Spilt drink on my lotto ticket

moxin

So last night after the €10m draw, I spilt a glass of beer all over my desk at home but it disastrously subsumed my lotto ticket for tomorrows draw.

Presently the ticket has a massive light brown stain on it from the beer so i'm wondering from the validation experts here on AH, will my lotto ticket still be valid if I win tomorrows draw?

Finish the job off, set fire to it!

CJ Haughey

I would not get too excited, it needs to be a winning ticket first.

HardenendMan

Yes it will as long as the barcode is legible. The numbers part is stored in their database against the barcode number.

BBDBB

You will probably be asked to verify when and where you bought the winning ticket when you go to claim your life changing win

dr.bollocko

moxin wrote: »

Presently the ticket has a massive light brown stain on it

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The act of halting the flow of effluence from the rear orifice using the fifth digit of the dominant hand.

moxin wrote: »

from the beer

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berger89

If the barcode is ruined, there is a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long number around the barcode area. if this is not ruined, the assistant in the shop can type it in to the machine and it'll tell you if its a winner or not

CJ Haughey

dr.bollocko wrote: »

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Saved your bacon too i bet after 20 pints of porter on a Sat night.

Steve_Carella

You always know when it's Friday night in AH...

moxin

berger89 wrote: »

If the barcode is ruined, there is a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long number around the barcode area. if this is not ruined, the assistant in the shop can type it in to the machine and it'll tell you if its a winner or not

Barcode area is brown

berger89

moxin wrote: »

Barcode area is brown

can you make out digits? theres about 30 digits or more near the bottom, in a sequence like 12345 54321 12345 54321 12345 54321. if you can read these numbers, then your ticket is checkable

moxin

berger89 wrote: »

can you make out digits? theres about 30 digits or more near the bottom, in a sequence like 12345 54321 12345 54321 12345 54321. if you can read these numbers, then your ticket is checkable

There is 13 digits covered in brown, I can read them but will Lotto HQ do the same?

CJ Haughey

Ur obsessed with brown stains op, is your underwear in similar condition?

berger89

moxin wrote: »

There is 13 digits covered in brown, I can read them but will Lotto HQ do the same?

if you can read them all, thats great!! take it to your local shop, and they can type in the number manually. its the same as scanning the barcode, except the shop assistant has to type manually. thought it was a longer number though?
soooooo, when you do win the lotto tomorrow night, your ticket will be grand!

entropi

What kind of beer?

berger89

i can't seem top find a new lotto ticket image (and i don't have any), but if you can read the long number just above the bottom barcode (similar to this), you'll be grand
http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2013/06/euromillions-ticket-310x415.jpg

Calibos

The validation number is 55 digits long in groups of 5 numbers. If they are all legible then your grand. If the Q-Code barcode is visible through the brown stain then thats probably still readable too.

Give the shop assistant a tip though. Entering that 55 digit number is a pain in the hole.

If both the 55 digit number and barcode is ****ed with numbers illegible/invisible, you have one final slim hope. The tickets are printed on thermal paper. Waving a lighter under the paper turns the rest of the paper black but funnily enough the invisible numbers stay translucent. ie. becomes a negative image. Now you can see the numbers again.

If this works and its a big win, you owe me money.

Joe Doe

If there is a mark between the two arrow bits |> <| just above the numbers, then it may be considered void.

ComfortKid

CJ Haughey wrote:

Ur obsessed with brown stains op, is your underwear in similar condition?

It will be tomorrow night if he's numbers are drawn :-D