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I'm done playing the lotteryReply
Tucker Black. I usually play at a grocery store called Schnucks, ST Louis chain, I'm in Illinois. Their lottery vending machine is one of the most unreliable things in town. It has accepted paper money, but often not $5 bills, then when it has accepted the money 'ate' the payslips. I'm not kidding. Or accepted the money but did not give out any tickets. Usually it's ok with scratchers but draw games are a totally different story. Fortunately this store accepts draw game tickets at customer servi
Dec 30, 2025, 8:36 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

three zones of a lotteryReply
all you need to play the lottery is some money plus basic working knowledge of how to use a vending machine or interact with a human cashier. when someone wins the lottery, the winner's story is always something like they either play the same numbers all the time or they just randomly stopped to get some quick picks. you never hear a winner's story about how they applied 5th dimensional trigonometric probability to lottery number patterns and spent years developing a science of lotterology.
Sep 3, 2025, 1:08 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

Massachusetts Lottery to add second daily Mass Cash drawingReply
They have made a total mess of this Mass Cash 2nd drawing rollout. The Ma. lottery is usually quite efficient. I wondered immediately about both the season tickets (which they no longer sell I believe but there had to be some that had them with time left on them). I also wondered why they didn't print new play slips in advance of this. They canceled the rollout but now you cannot advance play even for 2 days which many like to do in this game because it is nightly now. You have to go in every da
Jul 22, 2025, 9:12 am - billybucks - Lottery News

Coincidence or ?
Played evening draw Illinois Lucky Day Lotto today, used a playslip my numbers 5 10 15 18 24 under them QP 6 7 15 28 39 put the playslip in lotto vending machine, usually if you just play a QP with this machine you get somethiing like 28 31 37 41 42 tjhis is a 5/45 game and the sirst nunmbe ius usually not that high.
Mar 11, 2026, 11:58 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

South Carolina Lottery suspends license of retailer that sold ticket to minorReply
little kids just like they way it feels when the machine pulls the dollar bill out of your hands. a teen is old enough to have a real (and unhealthy) interest in gambling. An 8yo might not have had a clue what they wee even buying. It's possible the parents gave the kid some money and told him to get something from a vending machine, and for whatever reason that's the machine he chose. These teens nowadays look like adults could be an honest mistake My (already very well-developed)
Jul 26, 2025, 1:48 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

The $29.95 Non-BelieverzReply
I would rather be a vending machine victim than a loser who hates the elderly and disabled (which I am neither). Lotterologist has some haters on this board but he manages to say nice things every now and then. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Jan 3, 2026, 1:02 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Vending machine or counter tickets??Reply
I know the vending machine at a nearby supermarket can be opened by store personnel, and I'd imagine that almost all vending machines can be opened by the store they're in. I'd expect the store loads the tickets from the same batch used to load counter displays. In that case I can't imagine how there could possibly be a difference. In NY there are vending machines (and lots of NY tourism stuff) at Thruway rest areas, and it's possible that those are loaded by lottery personnel. For those who
Aug 18, 2025, 12:14 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Never did this beforeReply
No, actually I do work on the casino floor. When one of my players hits a jackpot for $2,000, I'm not going to look them up in player tracking to see that they lost $3,000 today, prior to that one spin, and then go over there and say oh hi Krystal I see you've LOST $1,000 today! Get a grip. When someone wins $2,000 on a slot machine, that one spin is a winner. I do get sore winners who whine that they've lost $3,000 in order to win $2,000 just now. That's their problem. Tables does the
Mar 28, 2026, 3:52 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

I'm done playing the lottery
I've spent $200 on PB tickets and plenty of money on scratch-off tickets at the vending machine at Safeway on Wadsworth 38th Ave in Wheatridge, CO. I didn't win very much, which I expected given the prize structure of that game. The last time I went there, I scanned $40 worth of winning scratch-off tickets, selected 8 $5 tickets, and when I hit check out , the machine did nothing. I asked the clerk and she told me to contact the Colorado Lottery. I did, and their response was that the retail
Dec 30, 2025, 7:45 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pennsylvania Lottery releases its own Cash Pop draw gameReply
I had another interaction with Cash Pop in Pennsylvania yesterday. I played a mix of Match6, Powerball, P3 and P4 on a vending machine. I fed my slips in and while it was cranking my tickets out, the screen pops up and says my free ticket had been generated. I didn't know I had a free ticket coming. When I sorted through the tickets after I got home, there was a Cash Pop ticket among them. I had played $4 in P3 and apparently playing a P3 generates a chance you'll get a free Cash Pop QP. Wha
Dec 18, 2025, 9:23 am - OhSoClose - Lottery News