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• Lotto Motto

  

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  I won $100 on a lottery ticket but spilled hand sanitizer inadvertently "erased," the numbers and I wasn't able to collect my $100. I didn't even know that hand sanitizer erases lottery ticket numbers until it happened to me. Yikes. :(
• MartyMcNuts

  

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  Always keep lottery tickets safe and well away from any liquids, abrasives or flames!
• grwurston

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by MartyMcNuts on Apr 2, 2025

  Always keep lottery tickets safe and well away from any liquids, abrasives or flames!

  I washed my wallet once and tried drying everything out on paper towels in the microwave. It worked well except for my lottery ticket. It started to burn up the bar code and ticket serial numbers. I took it back to the store and told them what happened. They were able to type  enough of the bar code/serial numbers into the lottery machine to cash it. Got my $80.

  The goal is to win more $$ than you spend.

  
• rcbbuckeye

  

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  When I get home from buying tix, they go straight into a desk drawer. There they stay until draw time.

  Gotta keep them safe and sound.

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

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Apr 2, 2025

  When I get home from buying tix, they go straight into a desk drawer. There they stay until draw time.

  Gotta keep them safe and sound.

  I gently fold my ticket/s and put them in my wallet almost immediately after getting them 

  no excuses  for damaging or losing tickets

  
• Elizabeth03

  

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  I have had ticket's that got wet and the number's in Atlantic Canada! That  were not legible or the bottom part, was torn off, and ripped!. Where the clerk type's in the bottom serial number's. So the ticket's weren't any good. I have to be very careful with ticket's!
• Coin Toss

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Lotto Motto on Apr 2, 2025

  I won $100 on a lottery ticket but spilled hand sanitizer inadvertently "erased," the numbers and I wasn't able to collect my $100. I didn't even know that hand sanitizer erases lottery ticket numbers until it happened to me. Yikes. :(

  The bar code on the bottom of te ticket couldn't be read?

  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.