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I'm done playing the lotteryReply
So sorry to hear about the Bad Machine and I can understand the frustration involved. But, I think I would prefer to just find another place for ticket purchases, preferably where there is a live clerk. Please do as you wish, but it has been my experience that decisions I make when I am angry, upset, or just PO'd are usually not the best decisions I could have made at the time. Best wishes to you.
Dec 30, 2025, 9:39 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum

Coughing up gold in TN
Recurring dreams over the past two weeks of coughing and vomiting up floods of gold. Coins, bars, bullion, nuggets, wire, chains, even the gold contacts on individual computer parts, you name it if it's shaped out of gold I've dreamed about hacking and spitting it up. It doesn't hurt but it does seem like it's not going to stop and the level of it is going to rise over my head sooner rather than later. There's a sense of urgency. Sometimes my dead grandmother's there and also coughing up gold; s
Dec 29, 2025, 10:18 am - comforthawk - Mystical Forum

$1.5 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot fuels rush for ticketsReply
Last night hit cash out button on the Historic Racing Machine for $1903. Slots are illegal in KY, so they 'skirt' the law by using altered slot machines to reflect old horse races. Low bets with a jackpot win of $600 and above are subject to Federal and State taxes and machine shuts off until reset after payout. However if you bet 'high' jackpots aren't taxed. A guy yesterday doing $100 bets won $5200 and $8500 and slot attendant said there was one other too. None of them taxable. One featur
Dec 20, 2025, 8:20 am - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

Vending machine or counter tickets??Reply
I know the vending machine at a nearby supermarket can be opened by store personnel, and I'd imagine that almost all vending machines can be opened by the store they're in. I'd expect the store loads the tickets from the same batch used to load counter displays. In that case I can't imagine how there could possibly be a difference. In NY there are vending machines (and lots of NY tourism stuff) at Thruway rest areas, and it's possible that those are loaded by lottery personnel. For those who
Aug 18, 2025, 12:14 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia: 8/1 - 8/31/2025Reply
Tonight when I went to use the lottery machine to split a buck between my two favorite leaders of 791, I found my 830 ticket from last night and got mad all over again. I really thought I had a brainwave last night. It felt personal when they drew 338 instead. Rats! /RANT P. S. My fave Leaders of 791 were 362 459.
Aug 15, 2025, 8:14 pm - parlayman - Pick 3 Forum

Missouri lottery winner of $189,000 jackpot dreams of helping children in needReply
I inadvertantly bought a $1.00 lottery ticket from a lottery machine last week and won nothing. Her win couldn't happen to a better person. Congrats!
Jul 19, 2025, 9:46 pm - Lotterologist - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery bans Fast Play bulk ticket purchasesReply
Fast Plays are Scratcher-like games (some are duplicates of scratcher games) except instead of card, the play ticket is generated on the fly by the kiosk and replaces the play card. This opens up a number of security vulnerabilities in my mind if you have physical access to hack and reverse engineer a machine. I think they are putting too much confidence in a TPM chip securing the boot sequence. Some Fast Plays have progressive jackpots (9 of 36 games currently). A person can calculate the p
Jul 13, 2025, 6:36 pm - Wavepack - Lottery News

New Jersey resident says no thanks to road rage, wins $600,000 lottery prize insteadReply
Great story from New Jersey! Now onto me. This morning taking my $21 Mega Millions to cash in machine. I looked down and it said that machine had a $15 credit....so I played it. Never cashed the MM ticket for more. One of the employees was out emptying many trash cans in the gas area. She came up to me and said a lady was playing and 'would be right back'. Well she asked me to leave the $15 @ register. I waited 1/2 hour for her. Asked Tabitha if she was working tomorrow and if lady neve
Jun 28, 2025, 1:36 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

MegaMillions ticket reprint fraud by a store associate?Reply
I didn't know the clerks lottery machine had anything to do with the self service machine. That's crazy. I'd go back and say something to the manager of the store. So you didn't give the clerk any cards whatsoever. But he printed out the same numbers. He still has to account for the tickets from his lottery terminal. So I'm not sure how he would pocket the 50 bucks. Unless he had a way to cancel the tickets. If he printed out the same numbers. Somehow they were on his screen. So to cancel th
Dec 27, 2024, 1:02 pm - Cmoore50 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Missouri: 9/1 - 9/30/2024Reply
Yeah, I've had to learn the hard way on that kind of stuff as well. Went to one place for a bit (small town mom and pop shop) and thought I knew the owner somewhat. I bought my tickets got out the door just a few steps and realized he neglected to give me a ticket I bought. It was a scratcher (when that's all MO sold at the time) I walked straight back in and told him he had forgotten to give me one of them. He said no he didn't, and I said well I don't have it either. Then he proceeds to tell m
Sep 27, 2024, 1:48 pm - Dead_Aim - Pick 3 Forum