Are all top prizes in circulation immediately?

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James78 — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 06:08:22 GMT

I'm now thinking that all prizes are scattered randomly , so I am not going to wait around. I assume all the tickets are printed, so the packs containing the remaining top prizes are probably queued behind other packs at various lottery retailers and won't see the light of day until those other packs get sold.

I think the mid-level prizes are probably underreported because they are stuck in the claim process at the lottery office. I guess the first few top prizes get priority and are fast-tra... [ More ]

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rgse90 — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:46:00 GMT

It depends on how many tickets went to print. For instance the NYS Scratcher 1 million dollars a year for life, printed a little over 21 million tickets. there were 6 winners. for every 3.5 million tickets sold there was 1 winner. And it went just about that way throughout the game. it took 8 years and the remaining winner looks like it could have been destroyed by lottery.

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Romancandle — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:00:42 GMT

Who knows?

But I highly doubt it... There's simply not enough shelf space in stores to circulate all the winners at once IMO.

Also... In my state, they have a habit of pulling the game unexpectedly before all the major prizes are even distributed... So coming up with any sort of strategy is futile.

Are all top prizes in circulation immediately?

James78 — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:38:53 GMT

Two of the Scratchers games I am playing both have 33% of their total prizes claimed, but now both of them have 50% of their top prizes claimed (2 claimed out of 4 total for each game). On the other hand, few of the mid-level prizes have been claimed (1% for one game, 18% for the other).

Since I play with the hope of getting the top prize, should I stop playing until 50% of the prizes are claimed (under the assumption that the remaining top prizes won't be put into circulation until 50% of th... [ More ]