Wisconsin Lottery sorts mixup on Badger 5 numbers

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CASH Only — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:59:07 GMT

Cheating themselves.

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Nikki846 — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:05:04 GMT

They are cheating no doubt

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vincejr — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:40:16 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by golotto on April 14, 2004also, i can't understand for the life of me why the lottery manually fills in three forms following the drawing. just manually fill in one official form. why don't they take some of that money saved from cutting televised drawings and utilize a notebook computer to enter the official numbers from the one official form and print out duplicates (if copies are actually needed)...the copies would then be error free. manually filling out forms is j... [ More ]

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golotto — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:56:45 GMT

also, i can't understand for the life of me why the lottery manually fills in three forms following the drawing. just manually fill in one official form. why don't they take some of that money saved from cutting televised drawings and utilize a notebook computer to enter the official numbers from the one official form and print out duplicates (if copies are actually needed)...the copies would then be error free. manually filling out forms is just asking for trouble. the fallibility of humans is... [ More ]

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golotto — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:59:21 GMT

I always said that Wisconsin shouldn't stop televising their lottery draws. I sure miss seeing the draws on tv. If I recall correctly they called it a cost cutting measure. Even if they didn't show the actual Badger 5 draw but simply displayed the B5 numbers during what used to be the evening 6/36 SuperCash draw...it probably would have avoided this mess. Arguably, someone certainly might have caught the error sooner if the numbers had also been televised along with what 'used to be' various li... [ More ]

Wisconsin Lottery sorts mixup on Badger 5 numbers

Lottery Post — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:25:22 GMT

The Wisconsin Lottery will pay on two sets of winning numbers from Monday's Badger 5 drawing after a mix-up caused confusion over which five numbers were actually drawn, a lottery official said Tuesday.The Wisconsin Lottery sent the media a winning combination of three, five, 15, 19 and 29, the correct numbers drawn Monday night, spokesman Andrew Bohage said. But lottery employees mistakenly substituted a 25 for the 29 in the numbers posted on its Web site.Bohage said neither combination produce... [ More ]