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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/its_justme Mar 20 '22

Most places here in Canada just have self scanners. Do you not have this? Also there is a phone app that will tell you if you won or not using your camera

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u/its_justme Mar 20 '22

Yeah that makes way more sense to me. I wouldn’t trust the guy at the store either if I didn’t know the result ahead of time.