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DC man sues the lottery after incorrect numbers posted on website would have won him $340 millionReply
Because we made an error, here is $340 bucks. Thanks for playing.
Feb 21, 2024, 9:37 am - heisenberg991 - Lottery News

Canadian man claims record $64 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot right before it expiresReply
I know it's not the *same* thing, but you reminded me of this story. I think it carries the same tone you're describing: UK couple lose out on 182 million EuroMillions lottery jackpot following payment error | Lottery Post
Mar 31, 2024, 9:24 pm - Kate - Lottery News

Technical difficulty with New Jersey Lottery Pick 4 drawing results in two sets of winning numbersNews Story
Physical error causes incomplete draw By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery had to conduct a second Pick 4 evening drawing last night after a mechanical problem caused the first draw to fail, the Lottery announced today. A technical error involving the New Jersey Lottery's ball drawing machine led to an incomplete draw in the Pick 4 evening drawing on Thurs., March 14. All of the balls did not release into the chamber of the drawing machine before the winning numbers were sele
Mar 15, 2024, 12:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

DC man sues the lottery after incorrect numbers posted on website would have won him $340 millionNews Story
A Washington, D.C. man who thought he had won a $340 million Powerball jackpot is suing the lottery and other companies related to the Powerball game after the district's website displayed the wrong winning numbers, which happened to match the numbers on his ticket. John Cheeks purchased a Powerball lottery ticket at the center of the dispute on Jan. 6, 2023. Although Cheeks did not see the Powerball drawing the following day, he saw his numbers posted on the DC lottery's website two days la
Feb 21, 2024, 7:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

DC man sues the lottery after incorrect numbers posted on website would have won him $340 millionReply
He also fails the reasonable person test. I think others are correct here. He saw the early posted numbers with the missing pb number and went out and bought 26 tickets with each pb number. Just a scammer. Hopefully there is video of this as well. See USA Today info below. Brittany Bailey, the project manager at Taoti, said in court documents that Cheeks' attempted scheme is a way to capitalize on an obvious error on the D.C. Lottery website. Rather than posting random numbers on a
Feb 21, 2024, 4:11 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

DC man sues the lottery after incorrect numbers posted on website would have won him $340 millionReply
It looks to me Mr. Cheeks bought the ticket after the incorrect numbers were posted. I had noticed that, too. It seems extremely likely that he happened to have noticed the error and deliberately bought a ticket using the numbers from the website instead of a set of numbers he chose through some honest method. I'm split about evenly between the possibility that he's one of the clowns that think the game is rigged and the (fake) winning numbers were accidentally posted early, and the possibi
Feb 24, 2024, 1:05 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News