I won $500,000!!!! Wait a minute....

He seems like the kind who's played a scratcher more than a few times. And under every other number there is a matching letters to the numeral.
And anyone with a brain could figure it out.

 

Quality control is not his problem. He bought the ticket in good faith and it showed he was a winner, so pay the man.

 

He probably shouldn't. But It doesn't matter. He wasn't "cheated" out of anything, such as paying $100,000 for a Mercedes and getting a Dodge Neon instead. He was only "momentarily led to believe" he won . . . unfortunate, but only slightly more egregious than those Publishers Clearinghouse mailers that proclaim "You are a million-dollar winner!" until you read the fine print that says ". . . if your numbers match the numbers on our Jan. 6 drawing." Well, in this case the fine print was directly underneath the numerals.

It only "showed at first glance" that he was a winner. There were tiny specks of red where the other numbers should have been, and the letters underneath --- which are every bit the same as the numerals themselves --- showed clearly that he was not a winner. Those letters are there as a safety precaution against fraud, and while he was in no way guilty of fraud, they served the purpose they were intended to serve --- to make sure a true winning ticket is indeed a true winning ticket.

The lottery commission printed "X" number of true winning tickets. His wasn't one of them. He should sue if he had a true winning ticket that was not paid off. He has no case if he has a "ticket that looks at first glance like a winner".