Connecticut Lottery to re-draw raffle Tuesday

Comment #17

Candy-Lane — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:16:53 GMT

To KD Floyd:

You started it all! You said, you were smart enough to be an atheist - implying intellectual superiority to those of us who are not atheist.

My reply: You are smart enough to be an atheist, indeed! How sad for you! ... that you are not smart enough to be a Christian! Christians are far more intelligent...we have the ability to believe in what we can not see!

You have insulted me 3 times now! Do you make it a habit insulting strangers? Does it make you feel better? I forgive... [ More ]

Comment #16

Candy-Lane — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:58:32 GMT

Hi noise-gate! You are a regular on this site. I enjoy reading your posts.

Regarding Adam and Eve...I really wouldn't worry about that because God will deal with each one of us separately. I am a Christian. Anyone can be a Christian. All you have to do is believe that Jesus is the Son of God. John 3:16

If you believe that Jesus was born to the Virgin Mary..died on the cross... rose again on the third day...ascended into Heaven.... will come again (known as the 2nd Coming or Rapture). IF yo... [ More ]

Comment #15

noise-gate — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:19:40 GMT

Even though l myself believe in a creator, there is ONE question no clergymen has answered to my satisfaction, and it is this.

Why is it that Adam Eve, the pair that started the spiral of death for all, were told they would return to the dust of the ground .Yet folks living today are told that you going to burn in hell for all time if you mess up? Sounds unfair, don't you think? They get a get out of jail free card - while others who came after them pay the price

Comment #14

KY Floyd — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 04:12:11 GMT

If you were all that smart you'd be able to figure out that I didn't insult anyone. All I did was point out the logical conclusion of your reasoning.

Comment #13

Candy-Lane — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:44:01 GMT

KY Floyd : I am going to put this in the nicest possible way: I am far more intelligent (and richer), then you can ever imagine (or will ever be)!

I am not going to waste my time trying to educate you. I don't think that you would be able to comprehend! Continue being an Atheist,and see where that gets you when you meet your Maker (God). Life on Earth is fleeting compared to eternity. You seem determined to spend eternity in Hell. I am a believer. I have chosen to spend my eternity in Heaven... [ More ]

Comment #12

justguessin — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:28:05 GMT

I think I personally would try and get together a late bird drawing and help sponsor it up to 50 thousand dollars. Anonymously. I think the best way to help would be to put it back to the wronged players and help put back the integrity of the lottery. That's if I won the million. I'm not saying any who won should do that but for me I think it would be money well spent.

Comment #11

GiveFive — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:45:31 GMT

I think you've proposed a better solution to the problem than The CT Lottery has implemented.

Although I don't know if they actually considered anything close to what you've offered above, my guess is they found the cheapest way (for them) out of this mess. The State of Connecticut's fiscal situation is a total disaster. They haven't got two nickels to rub together much less an extra $206,250 in prize money. G5

Comment #10

GiveFive — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:40:44 GMT

If the person who wins the top prize of a million dollars is holding one of the 100,000 ticket numbers that was excluded in the first drawing, they're not going to be all that upset about the screw up in the original drawing. That person could be you. If you win that million dollars, are you willing to pay a person with a law degree to help the losers out? G5

Comment #9

KY Floyd — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 07:21:49 GMT

there is no good/perfect solution to fix this mess.

That's true, but some solutions are worse than others and lottery officials have decided to go with the worst solution .

With only 114,601 of the 214,601 tickets the tickets in the flawed drawing have already had almost twice as much chance (1.87, to be precise) to win as they should have had. By simply having a correction drawing all of those tickets get another chance with the correct odds, while the tickets that were originally exclud... [ More ]

Comment #8

Candy-Lane — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:55:13 GMT

because those of us are smart enough to be atheists

I think that the most intelligent people are those who are able to believe what they can not see!

Less intelligent people tend to only believe in what they can see. How unfortunate for those people!

I think that the Connecticut Lottery is doing the right thing. They said they would hold a drawing on Jan 1 and they did.

What if you had been the one who won the $1M? It wasn't your fault the lottery made dreadful mistake... [ More ]

Comment #7

justguessin — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:48:35 GMT

This is just a unfair game all the way around. I bought 2 tickets after Christmas and wasn't eligible for the 90 early bird slots at the beginning of the game but since I got a little money for Christmas I said to myself what the heck if you don't play you can't win. So I watched the sales on and around new years eve and noticed there were still lots of tickets to go before the game sold out and was actually getting a little optimistic that I could maybe win 1 of the 1375 prizes left to win. I'm... [ More ]

Comment #6

MIKE44665 — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:25:00 GMT

This will be my first post as this event disturbs me so much I must respond.

This human error falls directly into my list of people that:

get paid a whole lot of money, to make decisions, they know absolutely nothing about .

Everyone from the top position holder (read director), down to the lowest position that had any connection to this drawing (game) should be terminated, done, period. Excluding the terminal operators that sold the tickets.

It is very obvious that no air breathing... [ More ]

Comment #5

GiveFive — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:35:25 GMT

As a Super Draw raffle ticket holder whose tickets were included in the first drawing, I'm glad that I'm getting a second shot at the one million dollar top prize. (None of my three tickets were winners in the first drawing)

That said, I agree with The CT Lottery, there is no good/perfect solution to fix this mess. Had I won the top prize of one million dollars in the first drawing, and they voided that drawing due to their mistake, I'd definitely sue. I'm sure too that a class action lawsuit... [ More ]

Comment #4

KY Floyd — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 05:39:38 GMT

how do you get that across to atheist home -owners?

Because those of us who are smart enough to be atheists also understand that act of god is a colloquialism that's common among the heathen masses. The term Fact of nature is also used sometimes. Force majeure is often more suitable, because to also includes human actions that are beyond the control of the parties to the contract covered by the clause.

Comment #3

ckrakowski — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 01:59:19 GMT

Tuesday's drawing will include all 214,601 tickets in the second drawing

So some people will get to play twice while some will get to play once while some others will not get to play at all.

I am of course referring to the people who were excluded from the first drawing and threw their tickets out.

How is it not theft on the lotterys part if a player was excluded from the first drawing and did not get to play and will not be able to play in this second drawing? The player pai... [ More ]

Comment #2

noise-gate — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:09:09 GMT

It was humor error remember?

Funny how that works huh? Some folks who have their homes destroyed by mudslides, earthquakes are sometimes told by their insurance companies that they not covered because it's an act of God .. how do you get that across to atheist home -owners

Comment #1

music* — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:55:39 GMT

At least they caught the mistake. I believe it is very difficult to cheat. No one was trying to cheat here.

Connecticut Lottery to re-draw raffle Tuesday

Lottery Post — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:43:02 GMT

The Connecticut Lottery Corp. has set Tuesday at 11 a.m. as the time for a do-over drawing to partly make up for a Jan. 1 fiasco in which nearly half the eligible tickets in the Super Draw game 100,000 out of 214,601 sold at $10 each were excluded by mistake.

But some lottery players are still unhappy.

The new drawing will be held as two investigations are already underway into how the $1.375 million error occurred on New Year's Day and it's unlikely to satisfy many of the holders of the 1... [ More ]