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• Tucker Black

  

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  Isn't it a lottery regulation that the next scratch-off purchased be the next one in the roll? I recall reading somewhere that tearing it off and then not selling it is a no-no, sort of like printing a QP lotto ticket and saying "nah, I changed my mind". Too late.
• Big Joey

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  Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Jan 12, 2019

  Isn't it a lottery regulation that the next scratch-off purchased be the next one in the roll? I recall reading somewhere that tearing it off and then not selling it is a no-no, sort of like printing a QP lotto ticket and saying "nah, I changed my mind". Too late.

   I can ask the cashier to give me tickets from the middle of the book, she will pull, tear, give me the ones from in there, then put the others back in the drawer. You don't have to purchase the next ones in line. She scans the barcodes on the back for the purchase.
  
• Todd

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Big Joey on Jan 12, 2019

   I can ask the cashier to give me tickets from the middle of the book, she will pull, tear, give me the ones from in there, then put the others back in the drawer. You don't have to purchase the next ones in line. She scans the barcodes on the back for the purchase.
  

  I agree, there was a discussion about this regarding the NY Lottery last year some time.  Apparently there is a particular store in NYC that rips apart stacks of scratch-offs, and customers can pick any of them and buy them.  The NY Lottery allows them to do this, so apparently there is no prohibition on buying tickets from the middle of the stack.

  That being said, some (most?) retailers would probably not allow people to do it, because it would mess up their ticket rolls that they pull from and introduce the possibility of loose tickets floating around and getting lost or stolen.

   

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• TheMeatman2005

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Todd on Jan 12, 2019

  I agree, there was a discussion about this regarding the NY Lottery last year some time.  Apparently there is a particular store in NYC that rips apart stacks of scratch-offs, and customers can pick any of them and buy them.  The NY Lottery allows them to do this, so apparently there is no prohibition on buying tickets from the middle of the stack.

  That being said, some (most?) retailers would probably not allow people to do it, because it would mess up their ticket rolls that they pull from and introduce the possibility of loose tickets floating around and getting lost or stolen.

  Not to mention their accounting system.

  Each ticket is numbered so the retailer knows how many tickets were sold and how many of each remains. If they were ripped apart, there would be no way, other than manually counting each ticket type to figure out how much was sold. 

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• BobP

  

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  Just thinking, if the store also has a lottery vending machine, they could put the tickets from the broken rolls in there and only people checking the numbers would be the wiser.  For those who always buy their tickets at the same location and wonder why they never have a decent winner . . . try a different store. 
  
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  Reminds me of the scene from the movie Paper Moon where the con man sells the store owner a punch board which is an early form of the scratch off game where the board has hundreds of holes each with a tightly rolled piece of paper that has the amount of the prize to be paid by the store owner or some consolation like a lucky fortune.  Anyway, the board is supposed to generate sales in excess of the prizes to ensure a good profit for the store owner.  However, the con man sends in a friend who buys and collects all of the top prizes leaving the store owner with nothing of value to offer the rest of his customers.