Another day another mistake for the Tennessee Lottery

LOL--though it's beginning to NOT be funny.

One could only hope--hope a taxpayer group sues the TN Lot Com over the funds lost to Tennessee's schools that are having to corrent these mistakes.  When the pocket feels the pinch--perhaps the Lot Com will reconsider (HAH!)

In casinos with Keno games, you can watch the draws from your room, but you're not seeing the actual drawing. They show an animated computer program with an 80 number keno grid, the 20 numbers drawn will be shown on a ball in the middle of the screen and the corresponding numbers on the grid will be highlighted. The casinos that use goose neck ball machines probably have somebody enter the numbers into a computer. There is a website that shows drawings from several casinos.

http://ww2.kenousa.com/index_kenousa.asp

Accuracy depends on casino process and I've seen wrong numbers entered and changed after a double check but before the Keno drawing was declared official. It appears somebody in the Tennessee Lottery gave the wrong numbers to the TV stations, but it doesn't say if the stations showed the drawings.

There have been live ball drawings where the host has called the wrong digit or number but those mistakes are easily fixed because the draws were viewed by the players. The Tennessee Lottery did fix this mistake but players must wonder if this was because of the other mistakes.

"I wonder if the Tennessee Education Lottery will spend some of the money they raise on computer classes for their employees?"

That's not the problem because not very many people see the numbers generated by the computer and none of those people are the players.

An electrical storm fries the RNG computer in spite of all "safeguards" against this happening.

While examing the computer to see how this could possibly happen, it is discovered that a small mouse had also built a nest inside the main CPU.

The LC immediately announces that it will pay for all Cash 3 bets upon triples in the next drawing.

Yeah, and with some of the statements they're making pubicly, I think it shows they've got plenty of balls.

I thought it was illegal to mail lottery tickets thru the mail! If so they made another mistake, by making people do something illegal.......

Glad I don't play in TN. I wonder if they pay on 2 sets of numbers is the payout still the same? i.e. on that drawing if you picked random numbers yourself you'd have had even money to win (100% return) rather than the usual (50% return). If they want I can upload to TN the RNG that I have in my Pocket PC, that one is much better than whatever they use! A good algorithm if your State ever <cringe> goes computerized, heavily play the non-doubles. I don't understand how they didn't backtest these draw systems??? We do it with our own systems!

It is legal to send state lottery tickets by US Mail as long as the sender and the receiving address are within the same state as the lottery tickets being mailed...

You CAN mail lottery ticket accross state lines.  AFTER the drawing!  I've claimed some small Powerball winnings from Pennsylvania that way in the past.

The biggest issue I see about this is that they are trying to have it both ways: on one hand begrudgingly offering prizes for tickets with the first set of winning numbers, but not doing so in a way that most winners will ever get the money.  They either won't know about it, or many won't figure out that they need to mail it.