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June 3, 2026
A statewide dispute, carried on this city's air: The one lottery controversy of the record that reached South Bend's audience at size was not a South Bend player's. On June 3, 2026, within hours of the game's launch, the Hoosier Lottery halted sales of a new $5 scratch-off, Space Invaders Cash Invasion, over what it described as a technical issue. A player, Tyson Enochs of Indiana — the record reached does not place him in South Bend — told ABC57, this city's ABC affiliate, that he had bought more than twenty of the tickets and scratched one that appeared to show a $100,000 prize; when he went to collect, he was told the ticket's validation data made it worth $20. A scratch-off's prize is fixed by the validation data encoded in the ticket, not by the symbols printed in its play area, and the Lottery treated the validation file as authoritative. The episode stands here at its true size: a printing-and-programming failure in a statewide game, disputed in public, and reported by the city's television station — the nearest the modern Lottery's controversies come to this city in the record reached. No South Bend lottery scandal, rigged drawing, or winner litigation appears in that record.
Sources:
- ABC57 (South Bend), "Lottery players react to Hoosier Lottery pulling misleading Space Invaders game" (June 2026), as summarized by ScratchCheck — the June 3, 2026 sales halt, the apparent $100,000 ticket, and the $20 validation.
- Hoosier Lottery statement (June 2026) — sales of the $5 Space Invaders Cash Invasion game halted over a technical issue; players directed to the Lottery's information line.