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Washington Lottery to debut new ticket machinesNews Story
Washington lottery players can expect new green tickets July 2, the date the state-run gambling enterprise switches to new machines in its retail outlets. The switch comes at a time the state Lottery is struggling to maintain its share of the state's exploding gambling market. But the change is not expected to boost the state's shrinking share of the $1.7 billion that gamblers lose each year in Washington. The change in ticket stock is tied to the installation of new ticket-dispensing mac
Jun 19, 2006, 2:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Record Mass. Lottery sales, despite high fuel pricesNews Story
Bob Hurtubise mused Thursday about what he would do if he hit it big on a Lottery game. The Ashburnham, Massachusetts, resident would buy a nice house and secure savings for his kids, he said. I'll play a quick pick on big number games, Hurtubise said. But I'll just play one. If you're doing any more than that, you're just making donations. Now that gas prices have reached nearly $3 per gallon, he guessed more people will hold onto their cash for other expenses. That money's
Jun 12, 2006, 7:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Woman claims Publix cashier threw away winning lotto ticketReply
Bullcrap! The ticket was accidentally thrown away Thats bullcrap! I believe the cashier kept the winning ticket after seeing it was the winner and lied by saying it was accidentally thrown it away. Why would they tell her never to come back to the store again, thats cold hearted and wrong why should she not be allowed back in the store if they are the jerks who made the mistake by throwing away her $800.00 winning lottery ticket and when you make a mistake YOU should pay so if this case were eve
Feb 22, 2009, 10:41 am - NYSlugger 777 - Lottery News

[UPDATE] D.C. woman who tried to redeem faulty ticket admitted to forging second 'winner'News Story
By Todd Northrop A Washington, D.C. woman who enlisted the help of local media to try and claim a faulty Virginia Lottery scratch-off ticket actually tried to claim a second lottery ticket of the same exact game that she admitted was a forgery. Lottery Post reported Wednesday morning that Ardella Newman of Washington, D.C. is taking the Virginia Lottery to task for denying her claim of a scratch-off ticket that she claims is worth $20,000. The Virginia Lottery had issued a statement that t
Sep 9, 2015, 7:48 pm - Todd - Lottery News

SC officials getting nervous that $1.5 billion Mega Millions winner won't claim prizeReply
Again the only legal way of verifying a ticket is by going directly to the lottery office and running the ticket through a machine that verifies it. Of course there's serial numbers/ pictures of people buying tickets at certain times etc etc but the only way to legal say I'm the winner is to place said ticket in said machine and have the machine verify it. What you said about Cali is true for every state but what im telling you is that there's only one way that your ticket will be verified. But
Jan 23, 2019, 6:51 pm - paymentplan-man - Lottery News

Prosecution calling last witnesses for $5M lottery theft trialReply
These nincompoops and nuskulls will never learn this lesson. When I head to the store with an already played ticket, it is sure to have been a winner since I check the numbers on the Internet and over the lotto phone. So I know that I am certainly a winner and the clerk cannot deceive. Moreover, nowadays, there is that ticket checker that says you have won and when the ticket runs through the lotto machine, it makes a casino-like sound suggesting that you have won. A couple of times there have b
Apr 28, 2013, 1:31 am - zirabamuzaale - Lottery News

Ohio gas station sells $99M Mega Millions ticketReply
I hope the winning ticket ain't in somebody's washing machine.
Aug 6, 2011, 10:47 pm - rdgrnr - Lottery News

Costa Rica court rejects washed lottery ticketReply
Wow, that winning lotto ticket in the washer machine scenario really happens!
Oct 16, 2008, 12:14 am - BabyJC - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery bets it can draw richer playersReply
A $20 ticket in Massachusetts would probably pay out as well as a slot machine .
Dec 23, 2006, 4:20 am - JimmySand9 - Lottery News

Man let lottery winner go firstReply
LOVEMEDO,I don't think you understand the difference between the lottery machines being connected in order to upload ticket selections vs. some kind of shared number pool .I will try to make this as non-technical as possible:Most, if not all, lottery machines create their own Quick Picks. There is no central number generator for all machines, and there is no central pool of Quick Pick numbers .Each machine has its own independent Random Number Generator (RNG) that generates the Quick Picks.A
Aug 11, 2005, 7:04 pm - lovemedo - Lottery News