Iowa Lottery blames "human reporting error" for posting incorrect Powerball results

Comment #13

Wavepack — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:10:20 GMT

Saving your lotto receipts and scratcher cards for a year is also good for tax purposes. If you itemize your deductions and want to successfully defend against an IRS audit, then it makes sense to save them for a year.

Saving them for a year is also useful for 2nd chance online entry every quarter year or so, if your State has that lotto incentive.

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Comment #12

Sasha — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:53:08 GMT

This must be the most ridiculous check and balance system I've ever seen. Everyone knows that it doesn't matter how many people independently enter the data, there should always be another set of eyes, who didn't do the data entry, signing off that the data entered is accurate.

I know someone somewhere decided that the probability of 2 people entering the same inaccurate numbers would be next to nil, but they work for the lottery, where the chances of winning are also next to nil and yet it... [ More ]

Comment #11

winterhug — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 11:48:26 GMT

Saving all your tickets for an entire year unless they are winners is a good thing to do. Unfortunately most people don't do that, which is why there are more and more unclaimed lottery jackpots each year. Other things play into it as well, there are a lot of new people who play the lottery and don't understand the prize scale. They will throw a ticket away if ALL the numbers don't match the numbers drawn that night. They don't realize prized can still be won if only some of the numbers match. I... [ More ]

Comment #10

Artist77 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:55:45 GMT

I had a related question. How does LP and Todd get all the state lottery numbers posted so quickly? I know someone cannot be typing in all those numbers.

Comment #9

rcbbuckeye — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:29:04 GMT

I save every ticket I buy for the entire year, unless it is a winner in which it's surrendered when cashed in.

Comment #8

grwurston — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:56:11 GMT

I guess the best thing to do would be to save them until at least the next drawing and check them a second time. By then any errors should be corrected and reposted.

Comment #7

Todd — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:23:49 GMT

That's always the scenario that bothers me as well.

Comment #6

grwurston — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:30:00 GMT

I wonder how many people went on the website during the suspension to check their PB tickets and saw the DP numbers and said, Well I didn't win and then trashed the tickets. Then later on heard about the wrong numbers being posted and were panicking trying to find their tickets thinking what if...

Comment #5

CDanaT — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:21:15 GMT

The quality control/checks and balances system is alive and kicking at the Iowa Lottery, I see.....Bless their lil hearts.

Comment #4

Bleudog101 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:18:33 GMT

Maybe Tipton was up to his shenanigans again. I too thought the #'s were transposed electronically, not electrically (lol). On our lottery website it says not responsible for posting wrong numbers.

Like I wrote to Todd Kate our lottery machines grey out on all draw games from 0200-0500 so you may not play or check #'s. Perhaps someone from Iowa could elaborate on this

Comment #3

DELotteryPlyr — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:13:41 GMT

How would they pay the WRONG numbers? So they are saying a human ENTERS the winning numbers into their system, which would then explain how they paid the wrong numbers. I guess I thought MUSL would send each state systems the numbers electrically so their system would not be able to pay the wrong numbers.

Comment #2

Lotterologist — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:11:14 GMT

As long as they paid the winners of the original numbers, it's okay.

Comment #1

JustMaybe — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:42:30 GMT

The Iowa Lottery reported the incident as human reporting error and that, my friends, is what it was and nothing else.

Trying to spin another conspiracy theory won't be beneficial to anyone.

Onward we forge ahead, got my MM with MP for Fridays drawing.

I believe winning the lottery jackpot is a % factor of luck.

M ay F ortuna , goddess of chance or lot vindicate me.

Iowa Lottery blames "human reporting error" for posting incorrect Powerball results

Lottery Post — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:12:58 GMT

Players who claimed prizes under wrong numbers can keep their winnings

By Kate Northrop

The Iowa Lottery attributed posting the wrong Powerball numbers on their website for Monday's draw to a human reporting error and told players who already redeemed prizes that they can keep the winnings.

Several hours after the wrong Powerball numbers were posted on the Iowa Lottery's website the night of the drawing on Mon., Nov. 27, the Lottery removed the incorrect sequence and republished the... [ More ]