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S.C. Lottery suspends sales due to computer glitchNews Story
South Carolina Lottery officials suspended sales of the Pick 3 and Pick 4 games Thursday after there was a problem upgrading software.It was not clear when sales or cashing in of winning tickets would resume, South Carolina Education Lottery spokeswoman Tara Robertson said. It's an accounting issue on both parts, in cashing in and on what the retailer owes the lottery on their invoice, she said. If you were to come in and cash a ticket and it was for $1, it may say that it's for $2 or vice ver
Nov 18, 2005, 9:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

Power failure shuts down Wisconsin lottery salesNews Story
A computer system outage prevented Wisconsin lottery players from purchasing tickets or validating winning tickets for such games as Powerball or Pick 3 for about three hours, a state Department of Revenue spokeswoman says.Ticket sales and prize validations for computerized games were affected when the outage occurred Monday about 11:30 a.m. at GTECH, which provides the Wisconsin Lottery with hardware and software for lottery sales, Meredith Helgerson said.A battery backup system failed to kick
Jul 12, 2005, 10:00 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery players complaining over switch from numbered ballsReply
i totally agree something is definitely wrong. i used your quick pick generator and asked it just to pick 1 ticket then another and another just to see how many times i might get a double and they were back to back and about every other out of 10 tries i got 5 doubles. here's what might be happening in Tennessee they say they have tested the RNG software program and it is working fine. Without actually knowing what hey have done. They might have asked it to run a group of numbers or they m
Aug 20, 2007, 1:20 pm - four4me - Lottery News

Florida Lottery's repeat winners don't always come out aheadReply
Hi Joe. I really like the part about three girlfriends! However, three girlfriends is always more expensive than just one, LOL!! I do see where you're coming from though...the momentum on one game could very well be much better than the others. Well, let me tell you a little about what I do. Pretty much everything game-wise has been incorporated online in some way, okay. There are various softwares one can download which contain various games for one to practice on, or, play for real. Well, I ha
May 14, 2012, 11:05 pm - Lucky Loser - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery switches to Greek operator IntralotNews Story
Greek company takes over operation of games At 11:59 p.m. today, in an office park in Strongsville, state officials and a gaggle of computer technicians, some from Greece, will change how Ohioans get their lottery tickets. Success will be measured by how few people notice. What happens inside the 80,000-square-foot, unadorned brick building not far from the Lorain County line is being watched like Y2K, at least in the world of state lotteries. A lot of people are rooting for us, and
Jun 30, 2009, 8:26 am - Todd - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery officials mull GTECH systems failureNews Story
Kansas Lottery officials already had more than their hands full with the selection of gaming license applicants for their four casinos so they really didn't need another problem. But, there it is: a casino data systems failure from GTECH, the Providence-RI-based firm that manages the state's lottery activities. It was defective software, pure and simple, said Ed Van Petten, lottery executive director, in describing the systems failure. GTECH, a former publicly-traded American company, was
Jul 15, 2008, 11:00 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery a step closer to restoring real drawingsReply
It's a well known fact that all states that have keno, race track, horse track, poker, and games of the nature which run every 3 minutes or so use RNG generating software. This is a whole different thing from pick 3 - 4 and 5 games and is understood by the players. The only place that i know of that uses balls for 3 minute keno games are the casino's in Vegas.
Apr 2, 2008, 11:59 pm - four4me - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery Ignites Controversy with Computerized DrawingsNews Story
Lottery Post ExclusiveFalling in lockstep with a controversial industry trend, the Missouri Lottery decided to change its lottery drawings from mechanical lottery ball machines to a random number generator computer system.Opponents of the computerized drawings say that computers cannot achieve the true randomness of a physical drawing mechanism, mainly due to computers' inherent non-random properties.In addition, with computer hacking, viruses, and tampering on the rise, concerned citizens worry
Jul 21, 2004, 10:15 am - Todd - Lottery News

The transformation of Lucky for Life into a computerized daily drawingReply
The fact that Lucky for Life was not transparent when they went to a so-called random computer drawing let all of us players know that they were trying to pull a fast one and hope that no one would notice or publicize. Bravo to Lottery Post for doing the legwork and bringing this issue out to the forefront. The reason that the computer drawing are probably more profitable could also be because there are obvious ways to program the software that does not allow for unexpected large payouts since t
Jul 29, 2021, 12:14 am - jplayer33 - Lottery News

NJ Lottery mistakenly printed malicious website address on lottery ticketsNews Story
By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery misspelled the address of their second-chance website on lottery tickets, leading players to visit a malicious website with the potential to install malware on their computer. According to the Lottery, a state vendor programmed store registers to print an incorrect web address on tickets for playing Collect 'N Win, a second-chance promotion that has been running for about three weeks. Bill Bauer, a former software engineer from Edison, said he enc
Aug 28, 2020, 12:26 pm - Todd - Lottery News