How many mistakes do you KNOW were winners?

Reply #11

psykomo — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:22:29 GMT

TRANSLATION:

NO : I donot know of ayone winning a lotto or lottery

by making a MISTAKE

but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I do know a few GULL's BOUY'ies who DIDNOT

PRACTICE

SAFE SEX jackpot

LOL

PSYKOMO

Reply #10

ThatScaryChick — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:36:19 GMT

Question: if they ran the PB ticket again , and the PP was X4, and youwon $400 , what happened to the original non-PP ticket? Usually theycan't be cancelled so either you really got $500 or the Agent also made$100 off your mistake.

Since PB tickets can't be cancelled, they either sold it, the original customer bought the mistake or the store keeps it. Either way someone would get the money.

Reply #9

LckyLary — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:26:29 GMT

One time they ran a JC5 ticket through twice and it had 3 of 5. Other times I forgot to mark Midday and the number played as Evening and won Pick-4 box on a Double. Sometimes I had program code that contained a significant coding error but won several times small prizes - to this day I keep code handy from 2004 that does this. Years ago I read on a Mega Millions story a guy played a set twice by mistake and won 2 shares of a jackpot that divided 4 ways, 2 being his.

Question: if they ran the

Reply #8

zxchris — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:58:21 GMT

I sell lotto tickets and off all the mistakes I've seen at my point of sale, none have won anything. I've even bought a few.

and the lotto [ticket] machine does not spit out the winning numbers, the drawing machine does .

Reply #7

dingo — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:41:55 GMT

I bought a pre-printed Powerball ticket at Ashland, Orgeon for $3.00 but I did not win.

Like someone said, you must be at the right time, and at the right place. The lottery machine will spit out the winning numbers. That crucial moment is all you need to win whether it is a mistake or not.

Reply #6

Coin Toss — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:35:03 GMT

I'vre posted this before, but regarding mistakes, this was Keno, not lotto (casino Keno):

We had to go in to work for a mandatory meeting and one guy was really ticked off about having to come in opn his day off. But since he was there he picked up hi toke envelope (tips) from the day before and there was a $50 in it. So on the way into the meeting he played a multi-game Keno ticket, and 8 spot, for the next 50 draws.

He played all the sixes - 6 16 26 36 46 56 66 76. That's what was on the... [ More ]

Reply #5

fja — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:28:10 GMT

I actually won a 3+0 last year while playing the numbers I play on MDogs PB MM challenge's.

I actually filled out a MM ticket using PB numbers. I did not realize it untill I was looking for the line that I had played on my MM spreadsheet....

Reply #4

Todd — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:20:24 GMT

I'm a sucker for buying mistakes, but I never win off them! Maybe it just hasn't happened yet...

Reply #3

Coin Toss — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:59:45 GMT

Just more proof that the Lottery Fairy is either smiling on you (a mistake is a winner) or not (it isn't a winner).

Or you have it voided and it would have won, etc...

It's all luck , nothing but.

Reply #2

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:03:10 GMT

I've never won anything on a mistake ticket, but it does happen. I believe Todd has posted some news stories about people fighting over winning tickets that were mistake tickets.

Reply #1

Ladee — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:29:23 GMT

I won off of mistake...not big...but big for me....I had asked the clerk to powerplay a qp and he only did a single....he realized his mistake and said oops you wanted to powerplay this didnt you? and i said yes....he said i will run it again and i was like noooo ( i was in a hurry) and then something just prompted me to say go ahead, it might be the winner he gave another qp w/ powerplay and i won 400.00 actual 100.00 but the multiplier was X4

How many mistakes do you KNOW were winners?

mylollipop — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:10:49 GMT

Mistakes are best corrected in my opinion. No mistake ever won that I know of.