Another day another mistake for the Tennessee Lottery

Comment #17

Todd — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:41:14 GMT

You CAN mail lottery ticket accross state lines. AFTER the drawing! I've claimed some small Powerball winnings from Pennsylvania that way in the past.

The biggest issue I see about this is that they are trying to have it both ways: on one hand begrudgingly offering prizes for tickets with the first set of winning numbers, but not doing so in a way that most winners will ever get the money. They either won't know about it, or many won't figure out that they need to mail it.

Comment #16

duckman — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:01:42 GMT

It is legal to send state lottery tickets by US Mail as long as the sender and the receiving address are within the same state as the lottery tickets being mailed...

Comment #15

LckyLary — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:16:25 GMT

Glad I don't play in TN. I wonder if they pay on 2 sets of numbers is the payout still the same? i.e. on that drawing if you picked random numbers yourself you'd have had even money to win (100% return) rather than the usual (50% return). If they want I can upload to TN the RNG that I have in my Pocket PC, that one is much better than whatever they use! A good algorithm if your State ever <cringe> goes computerized, heavily play the non-doubles. I don't understand how they didn't backtest these... [ More ]

Comment #14

fbird — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:29:13 GMT

I thought it was illegal to mail lottery tickets thru the mail! If so they made another mistake, by making people do something illegal.......

Comment #13

Badger — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:21:59 GMT

Yeah, and with some of the statements they're making pubicly, I think it shows they've got plenty of balls.

Comment #12

Badger — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:18:04 GMT

An electrical storm fries the RNG computer in spite of all safeguards against this happening.

While examing the computer to see how this could possibly happen, it is discovered that a small mouse had also built a nest inside the main CPU.

The LC immediately announces that it will pay for all Cash 3 bets upon triples in the next drawing.

Comment #11

Stack47 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:03:52 GMT

In casinos with Keno games, you can watch the draws from your room, but you're not seeing the actual drawing. They show an animated computer program with an 80 number keno grid, the 20 numbers drawn will be shown on a ball in the middle of the screen and the corresponding numbers on the grid will be highlighted. The casinos that use goose neck ball machines probably have somebody enter the numbers into a computer. There is a website that shows drawings from several casinos.

http://ww2.kenousa... [ More ]

Comment #10

AuntiePat — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:50:22 GMT

LOL--though it's beginning to NOT be funny.

One could only hope--hope a taxpayer group sues the TN Lot Com over the funds lost to Tennessee's schools that are having to corrent these mistakes. When the pocket feels the pinch--perhaps the Lot Com will reconsider (HAH

Comment #9

Uncle Jim — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:19:38 GMT

Just think...if they had televised Ball Drawings this mistake wouldn't have happened.

I wonder if the Tennessee Education Lottery will spend some of the money they raise on computer classes for their employees?

Jim

Comment #8

noahproblem — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:45:27 GMT

According to The Tennessean, someone at the lottery sent out results of one of the test draws out as the acual draw results by mistake:

(story link

Comment #7

joshuacloak — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:22:16 GMT

i like to think my lotto not that incompetent

, to not notice missing balls

but am starting to have my doubts so to speak

Comment #6

BazookaJoe — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:13:50 GMT

Comment #5

JimmySand9 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:12:14 GMT

They'd have to be in a mighty big rush to miss something like missing balls.

Comment #4

Guru101 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:52:36 GMT

Ok, I think I got something.

The auditor for the TN lottery gets in a big traffic jam/minor car accident that delays his/her arrival.

Not only that, the computers for the evening drawings aren't booting properly/the lottery software keeps crashing.

It's getting close to the deadline, so the TN lottery employees decide to do a ball drawing instead for that night. So they go into the closet an pull out the good ol' ball machines.

The auditor finally arrives after the drawing has take... [ More ]

Comment #3

Guru101 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:09:59 GMT

Lets have a guessing game about what goes wrong next.

Comment #2

tnlotto1 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:03:21 GMT

this states nightmare has to end soon

Comment #1

DoubleDown — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:47:53 GMT

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Another day another mistake for the Tennessee Lottery

Lottery Post — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:42:14 GMT

Can it be possible?

It appears that once again the Tennessee Lottery has made a mistake so glaring it requires them to pay out two sets of midday numbers.

The lottery spokepeople must be getting tired of the mistakes too, because they didn't even attempt an explanation this time.

A terse statement on the Tennessee Lottery web site Monday evening reads as follows:

The official midday Cash 3 and Cash 4 numbers for Sept. 17, 2007 are 133 for Cash 3 and 6121 for Cash 4. Players can clai... [ More ]