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• Sum Buddy

  

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     I was going through some old pictures, and I found these snips I took many years ago.  They are the Pick 3 and Pick 4 winnings of one Peter St. Pierre of Lebanon, New Hampshire.  I thought I would check to see if his winning ways had continued, so I went to the New Hampshire website to look.  I started scrolling down the winners list on the NH Lottery's website.  The list stopped at 2016, skipped fifteen years, and started back up at 2001.  All record of PSP's wins are gone!

  That's all I know. Let the speculation and conspiracy theories begin.

   

  

  

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• Stat$talker

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Sum Buddy on Jul 15, 2024

     I was going through some old pictures, and I found these snips I took many years ago.  They are the Pick 3 and Pick 4 winnings of one Peter St. Pierre of Lebanon, New Hampshire.  I thought I would check to see if his winning ways had continued, so I went to the New Hampshire website to look.  I started scrolling down the winners list on the NH Lottery's website.  The list stopped at 2016, skipped fifteen years, and started back up at 2001.  All record of PSP's wins are gone!

  That's all I know. Let the speculation and conspiracy theories begin.

   

  

  

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• BobP

  

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  My guess is something happened to St. Pierre making him unable to continue.  The domain was paid up ahead for five years and someone bought it.  Did the new site promote lotto?  Could try looking it up on the Web Archive Time Machine if we knew the domain. 
  
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• GiveFive

  

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  Although I don't have an explanation for the 15 year gap in the data, I think it's very likely that St. Pierre was a ticket "discounter".  By discounter I mean he bought winning tickets at a discount from other players that didn't want to claim the prize themselves.  He probably stopped discounting because he got caught.  As BobP said in his post "something happened to St. Pierre making him unable to continue."  Having The New Hampshire Lottery come down on you would be a good reason to stop discounting.

  Nobody's that lucky or that good and there's a lot we don't know.  For instance we've no idea if he was a New Hampshire Lottery retailer or not.  G5

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• Sum Buddy

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by BobP on Jul 16, 2024

  My guess is something happened to St. Pierre making him unable to continue.  The domain was paid up ahead for five years and someone bought it.  Did the new site promote lotto?  Could try looking it up on the Web Archive Time Machine if we knew the domain. 
  
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  Filthy money or filthy life.  They tell me this big wonderful world is full of many things that don't require money, but outside of the unobtainable like sun sets, I can't think of a single one.
  
  

  I'm not sure what you mean.  The original snips were from the official New Hampshire Lottery website, which is also where I looked recently, and saw that 15 years of winner data was missing...    The website has been re-designed, and perhaps is under a different domain, but that doesn't explain a 15-year gap in winner information on the new site.

  "The list stopped at 2016, skipped fifteen years, and started back up at 2001"

  If the list just stopped at  2016, that would be one thing.  But stopping at 2016, and picking up again 15 year later seems fishy to me. 

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• Sum Buddy

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Jul 16, 2024

  Although I don't have an explanation for the 15 year gap in the data, I think it's very likely that St. Pierre was a ticket "discounter".  By discounter I mean he bought winning tickets at a discount from other players that didn't want to claim the prize themselves.  He probably stopped discounting because he got caught.  As BobP said in his post "something happened to St. Pierre making him unable to continue."  Having The New Hampshire Lottery come down on you would be a good reason to stop discounting.

  Nobody's that lucky or that good and there's a lot we don't know.  For instance we've no idea if he was a New Hampshire Lottery retailer or not.  G5

  This makes sense, but to me doesn't explain the 15 years of missing winners data on the official lottery website...

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• GiveFive

  

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  That's much harder to explain.  It MIGHT be an IT/ human error that caused 15 years of data to fall off the report when actually more data than that was planned to be removed. Reports such as these are some times trimmed.  It could be the date range parameters used to delete data off the report had a typo in them and  not all data they planned to delete was trimmed.  Remember that what you pulled up and displayed on the NH website was actually a report that was generated by a program and could be downloaded as a PDF file. But that's a wild guess on my part.  G5

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• BobP

  

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  Sorry, this "The list stopped at 2016, skipped fifteen years, and started back up at 2001. "  Time travel?  dyslexia not found yet cure for threw me off.
  
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• Sum Buddy

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by BobP on Jul 17, 2024

  Sorry, this "The list stopped at 2016, skipped fifteen years, and started back up at 2001. "  Time travel?  dyslexia not found yet cure for threw me off.
  
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  LOL!  Did I not mention that I'm from the planet Karatas, where time flows in reverse?

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