What a shame, such a good career ruined over a little greed.

Since I buy them in S.E. Indiana, I say my destiny was altered and they stole that money from a lottery player. Throw the book at them.

I thought Instant tickets were random.  I didn't know the lottery knows where the top prizes are going to be?  It seems unfair if you ask me.

Apparently they aren't as random as we would like. I used to work in a convience store for about 10 years. Once this guy bought a Jumbo Bucks that won $50,000. The Ga Lottery commision called the store just as soon as the guy went to cash it in and told my store to jerk that particular stack from our stock. Apparently we weren't supposed to get that stack. I have no idea where it was supposed to go. He still got his money. It wasn't his fault that it was sent to the wrong place.-Bonnie

And stories like this don't make people worry about computer drawings.

This is a prime example of why lotteries need public or at least webcast drawings of balls. It's only scratch tickets that are unlikely to be random now, later it could be another game.  

Dang!!!  What does it matter?  I think it should be random!  That makes me mad because the director of the GA lottery a few years ago is now our director.  I'm going to email them and ask. (I know they'll lie but it's worth a shot).

That's why I don't play "Scratch Offs" I've always known that the whereabouts of Jackpot winning "Tickets" was a tightly held secret for only Privileged individuals.

Unless you have "inside" information of there whereabouts your pretty much losing your money unless you get "Lucky" and buy a Winner!!!!

Howdy All,

We had a game here in MO that was very short lived. It was called "Xtra" It was an online game. You would buy a ticket online and then the machine would hesitate and then print out your ticket. It would play the tune "We're in the money" if you won. There was no mention on the MO website that this was a fixed game. How I knew there was something fishy was the fact you could pick your own numbers just like any normal Pick 3 and then you paid an extra buck for the chance at this Xtra game. One day I played doubles for my P3 and paid the extra dollar for the Xtra game. I had like 969 it gave me 343, I had 008 it had 117, I had 522 it had 688. For every double I had, it put a double in the same position. You only had to match one number to win $2 bucks back. After seeing this I came home and sent an e-mail to MO lottery and told them there was no way this was a random game. Thy told me I was correct. The randomness of the game was in who would purchase the ticket , not the game itself. They had complete control over the results of this online game, how much someone would win and in what location. I never played again and I told as many people as I could about it. The word must have got around fast.

In the words of a friend of mine " that's just not right"

Bryan  :)

Perhaps they pulled your stack along with everyone elses because all the top prizes had been won.

I must say, STUUUUUUUUUUPID they are.

If you're gonna commit a crime, God-damn do it right!

indiana is already rigging the numbers too and someone is getting a fat wallet at the lottery headquarters.....

Nope that wasn't it. The person from the Ga lottery commision who spoke with the manager specifically told her that the reason they were pulling the stack was because it had been sent to the wrong store. Also, I just checked and the Ga lottery is still selling the Jumbo Bucks Classic today. That is the ticket that this man won on. -Bonnie

better yet wouldn't it be nice if all number players could testify about how much money they've been cheated out of because of indiana computerized drawings.