New York Lottery won't pay $25,000 for taped-up scratch-off ticket

UGH! John Gambling is T-H-E most BOOoooooooring guy on all of radio except for maybe whatshisname Bob Grant. I'd be willing to trade John Gambling taking a slow boat to China in exchange to allow computerized drawing in nj. I LIKE Mr. Kuby even though he's Liberal, at least he is INTERESTING and funny. Gambling says "be that as it may" and other dull lingo and rushes people to get to his grating commercials. And he's so obsessed about illegal immigration that he sounds like a closet racist. If they do this they can expect many angry e-mails and boycotts! And my complaints to WABC go unanswered except that Kuby always writes back when I have questions. I'd rather have Mark Levin in the morning and shove Gambling to around midnight when nobody's listening, he could be a great sleep aid! Who shot my enthusiasm?

Be that as it may, I got my set of 3 Blue Moon Bucks scratch-off tickets. They are not torn yet, but I'm going to experiment with 2 losing tickets to see if I put 2 different halves together what it looks like. But first I have to write another angry e-mail to WABC.

"being  a  Professional  does  not  only  mean  you  make  a  living  playing  the  lottery;"

I suppose you could define a professional as an expert in their field and in skill games like Poker I would agree. Where is the skill when 70% of Mega Millions and Powerball jackpot winners bought QPs? 

I'm curious since you brought up the percentages of QP winners for Powerball and Mega Millions. Does anyone have the percentages for Pick 3 and Pick 4 QP's verses Player own picked numbers winning ticket won, since that seems to be what most people are posting predictions for on here? I'm thinking that the percentages won't be anything like those of the big jackpot games.

"its  my  way  of  life  ..lotery  before  my  mourning  coffee  and  lotttery  before  I  go  to  sleep  at  night ,studing  the  Board "

That could also define obsession.

A friend of mine does these things but I didn't think it was a obsession until he told me he dreams of lottery numbers every night.

"who  was  Jr EWING ???"

JR was a character in a TV mini-series called Dallas that was known for its season ending cliffhangers. You were talking about conspiracies and cover-ups and people were trying to figure out "who shot JR?" for months.

Maybe you should have used " Who shot Mr. Burns" instead.

Everyone seems to be focused in on the fake ticket when the actual lesson to be learned here is to not "spend" or precommit any lottery winnings until one actually has the cash in one's account.  Oh there are two lessons actually.  The other is to not play scratch ifs.