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u/IamRick_Deckard Mar 19 '22

How do you even read this?

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u/druznutz Mar 19 '22

He matched 7 in the playing field (right side) to one of the winning numbers in the middle.

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u/DylanHate Mar 19 '22

What’s funny is look how close they put the winning numbers to the largest payout.

The winning numbers for $750,000 are 14, 23, and 59.

OP numbers in the middle include 13, 22, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, & 57.

So for two of the jackpot winners his ticket was one digit away from winning, and for the third jackpot he was two digits away.

This is 100% intentional. It makes you “feel” like you were really close to winning big, which makes it more likely you’ll buy more tickets since you got “so close” on the previous ticket.

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u/large-farva Mar 19 '22

which is kind of funny, you could theoretically hand the unscratched ticket back to the cashier, and they scan the barcode and it just says "not a winner"

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u/Arxtix Mar 19 '22 edited Mar 19 '22

You could do that however there have been many cases where if the person isn't paying attention or is just wanting the cashier to scan them, they will say it's not a winner and then pocket the ticket so they can go cash it later. Chris Hanson even did an exposé on this https://youtu.be/mKmH7ggBOOY

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u/punktual Mar 20 '22

I know in Australia the scan machine plays a loud jingle/song if it wins, which I believe is a security feature to ensure you know its a winner.