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Mass. Lottery on track to $50 million surplusNews Story
The Massachusetts Legislature gambled a year ago that the state Lottery would generate at least $759 million in profits for local aid to cities and towns. That is turning out to be a pretty safe bet after all. Officials at the Braintree-based Lottery disclosed on Thursday that the Lottery's profits are far exceeding their initial expectations, and are on track to generate nearly $50 million more than the Legislature originally projected once the state's fiscal year ends on June 30. Before
Apr 30, 2010, 7:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

NC Retailers- Reserving entire rolls of scratchers for favorite players -Can they legally do this?
Hello Everyone, First, of all, thanks to Kidzmom for posting the info - sales tracker for NC payouts! A few questios for everyone: One of the vendors with the highest sales in a county- based on the payout tracker mentioned above, is a store that I frequent about once a week. They have a few highroller players who constantly come in and buy the $10 and $20 dollar tickets by the roll or by the half roll. So, one day, I asked to buy a $20 ticket from a roll that one of the
Apr 4, 2010, 1:59 pm - passion&purity - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Working Scratch of tactics threadReply
So far, I've identified several strategies First, selecting the game: There's the basic expectation where you sum up the products of the prize value and the probability of hitting that prize. This doesn't take into account the volatility of the game such as with Super Set For Life where it's pretty much all on none. There's rating the games by the sum of the log value of the prize value to price ratio divided by the log value of the odds against for that prize. This favours the lower
Dec 13, 2009, 5:53 pm - jwhou - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Study: Hoosier Lottery has worst financial decline in USANews Story
Another state with computerized drawings fares poorly Has Indiana considered boldly changing back to real drawings? Proceeds from Indiana's lottery were down by more than 17 percent in the past fiscal year, marking the sharpest decline in profits nationwide. Hoosier Lottery proceeds fell by nearly $40 million. The state's profit from scratch-off tickets, Powerball and other lottery games dropped from $217 million in the 2008 fiscal year to $178 million in fiscal year that ended June 30.
Sep 24, 2009, 2:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Money Matters 101Reply
What's up, 'Hawk? I agree with you 100% about giving help to people which is why I started this thread. Everyone contributes in their own way hoping to give others a different and possibly better insight with accomplishing their goal(s) here. My way is to demonstrate the efficiency or inefficiency of how they spend (play) their money on numbers. There is absolutely no book sense involved here, only common sense and the mathematical approach is self explanatory. If what players are currently usin
Aug 19, 2009, 2:13 pm - Matchmaker - Lottery Discussion Forum

Computerized lottery drawings not problem-freeReply
I posted some comments on the Arkansas News site that originally posted this story, so I'll repeat my comments here: It is too bad that the Arkansas News interviewed several representatives of state lotteries, yet failed to contact the person who wrote the original editorial and is keeping this issue of computerized drawings in the forefront. By not contacting me, the Arkansas News has established the issue as a rather troubling one, but then did nothing but chip away at that concept
Aug 10, 2009, 9:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lawsuit alleges New York Lottery and Scientific Games infringed trademarkNews Story
Small company says N.Y. Lottery stole game concept and title Press Release: November 21, 2008 NEW YORK, NY According to Balestriere Lanza PLLC, the Gameologist Group LLC (Gameologist), a New Jersey based and minority-owned small business, filed a complaint in New Jersey Federal District Court, suing the New York Lottery (the Lottery) and Scientific Games, Inc. (Scientific Games), for infringing on its trademark. Gameologist developed the lottery scratch-off game BLING BLINGTM (the Mark)
Nov 24, 2008, 10:37 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery suffers computer security breachNews Story
Sensitive personal data on 89,000 players copied by former employee The Texas Lottery Commission is alerting tens of thousands of lottery winners that they're on a not-so-lucky list. More than 89,000 lottery winners are being notified that sensitive information about them including their names, Social Security numbers, addresses and prize amounts were taken from the agency without permission by a former employee. The 39-year-old computer analyst, who left the state commission last year
Nov 3, 2008, 6:00 pm - Todd - Lottery News

How to Prove Your Lottery IS Fixed?
Instead of trying to prove that your computerized lottery IS fixed, first try to prove it is NOT fixed! The answer is simple: from what we know today, in 2008 (not 1988) about computers and software, there is no valid way to prove it is NOT fixed. How do we arrive at this conclusion? The purpose of software is to control outcomes through inputted and/or selected variables by who operates or controls or directs that software. If computerized lottery software packages did not have the
Aug 29, 2008, 12:30 am - Greg - Lottery Discussion Forum

Tennessee Lottery on the hot seatNews Story
Tennessee State Senator Jim Kyle, D-Memphis, has asked House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, D-Covington, and Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, to convene the Joint Lottery Oversight Committee as soon as possible to get the lowdown on recent incidents at the Tennessee Education Lottery. This week it was reported that a misprint on Lotto 5, Cash 3 and Cash 4 tickets gave the wrong jackpot for last Saturday night's Powerball drawing. Instead of $15 million, the tickets showed $29 million. The
Sep 15, 2007, 11:44 am - Todd - Lottery News