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    <title>VT Lottery had $1 million in unclaimed prizes</title>
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      <title>Comment #3</title>
      <link>http://www.lotterypost.com/news/160363/876285</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:07:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>rdc137</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[If you have a complicated ticket, such as a crossword puzzle ticket or a bingo ticket, best thing to do is to have it scanned at a terminal, just in case. If in doubt, SCAN.<br /><br />Once, I randomly scanned a few of the tickets in a dead ticket basket a store put out (a store with a self-checker). One came up $50.]]></description>
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      <link>http://www.lotterypost.com/news/160363/876107</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>tnlotto1</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[i try to check my lottery tickets and scratch my tickets at home where i wont feel rushed. i think most people scratch the tickets at the store so they can immediately redeem a smaller winner but they do run the risk of tossing a winner accidentally]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:59:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>LckyLary</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[AGAIN - people buy too many tickets at a time and RUSH through checking them. I routinely find discards that a more careful check reveals small prizes that were missed by impatient players. I even have a program that checks Crossword tickets. You always see the ones that they don't scratch every letter, just a few whole words. I can't figure how they can do this  in their head  without revealing all of the letters and without sometimes missing.. I've seen THREE missed words on one. Stores should... [&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lotterypost.com/news/160363/875834">More</a>&nbsp;]]]></description>
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      <title>VT Lottery had $1 million in unclaimed prizes</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[The Vermont Lottery ended its budget year with $1 million in unclaimed prizes for winning scratch-off tickets, a $400,000 jump over the amount of prize money that players failed to collect the previous year.<br /><br />The extra money went to the state's Education Fund.<br /><br />Why would people fail to collect their winnings?<br /><br />That is a good question,  said Alan Yandow, executive director of the Vermont Lottery Commission.  People have the opportunity to scratch the instant ticket right away,  he said.]]></description>
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