Calif. Lottery Daily Derby software glitch created faulty 'Quick Pick' tickets, possibly for years

Comment #8

Bleudog101 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:58:30 GMT

I'd say Eddie has a job out there...but then again no. If he was in charge of it there'd be winners left and right.

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justadream — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:33:06 GMT

in other words....they were cheating

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Stat$talker — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:02:55 GMT

Statistical quality control dropped the ball .

Nooo, LOz wuz intentionally holdin on to the Winning ballz. .dat wuzz no Software glitch..!!

If mor folkz playin THAT Game had been uzin Probability Math , they woulda caught their BS a loooong time ago..

Comment #5

cottoneyedjoe — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:16:22 GMT

Will the CA Lottery ever put this game out to pasture? It takes forever for the jackpot to roll over to an amount that's worth it and the lower prizes are crap.

Comment #4

noise-gate — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:20:56 GMT

* Lousy game- congratulations to those players that see a windfall from this particular game.

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Wavepack — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:14:56 GMT

Statistical quality control dropped the ball. Sampling should have caught that software bug. Was the statistician hired/consulted based on merit, or was this another case of a DEI screw-up?

Hire a person with lots of stochastic process algorithm debugging experience. Really now, these types of programming errors should be caught before going to production.

Comment #2

Lotterologist — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:44:50 GMT

A $100,000.00 boost for only 12 days???

That's the lottery.

Comment #1

Droptop209 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:41:43 GMT

Just hit 10 years playing CA lotto. Not 1 time have I ever seen someone play this game.

Calif. Lottery Daily Derby software glitch created faulty 'Quick Pick' tickets, possibly for years

Lottery Post — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 23:55:10 GMT

Lottery announces game promotion to account for error

Error only happened under certain conditions

By Kate Northrop

The California Lottery's Daily Derby game was affected by a software glitch that could potentially limit the number of possible combinations a player could receive on their ticket, if their plays were purchased in specific ways.

Following the discovery of a software error in the Daily Derby game, the California Lottery announced a compensatory promotion that will in... [ More ]