When a set series wins, do you play or move on?

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jwhou — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:07:48 GMT

I think the issue is how the tickets are printed. With most packs having nothing but the minimum guaranteed amount of prizes, those are printed in bulk with a select few being diverted for additional wins to be added. For economy sake, the fewer packs you divert for additional prizes, the lower your costs so the printing company is going to try and put as many winning tickets onto the same pack as the contract will allow. This results in hot packs and cold packs which are shuffled before distrib... [ More ]

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TheGameGrl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:37:48 GMT

yes thats the concept I was trying to get across!!! Thanks for helping with that! Seeding a location aint gonna happen. Which is why its soo frustrating to talk common sense sometimes to folks.

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Rowen — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:32:36 GMT

I think that would be a great marketing ploy to seed a location with a big winner and have people flock to that area like lemmings tossing their money away.

When a set series wins, do you play or move on?

TheGameGrl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:20:54 GMT

Recently stopped by a Mom and Pops shop. The place was abuzz because they just had two instant claims winners. One for 1k another for 5k. People stood in line to get that series that the winning tickets came from. I stood there in sheer awe at the stupidity of such folks. Statistically a 1k ticket hits once every 13 thousand tickets, the 5k Ticket is won once every 550 thousand tickets on average for that game. SO why in gods name when its a packet of 100 tickets that already had the big winners... [ More ]