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Florida Lottery's repeat winners don't always come out aheadReply
goodness gracious joe. i am just relaying info on payouts. you have it wrong in massacusetts where i reside. they draw a 4 digit number twice daily now. you can either play all 4 or 1st 3 or last 3 or middle 2 (which would suit you i guess). everyone here at least knows you must buy the 3 digit play in .50 increments to avoid the taxes.(you didn't) the payoffs here average 700.00 for 3 opposed to your paltry 500.00 in some of the states in which you ply through. being that as it may, i understan
May 17, 2012, 7:20 pm - faber98 - Lottery News

Results of some Wisconsin lottery games delayedNews Story
Results of three evening drawings of Wisconsin Lottery games were delayed Saturday night.Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage said the lottery has two computer systems whose information about wagers statewide and other details must match up exactly to call the results a legitimate drawing.He said a problem or discrepancy in the systems Saturday evening delayed the drawings for the Megabucks, SuperCash and Badger 5 games.State lottery staff, police and several independent auditors were cut off from ou
Oct 18, 2004, 8:07 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery declares 'foul' during Nov. 7 Cash 5 drawingReply
That may be the case but I doubt it and if a ball machine does make a foul it is noticeable and may only happen once in a while as opposed to the RNG systems which can screw the players for up to a month before the problem will be recognized. And that is a proven fact.
Nov 9, 2008, 10:11 am - Dead_Aim - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery officials mull GTECH systems failureNews Story
Kansas Lottery officials already had more than their hands full with the selection of gaming license applicants for their four casinos so they really didn't need another problem. But, there it is: a casino data systems failure from GTECH, the Providence-RI-based firm that manages the state's lottery activities. It was defective software, pure and simple, said Ed Van Petten, lottery executive director, in describing the systems failure. GTECH, a former publicly-traded American company, was
Jul 15, 2008, 11:00 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery threatens to go computerizedReply
There are no telling how many glitches big or small that exist in the memory banks and storage systems of computerized drawing systems, because lottery players have no way to visually inspect the drawing as it takes place. Wasn't there a problem a year or so ago with Kansas where they drew the same number for a couple of days because of a computer glitch???
Jul 17, 2007, 2:34 pm - KyMystikal - Lottery News

Software error stalls validation of some winning D.C. lottery ticketsNews Story
Glitch delayed winnings for several dozen ticketholders; cause still sought A mysterious software bug in 17 lottery machines used by the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board in Washington left several dozen winning instant ticketholders unable to immediately cash their prize tickets last week. The problem, according to Jay Young, chief operating officer of the lottery board, was tracked to the proprietary software that validates instant tickets with winning numbers, but the exac
May 9, 2008, 8:46 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery-ticket company wooing TennesseeNews Story
Already the country's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, Scientific Games International is now moving into online gaming and hopes to make Tennessee its newest customer.The Alpharetta, Ga.-based company is one of the companies competing for both the instant and online contracts for the new Tennessee games. Lottery giant GTECH Corp. of Rhode Island is also in the bidding.Scientific Games provides in-stant tickets for two-thirds of state lotteries and more than 50 other countries, and op
Nov 17, 2003, 4:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Minnesota Lottery confirms technical communications error delayed $2 billion Powerball drawingNews Story
Lottery staff and vendors overloaded by sales data By Kate Northrop The Minnesota Lottery confirmed yesterday that the cause for the delayed $2 billion Powerball drawing was a technical communications error brought on by an overwhelming amount of sales data. If you recall the Powerball fever that took over the nation this past week, you'll also remember the ten-hour delay before the drawing took place. When the drawing did finally occur Tuesday morning, it turns out that just one
Nov 11, 2022, 4:03 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$32 million Mega Millions ticket claimed in LA areaReply
First off,I wasn't saying that California SHOULD tax lottery winnings.I was just wondering out loud WHY THEY DON T tax lottery winnings when their state is BANKRUPT. Secondly,I don't advocate the legalizing of ALL drugs because I've seen what drugs do to people.Legalizing marijuana is one thing but legalizing other drugs is quite another thing altogether.I don't and won't lump ALL drugs into the the same catagory as harmless drugs.Marijuana is harmless in its natural form but when it is laced
Jun 19, 2012, 8:39 am - Cletu$2 - Lottery News

At least 2 lottery winners will split record $370 million jackpotReply
Wow! Here it is almost 9:30 am on 03/07/07 and California still can't get it together to allow venders to cash any winning tickets... They can be checked, but the machine says that they cannot be paid. Is this any way to run a multibillion dollar enterprise? What ever happened to no fault computing ... Hey, how about some reduntant systems? ... like the airlines... and even they process more data than the lottery... and they do it 24/7... come on CA show us why we pay such high commissions and
Mar 7, 2007, 12:29 pm - justclayton - Lottery News