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Lottery winner loses ticket, awarded unspent portion from couple who found itReply
I guess I really don't understand people now days, this woman or the clerk dropped the winning ticket on the floor, the woman thought she had her ticket until after the drawing and then she finds that she don't have it. The Stacey's who may have seen the lady or clerk drop the ticket on the floor or may have just found it there and picked it up. Why are people so greedy, the Stacy's knew they didn't buy the ticket and should have given it to the clerk, because the person who bought the ticket wo
Jul 26, 2009, 7:41 pm - Winning K - Lottery News

Either she was very stupid or tried to commit fraud.Reply
Seriously If I was the person behind you in the line I would have been supporting your right to receive fair pay for fair play. You won it honestly and deserved the correct payment back. I had the same thing happen with a clerk who has mastered confusion. I deliberately save up my weekly win. Tabulate them and place my final total on a sheet with a copy of the tickets. He argued for ten minutes that the machine is NOT wrong. So I showed him my COPY of each ticket the correct winnings eac
May 27, 2009, 9:22 pm - TheGameGrl - Lottery Discussion Forum

Winner, without scratching?Reply
What JBG said is correct. There are codes for the smaller prizes, but the bigger prizes can give random codes, 3 letters that make no sense at all, to us, the players anyway. As far as the position on where the winner will be on the card, I have never heard of this. I thought the same as you about the player picking a lucky spot to scratch being the only spot scratched. As far as not scratching anymore spots, he really wouldn't have to since he won, the machine will tell him the amount won
May 22, 2009, 12:04 pm - Dead_Aim - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

N.C. lottery store owners, employees winning big and oftenReply
I do play the lottery, but I am fundamentally opposed to the states running them in the first place. Before the 1970's lotteries were illegal in every state in the US, except perhaps Nevada. A primary reson for laws against lotteries was that bookmakers who ran them were profiting too much buy taking unfair advantage of people. It was marally wrong!!! When these villains ran the daily lottery a $1 for 3 nmbers paid $700 and 4 numbers paid $7000. the odds of winning are 1000-1 and 10,000-1 respec
May 2, 2009, 4:58 am - mhgent - Lottery News

Does jackpot amount affect your spending habits.Reply
Normally I just buy one PowerBall ticket with PowerPlay. This gives fate (Lady Luck, G-d, whatever motivating force you prefer to refer to) a chance to smile on me in a big way, and doesn't make me spend too much on the game, given the ridiculous odds for the jackpot. Given those odds, I tend to think of playing PowerBall as playing for the 2nd and 3rd prizes (the $1,000,000 or the $20-50,000 prizes). They don't change value over time, so I don't usually vary my playing style much. Most of my
Apr 9, 2009, 7:04 pm - The HoodedClaw - Jackpot Games Forum

The lottery machine is more random than the ball drawing...
I doubt the ball drawing machine got these drawings. I bought a Mega Millions today and I got this 45-49-50-51-52 (46) I WANT MY MONEY BACK. ..... or I'll just buy another ticket.
Apr 9, 2009, 10:30 am - SmoothJuice - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do you Believe Lotteries are Random?Reply
Years ago I had a man on my route(per my job) who insisted that the only way to get all 5 numbers on Fantasy Five(CA) was to choose your own numbers. LOL more than once he said that the computer only lets so many tickets win. He must of been basing this on the numbers the machine picked for its QP's otherwise the machine would also know his numbers. Anyway he kept a spiral notebook where he wrote the winning numbers and each line would have one or two numbers circled. Every time he showed me his
Apr 6, 2009, 4:13 pm - ca-dreamin* - Lottery Discussion Forum

21 CombinationsReply
Hi Newb This is a fair point but try this next time! If you have 5 lines ticket (your own selections) and after you bought your ticket then ask for one lucky dip then you'll find some of your numbers in lucky dip again which raise a question, does the machine know that your numbers are already a loser? I think it is irrelevant how the machines are generating the numbers for lucky dip because the actual calculation does not start half an hour after the deadline! My question is why they n
Apr 1, 2009, 6:49 am - Moses - Mathematics Forum

Two tickets will share $174M Powerball lottery jackpotReply
I played in Delaware once, but not recently. Surprised with the new matrix that DE came up being a small share of sales.. I will guess that it was someone visiting the Delaware House rest stop (did they remodel all that yet?), and as for the PA ticket, they're quiet about where it was sold in either State, but I did play-ahead PA Powerball around my Birthday last month. I remember the machine was screwing up, and gave me Powerball tickets with a start draw of Feb. 25 (a month later than I asked)
Mar 3, 2009, 7:42 pm - LckyLary - Lottery News

Who know a thing or two about the POWERBALL ticket?Reply
Whenever the official POWERBALL wesite states that there are how many players that played for the drawing such as 934,037 players won more than $9.5 million in prizes. Is the amount of players based on the amount of individual ticket slip(s) or for instance,you purchase 3 individual slip(s),does the person at the counter enter 1 as for 1 person or the lottery machine counts it as 3 people? Whenver you hand in a POWERBALL fill out form with the filled numbers,does the person each ty
Mar 1, 2009, 12:43 am - BORGUSX - Jackpot Games Forum