Texas Lottery bringing back All or Nothing game

Comment #7

jamella724 — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:23:22 GMT

How unfortunate I didn't win first before it was shut down. Now that the lottery resumes, they need to do a lot of marketing to attract other players back to them again. Since most players might have gone to the nearest state. I hope the prize will be high now that the lottery starts again.

Comment #6

LottoBoner — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:34:10 GMT

After 937 drawings in the game's nearly two years of existence, the most number of top prize winners in any drawing were two. So the new rules are completely in the realm of theory at this point.

When I read this story I nearly had a heart attack!

I thought to myself I been on Lp for TWO years already? I had a Rip Van Winkle moment.

So I did a results search, and I have the first game as

9/10/2012

So if you dont count the last approximate three months the game has been... [ More ]

Comment #5

KY Floyd — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:17:53 GMT

For example, if there are 25 top prize-winning tickets, each ticket will be paid out $200,000

And as a more realistic example, if one of the 4 really popular combinations that caused the game to be withdrawn should happpen to win, each of the hundreds of winning players will collect 10 or 20 grand.

With the redesign, this game should be a lottery commission's dream. The odds are very good that they'll never have to pay out a prize to any of the wildly disproportionate number of players wh... [ More ]

Comment #4

ressuccess — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:30:30 GMT

I hope this game comes back as a success.

Comment #3

Seanzee — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:48:53 GMT

In this case it would not have benefited any 1 player even if left unnoticed.

The flaw has to do with the fact that the lottery has All Even, All Odd, First 12, and Last 12 choices on the playslip in addition to the 24 different numbers available. So naturally, if there is a drawing where all even, odd etc numbers are chosen, then everyone who marked those choices on the playslip will win the jackpot. The fault is not really that of the game but how the lottery itself marketed playing it.

Comment #2

Goteki54 — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:43:01 GMT

Notice that the Texas lottery didn't say they mind players paying massive payouts to the lottery that could possibly wreck havoc on their personal finances.

Comment #1

schmuckatelly — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:02:14 GMT

First!

Why cant I ever find the games with flaws and win some before its discovered

Texas Lottery bringing back All or Nothing game

Lottery Post — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:59:52 GMT

Ticket sales resume August 25

By Todd Northrop

After the Texas Lottery shut down All or Nothing for nearly 3 months, sales for the lottery game will resume on Sunday, August 25, with the first drawing on August 26 at 10:00 am.

On June 3, 2013, the Texas Lottery stopped sales for the All or Nothing game when it was discovered that the game's design could possibly lead to unusually and unreasonably high prize payouts. Even though the game has more than 2.7 million possible number combinat... [ More ]