Losing NJ Lottery tickets may soon be lucrative

Comment #18

butterflykt — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:49:39 GMT

Sounds like a great idea....Washington really needs to take notice

Comment #17

poot1 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:54:46 GMT

not pad don't lose the tickets

Comment #16

socalgal — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:01:01 GMT

Great news for NJ players. Good luck all.

Comment #15

HaveABall — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:58:31 GMT

I really appreciate and enjoy these 'second chance' individual state lottery drawings with large cash, lump-sum prizes included. Though, I think they should accept ALL lottery tickets, including the online ones (e.g., MegaMillions and Powerball)! Actually, multi-state games, (e.g., MegaMillions and Powerball, etc.) should begin conducting these 'second chance' drawings.

However, 12 months is too long to wait for the grand prize drawing. Therefore, I would appreciate these 'second chance' lott... [ More ]

Comment #14

dpoly1 — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:14:58 GMT

Don't forget that the State of New Jersey will confiscate 10.8% of the $1,000,000

New Jersey telling it's citizens that they don't pay enough in taxes

Comment #13

sully16 — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:51:03 GMT

I've seen people picking up used scratchers out of garbage cans and parking lots.

Comment #12

michimac — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:39:27 GMT

...the winner wins a date with the drunk, plump-slob snookie from mtv Jersey Shore .......that'd be great

Comment #11

Abdi — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:39:25 GMT

that is a good news,looser also have been a chance to win a consolation prizes.

Comment #10

winwoman — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:35:34 GMT

Now that's a lottery. Give something back...to keep em coming back...

Comment #9

Boney526 — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:45:38 GMT

I seriously doubt that you will be able to have multiple entries. And it's not like you could use a fake name, when you go to claim it, they'd need ID of some sort.

Comment #8

LckyLary — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:26:19 GMT

They mentioned in Spring.. They did NOT say (did they?) if they will allow tickets from before the program starts, such as those I have lying around here now. Start scooping now! What a way to get the ELE7VEN lots cleaned for free! How many winners of these drawings will be Store Owners smart enough to hide those overflowing wastebaskets behind the counter right away

Comment #7

Fla386 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:30:11 GMT

I like this idea

Comment #6

stripesnsolids — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:02:54 GMT

Great idea! Maybe my state will adopt this too.

Comment #5

Boney526 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:07:31 GMT

I haevn't been playing that long, but from what I can tell, our second chance tickets usually don't pay out cash - they usually have some kind of prize like a Cruise trip.

Comment #4

sully16 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:06:53 GMT

Great idea, Michigan has the player city, you can be entered in the second chance drawing or win everything from more scratchers or tickets to sporting events concerts, it is a way to boost sales.

Comment #3

Coin Toss — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:55:11 GMT

Illinois has a 2nd Chance contest every so often but the entry is $30 in losing tickets, any kind, scratchers or number games.

Yopu can fill the back of the tickets out and send them in via snail mail, or log them in on their website, but you must keep the tickets.

When they have this promotion sales of the higher priced tickets scratchers go up, much easirt to log in three $10 ones than 30 $1 ones.

The prizes are no where near what Nj is proposing though.

Comment #2

Boney526 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:18:47 GMT

Sounds nice. I'm about to join the VIP club just because I do have a few losing scratch offs, and hey, you never know.

I mean, how many people would go through the trouble of doing it, and then looking at how many winners there are, it could be better odds than playing the lottery anyway.

IF, for example, you did win one of the quarterly draws for $250, then you'd have a 15/400 chance of winning 10000-1 million. My dad was telling me that back in the day, he bought a (Pick 6?) ti... [ More ]

Comment #1

savagegoose — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:25:48 GMT

if scratch offs are truly random the very 1st ticket sold, could be the jackpot. sure would be an expensive recall, for the lottery if they had to can the whole print run. but then as a punter i wouldnt like to buy the remaining losing tickets.

Losing NJ Lottery tickets may soon be lucrative

Lottery Post — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:00:29 GMT

Some losing New Jersey Lottery scratch-off tickets may soon become lucrative items.

New Jersey Lottery officials plan to soon roll out Million Dollar Replay, a program that will allow scratch-off holders to enter their losing tickets into a yearly $1 million drawing.

To take part, players will have to join the lottery's VIP Club and have bought at least $10 in non-winning tickets.

The lottery will also hold quarterly drawings to pick 100 winners who will each get $250. And at year's end... [ More ]