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My no-cost Lotto windfalls were all thanks to my sharp eye. I've always made it a point to pick up any lottery tickets (without heel marks) that I spot on the sidewalks of Manhattan. You'd be amazed by how many "live" tickets I've found through the years-they number in the dozens. Sadly, most of the "live" tickets I've found have been as good as dead-losers. Once I found a batch of ten tickets, neatly tacked together with a paper clip. Not a winner in the lot! Through the years, seven of the winning tickets I've found have been the instant kind, the scratch-offs. The games were so complicated and instructions so unclear that the buyers had discarded the winning tickets, not realizing they had won.

I found my big winner, the $1300 ticket, on Fifth Avenue in front of the New York Public Library. It was Sunday and my wife was displaying her artwork near the corner of 40th Street. Needing a pick-me-up, she asked me to please go get her a Coke from the hot dog vendor on 42nd Street. Halfway down the block I spied a lone Lotto ticket and picked it up. It was for Lotto Forty, a game that has since been discontinued in New York, and it was to be run the next day. The next morning, sitting in the back of a bus, I suddenly remembered that I had that Lotto Forty ticket in my pocket. I opened my copy of the Daily News.
Incredulously, I looked at the numbers and I looked at the ticket. Whoever had bought it had correctly picked five out of six of the winning numbers! The purchaser had only missed the sixth–the jackpot number–by one digit (the sixth number picked was 23, it should have been 24).

The next day I went to the lottery headquarters in the World Trade Center and picked up a check from them for $1 300. While I was there, a most happy feller with a smile from ear to ear bounced in with a winning ticket worth $5000 from New York's daily numbers game. His smile disappeared when they ran his name through the computer and found that he was a tax delinquent to the tune of $3600, which they promptly deducted from his winnings. Having witnessed this, I was able to alert one of the warehouse packers who had hit for a nice few thousand. He prudently sent his cousin to collect the winnings.

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