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weshar75 — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:49:01 GMT

In Oregon you have to activate each packet of scratch tickets through the lottery terminal by scanning the bar code on the packet wrapping before removing them from their packets. Plus when you win on a scratcher the terminal prints a winnings slip which is stapled to the ticket to show verification of payment to the person who bought the ticket. Once the winning ticket is scanned by the lottery terrminal. If the person was to pre-scan the tickets it would show the time and dates to when the

A doubt on scratch tkts

lot-hopeful — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:17:06 GMT

When I go to encash a winning scratch lotto ticket, what the retailer does is he scans a bar code on the back of the ticket (There are 2 bar codes, one for POS and another one for checking if its a winning ticket) and then you hear the music and it displays winner.......etc . Now my doubt is, if finding out the winning ticket is so simple as to scan the bar code on the back, how do we know that the retailer has not already scanned all the bar codes of all the tickets he has for selling and tha... [ More ]