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Faulty $50 Wisonsin lottery ticket causing a flapNews Story
Celeste Davis is haunted by a scratch-off lottery ticket. I played Joker's Wild, and now the joke is on me, she sighed. The Milwaukee woman spent $5 on a ticket that appears to be a $50 winner. So we're not talking about a lot of money here. But the ticket never paid out, despite extraordinary efforts by Wisconsin Lottery staff to validate it. It's just a mystery. We tried to re-create her ticket so we could pay her, lottery communications director Stephanie Marquis said. We be
Dec 4, 2015, 9:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

Winning $217M Powerball ticket sold in VirginiaNews Story
By Todd Northrop Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in the Richmond, Va. airport for Wednesday night's drawing will wake up a multimillionaire. The Virginia Lottery said the ticket sold for Wednesday's $217 million drawing matched all five numbers plus the Powerball. The winning numbers were 5, 27, 36, 38, and 41, with Powerball number 12. In addition to the jackpot winner, 7 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $1,000,000 prize: 1 from Arizona, 1 from Connecticut, 1 fr
Feb 8, 2013, 8:58 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery payout complicated by laser printer mishapNews Story
Sign ticket with pen: Good Use laser printer to 'type' endorsement: Bad While the identity of the man who won a $48.8 million lottery prize in Alvin remains unknown to the public, a report released Tuesday by the Texas Lottery Commission shows the steps the agency took to verify the ticket's authenticity after it was damaged in a mishap with a laser jet printer. The mystery man purchased his Texas Lottery ticket Oct. 18 from a self-service machine at the H-E-B Pantry grocery store in Al
May 14, 2010, 7:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery will start on schedule, director saysReply
Online games are games that you pick your own numbers, and a ticket machine spits out a ticket. It does not refer to Internet-based games.
Jan 9, 2006, 11:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

PA Lottery to start Powerball ticket promotionReply
Ripoff? Hummmm. Never bought bottled water have you? Depending where you live, one bottle of water equals a Power Play ticket.Without marketing, life would be dull. No movie awards. No music awards. No lottery. Marketing is the name of the game - thats why the annuity is the only number listed on the ticket machine.
Sep 27, 2005, 9:45 am - Chewie - Lottery News

VIDEO: Why we hate computerized drawingsReply
It's a random set of numbers generated by the lottery ticket machine, but not a computerized drawing. The drawing is what determines the numbers for everyone. Your quick pick is just for your one ticket and you are given the choice of whether to pick the numbers yourself or not. Besides, I don't think it would be practical for every lottery retailer to have a full ball drawing studio behind the counter just to pick the numbers on your ticket.
Jan 29, 2022, 6:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

$107 million lottery winner turns out to be son of Marriott presidentReply
Why not? It's a gamble. The urge to gamble does not lesson with the accumulation of money. Nor does the lottery ticket machine check your bank accounts before it prints you a ticket. Besides, who is to judge who needs the money and who doesn't? You? LOL. It erks me to no end when people think they can judge who is deserving or not when the lottery is won.
Sep 25, 2011, 5:08 pm - Piaceri - Lottery News

Penn. woman wins lottery prize of $1,000 a week for lifeNews Story
Millions of people play the lottery. Some may have a lucky strike and win a couple dollars, or even a couple hundred dollars. But just a handful of scratch-off gamers hit that big prize, and Nancy Guiher can include herself among them.Guiher was recently the winner of the $1,000 a week for life game sponsored by the Pennsylvania Lottery.She is only the 74th person to win this prize since its inception in July 1995.Last Friday, a check presentation ceremony was held for Guiher at the Saltsburg Sh
Dec 9, 2005, 7:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

$216M Mega Millions lottery winner is from New JerseyReply
N.J. has a long history with the lottery. The first online game was in New Jersey. (Online meaning a ticket machine connected to a central computer to record the numbers.) With the lottery such an integrated part of society in N.J., tickets do indeed sell well.
Mar 5, 2009, 7:52 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery launches a new type of instant ticketReply
The way that reads, it seems like there is a vulnerability introduced: If you can find out the winning numbers (since they were already drawn), hack a lotto ticket machine to print out a winning ticket. Also, if a player can immediately, after purchase, scan the ticket to see if it is a winner, it seems much like an instant draw game. I've never played an instant draw game because its a computer draw.
Jan 15, 2024, 5:31 pm - Wavepack - Lottery News