$500,000 lottery ticket error

[bergie]

Will be interesting to see what happens. It does say on those tickets..."If your number matches the number with the prize, you win" -- so in fact, his number did match. If it was misprinted you'd think that's the lottery's fault. I think they will either have to pay him or give some kind of settlement.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/17/lottery.misprint.ap/index.html

 

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[jeff of pa]

That would be My Luck :P

 

[wildrider]

While it doesn't seem fair, it's obvious that "one" doesn't start with "th".

I really don't think he has a leg to stand on. If it happened to me though, I'd push it for all it's worth too. I'd probably get stressed and die from a heart attack.

Burt

 

[jeff of pa]

I know here in pa it's in the Rules / Disclaimer.
The Lottery is Not Responsable for Errors.

This is Probably Used Everywhere.
You Can't sue the Lottery & win.
It would be like Suing the State.

 

[djui5]

Yeah, but the misprint is debatable. They are saying the one is supposed to be a 13, but what if the "th" was supposed to be "one", what if the letters were misprinted?