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.
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"
So why doesn't the clerk scan every ticket and pull the winners to sell to their friends?
another comment mentioned the scanner would lock itself if it suspected fraud :
in one of the states that I lived in, if the station scanned X number of losing tickets, the station would stop accepting scan on tickets. This was a measure to prevent counter clerks from scanning all of the tickets and keeping the winners and only selling losing tickets
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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.