Infamous lottery scammer says US computerized lottery drawings remain fatally flawed

Comment #14

Hermanus104 — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:27:46 GMT

I don't care how safe they are, the only reason that I would play the California Lottery is to prove to them that they are wrong about that.

I live in California. My family lives in Virginia. I refuse to play the lottery in California because of the random number generators. I will not even play Powerball or Mega Millions in California, partly because I refuse to buy tickets from a state that uses RNGs in any of its draw games, and partly because of the blatantly unfair payout structure of th... [ More ]

Comment #13

Soledad — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:56:57 GMT

I thought keno is rng in the casinos. Wasn t there that one time when the same numbers kept coming up all day long because the seed wasn t changed. The casinos still didn t lose much lol.

Comment #12

Bleudog101 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:55:47 GMT

I think I remember a big drum slowly spinning with balls in it somewhere and that is how the casino got their Keno numbers. Have never played. No doubt the few Keno spots left are probably RNG. I don't know/care

Comment #11

rcbbuckeye — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:35:32 GMT

Mouse over results at the top of the page and click on state lottery report card .

Comment #10

txwinr — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:31:38 GMT

how do you know what states and what games are using RNGs? Powerball? Mega? is that posted somewhere on their websites

Comment #9

noise-gate — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 03:06:43 GMT

The discussion is about RNG games,where software is required to generate numbers. We not talking about games like Powerball or Mega Million that uses ping pong balls.

What is a random number generator (rng)?

A random number generator (RNG) is a computational or physical device designed to generate a sequence of numbers or symbols that can not be reasonably predicted better than by a random chance.- Wiki.

Comment #8

cashflow1 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:44:02 GMT

Software??? What software? I could have sworn lottery drawings were by random balls...so what is the computer software used for

Comment #7

Todd — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:41:14 GMT

You'd have to check with the individual casino.

Comment #6

Bleudog101 — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:34:04 GMT

Thanks Todd, didn't know about Ontario's game and non-RNG.

Don't know what got into me after knowing our Keno game is RNG and played X3 today. Not even one dollar won. It would be too much to have balls come down almost continuously for the every 4' drawings, so RNG is the only way it can be down feasibly.

What about casinos, the few that offer Keno, do they use balls or computers

Comment #5

noise-gate — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:50:53 GMT

I see that Russell Lopez claims that CA s lottery system is sound - looking at their integrity series involving the lottery, it s easy to say yeah, the games are safe. But as we all know, if someone can program these infernal machines, they can be hacked. Saying they can t be hacked or manipulated is downright arrogance.

PS: Russell is talking about the procedure . : l guess his talking about the 24 hour cameras focused on the RNG machine revolving lights within. Well, thanks a lot Russell, w... [ More ]

Comment #4

Todd — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:26:32 GMT

You'd think with the number of lotteries using computers to draw their 5 Card Cash games that they were required but they are not. You can draw a poker-style game just fine with a traditional ball drawing.

Here is yesterday's drawing of the Ontario Lottery's Poker Lotto game:

The only games that require a computerized drawing would be a raffle game or a Quick Draw style Keno game, in which the drawings are held every 4 to 5 minutes. Everything else can be drawn with a ball machine, and... [ More ]

Comment #3

konane — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:05:28 GMT

I wish all lotteries everywhere would go back to ball drawings especially in the wake of this scandal and ongoing revelations about how Tipton did in fact manipulate the outcome with a couple of lines of coding.

This video on Lottery Post YouTube channel shows the extreme security that goes into ball drawings.

A look behind the scenes at Hoosier Lottery drawings

https://youtu.be/AA6P0wX7n0c

Comment #2

tnwinner — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:27:07 GMT

You are exactly right. RNGs are used to cheat the player and insure big bonuses for lottery officials. Tennessee uses an RNG and it is almost impossible to win. I believe as you do. I think it is time for new management her in Tennessee and a return to the balls. Some cash 4 drawings do not even have a .50 cent straight winner and payouts lower than $2000.00 This is proof Tennessee Lottery Officials are cheating the public.

Comment #1

Bleudog101 — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:44:11 GMT

Todd has been saying this for years. Get rid of RNG once and for all. Maybe complex games like 5 Card Cash that seem to require RNG need to go to. My feeling is you can't win those games, the computer already knows what wagers were placed on various symbols and never picks them. Never heard of a $100K here in Kentucky.

Infamous lottery scammer says US computerized lottery drawings remain fatally flawed

Lottery Post — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:32:31 GMT

Eddie Tipton warned them.

As the head of IT at the Multi-State Lottery Association, Tipton pulled aside his boss and told him the computer software that randomly selected the winning numbers for million-dollar games in as many as 17 states had a terrible flaw.

It wasn't really random.

Though his boss listened, Tipton told state investigators that other officials with the nation's chief lottery system did not. They told him to fix it, then moved on.

A disgruntled Tipton made some upda... [ More ]