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Pick 3 software failure in Kansas
Kansas Lottery Determines System Failure Caused Pick 3 Problems The winning numbers for the Kansas Lottery's Pick 3 drawings for December 16, 17 and 18, 2005, were identical and drawn in the same order: 5 0 9. The Kansas Lottery has now determined that the Pick 3 drawings for December 17 and 18, 2005 were the result of a failure of the drawing system being used. A hardware failure caused a reconfiguration of the system, and this caused the system to interact differently. The system chose the
Dec 23, 2005, 12:14 am - wreakshavok777 - Pick 3 Forum

Texas 1/27Reply
Thanks, Fairy...hope your 086 is drawn. My QP this morning is 086...got it early, just in case GTECH decides to halt sales because the computers produced numbers outside the standard deviation, as they have been known to do in the past.Good luck today
Jan 27, 2006, 10:08 am - MollyG - Pick 3 Forum

No more Pick 3 for Texas for nowReply
(Austin, June 17) - After suspending sales for the Texas Lottery Pick 3 game last evening, lottery officials announced the resumption of sales this morning after receiving assurances from GTECH Corporation, the lottery operator, that the computer coding problem that caused sales to be suspended has been corrected. Based on initial review, lottery officials do not believe the security or integrity of the Pick 3 game was compromised. Last evening's Pick 3 drawing was held as scheduled and the nu
Jun 17, 2005, 3:47 pm - CalifDude - Pick 3 Forum

North Carolina: 12/1 - 12/31/2013Reply
... most state lotteries hired a company called gtech , they handle the states lotteries and get paid and ungodly amount... the ball machines were random right? ... ok so how could this company promise the states lotteries that they would increase their revenues by such huge amounts... by using a machine that produces random numbers... instead of the balls .. random and random should yield the same amount of revenue right? basically this company has convinced most states lotteries that they woul
Dec 3, 2013, 1:36 am - ineedahit - Pick 3 Forum

Texas midReply
Blackie Congrats on the pair! I saw the Gtech man in the store today. He said he thinks the pick 3 will suffer when the Daily 4 Starts on Sept. 30 Fifty cents box 24-way will pay 100.00. Hmmm I have been waiting for this for a long time. I have a brochure. They have the sum it up for extra 50 cents. What do you all think?
Sep 11, 2007, 2:57 pm - Ms5PennieGen - Pick 3 Forum

New Jersey: 3/1 - 3/31/2015Reply
thanks lothob, waiting for them to drop that 579 I'm pretty sure they have someone monitoring these forums watching all of our postings and trying everything they can do to not let us hit. Like pre run the machine when the tv is off. That is the only way numbers that havent been out in months sometimes years , and all of a sudden these numbers show up 2 sometimes 3 times in the same month. I just cant' understand why NJ State lets a foreign company GtecH come into the states and rob us bl
Mar 18, 2015, 12:31 am - Number Boss - Pick 3 Forum