Posted on 01/06/2015 2:43:37 PM PST by workerbee
By John Wines' calculation, the scratch-off ticket he bought at a Roswell, N.M., gas station is worth $500,625. The state lottery says it is worthless.
Wines, a retired heating and air conditioning repairman, bought the $20 "Ruby 7s" ticket on Dec. 6, and went to his car to scratch it off. When his effort appeared to reveal four prizes - two of $250,000, one for $75 and another for $50, he excitedly ran back in to present it to the cashier.
"She scanned it in the machine and told me it isn't a winner," Wines, 65, told FoxNews.com. "I couldn't believe it."
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It turned out the ticket bore at least two critical misprints above the $250,000 jackpots. Wines' winning numbers, listed on another portion of the ticket, were 1 and 2. If either of those appeared above the prize, the ticket is a winner. Wines' ticket appeared to show a 1 above both of the six-figure payouts, but an abbreviation code for the single-digit numbers did not match. It indicated that one was supposed to be a 12 and the other an 18. On each, the second digit was just a tiny smudge.
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The money he paid for the ticket should be refunded to the man he should be given another ticket.
is the fact that this happened in Roswell significant?
I see a lot of old folks scratching tickets in the 7-11 peaking lot. Something about it makes me... Uneasy? Disappointed?
Smells like a scam to not have to pay out for otherwise winning tickets.
Collapse on the job .. anything
Fetal position crying
It is a good way for the states to get the Social Security back and into the hands of the needy.
Clearly a misprint.
Too bad Mr. Gambler, you’re out 20 bucks. Care to try again?
Watch the shells very carefully...
One ticket is $20? What happened to $1/ticket?
Nah, looking at the ticket you can clearly see it is a misprint, because not just the number is cut off, but the text below the number as well. That text tells you what the number is, and in both cases, you can tell from the readable part of the text that the number is not a one.
I think one of Jeff Foxworthy’s jokes was: “If your retirement plan is winning the lottery...you just might be a redneck.”
Reminds me of Boudreaux auctioning his dead horse. Thibedeaux said “Boud, de winner is going to find out de horse is dead.” Boudreaux said “Dat’s okay, I’ll give him his money back.”
It’s a defective ticket, he should get a refund. It’s an illegitimate ticket that could never ever win.
In the convenience store in my area, the ATM is located right next to the lottery vending machine. Looking at the prices, they are from 5$ to 25$ and I see people feeeeeeing in their cash.
I avoid that said store on Wednesday’s because trying to get a cup of coffee or a pre-pay on gas will take 20 minutes. Reason? The lottery registers(plural) are running full tilt with a line. My little 20 buck purchase of gas is child’s play.
Me, too. If the state lottery can summarily deny payment on this ticket, they can deny payment on any winning ticket and declare it invalid.
I see a lot of old folks scratching tickets in the 7-11 peaking lot. Something about it makes me... Uneasy? Disappointed?
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It’s another way for the Ruling Class to steal your money.
What kind of lot...allows peaking?
“is the fact that this happened in Roswell significant?”
The least weird thing about Roswell is the aliens.
It’s a tax on people bad at math. I don’t have a problem with it.
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