S.C. Lottery scratch games sold after top prize won

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four4me — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:43:12 GMT

Yea this is another tough one lottery sells the tickets to the store owners. The store owners sells the tickets to people if I won 100,000 grand and keep the ticket for 3 weeks or more who's to know it was sold except me. On the other hand if I cash it in right away and it was one of the first thousand tickets of possibly 1,000,000 printed tickets and they stooped payment on all the other prizes who's gonna redeem the store owners. There's a lot more to this story than we know. There are all typ... [ More ]

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Bradly_60 — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:13:17 GMT

I fail to see what the problem with this is. The lottery can't save the last top prize winner for the last ticket of the game. That would be rediculous. Its the players responsibility to find out if there are any top prizes left. If there isn't and you don't like it....don't by them. There are tons of lower tier prizes of good value still out there. Your thoughts?Brad

S.C. Lottery scratch games sold after top prize won

Lottery Post — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:49:53 GMT

The South Carolina Education Lottery offers dozens of ways to scratch off and win and buy the right card and you could win first prize cash ranging up to a quarter million dollars.That is, if someone hasn't already claimed the top prize. One card for the $30,000 cash bonus game for instance, was still on sale Tuesday, even though someone has already won the $30,000 jackpot.Scratch off games have varying lifespans with some as long as a couple of years or only a few months.The Lottery Commission... [ More ]