VT Lottery had $1 million in unclaimed prizes

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rdc137 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:07:57 GMT

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.

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.

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tnlotto1 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:28:17 GMT

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

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LckyLary — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:59:25 GMT

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... [ More ]

VT Lottery had $1 million in unclaimed prizes

Lottery Post — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:20:00 GMT

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.

The extra money went to the state's Education Fund.

Why would people fail to collect their winnings?

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.... [ More ]