Unclaimed Jackpot Prizes

Reply #12

Linking — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 23:58:53 GMT

There is a way to overcome the top prize and secondary price being downsize. If you look at the prize report all first price might be claim and still secondary prize unpaid, how many we have to look at the report for that game. There are also all secondary prize paid and still at least one top prize yet to be paid. How is that conspiring? Well look at it this way. You can't recall every single copy because it would be spread around to 18,000 retailer and some retailer has lotto machine. Even if... [ More ]

Reply #11

Zebekyia — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:20:13 GMT

The rules would be made up by lobbyists who pass them on to the politicians. Show me a politician who knows anything remotely about the lottery. The only lobbyists being whom the distributors . Checks and balances might be there, but they are no where near transparent to the public. If they wanted to clear it up be transparent and if they aren't you can assume there is a reason they aren't transparent about it.

Reply #10

rgse90 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:53:46 GMT

And I am not sure about anywhere else but here in NY the lottery rules are made by the politicians and the politicians only. ALL the rules are made up in senate committees and they tell lottery what to do.

Reply #9

rgse90 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:51:27 GMT

Of you look back to ALL my posts going back 5 years I have been complaining about this here in NY LOttery because they do the exact same thing.

Reply #8

Think — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 21:29:45 GMT

Yep, look at the Michigan web site and look at the $5 Cadillac Cash Ticket. Look at the remaining top prizes and then look at the remaining lower prizes.

Look at the Michigan $1 Cash for Life ticket prizes and you will see that it is obviously past due also. There are others but those are two examples.

The law should be that if they pull tickets that are not going back in circulation then they have to pull any prizes from that pack from the remaining prizes listed on the website othe... [ More ]

Reply #7

Zebekyia — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:19:34 GMT

Not sure, but there are people who have access to the manifests and they are typically security officials. These days these are kept in databases and not on paper, so anything that was a DBA or in security could have access to all the games and where the tickets are.

It seems you can find this story anymore, but I did find a reference in a couple of places.

http://www.ripleynews.com/2004/04-11-11_lottery.html

Reply #6

Iborret — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:10:53 GMT

Whats the purpose of the security department being notified of jackpot roll activation

Reply #5

Zebekyia — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 21:44:22 GMT

It would be super easy to look at the sales history of a store on 30 dollar tickets send them 5 books of tickets including one of the top prizes knowing full well that they based on historical sales would never sell the tickets. I think people are naive if they think the lotteries or persons at lotteries don't know where the tickets are being sent.

I do know that the security department is notified when a jackpot roll is activated, but this practice might have changed.

If lotte... [ More ]

Reply #4

Iborret — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:32:38 GMT

Do they know that top jackpot winning scartcher prizes are sitting in store's X or vending machine X's inventory and they intentionally conduct a recall that includes those locations?

Or do they just recall the tickets in general and it happens that they also recalled those top prizes?

Either way it's shady, but the first case is waaaay more unfair

Reply #3

Zebekyia — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 05:20:34 GMT

All of them as this happens everywhere, because of why? The tickets in most states are now distrubuted by the same exact firm. Most state lotteries no longer control the distrubution and it's controlled by IGT and formerly GTech.

Reply #2

Dracos — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 03:51:14 GMT

Zebekyia, interesting read. You live in NY, right? We have had similar shady lottery practices happen in FL. For example, one of our scratchoff game called 100X had 5 $1million prizes remaining, and 1 $5 million prize left unclaimed. The game is ending soon, but is unavailable across the entire state.

As far as shady practices, one of our holiday games called $2,000,000 Holiday Gifts is still around in short supply. I have went to a food store and heard from the retailer that the lottery... [ More ]

Reply #1

destinycreation — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 03:33:33 GMT

Hoosiers ...

Are you specifically referring to the state of Indiana, or to any state in general

Unclaimed Jackpot Prizes

Zebekyia — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 03:04:45 GMT

You have 3 possibilities of what happened and 2 are very shady:

The ticket was thrown away. The lottery closed the game because they are allowed if all tickets have been sent out. The lotteries are using shady practices and in this case see below:

This is something that the lotteries should be sued upon, because it's a loophole that can allow a lottery to legally destroy jackpot tickets. This is something I had to do a lot of research to figure out how exactly all the top prizes wer... [ More ]