Massachusetts Lottery to replace aging lottery terminals

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Think — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:13:33 GMT

Yep, Michigan had Scientific Games until about 1989 and then switched to GTECH. The easy picks did seem to switch then.

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Bleudog101 — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 14:46:27 GMT

JoeBigLotto: Just watched Jack Whitaker on Youtube like you said. There he was, just as you said, decked out in black on presentation day for the money.

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myturn — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:34:09 GMT

- She was a mother of three living in a small apartment and working four jobs. And then, as if in a fairy tale, she won her state's lottery last year. But the story doesn't have the happy ending you might expect.

She didn't do anything overly extravagant after the $1.3 million got slashed in taxes. She bought a house, got a new wardrobe at the Salvation Army, cut work down to just one job and invested the rest.

And then came the phone calls: promises, marriage proposals, accusations, threa... [ More ]

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JoeBigLotto — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:48:37 GMT

That is because jack Whitaker is the biggest loser of all lottery winners. He wore black all over plus a black cowboy hat when he won over $300,000,000 on Christmas day. Go figure the enormous power of black holes. Anyway I saw him dressed that way on TV and I said to myself this will be another hit on YouTube biggest lossers. He lost his grand daughter lost his wife, took half million dollars to strip club and left that in his SUV outside while he got a lap dance.well if it was me I will actual... [ More ]

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Bleudog101 — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:08:25 GMT

That is so true myturn; I have a subscription for Megabucks Doubler bought here in KY. As for the other subscription services I have my brother get them for me in my home state (MA). I hate the 1961 outdated law that prevents playing other lotteries across state lines such as Powerball, Mega Millions or Lucky 4 Life. Wish the DOJ would turn a blind eye to that law like they have recently in other laws.

There was a interesting article on CNN's website about lottery winners with most of it devo... [ More ]

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myturn — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:52:11 GMT

Don't forget you can play Massachusetts Megabuck Doubler by subscription from anywhere in the US, by phone.

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DoctorEw220 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:09:42 GMT

It's about time.

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JoeBigLotto — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:45:43 GMT

Well masssachusetts is not the worst state with aging lottery terminal on my list . The worst state on my list is Oklahoma state they were talking the last time how poorly their state lottery has been performing they even cancelled their pick4 draw because they are not making money but they still use lottery machine from the fifties go figure their brains are still in the fifties they can't see the light and invest in state of the art lottery machine .and all their draw is $1 and no straight/box... [ More ]

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cbr$ — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:15:44 GMT

A place in Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters which the repair technicians refer to as the MacGyver room. it is time to retire the terminals.

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Crazy Wombat — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:34:01 GMT

Well there will be new RNGs coming ... if you won pretty good with the old machines ... who can say what the future will be with QPs?

Officials hope the costs of both jobs will come in under $65.5 million and expect bids from the industry's three largest companies: GTech S.p.A., an Italian company with its US headquarters in Rhode Island; Las Vegas-based Scientific Games; and Greek firm Intra-lot SA.

Which company will have the better RNGs ??? ... or do they all get that part of the mach... [ More ]

Massachusetts Lottery to replace aging lottery terminals

Lottery Post — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:22:29 GMT

For 18 years, an unremarkable blue machine has been a fixture at corner convenience stores, its tired keys accepting millions of bets from players hoping a lucky string of numbers a kid's birthday, an old address will just this once bend the rules of probability and change everything.

But, with casino gambling coming to Massachusetts, the state lottery is looking to replace the 8,500 aging blue terminals and the massive computer system that processes nearly $5 billion in bets a year. Lottery... [ More ]