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Lottery ticket has all the numbers, but 7 seconds lateReply
I punched twice, before 9 p.m., Mr. Iranpur recalled yesterday in an interview. The first ticket came out. I said, 'It's still 8:59, it's still 8:59!' The second ticket, however, didn't come out until seven seconds after 9 p.m., making it eligible for the next draw. It appears to me the terminal machine should be programmed for the ticket time to be when the data or playslip is entered. Not when the ticket is printed. Enter data at 8:59 and 55 seconds the machine should print ticket t
Oct 9, 2008, 1:41 am - JAP69 - Lottery News

Do you tip your cashier when you win?Reply
I don't know if such is still the case, but years ago when I went to Tahiti, any tipping at all was illegal. We loved it! I wish such were the case here. I've never won enough to warrant even considering a tip, but no, I wouldn't tip a cashier who put my card through a machine. Like justexploring, most of the time I don't remember which clerk sold me the ticket anyway. Heck, I'm lucky to remember which store I bought the ticket at! The last time I bought a MM ticket, the clerk said, If you
Jul 1, 2008, 6:50 pm - Uff Da! - Lottery Discussion Forum

Winner of New York's biggest lottery jackpot sold himself the ticketReply
From talking to a few lottery retailers I have learned that if they scan too many tickets that are losers the machine somehow lets the lottery headquarters know that something is fishy. I would consider 1 ticket scanned dishonestly TOO MANY! Lets say I walk in and purchase that previously scanned ticket, I am a sure loser and the retailer knows it. This is no way to run a lottery. These stores opperate 24 hrs a day and it is usually 1 person alone in the store. Even if they check 1 ticket a day
Jan 26, 2008, 12:14 am - pontil - Lottery News

New York Lottery won't pay $25,000 for taped-up scratch-off ticketReply
I believe the lady's story. She bought the tickets from a machine and the tickets came out torn. She honestly believed the torn tickets were two parts of a winning ticket, thus she taped the two halves together. It was a foreseeable honest mistake on her part. Perhaps mistakes like this have happened in the past. The machine may be defective and the lottery operators knew it, and yet they didn't do anything to correct the defect. I would argue that it is gross negligence, to say
Oct 24, 2007, 3:52 am - csfb - Lottery News

Verifying California Lottery WinnersReply
It would not had mattered if I checked the paper....the magician switched the ticket before putting it in the machine.... Lotto called and informed the store that someone had won the 530K.... he glanced at my ticket sitting on the counter a few times....then went in the back for something...then he picked up my ticket and supposedily put it through the machine..... SIGN WHEN YOU BUY>>>>> even if you loose it in the street....there is nothing that anyone can do with it.... the best
Nov 6, 2006, 7:43 pm - Bob21456 - Lottery News

Honest store clerk returns $100,000 lottery ticketNews Story
Leslee Hobson isn't just lucky when it comes to lottery tickets. She is lucky she buys her coffee from John Martin each morning.Hobson brought three Powerball tickets into the Circle K convenience store in Stayton, Oregon on May 29.Martin, a clerk at the store, went through the tickets and returned her winnings of $3. One of the tickets, however, couldn't be processed. Something came up on the screen on the Lottery machine I'd never seen before, Martin said. It said, This is not a ticket.' Ho
Jun 27, 2005, 7:42 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery lightning strikes twice for NJ store ownerNews Story
For 18 years, Glenn Pompei, owner of two liquor stores, never sold a winning state lottery ticket from either store.But twice in the past two months, a winning Jersey Cash 5 ticket has been sold from each of his stores in Morris County.On Wednesday night, some lucky ticket holder won the top Jersey Cash 5 jackpot prize of $263,820.The ticket holder, which was purchased at Pompei's Ridgedale Wine Liquors at 480 Ridgedale Ave., has yet to claim the prize.Pompei said he expressed disbelief when h
Apr 22, 2005, 10:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

Self-service lottery machines popular in PennsylvaniaNews Story
To Billy Kaldes, owner of The Spot in downtown Harrisburg, selling Pennsylvania lottery tickets is the biggest thing for business since the introduction of the Rendell Burger in 2003.Kaldes installed one of the lottery's new self-service ticket dispensers this month, and its first-week sales of $4,297 set a record.It earned him a visit yesterday from The Spot's last big thing, Gov. Ed Rendell, who touted the lottery's growth and picked up a couple of burgers. This terminal allows the player to g
Mar 16, 2005, 11:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Best scratch game?Reply
Quote: Originally posted by keystonechas on March 04, 2004 Lotto Czar,Some comments for you.By the end of January I stop playing X-mas tickets. The reason? Lots are given as gifts to people who don't play the lottery on a regular bases. They overlook lots of winners and throw them away. A perfect example is my girlfriend. She only plays the lottery when Powerball gets above $100 million, and only then if I remind her. I gave her one of those $20 tickets with a guaranteed prize of $10 at Christma
Mar 5, 2004, 7:09 am - Lotto Czar - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

MegaMillions ticket reprint fraud by a store associate?Reply
On The Florida Lottery's website I found a way to submit a question to them via email. Here's what I wrote in my email - Hello, Does a Florida Lottery retailer have the capability for a recently purchased ticket (before the drawing) to be reprinted? If I bought an online draw games ticket from a lottery vending machine, and the printing on the ticket was of such poor quality so as to render my ticket illegible, or the machine simply mangled (crumpled up) my ticket when it was bei
Dec 29, 2024, 11:37 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum