Germany Lottery draw glitch caused announcement of wrong numbers

Comment #24

jamella724 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:03:43 GMT

How unfortunate, for sure a lot of players were disappointed. I don't know what will I do if they announced my numbers and suddenly tell me that the numbers were wrong. I might be at my boiling point.

Comment #23

SergeM — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:38:04 GMT

You have to take it with some humour

Comment #22

rdgrnr — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:04:17 GMT

When asked if the bonus ball from the first drawing was legit the announcer replied nine further adding to the confusion.

ROTFLMAO

Comment #21

msharkey2001 — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:11:05 GMT

excellent point

Comment #20

ShowMeTheMoney$ — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:04:45 GMT

Good One......hahahahahaha

Comment #19

msharkey2001 — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:56:56 GMT

This meant that the first set of numbers 3,8,11,26,32,40 and 9 were void. The actual winning figures were 16,21,23,29,31,38 and 24.

When asked if the bonus ball from the first drawing was legit the announcer replied nine further adding to the confusion.

Comment #18

Coin Toss — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:23:23 GMT

dallas,

If a player gets lucky and hit it thee's quite a difference in the payout.

This is from last Wednesday night:

Match 6 $5.8 MillionRolling Jackpot$1 wager

Match 5 $1,206$1 wager

Match 4 $32 $1 wager

Match 3 $3$1 wager

Match 5 + Extra Shot $0$2 wager

Match 4 + Extra Shot $800$ 2 wager

Match 3 + Extra Shot $75$2 wager

Match 2 + Extra Shot $10$2 wager

Match 1 + Extra Shot $2$2 wager

Match Extra Shot only $5$2 wager

About a month... [ More ]

Comment #17

sully16 — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:56:12 GMT

Yikes, if that happened here, there would probably be a riot.

Comment #16

noise-gate — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:50:29 GMT

Glitches are good from time to time.Funny how no one confesses to that over in this country.

Sorry folks, the machine screwed up, hold onto your tickets while we wheel another glitch free machine out-thank you for your patience, we value you as a customer

Comment #15

rdgrnr — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:20:38 GMT

This is actually a good thing.

It shows that when there's a glitch in a ball machine it will usually be caught right away.

There could be glitches in the fake computer drawings all the time and we might never know about it.

Comment #14

Ronnie316 — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:13:59 GMT

Im glad they had a do over. Make the real winner happy.

Comment #13

rdgrnr — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:11:50 GMT

Grober fehler?

Grober fehler, fr ulein?

Unverzeihlicher fehler

Comment #12

Stack47 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:12:00 GMT

The two numbers never fell into the drum and had no chance of being drawn. Sort of like programming an RNG for pick-3 and pick-4 games not to have any duplicate digits and watch all the doubles players trash their tickets.

Comment #11

dallascowboyfan — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:02:45 GMT

Texas is adding the extra play to its Lotto Texas game.

Comment #10

Coin Toss — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:20:02 GMT

This is for two of the games from the results link Ronnie posted:

Zusatzspiel: 27

Zusatzzahl: 24

______________________________________

The Zusatzspiel is like a consolation prize for not hitting all six of six, A little extra or extra play . (Speil, Spielen means play).

It's not a 5 + 1 game in the sense of PB or MM but 5 + the Zusatzspeil pays more than 5.

Recently the Illinois lottery added Extra Shot to their 6/52 game, I wonder if it's some kind of take off... [ More ]

Comment #9

JonnyBgood07 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:05:35 GMT

this is a load of chit....more like they had a predetermined outcome that got botched.

Comment #8

redhot7 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:55:15 GMT

Reminded me with another glitch.

Epic Fail

Comment #7

Gleno — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:54:04 GMT

So how many American's play the German Lottery? Guess some folks like to play the international games, but I would not use a third party site to use a credit card to purchase them.

Comment #6

dr65 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:52:19 GMT

So what...46 and 47 weren't in the results anyway. This isn't how people with

46 and 47 on their tickets would feel.

They'd insist those balls were held on purpose.

Some probably would have thought 46 47 at the very least would have helped

to knock all their winners in the shoots.

Some would have cried foul if there were any wiinners and the news of the

misdrop broke....some would have quit altogether crying fix! fix!

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Comment #5

luckyshoes — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:08:59 GMT

Grober fehler

Comment #4

Ronnie316 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:44:38 GMT

Looks like its a 6/49 game. https://www.lotterypost.com/results/germany

Comment #3

noise-gate — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:38:22 GMT

Their lottery has 7 numbers. Wonder what their odds are : 250, 000, 000 -1

Comment #2

Ronnie316 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:12:35 GMT

Looking at the balls under those bright lights must be difficult. Chalk one up for pre-draw testing.

Comment #1

tnhope — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:08:28 GMT

oops!! i guess

Germany Lottery draw glitch caused announcement of wrong numbers

Lottery Post — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:57:25 GMT

German broadcaster ZDF gave Lotto ticket holders a moment of false hope on Wednesday evening, after a glitch with the ball machine meant presenters read out the wrong numbers.

At 6:50pm, 2.33 million people turned on their TVs to see if they'd won this week's lottery jackpot. But what presenters in the ZDF studio had not noticed was that that two balls, 46 and 47, failed to roll into the see-through Lotto drum.

This meant that the first set of numbers 3,8,11,26,32,40 and 9 were void. The a... [ More ]