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Washington woman checks lottery ticket months after draw and discovers $135,000 winNews Story
A Washington woman bought a lottery ticket from a vending machine but didn't realize until months later that it was a $135,000 winner. The Lynnwood woman, identified as M.B., told Washington's Lottery officials she bought her Hit 5 ticket from a vending machine at her local Fred Meyer store while picking up groceries for dinner. M.B. said it wasn't until several months later that her husband reminded her to check the ticket, so she scanned it at a vending machine and received the instruc
Feb 28, 2024, 9:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery blames "human reporting error" for posting incorrect Powerball resultsNews Story
Players who claimed prizes under wrong numbers can keep their winnings By Kate Northrop The Iowa Lottery attributed posting the wrong Powerball numbers on their website for Monday's draw to a human reporting error and told players who already redeemed prizes that they can keep the winnings. Several hours after the wrong Powerball numbers were posted on the Iowa Lottery's website the night of the drawing on Mon., Nov. 27, the Lottery removed the incorrect sequence and republished the
Nov 30, 2023, 9:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery launches Cash Pop gameReply
Lottery Post currently does not publish results for any Quick Draw style games, as most people playing a Quick Draw game will get their results right at the retailer that sold the ticket.
May 10, 2024, 2:52 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Technical difficulty with New Jersey Lottery Pick 4 drawing results in two sets of winning numbersNews Story
Physical error causes incomplete draw By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery had to conduct a second Pick 4 evening drawing last night after a mechanical problem caused the first draw to fail, the Lottery announced today. A technical error involving the New Jersey Lottery's ball drawing machine led to an incomplete draw in the Pick 4 evening drawing on Thurs., March 14. All of the balls did not release into the chamber of the drawing machine before the winning numbers were sele
Mar 15, 2024, 12:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Michigan man drove around with $2 million winning lottery ticket for 4 months without realizing itReply
This is what wins? Jeez. For every nine lottery players who play religiously and protect the tickets and check the results, there's the one careless / non-chalant player that hits! MAbye I'm doing it all wrong.
Dec 15, 2023, 8:37 am - Tony Numbers - Lottery News

$1.33 billion Powerball jackpot won by one ticket sold in OregonReply
I don't believe the lottery is rigged (at least the non RNG games). But, I will say that this is the 2nd time that Powerball has had to delay results. The 1st time this occurred, there was a huge drop off in the rate of sales, and they still haven't recovered that volume from one draw to the next. This is because of those that do believe that the lottery is rigged. Powerball really isn't doing themselves any favors by having another issue with a delayed result unveiling. This really makes me que
Apr 7, 2024, 4:21 pm - DDBagger519 - Lottery News

Florida LLC revealed to have claimed $1.6 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpotReply
I agree. The Jacksonville doctor is my scientific wild guess. I worked in data processing for over 30 years and I saw output produced from software programs that I never expected. Most times it was a bug in the code that produced erroneous results. The Florida Lottery software that creates the report could have malfunctioned, or somebody at the Florida Lottery made an honest mistake and entered the doctors name even if he wasn't the actual winner. No telling what happened. G5
Dec 30, 2023, 6:53 pm - GiveFive - Lottery News

$1.725 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now 2nd-largest of all timeReply
The $1.725 billion number is the correct, accurate number. Most in the press including the official Powerball website and (as it was pointed out) the Lottery Post results pages have rounded that number off to $1.73 billion. USA Mega, however, always shows the full, accurate amount. And I decided to use the accurate amount in the news story here. Is that a complete accounting of the jackpot number?
Oct 11, 2023, 7:46 am - Todd - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery retailers escalate boycott, halt ALL lottery ticket sales until further noticeReply
Hey all! Hope everyone's well Happy Mother's Day to all the moms! Been quite a while since I've been here or even posted...feels good to be back!! For what ever reason, something prompted me to Lotter Post today and, THIS particular development caught my IMMEDIATE attention. Mind you, I knew NOTHING about this deal until I came here today. Thanks to the LP Staff for giving me the perfect segue which will directly piggyback off these developments. For the record, I've long been a proponent he
May 12, 2024, 2:00 pm - Lucky Loser - Lottery News

New York woman says she was winner of unclaimed $12 million Lotto jackpot from 1992Reply
That's the huge downside risk of playing a set of personal numbers over the course of many years. Sure, you can glance at the drawing results and immediately know if you're a big winner or not. But I don't think I'd want to know what it feels like if I checked the drawing results, saw my numbers that I played regularly for years, but I didn't get to the store yesterday so I didn't play and therefore I didn't win a dime. The only thing I can think of to protect yourself from this happeni
Oct 20, 2023, 8:21 am - GiveFive - Lottery News