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MoneyMagic — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:04:04 GMT

Interesting. I was talking with a friend this morning about distribution of prizes. We were thinking about the software that computes how the tickets are distributed and what cities the prizes go to. Of course it could be set up in any manner, but like you say, the prizes have to be spaced out. Any inisghts on their program? How much human involvement there is?

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cinobyte — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:30:14 GMT

Thanks for the response I guess I missed the previous post when i searched.

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duckman — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:15:10 GMT

From a previous post:

An example of how the distribution works in some of the scratch off ticket games:

(the example below uses ficticious amounts easier to understand - there will usually be thousands of books and the prize levels, values, and numbers will differ)

Example: 1000 Total Books in a Game

Prize Level#1 ($1,000,000) - 2 prizes total:

1 prize in books 1-500

1 prize in books 501-1000

Prize Level#2 ($10,000) - 5 prizes total:

1 prize in books 1-200

I have a question.

cinobyte — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:01:38 GMT

Ok i dont know if this can be answered or not.

How do they spread the top prize winning tickets? The reason I asked this is say a new game started last week and mary pulled a top prize should I wait a bit before i buy more or assume there are multiple top prizes still out there to be purchased.

(I dont have a clue these are just examples)

1. they print 100000 tickets and spread the top prizes among them and just ship out the 100000 to retailers and print no more tickets

2. they