'They told me that it was a misprint and they don't pay off for misprints.'

[barryqwalsh]

Assuming that the scratcher's stated maximum prize of $250,000 was wrong, a delighted Mr Wines returned to the gas station to collect his winnings. However, he was told he had not won anything.

Instead, the female cashier explained that the 'winning' numbers were, in fact, double-figure numbers that had seen their right-hand-side numbers omitted as a result of a misprint by the lottery.

N.M. man told 500k winning lottery ticket a misprint Lottery Post

 

[barryqwalsh]

Following the gas station's refusal to pay him his winnings, Mr Wiles contacted the New Mexico Lottery. However, the firm apparently told him in an email that his ticket was certainly 'not a winner'.

As a goodwill gesture, officials offered him $100 in lottery tickets, according to the broadcaster.

But an angry Mr Wiles said: 'This is $500,000. That's a half million. It’s like I told them, I didn't misprint it. I bought the ticket in good faith thinking if I won I was going to get my money.'

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New Mexico man buys 500k winning lottery ticket - only for officials to say it is a MISPRINT Daily Mail Online

 

[barryqwalsh]

Roswell man told $500k winning lottery ticket a 'misprint'

 

[Pogo]

Following the gas station's refusal to pay him his winnings, Mr Wiles contacted the New Mexico Lottery. However, the firm apparently told him in an email that his ticket was certainly 'not a winner'.

As a goodwill gesture, officials offered him $100 in lottery tickets, according to the broadcaster.

But an angry Mr Wiles said: 'This is $500,000. That's a half million. It’s like I told them, I didn't misprint it. I bought the ticket in good faith thinking if I won I was going to get my money.'

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New Mexico man buys 500k winning lottery ticket - only for officials to say it is a MISPRINT Daily Mail Online

Seems to me he could say the word "not" in the e-mail was a "misprint". Same thing.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Get a lawyer, dummie.

 

[ChrisL]

Following the gas station's refusal to pay him his winnings, Mr Wiles contacted the New Mexico Lottery. However, the firm apparently told him in an email that his ticket was certainly 'not a winner'.

As a goodwill gesture, officials offered him $100 in lottery tickets, according to the broadcaster.

But an angry Mr Wiles said: 'This is $500,000. That's a half million. It’s like I told them, I didn't misprint it. I bought the ticket in good faith thinking if I won I was going to get my money.'

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New Mexico man buys 500k winning lottery ticket - only for officials to say it is a MISPRINT Daily Mail Online

OMG! What a horrible let down that would be!!!

 

[barryqwalsh]

Yes, misprints happen. But if the lottery cannot check the tickets before they sell them, they should take responsibility.

If I won, or thought I did, I would want to get the prize. I never liked scratch cards, and I like them even less now.

 

[barryqwalsh]

I knew it!

The Nazis are to blame.

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