Smells like a scam to not have to pay out for otherwise winning tickets.
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.
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.
It wasn’t a winner. The secondary print showed it wasn’t a match.
Nope, the article I read earlier had a picture of the ticket, and the misprint was obvious, the 8 from the 18 and the 2 from the 12 were partially printed (as was the text below them identifying them as something other than "1"), not only that, but the confirmation code printed on the ticket confirmed it was not a winner, those are used to ensure the winning ticket is legitimate to begin with.