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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery odds of winning

I sent 2 letters in about complaints for odds of winning. You are robbing people. I just played 9 tickets in a row and they were all losers. When on the back of every single ticket says odds of winning are 1 in 3.56 so those odds are wrong again. This is [censored]. This is the 2nd time I sent tickets in to the pa lottery and not so much as a written excuse for why the odds are wrong. And I play a lot of tickets usually 10s or 20s. And no I don't have a gambling problem. Just so we're clear I like playing but not when I lose 9 or even sometimes 10 tickets in a row. You are robbing me blind. So you should not put the odds of winning on the back of the tickets because they are wrong.

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BigPoppy
White Haven, US
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Aug 11, 2018 8:22 pm UTC

I can tell you for a fact that ever since Wolfe became governor the lottery winners have decreased tremendously. The amounts are less and less every time a new ticket comes out. You rarely see 1000 winners anymore. What used to be 500 is now 400. 250 is now 200 and so on and so forth. I went through a whole roll of $10 tickets and got 1 $50 winner. A whole roll of $5 tickets and got $20. And a whole roll of $20 tickets with the highest winner being $40. This state is absolutely robbing everyone blind with no accountability of where all this money is going. I’m a senior citizen. I get absolutely nothing from the pa lottery. They truly need to be investigated as to where all the stolen cash is going

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Jun 20, 2018 10:07 am UTC

They will not listen or care. They pretend the odds are explaines by two to three back-to-back winners, but i call BS. They are banking on not dealing with people who buy a book, like me, whom theu CANT argue odds with because I have the whole roll at that point and will TELL, not ask, that the odds are FALSE ADVERTISING..WHICH to anyone other than the corrupt state of PA...would be considered illegal.

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Jaimiv
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Jun 01, 2018 1:39 am UTC

I just played 15 of these exact tickets. I bought them all in a row, #'s 000-014, all attached.
The first 9 were losers, the 10th was a $10 breakeven (I won't call that a "winner", because I gained NOTHING), and the final 5 were losers.
This is just awful anymore! I ALWAYS buy 10 tickets in a row, every time I play, and over the past year or so, it's typical to have only ONE be a winner (breakeven prize) and You're lucky if it's $5 more than what you paid!
After tonight's debacle, I am officially done with Pennsylvania scratch offs. They just aren't worth it anymore.

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery mobile application

I used to be able to check tickets with my Android phone now for some reason the app is gone and you can only get it from apple... No mobile web page or anything what the crap? What is the point of removing the app from android? Its bad enough they call getting your money back winning. Ill explain : if you spend $10 on a scratch off ticket and you win $10 then you did not win you broke even, they call it winning. All you did was waste your time to end up right back where you started. Minimum payout for scratch off tickets should be double their cost the odds would be like 1 in 25 but at least they wouldnt be a waste of time then.

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery pa lottery millionaire drawing

My 80 year old mom won this in January and was told the check would arrive in 3 or 4 weeks. The check took 5 weeks and her first name was misspelled. They said they would resend the check and after over 30 more days said it got lost in the mail. We are now going to the local news station for help. We want the interest that we did not earn as well. The lottery is giving is the run around on a million dollar winning ticket. It's supposed to benefit seniors and instead makes them wait for weeks and months wondering if the check will ever come.

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery payput at souders... next to lottery office

they scanned tix 2 times so i was forced to wait an hr for owner to come and cash tix. would not let me take tix to a other place.they said i either had to come back in a hour or wait. i had to wait cause i live an hr away. this retailer should not be able to sell lottery tix amd trap a person into having wait for money. personel here are incompitent as well as owner

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Can someone please explain to me how I can have 1 winner out of 20 $5 crosswords and 2 winners out of 25 $3 crosswords? I understand how odds work, but this is freaking ridiculous. How about improving odds and getting rid of those stupid commercials? I have been a loyal lottery player for over 10 years spending several thousand dollars a year. I don't mind...

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery wild ball

I have a problem with the wild ball

I think the wild ball isnt wild at all = its very misleading the public

I thought wild ball number can replace any number that came out on the lottery (Day/night) numbers.

Ex: I played 2360 (Evening of sept. 30th) with the wild ball.

The number came out 6321 - (Wild ball 2)

I thought I won. But they say I did not. Im confused? And so are a lot of people. Wild should mean it can change to anything, but thats not the case I see.
My opinion and a lot of other peoples are you need to change the name to (Facticious wild) meaning not wild ficticious = you cannot call a number wild and change the rules of the word wild. Its very misleading, the lottery has made its own interpretation of wild = not the dictionary version. N
The public does not like this version of wild. Please give it another name or either discontinue the wild balls. Fake...

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Jul 01, 2018 11:25 am UTC

New Jersey calls it----Fireball----
Pennsylvania should call it----Extraball---

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery lottery in general

Hi so I know what you pay out In scratch offs and it's sad how you can make as much money as you want but at the same time rob us. You have 9 losing 20 dollar tickets In a row! That's making people like myself sick. I don't need to hear about 1800 gamble. You should Atleast give out more tickets to win your money back. Now my main concern is I have a buddy who tells me parx casino has all there machines rigged. So I'm sure the PA lottery knows exactly which numbers that haven't been played on the powerball and every other game. Every time there's a big winner it's in the middle of know where. My question is do you pick out of a hat for the location of the winner or what is it? Because it's rediculois. I'm sure you don't have these answers but maybe you can ask the boss. And don't tell me everyone's odds are the same that's BS.

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery lottery machine shorting winnings

My husband bought me a $1 scratch off ticket, in order to win you need 3 like amounts. I got 3 $10, I went to cash it in and the machine only registered a winning of $9. It was at Gas N Go located at 301 Euclid Ave Canonsburg PA 15317. It happened a few months back but with cashibg in multiple tickets and was harder to tell. I just feel as if they do it daily how much do they scam off people or is the machine malfunctioning.

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery gambling machines

I put 400 in the machine last night and I come back to play today and the guy working at the Charleroi sunco was playing the machine while working. 4:15pm was the time. July 13th. They know the machines have to pay out a percentage and can see no one was paid so they played. That's cheating and I want my money back! Please review their security cameras and you will see. This definitely has to be illegal.

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Jul 13, 2017 3:44 pm UTC

227 fallowfield Ave Charleroi pa 15022 is my adress I would like my money back cause I feel I have been cheated.

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery hot number $5.00 ticket

On sunday july 2nd I bought a hot number ticket at the lottery news &tobacco store in hopewell shopping center, I had checked my ticket it said I won $500. I told the guy at the counter I won that amount he ask which ticket I hit on, but when I turned it in he said I lost, I know he switched tickets on me because the numbers were different. The persons name is pat. Makes me sick to think he ripped me off.

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery landhope farms in kennett square pennsylvania 19348

I was there and had a spanish family in front of me while the mother was off to the side scratching off tickets her two children which couldn't of been older then 10 and 5 y/o are taking money out and putting it into the machine and playing tickets while the mother stood there and allowed this to happen and worse landhope allowed this to happen while saying nothing and doing nothing. Other customers were thinking and saying the same thing that i was and find this type of behavior unacceptable and irresponsible this occured on the 7th of may at sometime between 6:00 and 7:00 sorry for my grammar and punctuation i'm a little upset by this while having to wait in line behind 2 young children for a service that requires you to be 18 and older

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery retail lottery fraud

On April 7th I went to Sunoco on 46th and Walnut in Philadelphia o play my usual Cash5 and Pick6 lottos. I bought a Piggy Bank Bucks Fast Play. I bought 2 no luck I bought a 3rd one which was a free ticket the cashier looked at the free ticket that printed then proceeded to act like something was wrong with the machine. She then stapled 2 tickets together and printed another. Now when I go to the 7-11 on 42nd and Walnut they print it don't even look and the paper that prints if I win a couole of dollars is not the same size as the Fast Play slip. This occurred between 6:40pm and 6:50pm

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery pick 2 lottery with wild ball

I have written to several organization because the Pick 2 with the Wild Ball appears to be a scam. The advertising states that their will be more winners but when you view the statistics of each drawing, there are less than 140 winners Statewide for the day and/or evening drawing. There are more than 300 retailers in PA with at least a thousand players and only 140 winners with the wild ball is absurd. If the pick 2 winning is 26, wild ball 8. The PA lottery should payout money for the following: 26, 86 and 28. If your number is 27 with a wild ball, then the lottery should payout for 27, 87 and 28 but after you scan your ticket at the terminal machine states that you are a non-winner. This is potentially fraud. There are less winners with the wild ball play, not more. The are taking the extra bet but not paying out. I have written to PA lottery office via email and they never responded. Please help unsuspecting players.

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Jacki wiley
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Feb 14, 2019 10:06 pm UTC

I agree it's a complete scam the winning number on 2/14/2019 was 029 wildball was 2 i played 970 with the wildball now the wildball should have canceled out my 7 and been replaced with the number 2 wildball but it didnt it showed up as a loser I also played 980 wty the wildball same thing showed up as a loser now on there website it say a box hit with the wildball is a 36 dollar winner so I'm not understanding you these number weren't winners nnomt day before(2/13/2019) the number was 291 wildball was 9 I played 992 and I won the number 9 wildball canceled out my number 1 and was replaced with the number 9 wild now can someone please explain to me what the difference is between the way I played on the 13th that l won and why I didnt win on the 14th because it's not making any sense to me I think I might go to lottery head quarters and argue with them a bit because this is not the first time this has happened to me but before I was new to the lottery and didnt know no better now I'm starting to get to know the lottery a bit and I'm pretty sure both my numbers (970 & 980 with thr wild ball) should both be winners

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery mega payout

I had 2 + the mega and only collected A dollar? I know the kid rips people off so it was my turn. It's the 7-11 on Rte 1 in Penndel, PA. The owners sin is the one who does it. Thinks he's slick. Maybe it's because he just had a kid and has too much debt. But I'm done buying my lottery. Not when this stuff happens. Can't trust and it's a big woop tee do for the state to enforce. They don't care either. PA lottery is in the dump.

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery advertising

The Pa lottery commercial "happy holidays Rita" has become more and more of an annoyance over the years. I wouldn't doubt if the majority of the people in the commercial are not alive anymore. This commercial has been airing every year since before my high school senior grandson was born. I turn the channel or mute the broadcast. i assure you I am not the only who has this feeling. I have been at gatherings where the sound was muted with no encouragement from me. Your beating a dead horse with this advertising. I know this is the wrong venue for this expression, but there are few options on the internet.

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Friends of mine are big lottery players. One friend played the new Monopoly Jackpot game, he played the whole book. The monopoly is a $5.00 ticket and $300.00 for the whole book, the highest prize in that whole book was $25.00. Another friend played the Win Win game. The ticket is $10.00 and $600.00 for the whole book the highest prize he hit that book wa...

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Pennsylvania Lottery / PA Lottery quinto

Why is it that when playing Quinto your dollar box is only good for five digits and not four digits.I think the dollar box should also be good for the other winning combinations not just the five digits. I played Quinto today and got all four of five numbers in a box and didnt win CRAP ! I think the dollar box should be for the five, four, three and two digits in the Quinto.Its a bit of a rip off to me.

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Paul the clerk at this location blew me off because he couldn't OR didn't know the password to enter for the lottery machines. He tried and tried and then said: 'I refuse to call the manager this early in the morning 6 am to wake him about lottery. The gas is more important.' I have been a frequent customer there for almost two years now and have gone there...

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