Massachusetts Lottery to allow prize claims via mobile app

Comment #27

Concord — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 05:19:12 GMT

Well the 'lottery gods' almost threw one at you. They wanted to get your heart pumping and now you have to sweat it out for two more nights till your numbers officially start. Don't make the 'lottery gods' angry !!!

Thursday, December 17, 2020 / 01-03-04-15-31 and your numbers: 01-03-05-09-33.

Comment #26

HAMMY WAMMY — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:40:13 GMT

My ticket arrived today and starts on Sunday just like you said it would :)

The hopefully lucky numbers are 1-3-5-9-33

Comment #25

Concord — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:34:21 GMT

Good luck to you and all in the New Year. Sounds like you got your ticket from MA. My little 'hot streak' of hits in Oct and Nov seems to have come to an end. Keep getting two numbers two, three or four times a week and the third number will be one off. Very frustrating.

When MA opened this game up for play in July 2018 ... I decided to play it hard for a year or two and go (hope) for a nice jackpot. I will probably cut back and play less after all my tickets run out. I do have one set of num... [ More ]

Comment #24

HAMMY WAMMY — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:51:25 GMT

Hey Concord!

Thanks, yes fingers crossed my numbers dont come up during this 3 week waiting period. I sure hope your numbers come up one more time while your ticket is valid... gotta be an awful feeling having those numbers come up when your ticket wasn't valid.

Cheers and good luck in the New Year

Comment #23

bigbuckswede — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:35:28 GMT

All players in sweden are registered accountsand validated. My bank account are stored with Svenska Spel and big wins will be transferred to my account. Player that wins jackpot over 5.000.000 SEK will be invited to Svenska Spels office and will be getting legal advice for investments (not sure how covid-19 effect this)

Another example of easier transactions in sweden (Swish is a app for smartphones)

Easier withdrawal of winnings

Comment #22

Concord — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 15:27:45 GMT

You don't have to do anything ... once you do the paper work online or call on the phone and pay for your ticket ... your ticket will be sent and then you sit back and hope you picked some lucky numbers.

Like I said earlier ... you have to 'sweat' it out for roughly three weeks that your numbers don't hit till your ticket officially starts. Your ticket will ship UPS and not through USPS going out of state.

That should be it unless you get a jackpot hit.

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Comment #21

sam9009 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:42:06 GMT

So to claim winnings do you have to mail a claim form with the winning ticket or is it an automatic process

Comment #20

Concord — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:50:28 GMT

Good luck to you ! ... now you have to sweat it out for three weeks that your numbers don't hit in the waiting period. Actually you should already be in your first week and you should only have two weeks more till your tickets start.

Tickets always start on a Sunday night and end on a Saturday night. This just happened to me in November.

Studying some numbers from September and October and decided to play these five numbers for six months. They were sort of hot in various forms and after I... [ More ]

Comment #19

HAMMY WAMMY — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:28:28 GMT

I just purchased my Mass Cash Season Ticket. The current discount is a great deal. A few years ago i ordered a Megabucks ticket over the phone but never had any wins over the year i had the ticket.

Cheers and Good Luck to everyone in the New Year

Comment #18

Concord — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 20:53:39 GMT

I fully understand about 'lottery fatigue' ... I have ten tickets from last December that will run out just before Christmas. I went through seven months of no hits ... just two numbers constantly ... couldn't get three or four numbers till August and then September ... October and November were wild. I kept taking checks to the bank and the woman teller just sees all these checks from the MA Lottery for the last three months.

I was wondering if I was ever going to hit any money during those... [ More ]

Comment #17

sam9009 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 19:50:20 GMT

No claim form

Comment #16

Bleudog101 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 19:31:02 GMT

Concord, thanks again.

One time I tried to do it as a gift and asked questions that I didn't know the answer to so just stopped.

Believe it or not taking a week off from KLC, however do have two draws for PB and MM in Indiana....lottery fatigue setting in big time.

Jeffrey

Comment #15

Concord — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:24:06 GMT

Bleudog101 ... yes the money comes out of your checking account. The online ordering process still goes through GA ... whether you call on the phone or order online. It's crazy but all 'out of state' purchases go through a 'third party' in GA.

I'm not sure what eCheck is but ACH is a checking account ... maybe both terms are the same or mean the same thing, I just use the term ACH.

When you order online and get to the 'payment' part ... take time to look for the ACH payment option. ...they... [ More ]

Comment #14

Bleudog101 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:02:34 GMT

I stand corrected, you are correct if you do it on-line which I did not. SO....since I just stopped the ordering process how do you pay for it sans credit card? Straight out of your bank??? Thank you.

Comment #13

Concord — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:51:35 GMT

That's not true ... I live out of state and purchase all my tickets online and I don't use a credit card. I used to use a credit card but did not like the fees. I was actually not going to buy anymore tickets and then they came up with the 35 cent charge. They may have lost some customers over those fees, I don't know.

Season Tickets:

Only Mass Cash and Megabucks Doubler Season Tickets can be mailed to addresses outside of Massachusetts.

There will be a $13 Shipping Fee added to your to... [ More ]

Comment #12

Bleudog101 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:15:48 GMT

True if you physically purchase Season Tickets in MA you don't have to use a credit card and get to go to their website to register the tickets. Have done that before when I purchased in person and several times with Brother/Friend buying them.

However the website doesn't allow out of state folks this option and you do get socked with high fees from GA office.

Comment #11

Concord — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:48:57 GMT

With the MA Lottery and Season Tickets ... if you just win $10 they send you a check, it doesn't have to be over $10. Earlier in November I hit two nights in a row with two different sets of numbers ... five tickets on one set and six tickets on the other set.

A short later, usually 10 days or less I received eleven $10 checks in the mail. The number set that I have six tickets on also hit again with four out of five numbers. They sent six checks for $250.

I have never had to call about an... [ More ]

Comment #10

L J1 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:48:22 GMT

That sure is a nice option when there's Deep Snow outside.

Comment #9

Bleudog101 — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:10:58 GMT

You can buy Megabucks Doubler and Mass Cash over the phone; cannot do that for Lucky 4 Life, MM or PB. I think the rules are the same, they send out a check if you win over $10. since I haven't won yet this year nothing has come. I used to have my Brother get the MM/PB subscriptions, then a good friend, then stopped altogether.

Comment #8

Big Joey — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:02:20 GMT

Massachusetts Lottery has season tickets for out of state players, so this is just another great thing they are doing to make it easier to cash in a winning ticket.

Comment #7

bigbuckswede — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 18:19:49 GMT

Claim online.

I have said it many times, lotteries in US could look how we do it in europe.

If I were to win up to $600.000 (5.000.000 kr) in Sweden, this amount will automatically be deposited in my bank account.

Comment #6

Bleudog101 — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 17:29:31 GMT

I agree here it is the 21st Century and some things never change!

The Kentucky Lottery liked my suggestion that they follow Massachusetts' and Ohio's allowing this. They passed it on to their team

Comment #5

Nikkicute — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:34:47 GMT

Massachusetts Players hold on to those tickets!

Keep track and try not to lose them, with this app anyone may try to cash in a

ticket that doesn't belong to them, stay safe

Comment #4

sam9009 — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:27:23 GMT

Shocking that this option is not available nationwide.

Hopefully other states jump on.

Comment #3

Bleudog101 — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:17:07 GMT

Had written to D. Goldberg for those who remember saying I did about three years ago. Informed her about our on-line ticket sales in KY and they should do the same. Not even a reply---oh well.

Glad they replaced those big old blue dot matrix lotto machines, they were definitely a relic. Haven't been home to see the new IGT machines, no doubt like other states.

I think shortly here we'll be offering on-line pick 3 4 as a survey came out asking if one would do that.

We don't have remote d... [ More ]

Comment #2

konane — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 13:50:44 GMT

Very nice innovation.

Comment #1

sully16 — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 10:50:58 GMT

Sounds like a time saver.

Massachusetts Lottery to allow prize claims via mobile app

Lottery Post — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 01:50:15 GMT

New method for claiming winnings to become available next spring

By Kate Northrop

Players who are tired of traveling to claim centers or mailing away their winning lottery tickets to claim their prizes will soon have a new option. Next spring, the Massachusetts Lottery will begin allowing players to claim larger prizes through their phones.

The Massachusetts Lottery plans on expanding the functionality of its mobile app to give players the options of having winnings deposited directly i... [ More ]