gate — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:38:38 GMT

The checkout woman said it had been a steady stream of winners all day

l wouldn't expect anything less. Miss Lottery officials are not idiots they throwing out lots of red meat if there was a steady stream of losers- their lottery would be on life support within months. The facts of life are: Win Short term, convince yourself you beat the system.

Comment #5

Bleudog101 — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 22:21:28 GMT

Give them and IGT time to iron out the bugs. Before PB MM they had over $7.6 million added to the state coffers. I do find it tragic, even sad that things are appearing to be in such disrepair in Mississippi. Will say we rented a car from Biloxi to New Orleans and roads were in great shape and exits all had modern LED streetlamps for what that's worth.

Comment #4

db101 — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 20:46:00 GMT

Sorry to hear that. I hope your mother was able curb your gran's gambling addiction. One of my grandparents was the total opposite. Would berate any family member who played even as little as 50 cents once in a blue moon.

Comment #3

music* — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 18:36:06 GMT

Todd, Thank You for this cool short story.

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Big Joey — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 17:26:52 GMT

I still think about my grandmother when the Louisiana Lottery started in 1992. By Thanksgiving 1993, she had blew threw over $55,000.00 with the lottery.

Ultimately, my mother discovered what was happening because the grocery store manager who was cashing her checks, told my mother what my grandmother was doing.

She was cashing checks, and getting hundreds of Louisiana Lotto Quick Picks at at a time. Once doing this spree, she got 5 numbers for $1,500.00 before taxes - which fueled her gam... [ More ]

Comment #1

reddog — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:25:28 GMT

Rome wasn't built in a day, and sounds like Mississippi wasn't either.

Alabama reporter documents experience buying Mississippi lottery tickets

Lottery Post — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:03:15 GMT

It was a historic day in Mississippi Thursday. It became the 45th state to start selling lottery tickets. But in true Mississippi style, things didn't quite go to plan. Some people might say it was a little cattywampus.

I was expecting palpable excitement and restless hope, as people lined up outside of gas station doors in the hope of winning the jackpot of $40 million and finally fulfilling their lifelong dream of moving to Alabama.

But I didn't see any of that. What's going on? I wonder... [ More ]