Illinois lottery, everything looks different.

Reply #23

arms1970 — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:09:59 GMT

Yea, corruption at its finest. Now they want to have a bag tax for the whole state of il. Next legalizing pot. This state will still cry broke. It is time for me to leave.

Reply #22

lottery lady — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 23:00:43 GMT

2/24

They need to bring the live drawing back.

This computerized is awful. I like to watch

the live drawing. I was told the reason

they took it away because it was to expensive

for advertisement. Then they should of look

for another way . Maybe u tube.

The problem I m having the last 2 days.

My cards arnt working. It says to many marks.

When i dont. Also if they punch in 1.00 st

pick 3 all trips. There only coming out 50 cents

straight.

Reply #21

arms1970 — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 23:10:50 GMT

The machine is worse, and i saw it 2 months ago when they started the install and didn't go online. I posted a message about it. It's AWFUL for pick 3 and pick 4 players. Speed, and multiple seperate tickets. if you want to play a number 20 X its slow as hell. Awful. My guy lets me use the machine myself. I sometimes play alot of numbers. Just awful system. It better improve, or this state willl end up losing millions.

Reply #20

Coin Toss — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 05:01:18 GMT

Yup, sure did

Oh yeah also at the same store with the new machine, this sign is posted at the service counter;

We are unable to cash any winning lottery tickets at this time

Sorry for the inconvenience

Reply #19

Sarge0202 — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 02:08:02 GMT

did you use the new play slips

Reply #18

Coin Toss — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:51:55 GMT

So much for the new machines...I filled out a play slip for the evening pick 3, back pair, $1.

Put a dollar in the machines, inserted the play slip, and it kep telling me Insufficient funds to play .

Reply #17

Sarge0202 — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:51:57 GMT

Woohoo! Unclaimed scratch list is up. Link at bottom of main page, or here.

https://www.illinoislottery.com/about-the-games/unpaid-instant-games-prizes

Reply #16

Coin Toss — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:32:09 GMT

I'm surprised with the changes in the play slips and tickets there's still no multi-play option on the Lucky Day Lotto play slips.

Reply #15

Sarge0202 — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:06:21 GMT

OK looking thru the FAQ file I see something about the scratcher list:

Why did you change the Unclaimed Instant Ticket Prizes List?

We have made improvements to the Unclaimed Instant Ticket Prizes list by increasing the frequency of list posting and adding additional information to it. The list is now updated every few minutes and lists unclaimed prizes at ALL prize levels.

How can I see the Unclaimed Instant Ticket Prizes List on my phone?

Once you load the Illinois Lottery webs... [ More ]

Reply #14

uprrman — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:05:38 GMT

so can we play more than one drawing now

Reply #13

hurley1333 — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:22:02 GMT

Coin Toss: I probably got too effusive in my praise of the new web site because it now includes the payout info for pick 3 and pick 4. The search features you mention as well as te ability to copy and paste were a big help. The old site was pretty versatile and excel friendly.

Sarge: By payout information, I mean the number of winners for each prize category. Previously, this info was restricted to Mega, Power-B, Lotto and Lucky Day. It has now been expanded to include Pick 3 and 4.

I bet... [ More ]

Reply #12

Sarge0202 — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:02:18 GMT

Coin Toss,

There was a feature where you could pick a game and punch in combinations to see if they had ever hit.......I used to do it with Little Lotto for hours and 4 of 5 would show up once in a blue moon, 5 of 5 never. Showed how tough it is.

This can be done here on LP

https://www.lotterypost.com/results/search

Unfortunately, they have midday and evening as 2 separate queries.

Reply #11

Sarge0202 — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:58:28 GMT

Hurley,

The inability to copy paste winning numbers is major if you use that to predict numbers. Like hell if I am going to manually re-enter in every games numbers.

The payout information looks no different, the old one had the combos, the payout amount, and the number of winners, where do you see more ?

Are you sure the management took over Jan 1? Lots of places I see they took over July 1.

Camelot on July 1 replaced Northstar Lottery Group,

I see the Illlinois lottery website s... [ More ]

Reply #10

Coin Toss — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 06:14:56 GMT

hurley1333,

Just my opinion but the site two or three 'generations' back was a lot better.

There was a feature where you could pick a game and punch in combinations to see if they had ever hit.......I used to do it with Little Lotto for hours and 4 of 5 would show up once in a blue moon, 5 of 5 never. Showed how tough it is.

It's not just state lottery sites though.

The Kansas City Royals had a feature on their site where you could put in a seat number and get a view of the ball fie... [ More ]

Reply #9

hurley1333 — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 04:51:08 GMT

I am loving the new website for the Illinois lottery. Apart from the minor inconvenience of not being able to copy and paste, the draws have significantly more payout information for all games. This is in keeping with (and even exceeding) the info presented by other regional lotteries.

I guess the other missing bits such as scratch info will come on line shortly. They go their basics right on first launch

Finally, I notice that ever since the new management took over in January, Luck Day i... [ More ]

Reply #8

Coin Toss — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:03:15 GMT

Sarge0202,

There's a sign on the new machine that says see the clerk if you have more than a $25 winner.

There's a woman who plays at the same store and she told me a couple of times she's won $5000 and had to go to Fairview Heights to collect the winnings (closest lottery check cashing station to us )........I didn't know you could do this but she said they asked her to pose for a picture so they could put it on the monitors state wide nd she said No Way.

Reply #7

Sarge0202 — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:28:27 GMT

Not really, no date range, and something like 20 results per page.

Also copy and paste the I get, for one draw:

Monday, February 18, 2019

Evening

222243537

The old site had easy to parse data like this:

02/12/2019 Evening Lucky Day Lotto 17-20-23-26-33

02/12/2019 Midday Lucky Day Lotto 05-09-15-20-32

The new site has the draw numbers in cute graphics and I can't copy ANYTHING from it.

And since they don't list the remaining scratcher tickets and prizes, I assume... [ More ]

Reply #6

LottoBux — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:05:33 GMT

At Least You Have The Option To Search Past Draw History At LP

Pick 3 4...Lucky Day...Ill Lotto...MM/PB

https://www.lotterypost.com/results/il

Search Past Illinois Lotto Drawings

Reply #5

Sarge0202 — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:10:59 GMT

Well the web page is up, and it sucks!

No past history search, like the old system. MY easily dumping data for me to import to my programs with are gone. So no more buying the jackpot games.

No list of scratcher tickets with how many unwon prizes listed, so no buying scratchers because I won't know if top prizes are gone.

I was finally able to scan my old scratchers at a scanner, but I can't check my Lucky Day tickets, old or new.

Well they lost a loyal customer till they get th... [ More ]

Reply #4

Sarge0202 — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:02:51 GMT

The webpage is not up yet, but they did update it with will be back Tuesday, February 19 message.

My favorite gas station still hasn't installed the customer side scanner.

I haven't tried the new ticket vending machines. I wonder if they handle a 30$ winner now.

Reply #3

Raven62 — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 06:45:37 GMT

Great Words to Live By:

http://simmymart.blogspot.com/2012/07/5ps-6ps-7ps-10ps-and-12-ps.html

Reply #2

Coin Toss — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 04:58:37 GMT

Sarge0202,

I was going to say there's always 1-800-252-1775 but it 'died' at the drawing results What game would you like prompt.

Reply #1

Sarge0202 — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:20:50 GMT

And they can't scan the older tickets from yesterday.

https://www.illinoislottery.com/ still not up.

It's a massive statewide upgrade with thousands of locations and basically having the store employees hook up equipment. At the gas station I normally go to, the manager who went to the class was off today.

Thank god the PB or MM prizes aren't high this week.

I talked with someone last week and they were told to swap the pick slips on Jan 1.

Illinois lottery, everything looks different.

Coin Toss — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:24:50 GMT

The new machines are now lit up, the play slips look different, the tickets look different.........

one grocery store had all the service desk employees wearing Illinois lottery tee shirts.......

and the machine wasn't working.......

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