Idaho's biggest lottery winner knew he would win

I always knew I would win as well.
Our national lottery just have not drawn my numbers yet.

Does anybody else notice anything strange about Brad Duke's winning ticket from May 2005?

I did a search for Brad Duke 2012 and Brad Duke 2005 and found two different videos showing close ups of his winning ticket.

The video from 2005 as well as the recent one this month both show a four-line ticket purchased for $4.

The lines appear to be labeled   A . . . B . . . D . . . and . . . E.

What happened to Line C?

The winning numbers are on the second line, Line B.

How might something like that happen?

Was this ticket a misprint?

Has any explanation ever been given?

He was paid the money, so it must have passed all the stringent security protocals by the Idaho Lottery.

Maybe someone with higher status will post  links to the videos and screen captures, as I don't believe I am currently allowed to post links or attachments under LP rules due to New Member status.

welcome to LP maxamillion.

maybe line c was blank on his bet slip.

so the mach. skipped over it.

I've starting asking that my verified winning tickets be returned to me but they've been cashed at the local retailer and the most they've matched so far is four.

from the above article "But if you ask Brad, those lucky numbers didn't do the work. He did. And luck had nothing to do with it."

Maybe he's believing if he did it once, he can do it again.  With new matrix and price, PB jackpots will be larger and maybe he's thinking it's an easier way to reach his billion dollars goal.

That has happened to me when I make a mistake on a play slip and rather than make out a new slip I void that block and continue to fill out the other blocks.

Thanks for the explanation, RJOh. I had never seen that before.

 Hold on, I just caught the bit about him being re-united with his ticket. So, the Lottery Commission keeps those "valuable" prints for their records for a few years? After they have been validated, certainly they are valueless, I think. It must have been surreal to be re-united with a piece of paper that changed his life, dramatically.

  RJOH,

    That was a great explanation, voiding a line on your slip thus, the printed ticket, skips that line. To a few individuals who believe that he must have been crass with his fortune to be a guest on "The Lottery Changed My Life." He isn't broke, is he? He seems to be well off financially as there is no news of him being displaced financially. Duke's investors and financial officers must be very experienced and well versed and mostly, I believe the man has majority say in what and where his investments are placed. I read somewhere that the man got himself a proper "education" on understanding his wealth and financing. At least, to the point of understaning how his team of professionals, worked for him.

   A very intelligent lottery winner he is, winning is one thing, understanding how to handle and multiply the wealth is the crucial element.

I must agree with the perspective displayed by K Flyd.  The translation is much more reasonable.

I can be positive to the point of delusional...it doesnt change the draw....When the stars align or things are working with you...then so be it. I sincerely believe some folks despite their best foot forward are given hard knocks thru life....SO to each goes Lifes challenges.

For what its worth when Brad won he truly maintained a Low lifestyle..it wasnt til recently he "allowed" himself the ability to purchase a homestead (estate)and a new Aston Martin. Sometimes we simply must acknowledge that we are here but once thru life ..and enjoy a few of its luxuries. As he said ..We cant keep bailing everyone out of bankruptcy...they'll just go back to doing it again...but what we can do is educate them how not to go there the first time...He currently funds a Childrens program that teaches simple economic values....

A man who invests in the mind invest in much. Kudos to him for that.

congrat's to Brad Duke . Beliving , nice thinking , visualized the outcome and nice manfestion. Enjoy!!! 

 " I don't know if PB had the powerplay option in 2007 but today the true believers are those spending an extra buck."

Excellent point.

But even being a true believer won't come between a true cheapskate and an extra dollar.

They wouldn't sleep at night because of the spasmodic twitching of their wallets under their pillows.

Spending that extra buck or two can change your life forever. Having a budget is all good and fine. Bottom line is, are you ready to step up and do what it takes to make it happen?

No large  lottery winner ever regrets the number of drawings and cash it took to get there. Because millions cannot realize that dream....that's their problem.....get over it and "GO FOR IT"!!!     

OK, there's nothing wrong with visualization, writing yourself a check, etc...as long as you don't let an anticipated win or event turn into a prison of expectation.

Using the Law of Attraction alone withouyt the Law of Detachment is like having a brand new Maserati with no fuel in it and not a gas station in sight. 

If you make yourslef believe that you are going to win to the pont of betting paychecks on lottery tickets then that wishful thinking becomes economic suicide.

Also, does anyone else here find the timing of this story a little odd? Just perhaps PB play is down, after a ticket price hike and then a big payout, and this was leaked to the news to stir up some sales. Just a thought.

(Personally I don't think an extra $1 spent trying to win multi millions is all that traumatic, as has been said here, but obviously ome people do.)

(Personally I don't think an extra $1 spent trying to win multi millions is all that traumatic, as has been said here, but obviously ome people do.)

That's fine if you're just buying one $2 tickets, but if you're buying ten then spending an extra $1 on one of them is mostly likely a waste of money.

If spending the extra dollar for power play is a sign of a true believer then there has only been a couple of true believers to match 5+0 since the matrix changed.