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MegaMillions ticket reprint fraud by a store associate?Reply
Lottery ticket machines are something I never use. That's mostly because they don't give change. I do my best to avoid them. On the rare occasions that I have I had some sort of problem that required me to abandon a machine with a couple of bucks of my money in it to find an employee (very nearby, at least) to unjam it, and a machine at a Sheetz that couldn't do what I wanted after putting money into it. That one at least gave me a ticket good for a refund from a clerk. OTOH, I did have suc
Dec 30, 2024, 7:54 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

MegaMillions ticket reprint fraud by a store associate?Reply
I'm in Florida. I've no idea if Florida Lottery software has reprint functionality included in it or not. This is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing, but I can see why it might be necessary and potentially have a positive use(s). I might ask a few clerks here in Florida if they've ever heard of it, or maybe I'll just send an email to The Florida Lottery and ask them if they have reprint functionality in the software. (I might even do both!) I'm also wondering if the ability to re
Dec 29, 2024, 4:04 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Instant winning game add-ons
Several states added instant win games to a regular on line game. In Kentucky it's on Cash Ball 225. The regular game is a $1 a line 4/35 + 1/25 and for an extra buck we can play EZ Match. Players must match one or more of the four numbers and/or the bonus number and win the corresponding prize. Prizes are $1 to $500 and a possible $2500 win. The machine plays a tune when the ticket has an instant winner. About three weeks ago at the store where I regularly play, a different clerk was behind
Sep 7, 2024, 8:16 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

MegaMillions ticket reprint fraud by a store associate?Reply
Totally guessing at how lottery reality works, but it makes an awful lot of sense to be able to reprint tickets within some short window in case there's any kind of problem. You'd hope the machine knows if it's out of paper, but knowing that a ticket is illegible is a much bigger ask. Whatever causes a problem with the original ticket, the obvious solution would be an ability to reprint recent tickets. Slapping a great big R on it would be an easy way to identify the ticket as a reprint without
Dec 27, 2024, 9:39 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Oregon lottery kept my $1500 winning ticket
Hi my name is Howard Drummond. A few months ago I won a jackpot at Jake's tavern on se Milwaukee Ave in Portland Oregon. I won it on the second machine from the door on a game called huff n puff during the bonus it gave me the major jackpot it payed $1500 and printed out a ticket right away. My friend Tim spreager was with me when I won. I didn't have a car so getting down to Wilsonville wasn't easy, so a friend of mine Shelby I owed him some money and told him that I won and showed him the tick
May 19, 2026, 8:11 am - HowdyDoody2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

MegaMillions ticket reprint fraud by a store associate?Reply
On The Florida Lottery's website I found a way to submit a question to them via email. Here's what I wrote in my email - Hello, Does a Florida Lottery retailer have the capability for a recently purchased ticket (before the drawing) to be reprinted? If I bought an online draw games ticket from a lottery vending machine, and the printing on the ticket was of such poor quality so as to render my ticket illegible, or the machine simply mangled (crumpled up) my ticket when it was bei
Dec 29, 2024, 11:37 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Kindness is never wasted! 😊Reply
A $1.00 balance left in the lottery vending machine when I approached it . I bought a one dollar ticket.
Oct 7, 2025, 3:51 pm - MsBee18 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Maryland voucher?Reply
Yes that's the convo @playslips. He didn't fiscally get the ticket. He got the credit for the ticket. The machine was printing his tickets still when i scanned my voucher. I did not know there was tickets still printing till after i scanned my voucher then when the machine beeped he then blurted i got money in there. I said no you dont cause i already looked before scanning my voucher.I looked down and seen tickets dropping out of the bottom. When i scanned my ticket he musta been listing for th
Jul 20, 2025, 2:59 am - Justing618 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Hand sanitizer is truly the bane of lottery tickets.Reply
I washed my wallet once and tried drying everything out on paper towels in the microwave. It worked well except for my lottery ticket. It started to burn up the bar code and ticket serial numbers. I took it back to the store and told them what happened. They were able to type enough of the bar code/serial numbers into the lottery machine to cash it. Got my $80.
Apr 2, 2025, 11:41 pm - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Maryland voucher?
I'm curious. I had a voucher I checked in the scanner. It said see cashier or whatever it says I can't remember. I went to another store to cash it and it would not let me. Long story short I was at a store waiting at a kiosk. And some idiot was buying racetrack tickets. Soon as I walked up to the machine he says I got money in there. Which he didn't. So I said no you don't. And the machine was still spitting out his 50 cent tickets. So I stepped back and said my bad dude. I didn't know you was
Jul 19, 2025, 3:44 am - Justing618 - Lottery Discussion Forum