R.I. lottery machine prints invalid tickets

Comment #4

LckyLary — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:41:23 GMT

If it were a Y2K bug then the ticket would have said 1900 and had a picture of Honus Wagner on it! I'm surprised nobody noticed immediately their ticket having a weird date on it.

Comment #3

vincejr — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:04:03 GMT

We had a similar problem when I worked for the training contractor for the Virginia Lottery. When we would go in and do in-store training, we would log the terminals into the training mode and then reset them when we left. Often, the manager or employee we were training would remember the training log in and log in that way to get a little more practice. But then, every once in a while, they would forget to log off or reset the terminal once they were done, thus printing tickets with the invalid... [ More ]

Comment #2

johnph77 — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:29:01 GMT

Proving once again that nothing on this planet is idiot-proof.....

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Comment #1

CASH Only — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:18:38 GMT

Gee, I thought all the potential Y2K problems were taken care of.

There are other similar computer problems out there (eg Y10K) which haven't gotten much publicity yet.

R.I. lottery machine prints invalid tickets

Lottery Post — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:15:02 GMT

They entered the store with hopes of striking it rich through a winning lottery ticket. They exited with bogus tickets all dated from 1999.

A lottery machine mix-up Thursday resulted in roughly 70 invalid tickets being printed at a Cranston convenience store, the Rhode Island Lottery said Friday.

The problem was caused by a field service technician for the gaming technology company Gtech Holdings Corp. who accidentally replaced a malfunctioning machine at Oaklawn Mart with a model termin... [ More ]