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Something weird is going on here, every store in this town where you can buy lottery tickets, in my case the scratch off ones, NOBODY can get them checked today. The computers that verify winners are only coming up with 'transaction errors' on every one scanned. They say the computers should be working again tomorrow but I don't get what this is all about. Has anybody else ever seen something like this happen?
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No lottery tickets checked today
Supernova- The Book Chamber
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Maybe but I wouldn't know because I check on line.
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Yeah, I always check the numbers on line. I never use to scanners and I damn sure don't trust any clerks to check a ticket for me. I will KNOW if I won and what I've won before I hand a clerk a ticket.
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Hmmm, around here you can't get the money on the ticket until a clerk at the store checks it against the machine.
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Supernova wrote:Hmmm, around here you can't get the money on the ticket until a clerk at the store checks it against the machine.
That's not what I meant. You can't get any money unless the clerk gives it to you...but you should always know beforehand if it's a winning ticket and what you've won before you hand it over. Don't go blindly give a clerk lottery tickets and ask him/her to tell you if you're a winner or not.
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Oh I never do that, I'm not an idiot. I know when it's a winner but the machine has to verify it before I can get anything for it, and that's what it won't do, I had 3 winning tickets, every one of them came up transaction error, invalid entry, etc.
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It's a computer, that happens all the time. You have to wait for them to boot back up or for them to get rid of the bug or whatever that's messing them up.
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Yeah but it wasn't just one store, every one that sells tickets was having the same problem today.
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Every state lottery has their own system and it's all connected. If there is a bug somewhere in the main computer, it's going to fuck up all the rest that's operating on that system. I've seen it happen here before and elsewhere. The problem usually resolves itself after a couple of hours or so.
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My tickets tend to pile up but they're easy to check because I play the same numbers. I just type them in at the lottery web site and it tells me if and what I won. Another heads up if you play the instant games. You can see what prizes are left on the games so you don't waste your money trying to win a prize that's already been won.
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