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Florida woman arrested for stealing over $36,000 in lottery ticketsNews Story
Clerk caught after nabbing 30 books of scratch-off tickets By Kate Northrop A Florida woman was arrested after stealing 30 books of scratch-off tickets valued at nearly $36,000 in total. A convenience store clerk admitted to stealing 30 books of scratch-off tickets and fraudulently attempting to claim winning tickets at a Florida Lottery claim center. The Florida Department of the Lottery filed a criminal complaint against store manager Candace Leigh Dingman, 34, whose primary re
Mar 28, 2025, 8:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

Connecticut 9/11 first responder and retired firefighter scoops $500,000 in the lotteryReply
You have to go to your States lottery website,, and look ,, in Florida they list the scratch off remaining prices for each game , They do not pull the scratch off games when all top prizes are won ,, DO YOUR RESEARCH , YOU DONT WANT TO BUY TICKETS WHEN ALL TOP PRIZES ARE WON ALLREADY , OR THE TOP 4 prizes are won , leaving only the baby amounts $$$$
May 15, 2025, 11:54 pm - heb1959 - Lottery News

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I have my doubts that 2 million tickets can be sold considering the time of year The Florida Lottery is running what they're calling 'a promotion'. The Pennsylvania Lottery's Millionaire Raffle ticket selling window is during the fourth quarter of the year. It gets a nice boost in sales during Christmas when people gift raffle tickets. The maximum number of tickets that can be sold is 500,000 and for many years The PA Lottery has had no problem selling all 500,000 tickets. The Florida Lotte
Apr 4, 2026, 7:12 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida convenience store manager arrested for stealing over $300,000 in lottery ticketsNews Story
Huge theft became too big not to notice By Kate Northrop An employee at a Florida Lottery retailer was arrested after admitting to stealing an egregious number of lottery tickets totaling $300,000 in value. Miami police apprehended a convenience store manager after he was ousted for his massive $300,000 lottery ticket theft. Rakesh Tanguturi, 34, was handed charges of Organized Fraud of $50,000 or more and Grand Theft in the 2nd Degree this week, the result of a recent investigat
Mar 2, 2026, 9:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
This just in to The Interesting to Note But Nobody Cares Department - This time around The Florida Lottery did in fact revamp this edition of The Millionaire Raffle. I think they probably copied some ideas that were instituted by The Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle. I'm a transplant from the Northeast to Florida, and I used to live less than an hour's drive of Pennsylvania. PA has offered their version of a Millionaire Raffle every Fall for many years. I made the trip over to PA each Fall qu
Mar 29, 2026, 10:02 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
and another thing - there are 9 district lottery offices in Florida - for what ? To sell tickets ? No there are over 13,000 retailers to do that ......are the 9 district offices there to cash in winning tickets ? Are you serious ?? What else could it be ? Dozens of people clogging up parking spaces, some smoking outside, some waiting inside in cheap chairs for their number to be called ?? What a waste of time .........What is the cost for renting those 9 offices - salaries for all the employees
Aug 19, 2025, 8:20 pm - skeptic - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
I've rethought my ticket buying strategy..... I decided to buy one raffle ticket per week in June. I'm gambling that there wont be a ticket buying frenzy during June. If there is a frenzy, no harm done. If there isn't one, I figured I'd be better off with more tickets in my hand than not. I stopped in a RaceTrack today and bought ticket number 2984XX. BTW I was shocked when I ordered one Florida Millionaire Raffle ticket and the clerk responded with You want MegaMillions? She had never sold
Jun 4, 2026, 4:08 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

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

Take5 NYReply
If you scroll back in the report I posted above, (to 7/4/2023) you'll see the word EXPIRED in the winners name field of the report. Some poor soul won and subsequently lost $115,472 because they never claimed their jackpot winning Florida Fantasy5 ticket. Don't let something like that happen to YOU! Think it's hard to let a winning ticket expire and it'll never happen to you? Better rethink that. Here's why - While I was working and living in NY, I had a friend at work named Keith. Keith
Jun 11, 2024, 8:11 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

PowerballReply
I might shock the lottery lawyers shoes off if I get to show him a winning PB ticket given the way I play PB. Because I'm really playing for second place win, I buy five almost identical lines (all five white balls are the same on each line), but I pick five different PowerBall numbers. I buy the PowerPlay option too. My ticket costs me 15 bucks, and I used to feel bad about that. Not anymore. While I was standing in line to buy my PB ticket yesterday, an old bag who looked like she didn
Dec 14, 2025, 9:31 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum