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N.C. Pick 4 lottery game starts next weekNews Story
A new four-digit daily numbers game for the North Carolina Education Lottery will begin next week. Top prize for the Carolina Pick 4 game starting April 17 will be $5,000. Players can either choose a number or have a sales terminal pick a random number. The lottery already has the Carolina Pick 3 and Carolina Cash 5 games. North Carolina also participates in the twice-weekly multistate Powerball game. Pick 4 drawings will air at 11:22 p.m. on television stations that already show the ot
Apr 9, 2009, 8:03 pm - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery's Cash 4 game starts todayNews Story
The Arizona Lottery's newest game has its first drawing this evening. Cash 4 is traditional lotto-style game, with four numbers drawn from a pool of 26 numbers. Players win prizes by matching 2, 3, or all 4 of the numbers drawn on their game ticket. Tickets for the new game can be purchased between 4 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. every day. Sales resume for the next drawing from 9:35 p.m. until midnight. Cash 4 drawings are held every Monday through Saturday evening at approximately 10:25 p.m.
Mar 31, 2009, 2:07 pm - Lottery News

CT Lottery Sells Out Of 1549 After CrashNews Story
Hours after US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River, the lottery number 1549 sold out in Connecticut. Lottery players who attempted to purchase a Play 4 ticket using the numbers 1549 Thursday night were told the number had sold out. Diane Patterson of the Connecticut Lottery said that it is possible for a number to sell out. Patterson said the state has an $8 million liability on the game. She said if a number is picked enough times where it reaches the liab
Jan 16, 2009, 7:25 am - Lottery News

Florida Lottery draws same Play 4 numbersNews Story
Coincidence, not a mistake, officials say The Play 4 Florida lottery number Tuesday night: 1-9-5-8. The Play 4 Florida lottery number Wednesday afternoon: 1-9-5-8. Same game. Same number. Two consecutive drawings. It is a little bit unusual, but all of our drawings are independent of each other, said Shelly Safford, Lottery spokeswoman. It's completely random. Still, the department fielded calls from curious players. There was not an error, Safford said. But there was another
Aug 23, 2008, 10:52 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery doubles up on drawingsNews Story
Today the Massachusetts State Lottery adds a second daily drawing of the Numbers game in a move that's projected to generate $7 million annually for cities and towns. Starting today, June 9, the midday draw will take place at 12:55 p.m., in addition to the established nightly draw at about 7 p.m. Lottery spokesman Dan Rosenfeld said players have asked for two drawings to increase their chances to make money. The lottery projects the extra drawing will generate $27 million in sales, incl
Jun 9, 2008, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Tenn. proposal for real lottery drawings withdrawnNews Story
Somber news for Tennessee Lottery players A proposal to require the Tennessee Lottery to abandon computerized drawings has been withdrawn for the year. The chairman of the House State and Local Government committee announced Tuesday that the bill sponsored by House Minority Leader Jason Mumpower, a Bristol Republican, was taken off notice. Mumpower had said he introduced the manual drawings measure in response to a loss in consumer confidence following a computer programming error last
Apr 30, 2008, 7:38 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery computerized drawings under suspicion againNews Story
Lottery draws same numbers 3 days in a row; same thing happened last month When will the Tenn. Lottery dump the computer draws? Seven was a lucky number for Tennessee lottery players last week. A very, very, very lucky number. For three consecutive days, the winning ticket in the Cash 3 drawing was some combination of two sevens and a zero. Thursday, the winning Cash 3 number at midday was 0-7-7. Friday, the winning midday number was 7-0-7. And Saturday evening, the winning number was a
Apr 8, 2008, 8:26 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. lawmakers want to force lottery to drop computer drawsNews Story
There is new discussion in the Tennessee Legislature about the possibility of the state lottery going back to using ping-pong balls to select the Cash 3 and Cash 4 winners. In 2007, a computer programming error prevented anyone who played repeated digits, such as two fives in a row, from winning. The error was discovered Aug. 20 when lottery officials contacted the system designer, Smartplay, about their concerns. The lottery is asking Smartplay, and the company that certified the syste
Mar 26, 2008, 9:08 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery audit: players spent $2 million on worthless ticketsNews Story
Lottery responded too slowly; problem fixed 10 minutes after finding it The Tennessee Lottery made a series of missteps and oversights after a software glitch began generating faulty winning numbers last year, and players bought about $2 million worth of unwinnable tickets before the error was found, according to a state audit. The sweeping audit from state Comptroller John G. Morgan reviewed the entire episode between July 28 and Aug. 20, when a programming glitch caused no duplicate digi
Mar 19, 2008, 10:48 am - Lottery News

Newspaper editorial in favor of authentic lottery drawingsNews Story
Lottery balls are preferred The Leaf-Chronicle Clarksville, Tennessee Wednesday, January 16, 2008 People do not completely trust computers. They may use them for work and for pleasure, but they don't have absolute confidence in them or in those who program them. When it comes to the state lottery, confidence was shaken more because of a malfunction regarding the lottery's new random-number-generating computers. For weeks last summer, the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games would not produce re
Jan 16, 2008, 11:24 am - Lottery News