N.H. man turns lottery losses into 1,500 wins

Comment #11

rdgrnr — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:50:00 GMT

Funny we were just talking about pick 3/4/5 second chance drawings, four4me.

I just saw on the VA lottery website that they're doing that til Dec I think. You give them 5 losing tickets per entry and I think there's 10 $500 prizes given out a week.

Comment #10

kevinpflynn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:22:20 GMT

But you forget...one of his prizes was a health club membership. It's all good.

Comment #9

kevinpflynn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:19:41 GMT

The Tennessee program, and the second chance prize offerings in other states, are NOTHING like this Replay program. In NH, they use EVERY instant or lotto ticket...not just losing scratch tickets that allow players who get special symbols to enter into another drawing. This is a customer loyalty program. (Does your state lottery know the name and email address of ANY of its nonwinning players? Doubt it.)

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Comment #8

four4me — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:44:32 GMT

The lottery might not do over the counter pick 3/4/5 ticket second chance drawings but a lot of stores that sell tickets have their own in house second chance drawing here in Maryland. Might be worth it to ask around your neck of the woods and see if any stores in your area do it.

Comment #7

wizeguy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:23:21 GMT

A lot of these prizes seem like they'd be given free to the lottery just to get folks to come in and spend more. I wonder what their budget is for this program? I bet it doesn't cost them much at all.

Comment #6

lottolaughs — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:30:24 GMT

........four bottles of maple syrup, 20 pizzas, 33 ice cream cones, 86 cinnamon buns, 92 steakhouse gift certificates, 161 chicken sandwiches, and 484 cups of coffee to wash it all down.

484 cups of coffee? Wow. This article is kind of misleading. I thought his wins were much smaller money prizes, not junk food. I'm sure it feels good to win something but a cinnamon roll? C'mon! These lottery losses have sure turned into gains alright............. around the waistline

Comment #5

rdgrnr — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:02:12 GMT

Thanks four4me, you're right. I wasn't thinking instant tickets. I was thinking state draw games.

I remember now hearing about second chance season tickets to the Titans games and thinking what the heck kind of prize is that?

I hardly ever play instants though. Might be nice if they had a second chance for other tickets too.

Comment #4

ThatScaryChick — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:09:57 GMT

Good for him. At least he was able to get something back from those losing tickets.

Comment #3

four4me — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:08:40 GMT

Tennessee does!

https://tennessee.secondchancebonuszone.com/monopoly

Comment #2

rdgrnr — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:12:33 GMT

It'd be nice if more states had deals like that. Like TN maybe.

Comment #1

Raven62 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:05:30 GMT

Congrats to WR and 3 cheers to the NH Lottery for the Replay Program

N.H. man turns lottery losses into 1,500 wins

Lottery Post — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:57:28 GMT

He might be the New Hampshire Lottery's winningest loser.

William Rudd, a 64-year-old retiree from Salem, has collected more than 1,500 prizes including food, gift certificates and other goodies under the state lottery's Replay program, which gives losing lottery tickets a second chance to win.

Rudd, who retired five years ago from his job in a warehouse, says his friends and family now know him as the lottery guy, because he spends so much time collecting losing tickets and entering the i... [ More ]