S.C. Lottery to pay 2 sets of winning numbers after mistake

Comment #11

rcbbuckeye — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:50:26 GMT

Not sure I understand.... if a person really believes they are trying to cheat players, why would such person even play

Comment #10

temptustoo — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:19:36 GMT

I believe a few of you would cry if you were hung with a new rope...

Comment #9

lotteryg — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:03:29 GMT

i'm glad this did not happen to me again the first this happen i had torn the ticket up in small pieces so i lose on that when they find out this has happen they need to fix the problem quickly and they need to open a center back in charleston and lot of people is talking about that long drive to columbia which for me it is 2 hours a lot of people do not trust sending there ticket in the mail but that is sc for you.....................................

Comment #8

LANTERN — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:34:58 GMT

They posted the Winning number too early, that is before the drawing.

Lotteries have been known to do that sometimes, but not very often, maybe that is why so many lotteries take so very long before they post their winning numbers, perhaps they avoid mistakes in this way.

Thu, Feb 17, 2011 5-2-5

Wed, Feb 16, 2011 3-8-1

Tue, Feb 15, 2011 2-2-6

Tue, Feb 15, 2011 2-2-1

Mon, Feb 14, 2011 4-1-6

To make things worse they chose two numbers with double twos 22X

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Comment #7

dopey7719 — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:17:46 GMT

I think I remember something like this happening before. Anyway....it happens.

Comment #6

tlady4 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:20:25 GMT

That's what they get for trying to cheat players midday was 226 and they night was going to be 221 in which the 1 and the 6 are mirror numbers but they caught themselves and now they gotta pay

Comment #5

dallascowboyfan — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:33:26 GMT

Way to step up S.C. Lottery..........

Comment #4

sully16 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:09:00 GMT

glad to see them pay for their oops.

Comment #3

Boney526 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:54:33 GMT

Comment #2

Harve$t Moon — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:17:44 GMT

The randomness facade is unraveling.

Comment #1

ppacombu — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:16:24 GMT

That's good. Those people who play 221 were already happy, so it would not be fair if the lottery didn't pay.

S.C. Lottery to pay 2 sets of winning numbers after mistake

Lottery Post — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:55:58 GMT

The South Carolina lottery will pay for two separate sets of winning numbers for a Tuesday Pick 3 drawing after a graphic mistakenly listed the wrong numbers.

Lottery officials said in a news release that the numbers 2-2-6 were picked for Tuesday's midday Pick 3 game. But a graphic listing the winning numbers before the evening drawing had the numbers as 2-2-1.

Executive Director Paula Harper Bethea says the lottery tries to be as transparent as possible and honors its mistakes.

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