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misprint Email sharesharetweetemail AP In this Thursday, July 17, 2014 photo, scratch-off lottery tickets for sale are on display at Eagles Express (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) ktrkBy Tom KochTuesday, January 06, 2015ROSWELL, NM -- When colorado lottery is a winning lottery ticket not a winning ticket? When it's a misprint.Lottery officials in New Mexico say a Roswell man's ticket was definitely a misprint and they won't give him any payout, KOB-TV reports. John Wines bought a scratch-off ticket at a gas station in Roswell in December. As he started scratching, five winning numbers, ones and twos, were revealed for a prize of more than $500,000."There's a texas lottery 1 right here for $250,000," said Wines. "Right below that is another 1 and it's a $250,000 winner."But here's the problem: The maximum prize for the game is only supposed to be $250,000.Still, Wines thought he'd struck it rich and went back to the gas station to claim his money. The clerk put it through the machine to verify the ticket and discovered the ticket was a misprint.The clerk told him the store doesn't pay out for misprints, and Lottery officials told him the same thing when he contacted them. They then sent Wines an email thanking him for bringing the printing error to their attention and offered him $100 in scratch-off tickets for his trouble.Wines, who just retired, still wants his half million."I mean, if you thought you won $500,000 and somebody tells you that you didn't, and you can prove to them you did, it's pretty stressful for somebody to say, 'No, you're not getting your money,'" Wines said.Wines likely doesn't have legal grounds for a fight. Buried in the fine print of the official lottery rules is this line stating, "The NMLA is not responsible for erroneously printed or mutilated Tickets." Related Topics:financelotterymoneyu.s. & world Email sharesharetweetemail Load Comments Please enable JavaSc

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59° 82° See complete forecast Severe weather alert Washington Woman's Winning Lottery Ticket Voided Due to Error: ‘It Wasn't Anything I DidWrong' Posted 2:17 PM, September 8, 2015, http://ktla.com/2015/09/08/womans-winning-lottery-ticket-voided-due-to-error-it-wasnt-anything-i-did-wrong/ by Ashley Soley-Cerro, Updated at 07:00pm, September 8, 2015 Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogleLinkedInPinterestEmail This is an http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/06/lottery-letdown-nm-man-told-winning-ticket-rendered-worthless-by-misprint.html archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A Washington, D.C. woman who thought she won $20,000 through the lottery, but whose ticket was later deemed invalid, has said she did not do anything lottery ticket wrong and deserves the money. Now, lotto officials are investigating the ordeal. Ardella Newman thought she won big after purchasing a lottery ticket on Aug. 22, 2015, in Washington, D.C. But officials later said it was issued in error. (Credit: WJLA) Ardella Newman purchased the $2 scratch-off ticket on Aug. 22, TV station WJLA reported Monday. "When I saw that $20,000, you don't know how excited I lottery ticket printing was," she said. However, lottery officials have told her the ticket was issued in error, noting that normal tickets have the winning numbers on the top but Newman’s ticket had the numbers listed on the bottom. Newman has since filed a complaint with the Virginia Lottery, WJLA reported. "I want the money that I thought I won. If you look at the ticket, it says I won this money. It wasn't anything that I did wrong. It's what they did wrong," she said. Officials with the lottery responded Tuesday to reports of the mishap, saying the situation was still under investigation by the organization’s Audit and Security Department. An initial investigation showed Newman’s ticket was in fact two different tickets. “One ticket was cut off near the top, and the corresponding top of a different ticket was still attached at the perforation,” Virginia Lottery Communications Specialist John Hagerty said in a statement. Newman’s ticket contained a fully intact barcode and validation code, both indicating it was not a winner, Hagerty added. “We can not award a prize for a nonwinning ticket. Additionally, we cannot take parts of two tickets to create one winning ticket,” he said. “Among othe

Air U.S. Home Crime Terrorism Economy Immigration Disasters Military Education Environment Personal Freedoms Regions Us Lottery letdown: NM man told 'winning' ticket rendered worthless by misprint Published January 06, 2015 FoxNews.com Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre Email Print John Wines though he won more than a half-million dollars, but the state says his ticket is worthless. (KOB) By John Wines' calculation, the scratch-off ticket he bought at a Roswell, N.M., gas station is worth $500,625. The state lottery says it is worthless. Wines, a retired heating and air conditioning repairman, bought the $20 "Ruby 7s" ticket on Dec. 6, and went to his car to scratch it off. When his effort appeared to reveal four prizes - two of $250,000, one for $75 and another for $50, he excitedly ran back in to present it to the cashier. "She scanned it in the machine and told me it isn't a winner," Wines, 65, told FoxNews.com. "I couldn't believe it." "I didn't misprint it. I bought the ticket in the good faith that if I won, they would pay me." - John Wines It turned out the ticket bore at least two critical misprints above the $250,000 jackpots. Wines' winning numbers, listed on another portion of the ticket, were 1 and 2. If either of those appeared above the prize, the ticket is a winner. Wines' ticket appeared to show a 1 above both of the six-figure payouts, but an abbreviation code for the single-digit numbers did not match. It indicated that one was supposed to be a 12 and the other an 18. On each, the second digit was just a tiny smudge. [pullquote] Related Image Expand / Contract "NMLA is not responsible for lost, stolen or misdirected tickets," reads a disclaimer on the back of the ticket. "Liability for void, altered or misprinted tickets or disputes, if any, is limited to the refund of the retail sales price." Wines called the state lottery, where officials offered him $100 worth of free tickets, but flatly refused to pay out what Wines sought. [image] “We did find a flaw in that particular pack of tickets and it’s been reported to our printer," an official told him in an e-mail. "Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I did complete a reconstruction of your ticket and it was not a winner.” Linda Hamlin, s