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• stah

  

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  In all the years I've played the lotteries I've never encountered this before. So I am going to ask what you think may have happened. I pick my own numbers. 

  I gave the clerk my ticket, I played one number set. The clerk ran the numbers and I didn't notice him having any issues in regards to the machine printing my numbers. So I gave him the money and he handed me the ticket. Instantly I noticed my last number was 31. It just jumped out at me. I thought oh my, I must have screwed up because my last number was supposed to be 69. When I got to the car I looked at my play slip and sure enough my last number was 69. The number that was there instead was 19. Very odd. I thought, well, maybe Karma or something. Nope didn't win squat. But still wonder what was up with it all.
• Cmoore50

  

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  Clerk messed up most likely..I recently went into my local gas station to play three powerball cards. I got home and looked over the numbers. She played one of the cards twice. It was past ten o’clock..so I couldn’t go back and play the right card and possbily cancel the duplicate...duplicate was not a winner.
• Coin Toss

  

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  Gremlins, just like the movie!

  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.
• grwurston

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by stah on May 16, 2019

  In all the years I've played the lotteries I've never encountered this before. So I am going to ask what you think may have happened. I pick my own numbers. 

  I gave the clerk my ticket, I played one number set. The clerk ran the numbers and I didn't notice him having any issues in regards to the machine printing my numbers. So I gave him the money and he handed me the ticket. Instantly I noticed my last number was 31. It just jumped out at me. I thought oh my, I must have screwed up because my last number was supposed to be 69. When I got to the car I looked at my play slip and sure enough my last number was 69. The number that was there instead was 19. Very odd. I thought, well, maybe Karma or something. Nope didn't win squat. But still wonder what was up with it all.

  Did you check the time on the ticket?  If it was not the time you bought it, the clerk gave you a ticket he already had behind the counter. Probably a mistake ticket from someone else.

  

  List Pick 3 singles by low sums, high sums. Separate each sum row by consecutive pair and non consecutive pair combos. These 3 pair groups. 14 17 47, 25 28 58, 36 39 69 are in 63 combos. 54 combos do not have them. Which sums do the 3 pair groups appear and not appear? Look at root sum groups 147, 258, 369. Play accordingly.
• Stack47

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on May 16, 2019

  Did you check the time on the ticket?  If it was not the time you bought it, the clerk gave you a ticket he already had behind the counter. Probably a mistake ticket from someone else.

  Clerks can't cancel their PB and MM ticket mistakes so they can either try to sell them or buy them. As players we can refuse play slip mistakes and probably why most clerks prefer that players get QPs.
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  Most Clerks are honest, but some Liquor stores....are far from it

  I know now which to avoid they didn't pay what they should have.fyi
• stah

  

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  I stood there watching the guy print the ticket. He did not give me a different ticket than the one that came out of the machine. And remember, I did give him my playslip. The odds would be incredible that a quick pick or someone else's mistake was a different number ending in a 9.  I picked 69, the number I wound up with instead was 19.
• DELotteryPlyr

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by stah on May 18, 2019

  I stood there watching the guy print the ticket. He did not give me a different ticket than the one that came out of the machine. And remember, I did give him my playslip. The odds would be incredible that a quick pick or someone else's mistake was a different number ending in a 9.  I picked 69, the number I wound up with instead was 19.

  I have had that happen before.  I am not sure how or why, I toss that playslip and remake it.  Most of the time I find that they DONT pick up a number that I have marked and they hand it back to me saying this card will not scan/has too many or too few  
• rcbbuckeye

  

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  Sometimes the machines just malfunction.

  A month or so back I was buying tix with playslips. Tx Lotto and an All or Nothing. The machine kept saying the playslips were invalid. I ended up just buying QP's.

  Later in the week I took the same playslips to another store and they ran fine.

  JUST LOOK AT THE ODDS OF ANY JACKPOT GAME, THAT WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
• grwurston

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on May 19, 2019

  Sometimes the machines just malfunction.

  A month or so back I was buying tix with playslips. Tx Lotto and an All or Nothing. The machine kept saying the playslips were invalid. I ended up just buying QP's.

  Later in the week I took the same playslips to another store and they ran fine.

  Sometimes what happens is the "reader" on the machine gets dirty and won't read the playslips properly. A little cleaning of it, is all it takes to fix it.

  Kind of like cleaning the heads on a cassette deck, or 8 track, for those old enough to remember.

  

  List Pick 3 singles by low sums, high sums. Separate each sum row by consecutive pair and non consecutive pair combos. These 3 pair groups. 14 17 47, 25 28 58, 36 39 69 are in 63 combos. 54 combos do not have them. Which sums do the 3 pair groups appear and not appear? Look at root sum groups 147, 258, 369. Play accordingly.
• rcbbuckeye

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on May 19, 2019

  Sometimes what happens is the "reader" on the machine gets dirty and won't read the playslips properly. A little cleaning of it, is all it takes to fix it.

  Kind of like cleaning the heads on a cassette deck, or 8 track, for those old enough to remember.

  LOL.

  Why yes. I do remember.

  What fond memories.

  

  JUST LOOK AT THE ODDS OF ANY JACKPOT GAME, THAT WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
• Big Joey

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  That is not supposed to happen. When the playslip is marked, only those numbers can print out.  No other number can print out except as marked. 
• EdG1955

  

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  Possibly a dirty scanner on the machine.  When people fill out playslips with pens instead of pencils, the ink can get on the scanner head if it's not completely dry.  Also, pencil graphite and paper dust from the playslips can affect the head.
• Vergie6

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by stah on May 16, 2019

  In all the years I've played the lotteries I've never encountered this before. So I am going to ask what you think may have happened. I pick my own numbers. 

  I gave the clerk my ticket, I played one number set. The clerk ran the numbers and I didn't notice him having any issues in regards to the machine printing my numbers. So I gave him the money and he handed me the ticket. Instantly I noticed my last number was 31. It just jumped out at me. I thought oh my, I must have screwed up because my last number was supposed to be 69. When I got to the car I looked at my play slip and sure enough my last number was 69. The number that was there instead was 19. Very odd. I thought, well, maybe Karma or something. Nope didn't win squat. But still wonder what was up with it all.

  A couple of weeks ago I bought my tickets over the counter and the money came up $2.50 more than it should have been but the line was very long so I paid it but when I got to my next stop I was still wondering about it so matched my tickets up with my play slips.

  ...always get them back and the machine had added sum it up to 5 of them so I stopped back by to get my $2.50 back and they said they did not give refunds so I called the lottery office and they told me that's why they have 15 min. for a p3 ticket to be cancelled and you had to do it right after you bought the tickets...I had thought since it was the machine's error I could get it back but couldn't.

  ...well it has happened 2 more times since then but no matter how long the line is I stand there and match up my tickets with the slips to see what happened and get it straight.

  I always add the amt I owe so when I buy them I know if I'm overcharged or not.

  This was at a Sheetz store....never had it happen anywhere else before....have talked to other customers there and they have had the same kind of problems too with their p3 tickets.

  One more thing one time in the same store when they gave me back my change they just handed it to me...did not count the money out so I knew it was not right....the man had short changed me $15 so I had not moved from where I  was standing when I counted the money & told him...you owe me $15 more back.

  ...well he took it back and left...when he came back he told me he looked at the security camera video in the back of the store and he did owe me $15...guess he didn't believe me...don't know how the thought I could have put $15 in my purse while standing right in front of him....you have to watch everybody everywhere these days or you might get ripped off.

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