Washington Lottery published wrong numbers after raffle draw

Comment #52

Scientistman — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:43:02 GMT

The media their part of it! their involved in the corruption. The media's involvment in protecting government officials has been well documented! Have you been living in a cave the last 30 years or what

Comment #51

Scientistman — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:39:01 GMT

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Comment #50

rdgrnr — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:21:59 GMT

He's shy.

Like me.

Comment #49

mediabrat — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:27:18 GMT

And you have not yet gone to the authorities (or the newspapers) because

Comment #48

noahproblem — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:31:29 GMT

I Went To The Lottery Office To Claim A Winning Ticket And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Comment #47

Lucky4Life — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:01:35 GMT

Right. Even small amounts of money you may not be able to gain immediate access to. My husband was a beneficiary on his mother's life insurance, which was a significant amount. Even though it was drawn on an insurance check the bank told us we could not access the money for 2 weeks because it was over a certain amount. I'm not sure how the lottery works but it would suck to quit your job then learn you weren't able to access any funds for a month or so (like in a Powerball situation).... [ More ]

Comment #46

butch2030 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:13:22 GMT

Think that's bad - What about the winner of the Million dollars that check his number threw his ticket away because he couldn't find his number matching any of the numbers posted.

Comment #45

haymaker — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:39:02 GMT

Don't quit your job or make any kind of important decision until that $ is in the bank, and I mean for more than just a few days.

Just too many things that can go wrong.

trust no system.

trust no person

time will prove who's got things right.

Comment #44

Original Bey — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:15:33 GMT

Financial emergency - I love it

Comment #43

Guru101 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:01:50 GMT

Wow. This makes me think twice about quitting my job after checking my tickets online. I guess instead of calling in and saying I won't be coming in anymore after I win the Hoosier Lotto jackpot on Wednesday, I'll just call in and say I have a financial emergency to take care of and won't be in that day. lol

Comment #42

Ronnie316 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:07:10 GMT

When I read your post I thought you said the poster of the numbers should br TRAINED lol.lol. Which is likely exactly what will happen. lol. lol. The state hires a full time team of people to train each other a lot.

Comment #41

Ronnie316 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:04:00 GMT

Incompetent does NOT equal corrupt.

Comment #40

jamella724 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:01:42 GMT

Somebody should be blamed for this mistake. It was a horrible experience for this man to see the winning numbers on the computer. The poster of the number should be blamed and should face a charge...What an unlucky day for the man...

Comment #39

Scientistman — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:52:34 GMT

DO YOU PEOPLE BELIVE ME NOW!!!!!! I have told everyone before on this site that the Washington State is the most corrupt lottery that has ever existed.

You people have NO IDEA How corrupt! The claims I make are true and are not fabricated.

My friend used to work at the Washington Lottery and she quit when they were running the balls because she said she watched them run the machine over 20 times until they got the 6 numbers that they wanted And over-heard the officaial say Yeah lets go wit... [ More ]

Comment #38

RedStang — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:46:40 GMT

In my town, that would get a whole family stuck.

Comment #37

Ronnie316 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:30:15 GMT

There was a time when I didnt save or double check. But thanks to LP I save ALL tickets for the entire year.

Comment #36

Jill34786 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:22:18 GMT

You have a valid point. I could easily see someone throwing or ripping up their ticket based on the initial results. It would be interesting to see the number of winners that were claimed once the grace period expires...willing to bet very few.

Comment #35

Ronnie316 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:11:26 GMT

I agree totally. Unfortunately its just the state of the state (both fed and state) in which we find ourselves living. After all, why have need of accountability or even credibility among the workers when the lack thereof serves as a catalyst for creating more work, and need of more workers (thereby helping everyone's state

Comment #34

rdgrnr — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:52:12 GMT

Roger that

Comment #33

butch2030 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:31:26 GMT

So, was this raffle done by Computer Random Number Generator??????????

Something in Washington is beginning to stink.

And, where in the heck were the Auditors who are suppose to verify the whole process from start to finish.

Being Sorry isn't good enough. Blaming a Computer Glitch is not an answer. Was the Glitch when the Computer RNG generated the winning?? numbers or was it when the Computer RNG generated the winning??? list of numbers.

In any case, I feel the state should honor al... [ More ]

Comment #32

Original Bey — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:46:39 GMT

Apparently, this was not marketed well and they fell far short of their goals.

Then this fiasco happens.

Not only are players suffering but the intended recipients/beneficiaries of the raffle (veterans) won't see much of the revenue earned.

The lottery needs to do serious damage control here if they hope to do this again in the future and be successful.

Comment #31

TheOtherOne — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:31:26 GMT

Every now and then I consider that a winning lottery ticket might be an error in some way. I dont keep mine in a shoebox but I do hold it in the recycle bin for a little while.

I also remind my self that when I do win, I will check multiple sites to ensure they all show the same result.

However, with a state raffle, you dont really have many options other than the 1 site, which makes this one harder to take.

I am thinking these lottery folks should try to seek out the winners, via store... [ More ]

Comment #30

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:17:34 GMT

Comment #29

Cletu$2 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:57:11 GMT

The person responsible should be FIRED!There is NO excuse for this kind of mistake...NONE

Comment #28

KY Floyd — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:38:13 GMT

I'm pretty sure the correct answer to that question is almost none.

Comment #27

luckydoc — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:06:33 GMT

I'm cosigning on your comment LottoBoner - I agree, that people who think they are winners based on the lottery's mistake should be compensated in someway. The least the Lottery should do is pay up with something, the most they should do is send out an advertisement right away to make players aware of the mistake. Maybe some folk can salvage those tickets in a hurry and go and claim those funds.

You best believe if the rolls were reversed and a lottlery winner owed the state 1 penny, they'd b... [ More ]

Comment #26

Uluska — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:55:37 GMT

Agree, that people who's hopes were screwed, should be rewarded: 10% from the winning sum that was screwed!

They should take class action.

Comment #25

addai1516 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:16:50 GMT

Nonsense pay these people .. very shameful to bigin with .. How many mistakes have cause people not to win

Comment #24

Ronnie316 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:23:03 GMT

This should help promote my idea that ALL losing tickets should ALWAYS be in a raffle to win $1 million.

This would have solved the problem, because the clerk could have said Your not a loser yet

Comment #23

Ronnie316 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:16:07 GMT

Comment #22

Ronnie316 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:15:16 GMT

If a guy went to all the trouble of driving down to the lottery office with a losing ticket I think he should get a hat or perhaps a t-shirt that will display his love and loyalty to the state lottery......

Comment #21

Ronnie316 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:06:18 GMT

A kilo of the states finest grade of:

Medical Marijuana (Cannabis) :: Washington State Dept. of Health

Comment #20

Ronnie316 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:01:56 GMT

I like the shoebox idea...... I vow that my losers will never see the bottom of a dumpster.....

Comment #19

OldSchoolPa — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:17:35 GMT

I keep all of my losing tickets so I can write off the losses against any wins. So I would still have that raffle ticket but I know most people probably tear trash / throw away any ticket they find to be losers...even those that those ticket scanners indicate are either invalid or losers (I always check tickets using at least 2 sources and knew the scanner was wrong).

Raffles stink

Comment #18

LottoBoner — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:28:34 GMT

A kilo of what??

Jumbo shrimp

Comment #17

LottoBoner — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:27:49 GMT

When the NYL rolled out their new website several years ago, they also didn't snag all the bugs.

For almost five days they were posting the wrong results!!!

I am one of those people who watch the draws everyday, and when I went to the computer I was all confused for about a week and all my charts were in disarray.

I remember thinking oh boy. Somebody is gonna throw away a 5 thousand dollar winner!

Very distressing indeed.

Those people who were shafted should get a free steak dinne... [ More ]

Comment #16

LottoBoner — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:16:31 GMT

All of a sudden I dont feel so stupid for hoarding all those losers in my shoebox.

Comment #15

loonasee2 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:08:34 GMT

That stinks ,..............they should give those people something for that blunder,Maybe a choice thousand bucks or a kilo.lol

Comment #14

sully16 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:52:32 GMT

There's no excuse for this , they should all be fired.

Comment #13

rdgrnr — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:48:00 GMT

We've gotten used to a lot of things that used to piss us off.

We've been kinda conditioned to expect gross negligence and incompetence at the fast food drive-up window.

And mailmen not being able to distinguish between one address and another when they deliver the mail.

And libs having vehicles backed up for a mile behind them as they drive slow in the passing lane.

But this... publishing the wrong numbers and saying you're going to call in an auditing firm to make sure you don't s... [ More ]

Comment #12

RedStang — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:34:43 GMT

I hope VA CT did'nt do this. Mine are in the woodstove.

Comment #11

Nikkicute — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:49:03 GMT

Computer glitch, they blamed it on the computer anyway!!

No one here likes RNG for lottos, maybe they should go back to the good old

fashion raffels where they hand pick the numbers and someone writes them down

or someone hand pick names, ya can't mess up names right? lol and two people double check,

I don't know...

To see those numbers on the screen, wake up early to go to the lotto office only to find out you

did not win, what an awful feeling!! The numbers should s... [ More ]

Comment #10

seadrink — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:35:38 GMT

Washington State recently passed the law making marijuna legal. Could be those officials took a recreational smoke break before posting

those losers.

Comment #9

Original Bey — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:19:49 GMT

One meticulous individual versus 10 casual so called professionals produces a clear winner every time.

Detail oriented is obviously not a competency required for that job!

If that ticket goes unclaimed heads need to roll on this one

Comment #8

helpmewin — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:05:55 GMT

Comment #7

Todd — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:58:02 GMT

Im all seriousness, this stuff is very upsetting. There is no way a state lottery should publish an entire list of wrong numbers without anyone noticing.

I personally publish dozens of raffle results every year here at Lottery Post. I am just one person, and it's a lot of work. But still, every time I publish the results the first thing I do is to open the Web page myself and verify that everything is correct. If I find an error, I correct it immediately.

So you're telling me that a state... [ More ]

Comment #6

LottoGuyBC — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:51:37 GMT

makes you wanna hold on to them tickets a little longer

Comment #5

LottoGuyBC — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:48:29 GMT

fogot to charge battery

Comment #4

Ronnie316 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:42:08 GMT

Im bringing my cell phone...... In case I get trapped.......

Comment #3

Ronnie316 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:40:08 GMT

In fact if there wasnt so much rain there, I would leave now and become a dumpster diver.....

Comment #2

Todd — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:40:03 GMT

Just don't get stuck.

Comment #1

Ronnie316 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:38:45 GMT

Now I would go in the dumpster for one of those $1.000.000 winners.....

Washington Lottery published wrong numbers after raffle draw

Lottery Post — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:32:36 GMT

Blames 'computer glitch'

A North Seattle man couldn't believe his eyes. His ticket in the lottery's Veteran's Raffle was a winner.

He checked the numbers, and then checked them again. I was so excited! I couldn't believe I had won the lottery! he said.

The problem is, he didn't. What he thought was a $1,000 winner was a dud.

I got up early and went to the lottery office, and they told me my ticket was invalid, he said.

Lottery officials say a computer glitch posted the wrong numb... [ More ]