Illinois Lottery’s biggest scratch-offs didn’t award 40% of grand prizes, Tribune finds

It was called The Good Life and offered the biggest grand prize of any instant game the Illinois Lottery had ever produced. Two lucky winners could scratch their way to $46 million each, paid in periodic

Some of the high dollar scratch off ticket games are not paying off.

installments. At $30, tickets weren’t cheap, but millions were sold. Then the game ended before the lottery sold most of the tickets that were printed, with neither top prize awarded. The same thing happened with another instant game, called Birthday Surprise. Two large grand prizes offered. Neither awarded. And with another version of The Good Life. Three large grand prizes offered. None awarded. Please click on the link for this investigative story from the Chicago tribune that appeared in the Peoria Journal Star.