Bank runs out of money while cashing lottery tickets

Comment #6

golotto — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:13:18 GMT

i agree with the rare combinations...and even with the bigger jackpot games; techniques such as including one or more numbers greater than 31 separates your ticket from that huge 'birthday-anniversary' crowd

Comment #5

keystonechas — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:46:26 GMT

LottoBuddy Wrote, So for fixed-prize lotteries, it's OK to pick your favourite sequences, but for parimutuel lotteries, you should try to pick rare combinations so there will be less winners to share the prize pool with.____________________________________________________________________I totally agree.Personally I don't play pick 3 or pick 4 games.The facts: March 6, 2004 was the first time in the Ohio Lottery history that the quad number 1111 was drawn.Other quads drawn:Nov. 18, 2003 5555July... [ More ]

Comment #4

RJOh — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:03:11 GMT

If you pick a winner at all, it's rare no matter how many other winners you have to share the prize with.RJOh

Comment #3

LottoBuddy — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:40:01 GMT

Ohio's Pick 4 has fixed prizes instead of parimutuel. As you can read at http://lottery.ohio.gov/press_releases/2004%20archive/030804a.html, when popular sequences are drawn, there are so many winners that the lottery commission actually lose a lot of money!1111 - $4,042,500 payout was almost 20 times the $218,171.50 sales!1212 - 2nd highest payout of $3,318,4000111 - 3rd highest payout of $1,610,974So for fixed-prize lotteries, it's OK to pick your favourite sequences, but for parimutuel lotte... [ More ]

Comment #2

golotto — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:36:59 GMT

a run on

Comment #1

Tang — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:31:16 GMT

Incredible$$$$$It's always nice to hear someone cashing in their tickets for that kind of money.If you win, remember to save those losing winning tickets for tax time, next year.

Bank runs out of money while cashing lottery tickets

Lottery Post — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:54:12 GMT

More than 1,100 people won Ohio's Pick Four lottery with the numbers 1111, causing one bank to run out of money while trying to pay multiple winners.It's the largest payout in Pick Four history.Ronald Jones has two tickets worth a total of $10,000. He stood in line at National City with 50 others Monday morning to cash the tickets.But he says the bank ran out of money and he doesn't want to wait much longer. Not very patient, but I mean I will be patient if they need me to be, said Jones. I... [ More ]