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• WhoaMama

  

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  Apr 16, 2019, 12:39 pm

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  My good ol' Meijer (a Michigan-made Walmart with more focus on grocery) recently installed a hi-tech touchscreen lottery vending machine. When I bought my Mega Millions ticket, it got one number right (70) out of the entire MM number. 

   

  However it was HORRIBLE at $1 scratch-offs!

   

   

  Very lucky and reliable, or does man (with help from the register) triumph over vending machine?
• MsBee18

  

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  Apr 16, 2019, 2:43 pm

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  I enjoy using the vending machines. I don't feel they are more or less lucky than a clerk. The odds are still the same. However the machines aren't that reliable. They seem to malfunction rather easily.
• DELotteryPlyr

  

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  Apr 16, 2019, 6:16 pm

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  The machines in Maryland & Delaware seem to be the same except for each only playing their states games.  I will  have to look closer to see who makes them.  I find them to be very good, they are quite easy to use but a bit slow in the 'process' of cashing winning tickets