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do you ever buy lottery based on having a lucky feeling?Reply
OldSChoolPA On another note, I do not play scratch off (if) games as you have to beat the particular store that actually has the top prize in the roll,and be at the precise moment that winning ticket comes up for purchasein order to win...otherwise, you are just purchasing worthless paper. Given that 70 to 80% of MM sales are QPs as are 70 to 80% of the winners, it's the same thing as that underlined above - you have to be at the terminal the exact moment it spits out what turns out to b
Mar 29, 2008, 10:44 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

An Ethical Dilemma...Reply
Tried the honest way a few times- it never paid me back or made me think I did the RIGHT thing. My kids could have used a decent meal. As to the casino scenario- Money found on the casino floor is technically their property, tickets found ON the machine, NOT there property. Unclaimed tickets are fair game. Casinos can only regulate if a player has his ticket stolen from his hands. If there are machines that still spew coins, those in the kettle are the customers, those that drop to the floor,
Mar 26, 2008, 10:04 pm - TheGameGrl - Lottery Discussion Forum

An Ethical Dilemma...Reply
The ethical thing in any analagous situation is to see if you can find the rightful owner. Assuming you can't get a cash refund from the machine and can't readily locate the person who deserves the credit the sensible thing is to get an extra $4 worth of tickets. Leaving the credit almost certainly means that somebody else will use it, and there's no logic in doing that. The person who left the credit behind only has a claim on the $4, since they never actually bought the tickets, so your onl
Mar 26, 2008, 4:25 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

buying lottery ticketsReply
she says sorry but the machine is acting up. Translation: I don't know how to run this simple machine so I'll blame it on a malfunction and hope this customer buys my mistake or I can sell it to other players. We have a game Ten-Oh where we have to fill out one play slip for each ticket so most players have multiple play slips. It's a piece of cake for the good clerks that know not to put the next play slip into the machine before it reads the first one, but some clerks haven't figured t
Mar 14, 2008, 3:31 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

buying lottery ticketsReply
Yes and no. There is a clerk at the store where I usually buy my ticket that I guess relieves the regular clerks when they are on break or helps when there is a long line. Last week I handed her 10 play slips that should had 10 tickets but she handed me 11 tickets. I assumed she printed one of the tickets twice so instead of sorting through the tickets trying to figure out which one, I gave her the $11. She said I probably had marked the one of the tickets wrong, but I had used the same ticke
Mar 14, 2008, 3:11 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Count your tickets, check numbers
I know one common topic on Lottery Post is discussing checking your numbers online and in the paper first before going to a store. This is not only because of a possible mistake, but also in case a clerk is dishonest. However, I'd like to share what happened to me about 20 minutes ago. It's very cold windy (for South Florida) so I put on my 25 year old ski parka (still looks great) and went to 7-11. On Sat night I won $5.00 getting 3/6 in Lotto and 2 Free Tickets getting 2/5 in Fantasy
Jan 20, 2008, 8:56 pm - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which Win do you preferReply
My most common play is a QP, I think winning a jackpot would be far, far more exciting than the method you used to pick the numbers to hit the jackpot. Anyone who would win multi-millions and then kvetch because the machine picked the numbers and not me need help! Also, think about this- someone in love with their system walks into a jackpot - good so far - but that makes them so enamored wigth their system that they insist it will work again, but it never does. Your heart may be
Jan 3, 2008, 9:59 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Subtraction System...Reply
Win_D, Check this out.. When I went to get my numbers tonight the guy in front of me played ONE number - 308... I mentioned to him that the 3 was overdue at night and he said it wasn't his #, his girlfriend asked him to get it. Then the machine JAMS and of course no one knows how to fix it... so the guy gives up and leaves with out geting the ticket. I wait no more than 3-4 minutes and they get the machine back up and I made sure to get 308.. I know its reaching (and basing #'s on thing
Nov 15, 2007, 7:43 pm - bashley572 - Lottery Systems Forum

New York Lottery won't pay $25,000 for taped-up scratch-off ticketReply
A bunch of observations and questions here. (Thanks Todd) The tear itself (other than the overlap!) is very convincing, if she did this herself it's hard to get the rough edges to look so close so maybe she had 2 tickets and tore both at the same time to get the tear to be similar. It's even possible she FOUND the torn tickets and matched up the wrong parts and thought she won and claimed the machine did it. Would explain the initial spending spree if true. (Camera tape would be handy.) Ma
Oct 23, 2007, 7:41 pm - LckyLary - Lottery News

New York Lottery won't pay $25,000 for taped-up scratch-off ticketReply
The ticket is an obvious fake...and a really bad one as well. All NY instant games only have 3 validation codes for all prize levels (including top prizes). In the ticket there is X, P, and K on the bottom, but also an M on the upper-left. There is no such thing as a 4-letter validation code on any NY instant ticket. This person obviously didn't know this fact and thought that if they just attached two tickets...one half, which contained the winning number, and the other, containing the matching
Oct 23, 2007, 6:57 pm - Rolling - Lottery News