Error caused S.D. Lottery to suspend Wild Card validations

Comment #7

ThatScaryChick — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:53:52 GMT

You should probably post these numbers in the Pick 3 forum. This thread is to discuss the article that Todd posted.

Comment #6

master-g — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:00:51 GMT

i really like those number for today . 444 000 321 675 808 845 847 249 045 614

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bashley572 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:41:35 GMT

and were any of them PAID out

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RJOh — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:38:49 GMT

I wonder how many losing tickets were verified a winner.

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master-g — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:58:51 GMT

i really like those number for late ch n late cal 045 453 839 545 552 323

Comment #2

rdgrnr — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:12:30 GMT

Some players who scanned their Wild Card 2 tickets before the mistake was discovered may have been told they were not winners, but with the corrected Wild Card, they may actually have held winning tickets.

The Wild Card was initially incorrectly entered as the Jack of Diamonds

Whoa. Jack of Diamonds. I wonder how many people with winning tickets threw them away after scanning them and being told they were losers?

Jack of Diamonds...

Jack o' Diamonds, Jack o' Diamonds,... [ More ]

Comment #1

diamondpalace — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:24:19 GMT

The lottery should really take the effort to prevent errors from happening. Instead of making someone's day, it turns into a nightmare.

Error caused S.D. Lottery to suspend Wild Card validations

Lottery Post — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:54:12 GMT

The South Dakota Lottery temporarily halted validations for Wild Card 2 lotto tickets for the June 9 drawing to correct an error with the winning numbers.

An incorrect Wild Card was inadvertently entered into the system after the draw. The winning numbers for that drawing were 4, 5, 9, 15 and 21 and the Wild Card King of Diamonds. The Wild Card was initially incorrectly entered as the Jack of Diamonds.

The error was discovered Thursday afternoon by the Lottery, and all validations were sto... [ More ]