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N.C. Lottery begins todayReply
NC LOTTERY TICKET PURCHASE REPORT: ALL BRAND NEW PACKS: Players make a note- The first time that a game is played the first ticket in the pack is listed as a VOIDED ticket therefore there will be no ticket number starting with 000. The first valid ticket on a new game pack is 001. I quetioned the store manager where I purchased the tickets and this was the rule. Only with NEW GAMES will you see this. 8 - $5 TICKETS : 1 $20 WINNER, 1 $10 WINNER ( Total win $30) 10 - $2 BLACK JACK TIC
Mar 30, 2006, 2:35 pm - BevsPicks - Lottery News

'Angel' sells woman $100K lottery ticketNews Story
On Friday the 13th, Deborah Baker grabbed a dime with her left hand and scratched away the prize area on her $100,000 Jackpot Tennessee lottery ticket.Scratching from right to left dragged out the suspense after Baker saw that her ticket contained matching threes and knew she was going to win something, which she figured would be just another ticket, a $5 value.But I kept seeing zeroes, the Lascassas resident recalled earlier this week.In fact, five zeroes trailed a one, making Baker, 53, one
Mar 3, 2004, 4:00 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery begins todayReply
Here is the report... Just for info purposes, there had been 2 tickets taken off each roll when I got my tix at 6:00am. 8 - $5 Carolina Cash Tix ($40) - Won $35 ($25 on one ticket) 25 - $2 BlackJack ($50) - Won $22 ($11 on one ticket) 25 - $1 Tic Tac Toe ($25) - Won $9 ($3 on 2 tix) 25 - $1 NC Education Lottery Tix ($25) - Won $17 and 2 free Tix ($10 on one ticket) Grand Total was $140 spent and won back $83 + 2 Tickets. I have personally enjoyed the Carolina Cash and t
Mar 30, 2006, 7:53 am - G105Brian - Lottery News

Despite rain, N.C. lottery has a sunny startNews Story
Receipts for 1st 5 days barely miss director's goal of $25 million A thunderstorm Monday might have stymied the N.C. Education Lottery leader's personal goal of selling $25 million worth of tickets in the games' first five days. I'm looking for any excuse, joked lottery director Tom Shaheen on Tuesday. The only one I can come up with is all that rain we got. Despite the raindrops, the state's new lottery had $24.03 million in sales through Monday, making it one of the more successfu
Apr 5, 2006, 7:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

Misprinted Kentucky Lottery tickets lead players to mistakenly believe they wonNews Story
IGT software error dashes players' hopes and excitement By Kate Northrop Quite a few Kentucky Lottery players thought they had won big time when they saw matching symbols printed on their Tic Tac Cash Fast Play tickets, but that joy quickly dissipated when they found out that those symbols were not indicators of winning the lottery at all, rather they were a result of a software error. According to the Kentucky Lottery, a vendor software issue affected some lottery vending machines in O
Dec 17, 2020, 5:19 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Players seek $250 million from Texas Lottery contractorReply
The rule causing confusion concerns a tic-tac-toe game that which had a prize box beneath it, which players can scratch off to reveal a dollar amount There is a prize whether it is won or not with the Tic-Tac-Toe game. The way it is written it could be interpreted that there are two games. The Tic-Tac-Toe game and the scratching off of the money bag.
Dec 17, 2014, 2:16 am - JWBlue - Lottery News

Players seek $250 million from Texas Lottery contractorReply
I am a stickler for proper English. Sensibly tic-tac-toe is needed to claim the 5x bonus. However, the sentence does not say winning 5x the prize is dependent on having tic-tac-toe. It is not out of the realm of possibility that winning the 5x bonus is independent on having tic-tac-toe. The players have a case.
Dec 16, 2014, 10:47 pm - JWBlue - Lottery News

Pennsylvania skill games company to face off against casinos in PA Supreme CourtReply
Thanks, that was helpful. The tic-tac-toe game he demonstrated looks easy as he11, I'm confused how a business hosting these machines is supposed to make money if you can win every time. Do they depend on drunk patrons who don't have their wits about them?
Apr 5, 2023, 11:18 pm - cottoneyedjoe - Lottery News

Players seek $250 million from Texas Lottery contractorNews Story
More than 500 players of a lottery scratch-off card filed suit against the game's developer seeking about $250 million in contested prize money. Confusion over the rules led many to believe they had winning tickets, but those tickets were not honored by the state. The suit contends that the lottery's contractor, GTECH Corporation, owes prize money to the players because they wrote the rules and programmed the scanners to identify the winners. GTECH Corporation spokeswoman Angela Wiczek sai
Dec 16, 2014, 9:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

Players seek $250 million from Texas Lottery contractorReply
Texas Lottery Commission pulled it, saying in a statement that it had received feedback from some players expressing confusion regarding certain aspects of this popular game. One of our Texas LP members said they didn't play the Monopoly Millionaire Club game because the rules very confusing especially for a $5 a ticket game. If they get a tic-tac-toe, they would win the prize amount. Similar to the match three like amounts and win that prize scratch-offs, but some of those players bel
Dec 16, 2014, 5:06 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News