Hamilton Lottery — Page 2

Broadway_Boy said: "...TodayTix calls you when you win to let you know, Hamilton should do the same.

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First of all, I think if someone is offering you $10 lottery tickets, you should be able to check for yourself. It's not enough that they are offering them = they have to personally let you know? I don't agree...

Also Today's Tix does not call you when you win. They may call you if you didn't win at the first pick.. and then some last minute lottery tickets open up - and they'll call the next people on the list. But normally you just get an email or text.

Two of us have tried daily since it went online and have had no luck. You do need to keep on top of it though. I started checking to site for "did I win" usually by 5 minutes after the drawing has taken place it is posted. A couple of weeks ago I received an email at 7:20PM that I didn't win for the 8:00PM show. But usually you get an email within 5-10 mins.

Kathy, I get what you're saying about them going further out of their way to call you, but the whole point of having the front row done via raffle is to make it accessible and if on average 4 of the only 20 tickets that are raffled off are not being given to one of the 15,000 lotto entrants it defeats the point a little bit. Also, the three todaytix lottos I won (3penny opera, Fun Home and Dry Powder) I got a call within minutes of the original winners being contacted automatically through the app, and long before the time that you had to accept them on the app.

I've won TodayTix lottos and never been called. Maybe only if you don't claim and pay right away they call.

Mormon did Fan Day in 2011 and 2012, I think. 2012 for sure, because I was there. They used foursquare check-ins and lotto entry slips to determine who would get the free tickets. What fun! (Also, it was Josh Gad's last show, which meant additional hijinks.)

KathyNYC2 said: "Broadway_Boy said: "...TodayTix calls you when you win to let you know, Hamilton should do the same.

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First of all, I think if someone is offering you $10 lottery tickets, you should be able to check for yourself. It's not enough that they are offering them = they have to personally let you know? I don't agree...

Also Today's Tix does not call you when you win. They may call you if you didn't win at the first pick.. and then some last minute lottery tickets open up - and they'll call the next people on the list. But normally you just get an email or text.



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That's not true in my experience, whenever I've won today tix lottery(6+ times), they call me within 10 minutes to let me know I have until X time to buy and if I'm not going then to decline so they can be offered to someone else. It just happened a few weeks ago when I won Buried Child lotto, so I know they are still doing it.

I've tried almost every day since the digital lottery began with no success.

There is something distasteful about selling the unclaimed lottery tickets for $177 when there are upwards of 10,000 entrants. The in-person lottery is much better in that regard as they will just keep pulling names until a winner claims a ticket. They really should implement a similar method for the online lotto.

haterobics said: "MoDance0934 said: "I have been wanting to see this show since it opened and I refuse to pay $2,000+ for a ticket."



They are usually posted for $1400/seat for primo weekday orchestra seats, unless you have to go on a weekend. So, if $2K is your line, you can easily get in without crossing it.

I've been checking TicketMaster and StubHub. The highest price I found was $2K. Sorry, I'm a broke college student without that kind of money. I wouldn't even pay the average ticket price. That's why I always opt for lottery tickets or student rush.

Cape Twirl of Doom said: "The same thing they do for other online lottos. If no one claims the ticket, another name is pulled. Not seeing the difficulty here."



No one wants to start a system whereby people who live 2 hours and 15 minutes from NYC (who could have made it if they were selected 3 hours out) tries to race against traffic to make in less time to make curtain. Is your solution that they shouldn't enter then?

The system is barely broken, and every seat gets filled, so I doubt this is even on their top 100 list of things to address. If a handful of people who sit all day in front of the theater get in to see the show because someone forgot to check an e-mail, it's not the biggest tragedy.

The odds are, they weren't about to pick your name or mine at that point.

Updated On: 4/18/16 at 01:54 PM

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