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once a ticket is validated through machine and paid out - can't pay on it again.
Oct 27, 2006, 1:35 am - emilyg - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Lost a winning ticket, what do I do?Reply
The Ticket was left in the copy machine: It's anyone's guess who has it now.
Dec 3, 2005, 10:36 am - Raven62 - Pick 3 Forum

Faulty ticketReply
Take it to another retailer -- one who knows how to operate a lottery machine.They can manually type the ticket barcode numbers into the machine and redeem the ticket that way.
Sep 6, 2005, 6:42 pm - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Man let lottery winner go firstReply
LOVEMEDO,I don't think you understand the difference between the lottery machines being connected in order to upload ticket selections vs. some kind of shared number pool .I will try to make this as non-technical as possible:Most, if not all, lottery machines create their own Quick Picks. There is no central number generator for all machines, and there is no central pool of Quick Pick numbers .Each machine has its own independent Random Number Generator (RNG) that generates the Quick Picks.A
Aug 11, 2005, 7:04 pm - lovemedo - Lottery News

Man let lottery winner go firstReply
LOVEMEDO,I don't think you understand the difference between the lottery machines being connected in order to upload ticket selections vs. some kind of shared number pool .I will try to make this as non-technical as possible:Most, if not all, lottery machines create their own Quick Picks. There is no central number generator for all machines, and there is no central pool of Quick Pick numbers .Each machine has its own independent Random Number Generator (RNG) that generates the Quick Picks.A
Aug 11, 2005, 6:10 pm - Todd - Lottery News

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

PowerballReply
Someone left their quick pick in the ticket vending machine and you took the ticket? Or you looked at a quick pick left in the vending machine and then bought your own ticket playing the same numbers as the quick pick?
Sep 17, 2024, 11:26 pm - cottoneyedjoe - Jackpot Games Forum

$1.9 BILLION POWERBALL JACKPOT SETS WORLD RECORD OF UNIMAGINABLE WEALTHReply
Sounds like a state hasn't verified their ticket sales numbers apparently if the count is off by one ticket someone is able to take the numbers to a machine select them and if they know how to hack the machine to make the time stamp correct you can claim the ticket as a legitimate win quite the loophole indeed .
Nov 8, 2022, 3:13 am - judah - Lottery News

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
And once again ... cashed in the second 100x $100 winner at Publix today and got one more 100x ticket from the counter and one 100x ticket from the machine. One was not a winner and the other one was a $250 winner. I don't know if it was the counter ticket or the machine ticket that was the $250 winner. Wish I could say there is a system to this but it is just luck, right place at the right time:
Feb 5, 2020, 4:17 pm - duckman - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Well Shoot..I dropped my scratcher ticketReply
A few weeks ago I went to a lotto vending machine inside a busy gas station on the boarder it was a Saturday so the store was packed with us folks from utah playing. Someone had left a $10 scratcher inside the machine, I scratched it and it was a loser.. your ticket was probably a loser . Once you lost the ticket it was no longer yours and the person in possession of the ticket is the rightful owner as they did not obtain it illegally (stealing from you)
Mar 31, 2019, 5:10 pm - HAMMY WAMMY - Lottery Discussion Forum