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Once homeless, now a lottery winner: Colorado man gets his $1 million comebackReply
It's nice to see the Colorado Lottery in the news. I've played the 200X game a few times. One time I won $50. He's been playing scratch-off games on and off for a few years, he told the Colorado Lottery, but only when he could afford to . Jonathan will usually stick to the $5 games, recalling that the largest amount he'd ever won was $20. ... I was having a tough sales day , and it actually paid off, Jonathan recalled. My reaction was total disbelief. Those are oppos
Mar 10, 2026, 9:58 am - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Circle K asks judge to delay expiration date for $12.8 million Arizona Lottery jackpot amid disputeReply
Whenever I go onto a retailer buy lottery or whatever .If I see a ticket that someone didn't purchase on the machine,I always ask is it for sale and if so I'll buy..I just did that a couple of days ago on a Powerball ticket.. Unfortunately it wasn't a winner.. Yeah that was shady on the worker and he should have purchased it before the drawing.I see no problem in that..
May 6, 2026, 2:24 pm - Jadidit - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery retailer license suspended after illegal slot machines discoveredReply
You can walk into a casino and cash your lottery ticket, but you can't walk into a lottery retailer, cash your lottery ticket and play a slot machine in the back. Probably because the casinos want you to cash your lottery ticket and hit their slots instead.
Jul 28, 2025, 10:25 pm - grwurston - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery bans Fast Play bulk ticket purchasesReply
Dude what are you talking about? Apparently you don't know what a Fast Play ticket is. Fast Play tickets print out of the lottery terminal or a lottery vending machine. YOU instantly know if you have won or not by looking at the ticket or scanning it. There are NO waiting until the numbers are drawn. Arizona feels that there is a problem with some people trying to buy up all the Fast Play tickets in the Progressive games, which are jackpots that continually grow until someone wins. In my area of
Jul 9, 2025, 7:01 am - winterhug - Lottery News

Illinois lottery player has surprise run-in with grandma at the store, wins $1 million in PowerballReply
Nice win but I hardly think running into your grandmother in a convenience store when she obviously lives in the area can be considered a good luck charm and the reason he won. Unless it was a quick pic. Then the time he took to chat with her enabled the lottery machine to circulate it's tumblers at the right time to give him the winning ticket.
Nov 30, 2025, 11:46 am - billybucks - Lottery News

Three $1 million winning Powerball lottery tickets sold at the same New York storeReply
I'm sure the lottery already looked at the stores security cameras along with ticket print times to know if it was only one person or not. Not sure if New York has vending lotto machines, but I had a issue once with a Michigan Lottery vending machine and customer support looked up the transaction from the last 4 digits of my debit card. The Lottery knows but there not going to give that info out for security reasons.
Oct 27, 2025, 7:37 pm - mightwin1 - Lottery News

Thief steals $27,000 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets from gas stationReply
The barcode on the back of the ticket is there just to tell the cash register what this is and how much it costs. The vending machine doesn't do that because it already knows what you're buying and how much it costs. The same is true for vending machines that sell anything else. When you buy a Coke from a vending machine, it doesn't scan the barcode.
Aug 22, 2025, 4:43 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Thief steals $27,000 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets from gas stationReply
Though it has been years since I purchased a scratch ticket, cashier would flip it over and scan the barcode on the back. Like I said a few weeks ago watched the Manager load the self service machine. She scanned one barcode to activate the whole package. Mistakenly before that thought the machine activated them @ purchase.
Aug 22, 2025, 8:29 am - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

"Dumb luck": Maryland man wins a second time in one year at the same lottery vending machineNews Story
Player has fine tuned which tickets he buys and where he buys them from By Kate Northrop A Maryland man says it was dumb luck that he ended up winning a $50,000 scratch-off prize from the same lottery vending machine he had won at earlier this year. In just this year alone, one Maryland lottery player won two big scratch-off prizes from tickets purchased at the same vending machine. The anonymous winner told the Maryland Lottery that it was all thanks to dumb luck and circumstanc
Aug 23, 2025, 8:40 am - Todd - Lottery News

Data breach at lottery tech vendor Brightstar exposes personal info of over 100,000 individualsReply
Very good points. Didn't 'they' say the jackpots would grow faster? They don't. Also you mentioned they should reduce the tax rate, that's on the IRS not the lottery. As far as I could tell a couple of years ago there is no lottery lobbyist group to help on that. Just recently the IRS finally nudged up the taxable rate from $1200 to $2K; several Congress folks wanted it to $5K on slot machine wins. My friend scanned his ticket @ home...$100 winner. Lady @ store tried slight of
Oct 13, 2025, 5:28 am - Bleudog101 - Lottery News