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$1.08 billion Powerball lottery winner Yanira Alvarez filed claim for jackpot over five months agoReply
Congratulations to her, that seems like a stressful process to go through ( BUT! I'm willing to do it!! Lol ). I'm wondering if found tickets are eligible to be claimed? For example I have found multiple tickets in lotto machines when purchasing my own due to the fact that the lotto machines in my state are old and have a glitch that the last ticket you buy doesn't fall down, it stays stuck and you need to reach in there and pull it out manually. When I first moved here I lost ticke
Apr 19, 2024, 2:47 pm - goldfish777 - Lottery News

Accidental lottery ticket purchase nets Maryland couple $2 million in PowerballReply
And of course it happened to me after posting this. Had a $4 winner on Cash for Life. Machine asked me if I wanted to cash it in Y/N? I said yes and missed that the next question was do I want to REPLAY the C4L ticket? I thought the prior question 'didnt take' and was asking me again if I wanted to cash it in so hit yes and ended up getting a replay of the ticket. Lets hope its a 'happy' replay
Apr 14, 2024, 3:10 pm - DELotteryPlyr - Lottery News

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
Florida really messed it up with the addition of the mid draw. I play both because of the fact you have a better chance of hitting 4 for the $555 at mid, at least that is my feeling. Lo and behold, on Tuesday I got a free ticket for mid draw and hit 4 with no winners. So there you go. I have never won on a free ticket before. I will continue to play mid only for the odds of hitting 4. Better than the Pick 3 because they messed that one up too with their draws to test the machine.
Nov 9, 2023, 5:46 am - dreambig2022 - Pick 5 Forum

$1.08 billion Powerball lottery winner Yanira Alvarez filed claim for jackpot over five months agoReply
I would have given the clerk that ticket and just tell the truth that I found it left behind in the machine. Maybe the clerk knows who to return it to because it's a regular customer, maybe not. Either way, it's out of my hands. If the clerk is dishonest enough to try to claim it as her own, she won't get very far because of the time stamp and security footage. Not my monkeys not my circus, as they say.
Apr 19, 2024, 3:26 pm - cottoneyedjoe - Lottery News

California couple face felony charges for stealing $135 worth of Iowa Lottery ticketsReply
Correct, however have you used an IGT machine in KY and then it won't scan? That's when the person who loads the machine does not activate the scratch tickets. Just yesterday a Trucker scanned his ticket to show me this and he was not happy.
Jan 11, 2024, 6:38 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

$1.55 BILLION: Biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever to be drawn TuesdayReply
I did buy two more MM/MP after I saw a rescue PB/PP ticket taped to their machine. Nice gal said I thought of you when I saw it...do you want it?? Yes, I bought him!
Aug 8, 2023, 1:14 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

Accidental lottery ticket purchase nets Maryland couple $2 million in PowerballReply
Not sure if your comment was directed to me and I don't know what some of your acronyms mean (WOF, IGT etc) I'm currently in Texas, a huge lotto state and it's shocking how out of shape these machines are and how unreliable they are. I've lost money by the machines double printing tickets either from me pressing the push buttons or using my app QR code. This happens over and over again at multiple machines and I've contacted the lottery and they are very non chalant, we appreciate your feed
Apr 11, 2024, 9:39 pm - goldfish777 - Lottery News

Massachusetts store clerk indicted after stealing lottery ticket worth $3 million from customerReply
I usually use a kiosk machine to purchase tickets and wouldn't even know if I had extra tickets until I checked them. And even then if the tickets were for the same game I played, I wouldn't know for sure which of those tickets someone else bought. Having never cashed a $1 million plus ticket, I don't know what questions the people validating the ticket ask; maybe someone that actually won that large a prize could tell us. Nunes and Reddem raised a red flag when they were arguing in the lobb
May 18, 2023, 12:47 am - Stack47 - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery launches new system, players unable to check ticketsNews Story
Players and retailers vent frustrations By Kate Northrop On Sunday, the Connecticut Lottery launched a new statewide retail system that was years in the making, but the change has left some players and retailers frustrated. All 2,900 Connecticut Lottery retailers have officially been updated with a new statewide lottery system, but not everyone is finding the transition seamless. On May 21, 2023, the Lottery did away with its older Connecticut Lottery Corporation (CLC) system, wh
May 26, 2023, 9:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

California man asks clerk to choose a lottery game for him, ends up picking out a ticket worth $10MReply
It is one of the reasons I always fill out cards to play. I do not want to feel obligated to some convenience store clerk because he happened to push a button at the right time on a lottery machine. A millisecond makes all the difference when you ask for a quick pic. I never do scratches but I would recommend asking for a particular ticket rather than have it chosen for me. These clerks look like you are asking them to perform heart surgery if you want something out of the ordinary from them to
Oct 22, 2023, 8:53 am - billybucks - Lottery News