Players warned lottery about tickets flaw
Tennessee lottery players say they warned lottery officials more than 10 days ago that a new computerized system to pick random numbers in the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games appeared to be malfunctioning.
They say they were ignored for days while a computer software glitch kept duplicate numbers from being drawn in the games. That meant players who picked numbers like 6-6-9 in Cash 3 or 5-5-5-3 in Cash 4 had no chance of winning.
Lottery officials announced Tuesday that the glitch had been correc ...
Aug 23, 2007, 11:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Tennessee Lottery glitch shuts out players
Robert Johnson's lucky number is typically 909, but not this month.
The Nashville man has played the Tennessee Lottery's Cash 3 game twice a day, every day this month, and his numbers haven't come up.
Turns out, they couldn't have. A computer programming error has prevented any number from being selected more than once in Cash 3 and Cash 4 drawings over the past three weeks, the Tennessee Lottery said Tuesday.
The error meant that no winning draw included duplicate numerals, so any tic ...
Aug 22, 2007, 10:50 am - - Lottery News forum
Tennessee Lottery computerized drawings flawed since inception
Lottery throws all blame on a contractor; players bear the brunt
A month ago, Tennessee Lottery officials claimed the state's new computerized drawings would be exciting .
What Tennessee lottery players got instead were buggy, unfair drawings, in which almost half the numbers people picked had no chance whatsoever of winning.
The severely flawed drawings have been happening every day since computerized drawings replaced the lottery's real mechanical ball drawings more than three week ...
Aug 21, 2007, 7:04 pm - - Lottery News forum
Tenn. Lottery players complaining over switch from numbered balls
Thanks to the Tennessee Lottery's unilateral decision to abandon traditional lottery drawings using numbered balls to pick the winning numbers on television, many players have decided to stop playing.
The Tennessee Lottery now has computers generate random numbers instead of the player-preferred televised drawings.
Lottery officials say the new system is as secure as the old one. Many players don't like the change, though.
I don't trust the computerized drawings, said Nashville reside ...
Aug 8, 2007, 3:44 pm - - Lottery News forum
Winning Hot Lotto ticket sold in New Mexico
New Mexico Lottery officials say one of two winning tickets for Saturday's Hot Lotto drawing was sold in New Mexico.
The other ticket was sold in Minnesota. The winners will split a $1.9 million jackpot.
The New Mexico winning ticket is the first Hot Lotto jackpot winner for the state since the game first went on sale there in November, 2006.
The New Mexico Lottery also offers Hot Lotto's better-known sibling, Powerball. Hot Lotto is played in nine other states.
It's been dubbed th ...
Aug 6, 2007, 9:07 am - - Lottery News forum
Tennessee Lottery threatens to go computerized
Web site press release reveals plan is it a trial balloon or just bad news?
Tennessee Lottery issued a statement on their web site that threatens to bring unpopular computerized drawings to the state.
The upstart lottery, which in relative terms is still attempting to gain solid footing in the industry, made the announcement despite numerous player polls showing mistrust and discontent with the faux drawings.
The lottery claims computerized drawings are exciting , although player pol ...
Jul 16, 2007, 5:25 pm - - Lottery News forum
Pa. Lottery players dig Treasure Hunt game
Treasure Hunt, Pennsylvania Lottery's terminal-based Pick 5 game, has exceeded sales expectations. The game, which went on sale May 8, was projected to bring in between $2.5 million and $3 million in its first quarter. Sales have surpassed $3 million.
Treasure Hunt is unique because it is animated online. Players get a grid numbered 1-30 and mark where they think the treasures are hidden. After the drawing at 1:35 p.m., the sand covered grid is shown online being cleared off, reveling five ...
Jun 20, 2007, 10:35 am - - Lottery News forum
Texas Lottery hires interim director to full-time post
FLASH: New lottery director may change computerized Megaplier to real lottery ball drawing, expert says computerized drawings flawed
Anthony Sadberry, a longtime Houston attorney who led a reorganization of the Texas Lottery in the past five months as acting director, was named the agency's permanent head Wednesday.
Sadberry's hiring was widely expected among agency observers and staff, many of whom have praised his straightforward and hands-on approach.
Commission Chairman C. Tom Clow ...
Jun 29, 2006, 11:12 am - - Lottery News forum
Same lottery numbers win game twice
Got a lucky lotto number? You might want to stick with it.
Wisconsin lottery officials report the same combination has won the SuperCash game twice within ten days.
SuperCash is drawn using a computerized drawing machine, rather than a traditional lottery ball machine.
The winning numbers 4, 5, 10, 16, 25 and 29 came up January 30th and again February 9th.
State lottery mathematician JonMichael Rasmus says the odds of that happening are about one in 326,000. He says it's like flipp ...
Feb 14, 2006, 2:09 pm - - Lottery News forum
Computerized lottery drawing glitch picks same numbers for 3 days
Problem clearly demonstrates how computerized drawing faulty program code can go undetected even for something as obvious as three consecutive days of repeating numbers.A computerized drawing system glitch caused the Kansas Lottery's Pick 3 game to draw identical numbers in the same order three days straight, from Dec. 16 through Sunday.Apparently some players caught on. By day three of picking 5-0-9, ticket sales were $12,223, and the payout was $23,480, which is 192 percent of sales. The usu ...
Dec 23, 2005, 7:22 am - - Lottery News forum
