Re: Boys, just did my good deed for the day.
I had a similar thing happen, and it was also with those "Set For Life" scratchers. I usually buy 4 $5 tickets a day and if the Fantasy 5 is up high enough, I'll $5-$10 of those, and if it's Tues or Friday, I'll buy at least $20 of the Mega Millions if the jackpot is high.
But one day at my local liquor store, for some reason, the clerk gave me three extra SFL tickets. When he gives them to me, I fold them up and stick them in my back pocket. When I got home, I realized the mistake and called them right up and told them the mistake. I told him that I'd keep them and pay him the next day. Since I go there every day, he wasn't worried about the money. Wouldn't you know, one of the tickets were a $50 winner, along with two other Ticket winners.
But get this! I always put in my scratchers in the 2nd drawing online. Now I've had tickets that showed "Invalid" or it was a winner. But after checking the ticket 20 times, I couldn't find how it could be a winner. So I take it down to the store to check it, and it was a winner even though no numbers matched to be a winner.
Now on the other side, I bought 4 tickets one night of the SFL. The numbers were 25,26,27,28. 25,27,28 were all $10 winners. I entered 26 in the 2nd chance drawing on Saturday night when I bought the tickets. I go to the store on Sunday morning, and for some reason, 25 showed it had already been paid. Now obviously I didn't run down to the store on Saturday night and cash one ticket and not the other two, but for some reasonit showed it had already been paid. I wrote the Lotto commision and explained what happened, but for some reason they haven't gotten back to me yet. This was only last Saturday night, so I guess they are researching what happened. I hope they don't try to beat me out of $10.
