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$17 million in Ohio Lottery scratch prizes unclaimedReply
Scratch the codes, Sassy...you can figure out if won something that way.
Jan 16, 2007, 2:11 pm - cps10 - Lottery News

Clash over $1 million lottery ticket outlives buyerReply
Actually, Rip, the prize codes on MA scratch tickets are not on the back - they're imbedded in the playfield on the front. After a few plays most players know where the codes are located on each ticket and can (if they want) just scratch those parts of the ticket which contain them.
Jun 23, 2006, 7:59 am - noahproblem - Lottery News

Man Picks $1 Million Lottery Ticket Out Of TrashReply
I wouldn't be surprised if the person who actually bought the ticket only scratched the validation area only. Here in NY, scratch games have a bar code on the back, a 4-digit validation code that is revealed when the entire play area is scratched, and 3 validation letters that are scattered around the play area. These validation letters can also be used to determine the prize value if there is one. For example, O-N-E ($1), T-W-O ($2), F-O-R ($4), F-I-V ($5), T-E-N ($10), T-W-N ($20), F-T-Y ($50)
Oct 17, 2005, 3:24 pm - Rolling - Lottery News

N.C. woman gets surprise lottery gift from brotherReply
Ohio's scratch-off tickets require the bar codes be scratched clean too before the terminal can tell if they are winners.
Jan 1, 2013, 12:55 am - RJOh - Lottery News

Security heads list of lottery prioritiesNews Story
There could be a lot of winners after scratch-off lottery tickets go on sale at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.But it won't be because the lottery manipulated the games to produce more winners right away to entice more people to play.''It will appear there are more winners the first day than the second day,'' said Rebecca Paul, president and chief executive officer of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp.''We'll sell more tickets the first day so we'll have more winners based on the fact that you sell more
Jan 19, 2004, 7:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

Minnesota Lottery to offer online 'scratch-off' ticketsReply
Terrible idea. This cheats the long time players who don't and will never play online scratch offs IE: scratch offs have a fixed number of winning tickets. Suppose the three top tier prizes on a 20 dollar ticket which would pay a million dollars are all online codes. that means the customers who play paper tickets in stores wouldn't have a chance in hell of winning the top tier prize.
Dec 23, 2013, 11:35 am - s200sf - Lottery News

Unclaimed Idaho Lottery prizes add up to millionsReply
That's the one I go to, and never bought there for the same reason, till they got the vending machine. The only problem I've had at the machine is with scratch off players hogging it. Some of them stand in front of it and quickly scratch off the code and if it's a winner they scan it again to apply the $$$ to their balance, then buy more tickets one at a time and scratch the codes till they get another winner. As long as they have a balance in the machine, it's hard to cut in. I'm not impatient
May 5, 2012, 2:02 pm - HoLeeKau - Lottery News

N.C. lottery tickets sold in vending machinesReply
I personally look at the scratch-off vending machines as a very good thing, because there is less of a chance that some less-than-scrupulous employee has gone through the rolls trying to micro-scratch the codes to pull out winners.
Apr 10, 2007, 6:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Clash over $1 million lottery ticket outlives buyerReply
It was Donovan's practice, says Doyle, to scratch the tickets at the store counter. Checking the ticket coding, he would then segregate the winners from the losers. He wouldn't know how much he won until later when he scratched off the rest of each ticket. Donovan threw out all the tickets he thought were losers including the million-dollar winner and left the store. The problem with relying on the codes is in MA they use the loser codes for the big winners (those over $600 w
Jun 21, 2006, 7:34 am - noahproblem - Lottery News

Study proves lottery not 'regressive tax' played mostly by poorNews Story
Editor's note: As you'll read below, the initial data provided by the New York Lottery to The Post-Star was incorrect, but the comparisons of geographic sales data and the results of the study were still valid, even after the correct figures were applied. Lottery Post has long opposed the theory that poor people disproportionately play the lottery, and this in-depth look at actual lottery sales data supports Lottery Post's position. Some have gone as far as labeling lotteries regressive taxat
Jun 14, 2006, 8:51 am - Todd - Lottery News