WPBN: The holidays are drawing near, which means that you might still have some last-minute Christmas shopping to do. If you are intending to buy Ohio lottery scratch tickets as a gift, there is one specific scratch ticket that has recently been giving some gamblers a problem.
James Lester, a gambler who was dissatisfied with his scratch-off ticket encountered a problem with his scratch-off ticket. Lester believed that he had won $5,000 based on the numbers that he read on the ticket.
The Ohio Lottery Commission, on the other hand, stated that they had received a complaint in late October stating that the numbers on the ticket were difficult to read clearly. As a result, they felt that it would be preferable to reissue the tickets with a typeface that was cleaner.
Since that time, Remi Murrey, a reporter for News 5, recently got an email from a different viewer who shared with us that she had experiences that were comparable to those of Lester. A man’s good fortune is turned into a bad one when the font on his scratch-off ticket for the Ohio lottery is illegible.
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“I purchased more than one ticket. I got home, and I was scratching off the tickets when I was speaking to my mother. I’m like ‘Oh wow.’ I said mom, I just won $5,000,” the Ohio Lottery player stated.
I received a picture of the ticket in question from the gambler, who did not wish to divulge her name or face. The picture was supplied to me to demonstrate where she believed she earned $5,000.
After she texted her family members, she even stated that they had the same reaction to what she had said.
“He said are you sure you have a good ticket because there’s a story out there, and it’s saying that the tickets may be faulty or a misprint,” according to Ohio Lottery player.
She admitted that she went to the Ohio Lottery Commission office in her hometown after receiving a call from her father. There, she discovered that she had not won $5,000 because the lottery had informed her that the number was not 18.
“I really feel like they need to do some type of compensation to some people because even though we didn’t win, it clearly says that we did,” Ohio Lottery player stated.
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The Ohio Lottery Commission issued the following statement in its entirety:
“A lottery prize is only paid if the ticket is a winner. All tickets have a barcode that the gaming system reads to validate a winning ticket. The gaming system is the system of record, and its results serve as the official results. As stated previously, as soon as the issue was discovered the tickets were reprinted with a cleaner font. If the previously printed version was still sold, it was still a valid ticket and would be paid if it were a winning ticket. If a player has a question about whether their ticket is a winner, they can scan the barcode or send the ticket in to be reviewed by our claims office.”
“Even if it’s not the whole $5,000, just something to kind of make them feel like ‘Okay, we can trust in our lottery system again,” the Ohio Lottery player stated.
