Ohio Lottery operator switch has some glitches

Comment #4

RJOh — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:09:32 GMT

First two places I went tonight to play my MM tickets, the clerks claimed their machine were broken. I found that hard to believe since those machines were new and just came on line three days ago. I suspect they were confused about how to use them and and just said that to get rid of me since they were the only one there. At the place that did run them the clerk asked if I had the newer play slips because she had trouble earlier in the night before she became aware that the new machine couldn't... [ More ]

Comment #3

RJOh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:00:58 GMT

I have a facsimile of the boards on the play slips of the games I play in my lottery program so I can check my play slips as I mark them and now I've updated them with the new layouts. The new cards will require those players who use printing software to print their slips to do the same.

Comment #2

bashley572 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:19:15 GMT

RjOh thanks for the update. So that sounds about normal for the kind of MAJOR switch your state went through.

Comment #1

RJOh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:14:00 GMT

Last night when I played MegaMillions since the old play slips were still in the display rack, I asked the clerk if they would work today and she said yes . Today I went in with a MegaMillions 0+1 ticket to cash and play some Classic Lotto, the terminal scanned my winning ticket and nothing, it couldn't read tickets printed by the old terminals. I said forget it, I like to play these Classic Lotto slips and again nothing, the new terminal couldn't read old play slips either so I made out some ne... [ More ]

Ohio Lottery operator switch has some glitches

Lottery Post — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:41:31 GMT

A new company began running the Ohio Lottery's computer system on Wednesday, causing frustrating problems for some retailers and leaving some winning tickets incorrectly coming up as losers.

Lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said the problems were being worked out.

What we saw early were mostly common problems we had predicted, such as some calls from retailers who had forgotten sign-on passwords. But overall, selling has been going well, Kilbane said.

The Ohio Lottery decided last yea... [ More ]