Where does one check their numbers anyway?
bought my first lottery ticket today
by John Doe 39 Replies latest jw friends
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snowbird
Where does one check their numbers anyway?
At the numbers checking place!
Zing.
Seriously, the newspaper, tv station, or online.
Sylvia
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TJ - iAmCleared2Land
We need a JWN pool on the MegaMillions and PowerBall lotteries, when the jackpots get big.
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John Doe
If that place sold me a ticket that's no good, I should get my money back, right?
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TJ - iAmCleared2Land
Somebody in Texas lost out this week. Had won the $7M drawing in early May, but never claimed it. Probably never checked their ticket for the numbers. What a shame!
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purplesofa
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – With Arkansas looking at a $100 million budget deficit because of lower revenue, some state lawmakers are concerned that the new state lottery could be contributing to the economy situation, the Arkansas News Bureau reports.
“My concerns right now are, how do the lottery sales affect the revenue for the state that we’re currently seeing a downturn in?” said state Rep. Rick Green.
The Arkansas lottery began Sept. 28, with Powerball starting Oct. 31. Lottery officials predict the games will bring in around $400 million in annual ticket sales. Around a quarter of that money will fund scholarships, with the rest being paid out for prizes and the running of the lottery.
Retailers have been reporting that lottery ticket sales are siphoning off in-store sales. “For instance, people come in with a $20 bill that they would normally buy milk, eggs, probably some alcoholic beverage or whatever, and maybe $3 worth of gas. Now they buy a lottery ticket first. They may get the gas so they can have enough to go home, but the other sales seem to be suffering,” said state Rep. Garry Smith.
However, state officials are not sure the lottery is to blame. “I think it’s going to be next to impossible to really break it out, to really make a confident statement about it, partly because it could be pulling from lottery sales in surrounding states, so you have that adjustment in addition to the larger question about consumption,” said John Shelnutt, an economist with the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration.
But some retailers have reported an increase in in-store sales of non-lottery items. “I think they went up a little bit, just for more customers coming in the store,” said Vickie Sosebee, a supervisor at an E-Z Mart. “Bottled beverage sales are up a little bit, candy sales are up a little bit.”
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chickpea
the first lottery ticket i ever had
came as a gift in an anniversary card....
won $8.. wOO hOO, right?the first (and only) lottery ticket i bought
was during one of those humongous
mega-million deals....i was stranded at a convenience
gas-mart after having struck and
killed an 8 point buck on a drive
up minnesota's northshore on
the way to canada....the buck partially infiltrated the interior...
his rack kept him on the hood and my
head on my shoulders....even though i was spitting glass,
and pulling it out of my hair and ears
i was feeling pretty lucky...
so i bought a ticketdidnt win, but didnt die!!!!!
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John Doe
Somebody in Texas lost out this week. Had won the $7M drawing in early May, but never claimed it. Probably never checked their ticket for the numbers. What a shame!
Now that would make you want to shoot yourself.
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blondie
Where does one check their numbers anyway?
I check online. The winning numbers are on the ACTIVE screen for Directv too.
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John Doe
Ah hell. Their flipping machine is messed up--it didn't match one number! I'm going to have to complain and get them to redraw for my numbers.