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Bobby's Ohio Pick 3 Predictions 5/1-5/31Reply
I'm sympathetic for the gambler. As a seasoned 62, Bobby---while bartending most of my life I was always around gamblers from running the front room sports pools to lining up the back room poker games. Punching in numbers at the machine, or handing over scratch offs. If I was still out there everyday a few feet away from a lottery kiosk I'd be playing numbers everyday. Plus buying the tickets punched in by mistake. Why? cause, I love to gamble, and I'm a degenerate too, but I finally learned you
May 27, 2025, 1:35 pm - TheseStars - Pick 3 Forum

DC Lottery introduces Washington D.C.'s first $50 scratch-off ticketReply
That makes sense. Even with the top prize being only $1.52 million, this is actually a very good return for a lottery. 82.6% of the ticket price is awarded in prizes (including the second chance drawing). Previously the highest I ever saw was the Texas $50 scratch-off at 75%. Usually a lottery will rip you off with a measly 50% payback. Some of the games are a little better at 60% but still not worth playing. If I were going to drop $50 on the lottery all at once, I would play this g
Apr 18, 2025, 8:00 am - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Texas House passes $337 billion budget that defunds Texas LotteryReply
Texas Lottery website: So where does Texas make up the difference for school funding if the Texas Lottery goes away? Texas Veterans Supporting Texas Education Veterans Since 1992, the Texas Lottery has generated more than $40 billion in revenue for good causes in the state of Texas, including education, veterans' services and other important state programs. Through strict adherence to our vision, mission and core values, the Texas Lottery is dedicated to ensuring that these benefits
Apr 15, 2025, 12:24 pm - winsumloosesum - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery launches online Powerball sales to combat competition from sports bettingReply
Why would Tennessee players want to play Powerball online when Tennessee hardly ever hits. We know a few will hit to get people to buy more. My suggestion is to all Cash 3 and Cash 4. I will not sign up until Cash 3 and cash 4 are added. Tickets sales are down because there are not a lot of big winners. People are scanning the tickets and throwing them in the trash. Please Scratch them off before tossing them. Add Cash 3 and Cash 4 and I will sign up. Tennessee games shoul
Feb 8, 2025, 2:53 am - Niecy506 - Lottery News

Arkansas man suppresses celebration for "confirmation" of $500,000 lottery prizeReply
I don't play scratch off games but if I won any jackpot, I would suppress that 100% forever. I live in a state where winners can remain anonymous and I will be that guy, suppressing everything. Even the house fly won't know a snip thing. Now the MM jackpot is 740M, I am not sure how successful I will be at suppressing that win. I think I would have to move to another place or state and they won't know that I used to drive a Corolla before the BMW X3 This post has been automatica
Dec 17, 2024, 3:45 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News

Online Scratch-off aka Instant Tickets
Massachusetts has recently begun selling scratch-off tickets online through courier services like Lotto, Jackpot, Jackpocket, and more. I'm sure many other states do as well. If you know any other couriers, please do share. Couriers make money by charging a courier fee, a percentage of the ticket's cost. My fees usually are just a few cents, which I don't mind spending for convenience. I generally trust courier services with jackpot and pick-number games, but I haven't tried scratch-off tic
Dec 10, 2024, 12:13 pm - Tacticia - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

North Carolina man hides $2 million winning lottery ticket using a microwave as a safeReply
The last item saying that players can still win the 2 nd and 4 th tier prizes while the games is still active gets me. Long ago, I lived in Oregon where they pulled the tickets after all the top prizes are claimed, because they can t have a game advertising a $2m top prize when there are no top prizes left to win. It becomes false advertising at that point. I now live in Colorado, where they just don t care. They ll sell tickets as long as people buy them, regardless if there are any top
Aug 27, 2024, 12:37 pm - shy1979 - Lottery News

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Wanted to update/correct my previous figures, as for some reason I thought there were only three interim prize periods, and there are actually four. Bottom line, 640,900 tickets need to be sold to fund all prizes to be awarded in the Raffle (interim prizes and Grand Prizes.) The duration of the raffle is 122 days, so sales need to average 5,245 tix a day. Based on the Lottery's figure of 169,906 tix sold as of 4/17 , sales are averaging 3,540 tix/day so far. Hard to say if sales will pick up or
Apr 18, 2026, 3:56 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

"I can't believe it!" North Carolina man hugs store clerk after winning $2 million prizeReply
He was presented with the choice of either taking the one-time lump sum of $1.2 million or annual payments of $100,000 over 20 years and chose the lump sum. After federal and state taxes, he collected a total of $864,126. I think it would be great if the prizes shown on scratch off tickets are the Lump Sum. If it's 2M thats what it is then take off taxes. Looks like everything must have an annuity version to make the prize look bigger and appealing. Congratulations on the win Sh
Jan 14, 2026, 1:40 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News

I'm done playing the lottery
I've spent $200 on PB tickets and plenty of money on scratch-off tickets at the vending machine at Safeway on Wadsworth 38th Ave in Wheatridge, CO. I didn't win very much, which I expected given the prize structure of that game. The last time I went there, I scanned $40 worth of winning scratch-off tickets, selected 8 $5 tickets, and when I hit check out , the machine did nothing. I asked the clerk and she told me to contact the Colorado Lottery. I did, and their response was that the retail
Dec 30, 2025, 7:45 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum