Lottery 'glitch' leaves players suspicious

Comment #6

Guru101 — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:40:32 GMT

I hope, I hope, I hope. You sure do hope a lot.

Comment #5

Just6ntlc — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:39:08 GMT

Why there was a glitch? I hope they fix the glitch on the next day.

Comment #4

KyMystikal — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:39:03 GMT

Hargrove said fraud was unlikely on anyone's part because a player would have to have bought $1 tickets for all 720 unique combinations of numbers to ensure being a winner in the Cash 3 game - for a payout of just $500. For a $5,000 prize in Cash 4, a player would have had to have bought 5,040 tickets.

What she has figured is true but why play all the combinations when you could just play half and still have a good chance of doubling your money, or even playing 1/3, or 2/3 of the combinations... [ More ]

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four4me — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:50:52 GMT

Another little malfunction seems to be shaping up repeat digits. Whatever software they got is definitely whacked.

It appears as there might be another glitch with the drawings as now they are continuously drawing the same digits over the last several draws.

While this sometimes happens in ball drawings it doesn't happen a lot with RNG drawings.

Tennessee lottery draws.

CASH 3 9/2/2007 Evening 792

CASH 3 9/1/2007 Mid-Day 839

CASH 3 9/1/2007 Evening 789

CASH 3 8/31/2007 Mid-Day... [ More ]

Comment #2

jim695 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:57:11 GMT

from the article:

The glitch might not have happened at all if the lottery had bought the software to pick the random numbers from a different vendor. A Rhode Island firm, Szrek2Solutions, proposed a system costing more than $100,000 less than the one offered by Smartplay.

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I corresponded with Irena Szrek and her husband in 2003, when LosingJeff and I were investigating the Hoosier Lottery's fraudulent operation. The RNG's manufactured by S... [ More ]

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Uncle Jim — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:15:09 GMT

Great story!

This is the most damaging story yet to appear in the press accounts I have read. And it should be one that has all lottery players in every state that has an RNG...not just the players in Tennessee...screaming for an end to this crooked method of selecting numbers.

Let's look at a few of the remarks made in this story and tie the lose ends together:

Since the acknowledgement of the glitch, Hargrove and other lottery executives have downplayed the need for a thorough probe,... [ More ]

Lottery 'glitch' leaves players suspicious

Lottery Post — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:47:00 GMT

Brentwood lottery player Wil Prude thinks the computers that draw random numbers for the Tennessee Lottery's Cash 3 and Cash 4 games still have not been repaired.

Lottery officials announced Aug. 21 that a glitch in the system had been corrected one that prevented duplicate numbers, such as 1-1-3, from being drawn as winning combinations for the previous three weeks.

But Prude, who plays Cash 3 every day, is among the players whose confidence in the game is now shaken. He says the mach... [ More ]