Teen lottery winner to pay off mom's home

Comment #22

sully16 — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:58:59 GMT

Scan them all, I tend to play easy ones.

Comment #21

dr65 — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:13:17 GMT

Definitely. The Bingo and Crossword tickets are easily mistaken for losers. It's a jumble of

numbers/letters where if you miss a number it's easy to assume it is a loser. Our $30 tickets

are so filled with numbers that a player can become almost dyslexic trying to read 'YOUR

Numbers' and matching them up in the play area...23, 32 ...12, 21....13, 31....46, 64 is what

they like to print. I doubt it is coincidence. The $20 tickets, same numbers meant to confuse

or entice. We had a n... [ More ]

Comment #20

Stack47 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 05:41:33 GMT

It probably easier and safer just to scratch the bar code off at the bottom and scan the ticket.

Comment #19

Stack47 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 05:39:09 GMT

Smith, 19, said he scratched off the ticket and thought it wasn't a winner.

And people criticize dumpster diving for lottery tickets.

Comment #18

dr65 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 04:03:15 GMT

Some of the tickets are difficult to read...but the bingo in the X pattern is the bottom right corner board...the

box with 02, 10, 63, 73 in the corners..then it uses the free space and 2 i's and 2 g's to make X. The spots he

rubbed off are in white. See it

Comment #17

JoshUK — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:33:23 GMT

I can't figure it out either, I bet a bunch of these bingo/crossword tickets get chucked everyday by people thinking they never hit anything

Comment #16

DELotteryPlyr — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:43:48 GMT

DUH!!!!!

Thanks! Knew it was right in front of me

Comment #15

dr65 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:16:08 GMT

DELotteryPlyr, do you see the bottom right corner? He has the X and that won him

the $100,000. Lucky guy

Comment #14

DELotteryPlyr — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:05:11 GMT

Ok, what am I missing? Where on the card does it show him winning 100k

Comment #13

dr65 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 04:00:19 GMT

Wow.. This is why I log in before I go surfing the threads...logging in enables the

Premium member block feature...forgot to log in this time..

What a wet blanket statement. How weird is that comment coming from one who wants to come

off as wholesome but just winds up sounding like sour grapes...and rotten apples. Weird.

Bravo to this young man! I hope he wins again so he can do something good for someone

else too.

Comment #12

TheGameGrl — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:56:34 GMT

Plans to.

hmmmm.

He has time.

life is open to change.

nice win

Comment #11

dallascowboyfan — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:25:24 GMT

Congratulations young man nice to see you taking care of mom.

Comment #10

hearsetrax — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:01:30 GMT

a most curious story and while it does renew my faith in the younger generation,

I hope it doesn't come back to bite him later on

Comment #9

Groppo — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:15:21 GMT

Yes, I had almost lost all hope in the younger generation.

Good to see this sort of thing.

Comment #8

zephbe — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:06:55 GMT

Congrats to the winner! Mom, you raised him right. Smart and lucky

Comment #7

haymaker — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:52:09 GMT

Smart young man !

Pay off debt, buy 1 nice thing save the rest, winners of bigger prizes should take note.

Comment #6

cbr$ — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:05:33 GMT

His mother should been real proud of him. Most young people don't think this way. Good Luck to them both. Nice story Todd.

Comment #5

tnlottodreamer — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:24:05 GMT

Hey Angelflake.

Comment #4

ThatScaryChick — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:11:16 GMT

Congrats Gabe Smith! It's very nice of him to pay off his mothers home. He sounds like a good kid.

Comment #3

sully16 — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:03:41 GMT

Job well done young man.

Comment #2

jjtheprince — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:51:28 GMT

Awesome! I love to see younger players win!

Seems like no one under 50 ever wins.

Comment #1

music* — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:28:17 GMT

Congratulations to Gabe Smith. You are a generous son.

Teen lottery winner to pay off mom's home

Lottery Post — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:38:39 GMT

A Michigan teenager plans to pay off his mother's home with the winning lottery ticket she gave him.

Gabe Smith of Pewamo told the Michigan Lottery his mother bought the lucky ticket at Muir Mini Mart.

Smith, 19, said he scratched off the ticket and thought it wasn't a winner. But when he tried to enter the ticket's code into his Player's Club account, he got an error message.

When Smith contacted lottery workers, they delivered the good news: his Bonus Ball Bingo ticket was worth $100,... [ More ]