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NY brothers claim $5M win from '06 lottery ticketNews Story
Two brothers kept quiet for six years about the $5 million winning lottery ticket they'd bought at their parents' store in Syracuse. Andy N. Ashkar, 34, of Camillus, and his brother, Nayel N. Ashkar, 36, of Cicero, came forward March 1 of this year to claim the $5 million top prize in the $500,000,000 Extravaganza scratch-off game, lottery officials said. That was 11 days before the prize would've expired. It's unusual, highly unusual, lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman said Tuesday o
Oct 17, 2012, 9:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery adds signature requirement for claiming prizesReply
Ontario is a very unsophisticated over-socialized politically-correct governed provincial state. It is filled with individuals who seem to be ignornat when cashing or checking a lottery ticket, but oh so brilliant as to when they buy one. They seem 'not to know what to do' after they buy a lottery ticket! Did I say unsophisticated? People here want 'all forms of government' to hold their hand when they check their ticket, but not when they buy it!!! Talk about a controversy! [OH, OH, I can se
Jan 30, 2008, 10:40 am - dx123 - Lottery News

Lottery ticket printer grants rare peek at operationsNews Story
For about 30 minutes this afternoon, Pollard Banknote took the unusual step of stopping its new, instant-lottery ticket press so it could show it off. We're halting production for a few minutes, not withstanding the fact we've got to get tickets out the door still to pay for this sucker, Doug Pollard, the company's co-CEO with his brother John, said as the din of the press in Ypsilanti was quieted. But we'll fire it back up after. A mostly family-owned company based in Winnipeg, Canada,
Sep 22, 2015, 9:15 am - Todd - Lottery News

What's your main purpose of logging onto Lotterypost.comReply
Greetings Cash Crown I am a 24 year-old student in NC pursing a Ph.D. to do biomedical research, but decoding the degree of predictability for scratch-off lottery tickets has been an odd side research endeavor for the past six months. I ve learned A LOT through the past six months of research, but could not find any leads until I came across your post about two-three months ago. I chose to reply to you're most recent message on this lottery forum site, as I can't send you a private message a
Jul 26, 2015, 9:20 pm - Zaytoon90 - Lottery Discussion Forum

US lottery experiences and the Patels
So I thought I'd share some recent very boring experiences from NY. I was recently in NY and bought tickets for the NY Lotto (once only) and bought PB and MM tickets regularly. Some dollars and some dreams, it would have been so much fun to figure out how to deal with the winning while on vacation, flying there coach, flying back private or first class. Unfortunately, that didn't work, as the one time I am in New York it does not win, of course. Instead, as you know, it went to Illinois
Jun 4, 2015, 9:05 am - MaximumMillions - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pick-Quickpick QuestionReply
I don't know about other states, but this is how it works in Texas. The lottery is conducted by GTECH. They are well paid for their services. All of the lottery terminals in the state are connected via satellite or hard line, to a central computer operations hub located near Austin, Texas. The terminals are NOT random number generators. They are fancy machines that can perform all the actions required to facilitate on-line games and scratch card lottery operations. When a customer
Oct 11, 2008, 4:37 pm - bobby623 - Lottery Discussion Forum

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

LP Chat Transcripts Saved HereReply
Start of transcript Sunday, April 5, 2015 8:01:16 PMMzDuffleBaglady enters the roomMembers online:1 8:01:43 PMMzDuffleBaglady leaves the roomMembers online:0 8:22:20 PMLottoMomma enters the roomMembers online:1 8:22:49 PMLottoMomma: OMG..Im the only one in the room! 8:23:20 PMLottoMomma leaves the roomMembers online:0 8:23:58 PMLottoMomma enters the roomMembers online:1 8:28:32 PMchituru enters the roomMembers online:2 8:28:54 PMToy enters the roomMembers online:3 8:29
Apr 5, 2015, 10:06 pm - Harve$t Moon - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are vendors supposed to 'tape' tickets together?Reply
I think there is just too much insider info being passed around and by that I mean that thousands of people play these games and run into hundreds of clerks who hear the stories associated with playing them. When the game itself is seemingly so large and widespread that a chance of cheating and having an inside edge seems impossible, I'd be reconsidering that notion. If I consider my local tobacco shop alone, there are hundreds of players that go there to buy instants and dailys...th
Jun 19, 2011, 2:16 am - dr65 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Store Clerk Playing Unfair? Is This Legal?Reply
Opportunists. They'll smile at you like they are joking but it's the eyes...it's all in the eyes. There IS something not right about employees playing, selling, handling, activating and cashing tickets. This has been discussed before. Even if their only advantage is knowing who bought how many of what, who lost on what tickets and who turned in bigger winners then that is an advantage that should preclude them from being able to play while on their shift. Anyone who handles, act
Apr 18, 2011, 8:29 pm - dr65 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum