The ticket that was not a winner

ROW #548 · LEG 82 ITEM 5 · TESTED NEGATIVE (Osceola case) / DUG (the state pattern, 2026)

Indiana has a fresh, fully documented disputed-ticket case — and it is not Osceola's. In 2026 the Hoosier Lottery's $5 Space Invaders Cash Invasion scratch-off was pulled from service after a printing/technical error made some tickets appear to show prizes different from the Lottery's official validation record: an Indiana forklift driver, Mike Fields, believed he had won the $100,000 grand prize and was told at headquarters the validation record showed $20; another player, Glendon Jones, believed he had won $2,500; the Lottery routed players to a protest form and a 30-day mailed determination. The case is printed here at state size because it is the living form of the register's pattern — the ticket that was not a winner, claim window and validation record and all — and because it proves the test works: a disputed Indiana ticket generates named, dated, on-record coverage wherever it happens.

Tested for Osceola: no disputed, unclaimed, or expired-prize case tied to an Osceola sale appears in the Lottery record, the unclaimed-prize publicity, or any search reached. The Lottery's unclaimed-prize lists are published by game and retailer at state level; no Osceola retailer line was returned by this run's searches. Closure: pattern DUG at state size; Osceola case TESTED NEGATIVE.

Sources:

1. The U.S. Sun, reporting WXIN (2026) — Space Invaders Cash Invasion error; Fields and Jones cases; Lottery statement and protest form.
2. Search record of this run — Osceola IN × unclaimed / expired / disputed lottery patterns.