Lottery Paper Waste

Reply #18

sully16 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:34:25 GMT

lottery officials are a waste

Reply #17

joker17 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:32:03 GMT

I always go to Publix supermarket to cash tix. That's where I cashed my 3 grand. I found out the hard way on my very first win when I first moved to Florida. After trying to cash a 500 win at a Circle K, with the clerk giving me a money order, and had to cash it at Publix anyways....lol, I decided to just go to Publix. Only one time I had trouble when she said she didn't have 500 bucks yet. It was early in the day. I asked her if she could go through the cash registers to gather the 500 bucks, w... [ More ]

Reply #16

four4me — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:48:27 GMT

I don't know about whats costlier or not i do know you can get a single pick 3 or 4 number on one ticket for 7 consecutive days. But if you want it for midday and evening you will get two tickets.

So suppose you played 377 for a week midday and evening an 377 came out twice midday for a dollar straight will they treat it as one ticket for separate draws or combine the win amount at 1000 dollars and force you to pay tax.

hence i want separate tickets.

It's ridiculous to get the same numb... [ More ]

Reply #15

ohiopick3 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:45:28 GMT

Yes, Ohio has these EZ Play games, they are printed out like playing an instant ticket. I'd imagine you are talking about online games like pick 3, 4, etc.

The EZ Play games are about 8 to 10 inches long depending on the game. And since they are like playing an instant game, I'd say more than 75% are losers any ways. Sometimes I'm at the store and some people buy 10 or more of these tickets and they are long! And yes, a waist of paper on the online gaming rolls.

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Reply #14

jarasan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:23:45 GMT

Excellent point! They save on paper work by not taxing those individual tix. It is costlier for the state to PAY the salaries of state tax collectors than the time it takes to chase down the little $600 (less than) taxables. The state would rather just give you the money to spend on the local economy or re-gamble the money.

But these SOB statists are a petty greedy bunch, remember when Bonus Match 5 was taxes paid ? No mas! WHY YOU ASK? A taxi driver down in Bethesda MD. hit the BM5 6 times s... [ More ]

Reply #13

RJOh — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:23:28 GMT

Ohio did the same thing, if you use a marker to mark your play slips and they are stacked the ink bleed through and leaves the slip below it unusable.

Reply #12

bomatt — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:37:53 GMT

What if I play pick 3 with 14 plays on one ticket and it hits 2 or 3 times?

Will those be cashed as 2 or 3 separate or one payout

Reply #11

grave — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:03:08 GMT

i agree....... i'd rather have my tickets seperate.... that way if i have played a number str8 5 or 6 times and it hits i wouldnt have to go to lottery headquaters and get taxed. i would just go to different stores in my area and cash them in tax free....

Reply #10

rdgrnr — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:57:31 GMT

TN saves paper with their playslips.

They're so thin and flimsy they're practically see-through.

Reply #9

joshuacloak — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:37:41 GMT

i like how my state does it on stoping needless waste tn

play it again , online,2nd chance drawings for scratch offs that are losers

no need to mail the losers in for 2nd chances,

always thinked that was a waste, why not do it online

also Konane and everyone

, just go to some place like kroger,

a big grocery store always HAVE the money to cash your winning tickets that are below the max retail limit

if they EVER tell you they cant cash it due to lack of cash

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Reply #8

konane — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:47:05 GMT

If you had a couple of winners on one ticket you might not be able to cash it (1) due to the amount of money the store kept on hand (2) if your winners exceeded the limit stores can cash out on a single ticket. Seems a matter of convenience for players rather than paper waste.

If they printed all plays on on ticket, then you'd have to fill out multiple play slips to get individual numbers which would result in just as much wasted paper.

Also no one is saying anything about wasted paper fo... [ More ]

Reply #7

Coin Toss — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:19:37 GMT

JADELottery,

Illinois does the same thing.

As four4me and joker17 pointed out, it's for your benefit as to getting taxed or not on winners.

Reply #6

joker17 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:58:46 GMT

Four4me is correct. When I lived in NY years ago, I used to specifically ask the clerk to seperate multiple cash tickets/numbers. If you didn't ask, they'd put the all the sets of numbers on one ticket by default, thereby having you claim the winning tickets at the lottery office, which deducts taxes, leaving the player with a smaller win.

I did this myself. I claimed ALL 3,000 bucks playing cash 3 with 6 tickets. The number was 984.

Reply #5

sully16 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:35:57 GMT

thats a very good point.

Reply #4

four4me — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:27:36 GMT

for example if i played 123 -- 10 times i would want separate tickets. If you chose to cash a ticket that had 123 printed on it 10 times you'd be paying tax on an otherwise tax free ticket if they were purchased individually.

Reply #3

Guru101 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:51:45 GMT

Definitely not. At least not until later this year. Currently and for many previous years, Hoosier Lottery retailers use the Integra lottery terminals which print in very small text. The tickets we have are very plain. They're not graphical like a lot of other state lotteries are. Later this year, the Hoosier Lottery will be switching to Scientific Games Wave lottery terminals. I don't know how much more paper will be used then.

Reply #2

emilyg — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:44:14 GMT

Of course. Do as I say not as I do.

Reply #1

sully16 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:56:25 GMT

they (the states) are always the first one to tell us how to save and conserve. we go green they stay red.

Lottery Paper Waste

JADELottery — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:50:14 GMT

I've noticed that Minnesota wastes paper on Pick 3 tickets. Instead of printing all of the played numbers on one ticket, they print A-NEW-TICKET-FOR-EVERY-SINGLE-ONE-OF-MY-PLAYS; even though I handed them a single play slip. They don't do it for the other games though; you'd think they could magically program the terminal to spit out one ticket.

I know Wisconsin does not do this, I hand the clerk one play slip, I get one back with all my plays on it.