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Thief steals $27,000 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets from gas stationReply
I can't with 100% confidence say the state lottery doesn't know where the winning tickets are but retailers controlling their inventories is not that. Each ticket has three sections. XXXX-YYYYYYYYY-ZZZ. X : Game number Y : Batch number Z : Ticket number which runs from 000 to 300 depending on the value of the ticket. This is what they meant by controlling their inventories. They know exactly where a specific ticket is located cuz it's in the system when sent out
Aug 22, 2025, 7:15 pm - johnnyBlaze - Lottery News

Thief steals $27,000 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets from gas stationReply
It's double blinded in the sense, Scientific Games knows which batch has winning tickets but they're not in charge of where the tickets go. PA lottery is in charge of where the tickets go but they're not told which batch contains the winning ticket. That's the basics of it, as I understand it. Quite a while back somebody from the security department of a lottery (Indiana, I think) was able to determine where a big winner had been sent and (again, IIRC) sent someone else there to buy all of
Aug 23, 2025, 1:49 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery has delivered $6.1B in prizes since 1985News Story
Iowa Lottery celebrates 40 years Sales of the first Iowa Lottery tickets began in 1985 with a kickoff celebration at the Iowa State Fair. Forty years later, state fairgoers broke the Guinness World Record for the most people 1,380 to scratch lottery cards simultaneously, demonstrating the lottery's journey from $1 scratch tickets to a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Since its launch was approved by the state Legislature and signed into law by then-Gov. Terry Branstad, the lottery has gen
Dec 5, 2025, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News