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• Coin Toss

  

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  That is, have you ever won by filling out a playslip wrong, things like that, etc...?

  One time my wife read a number for the wrong day in a horoscope magazine, and it hit. Paid $290, sweet for a boo boo!

  You?

  Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners. 

  

  There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
• sully16

  

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  Yep. played the wrong playslip, got the 3 digit boxed.

   
• LottoMetro

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Dec 8, 2013

  That is, have you ever won by filling out a playslip wrong, things like that, etc...?

  One time my wife read a number for the wrong day in a horoscope magazine, and it hit. Paid $290, sweet for a boo boo!

  You?

  One time the machine ran out of paper mid-purchase. Because there were still credits, the employee had to cash them out at their own expense. Gave me two random scratch-offs, both were winners. Plus I got a free QP.

  Another time, not really an accident but very random, I happened to have $2 left in the machine and just for the sake of not leaving it I hit a QP (usually I play my own numbers). Later that won $50.

  If the chances of winning the jackpot are so slim, why play when the jackpot is so small? Your chances never change, but the potential payoff does.
  If a crystal ball showed you the future of the rest of your life, and in that future you will never win a jackpot, would you still play?

  P&L % = Total Win($)/Total Wager($) - 1
• grwurston

  

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  Same #'s. Different games.

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  Filled out my playslip wrong. Did front pair instead of back pair, or vice versa.   Won $50.

  
• PrisonerSix

  

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  One time my wife and I decided to buy scratch offs and I ended up winning $20 by accident. The clerk tore the ticket my wife picked and she didn't want it, so I bought it and it turned out to be the $20 winner.

  Prisoner Six
  
  "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
• noise-gate

  

  * In hot pursuit of $ *

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  Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Dec 8, 2013

  That is, have you ever won by filling out a playslip wrong, things like that, etc...?

  One time my wife read a number for the wrong day in a horoscope magazine, and it hit. Paid $290, sweet for a boo boo!

  You?

  No- what would ultimately surprise me is being the sole winner the PB/MM jackpot....that l would have accomplished what millions have not. That in it of itself would be considered a  " major historical accident" for me - one l would treasure till the end of my days.

  l await that " accident" to happen and will welcome it with Open Arms. 
• Slick Nick

  

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  I bought a lottery ticket once a person didn't want, it paid $78.00 dollars.

  Money is a terrible master, but a great servant...
• Tatototman65

  

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  My mom doesn't fill out play slips, so she told the clerk her numbers and wanted them for evening draw. Well, the clerk did it for midday draw and she won $5,000.
  
  

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• rdgrnr

  

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  The clerk punched in the wrong number for my P3 Str8 and I won $500 on it.
• NativeSlew67

  

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  Not me but a close friend was playin online pick 3 South Carolina...playin all consec for .15cents str8 and .35cents boxed. By accident she put 15$ on ONE of them...the 456...clicked purchase...realized her mistake...and was quite peeved actually..... and lo and behold...thats what fell midday!!! This was about 3 years ago and the number guys were payin $900 for a $1 str8 then so it was quite a win!

  "In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."