More shenannigans from the Illinois Lottery

Reply #17

tiggs95 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:05:28 GMT

Never mind Coin Toss I got it..

shenannigan... Trickery,foolery,nonsense,trecacherous actions,a treacherous act..Sound like fix to me ...but that's just me..

Reply #16

tiggs95 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:00:29 GMT

Then what do you mean by shenannigans?..

Reply #15

Coin Toss — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:05:23 GMT

four4me

I guess you didn't see this in my prior post -

I didn't say fixed, I said shenannigans .

Reply #14

four4me — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:01:14 GMT

Nobody won the Lil lotto jackpot tonight so i guess by your post the fix wasn't in. It was an equipment failure maybe it was operator error.

In Maryland they will not be showing live televised drawings on Sunday nights during football season. There is no live televised drawings on Saturday midday because of cartoons some Fed law which states no gambling activities can be aired while children's programing is scheduled nor are the Saturday midday drawings archived on the MD lottery website Tele... [ More ]

Reply #13

Coin Toss — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:07:01 GMT

Well, tonight was an instant reply for the Little Lotto..... technical difficulties .

Guess they didn't get the machine fixed in a day.

tiggs95,

Search this site or the internet for Pennsylvania lottery scandal . In fact, I think there's soemrhing in the News forum from a few months back about the guy who was involved having passed away.

Reply #12

tiggs95 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:02 GMT

GASMETERGUY..I have never heard of anyone cheating like you said..I'll check into it and see if what you say is true..I also don't like RGN and we have it here in Ky in our 3 line lotto game..Other then that we have ping pong balls...Good luck..

Reply #11

GASMETERGUY — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:13:42 GMT

If memory serves me correctly ( and it usually doesn't) are there not about three people from the Kentucky lottory in jail right now convicted of rigging one of Kentucky's lotto games? Something about putting a drop or two of water in several ping pong balls which restricted the chances of them popping up?

If anyone knows the correct state, please make the necessary correction.

And to those of you who trust explicitedly in RNG states conducting a fair drawing, keep on trusting. I, for one... [ More ]

Reply #10

tiggs95 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:58:30 GMT

bomatt...Go over to the pick 3 page and look down at the post PING PONG BALLS and look at what KingAtl has to say about the lottery and ping pong balls..

Reply #9

tiggs95 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:52:38 GMT

Thanks bomatt..Your post this morning at 11am made perfect sense..The lottery in each state is regulated and regulated well..

Reply #8

bomatt — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:08:53 GMT

Of course no glitches occur in the pre-test.

Murphy ensures that.

Reply #7

tiggs95 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:47:50 GMT

Coin Toss read my post again I said shenannigans..I'ver been playing the lottery since the mid 80's when I lived in Fla and have heard of mistakes (we all make them) but have yet heard of a lottery cheating or as you call it shenannigans..Good luck..

Reply #6

Coin Toss — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:45:53 GMT

rdgrnr,

We're way downstate (closer to Nashville, TN than Chicago) so we don't get the news every night, but when we do the drawing is live at 9:22 PM Central Time.

When they have technical difficulties they jjst post the numbers from that drawing on the screen later on in the broadcast, like they do when there's a Cubs, White sox, Bears, Bulls, or Blackhawks game on.

As I've posted beore, this happens often enough to make you wonder.

Last night was the first time I've seen them just... [ More ]

Reply #5

rdgrnr — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:26:34 GMT

Hey Coin Toss,

Did they show it live or taped later in the broadcast?

I'm not saying it's fixed either but opportunities can arrise if you know what I mean.

Stranger things have happened with a wink and a nod (I grew up in Chicago).

Reply #4

Coin Toss — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:58:16 GMT

tiggs95, bomatt,

I didn't say fixed, I said shenannigans.

The pre-test is supposed to amke sure there are no glitches, no mechanical (ball drawing) mishaps, so the live drawing goes smoothly.

Do a search and there are plenty of pre-test discussions here on LP.

Reply #3

Ice Man — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:44:17 GMT

i happen to know someone who works for KPMG (the auditors of the illinois state lottery) and he says its all on the up and up. everything is tested, the balls are weighed before and after the drawings, the machines are tested etc etc.

he said it was almost overkill how much security they take into account for this.

i should ask about the raffle drawings tho - a lottery official told me a computer makes the selections - GREAT!

why wouldnt they at least have the 4 million dollar winn... [ More ]

Reply #2

bomatt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:17:50 GMT

How can the lotteries be unfair?

Someone wins, if someone does not win, it rollsover.

When it rollsover, more play and a greater chance of someone winning the pot.

Since it is a quasigovernment corporation, it is not like a casino to where the

house benefits. In a lottery, the house is not the workers or the owners.

A non-winner does not benefit them.

Reply #1

tiggs95 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:45:19 GMT

If you don't trust the lottery don't play it..I use to go to the race track with a friend in the 80's and he would say the races was fixed..To me that's a sign of a loser..All the lottery games in every state is regulated and are watched closley..If I thougt the lottery was being unfair and shenannigans was happeniing I'd quit so until the lottery is not proved they are cheating I'll keep buying tickets..

More shenannigans from the Illinois Lottery

Coin Toss — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:33:35 GMT

Tonight on WGN-TV when they showed the drawing, they did the Pick 3, the Pick 4, then the Lotto (Pick 6), skipping the Little Lotto (Pick 5), which always comes before the Lotto..

When they announced the Lotto they said the jackpot was $12 million, but it wan't, it was $7 million.

Then they said due to technical difficultires the Little Lotto results would be shown later in the broadcast.

Illinois still uses balls, thank goodness, but so much for a pre-test I guess.