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Error caused S.D. Lottery to suspend Wild Card validationsNews Story
The South Dakota Lottery temporarily halted validations for Wild Card 2 lotto tickets for the June 9 drawing to correct an error with the winning numbers. An incorrect Wild Card was inadvertently entered into the system after the draw. The winning numbers for that drawing were 4, 5, 9, 15 and 21 and the Wild Card King of Diamonds. The Wild Card was initially incorrectly entered as the Jack of Diamonds. The error was discovered Thursday afternoon by the Lottery, and all validations were sto
Jun 13, 2010, 8:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

Players can get credit for Iowa lottery errorNews Story
The Iowa Lottery says it will pay qualified players after an operator error on its computer system vendor interrupted its Big Beepin' Deal promotion. Officials say any player who made a qualifying purchase on Sunday, Monday and part of Tuesday can receive a $20 bonus by mailing the ticket to the lottery. Officials say the error prevented the promotion from running for a time. The Big Beepin' Deal began May 3. For every 20th purchase statewide of a $10 Powerball with a Power Play option,
May 27, 2009, 10:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

Let's make up our own rules.. and Make em' pay us anyway!Reply
I think I will either cry....or shoot myself in the face ! I just spent 45 min. doing a follow up post to this with facts and figures as to how it may be helpful and how to use it well. I have done this several times before when finished and this..is what I got for my trouble......... Again ...and again...and ..... hit the back button...and Poof! all of it gone. I quit ! Error Error An error occured on the page you tried to access. If this error occured on a page th
Aug 2, 2006, 12:43 pm - WIN D - Pick 4 Forum

CT Lottery security chief on paid leave following review of botched raffle drawNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. has placed its $139,000-a-year year security director, Alfred DuPuis, on a paid leave pending possible disciplinary action after an internal investigation concluded that he acted with gross neglect... of his duties leading up to a million-dollar blunder in a Jan. 1 drawing. (See Connecticut Lottery forced to redraw special New Year's raffle after 'human error', Lottery Post, Jan. 2, 2018.) Interim lottery CEO Chelsea Turner imposed the leave Thursday. That was
Feb 17, 2018, 8:28 pm - 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

Neural Net Lottery PickerReply
a new trial for tonight loto 5/49 (results in one hour) shop closed ... but let's see 02-40-01-28-43-;7,58841504124247;0,511536395753787;0,419165492748023;19:19:02.3769919;Learning Rate:9,9E-05| Noise:0,25|Threshold Error:0,1|Hidden Neurons:200|Test Data Range:29;) 34-02-14-11-39-;7,38246306943065;0,504547016688567;0,378664273304976;19:22:25.1130542;Learning Rate:9,9E-05| Noise:0,25|Threshold Error:0,1|Hidden Neurons:200|Test Data Range:29;) 02-08-35-38-48-;7,2462563739919;0,49987089277
Aug 17, 2016, 1:32 pm - jlg69 - Mathematics Forum

That sinking feeling you get when you find an error in a formula
Did Microsoft change something in the index() formula? I found an error that I had not seen before in the last 15 years. I should have validated the spreadsheet and recorded why I made some decision more often. I don't recall why I needed to start the index at 1, but that made every number from that point forward need a -1 to fix it. Today, the resultant array was wrong. I set the index to start at 0 and remove the -1 fix and everything was better. What mistakes have you made along the road t
Dec 22, 2015, 9:17 am - GoogilyMoogily - Lottery Systems Forum

Neural Net Lottery PickerReply
To Developer; It would be cool if you can integrate a chart that can show Gradient descent marginal error. Also, does any one know if I can guide my self by the column of Last Error? I wonder if this column shows what the last marginal error was thus to find the output? Thank you.
Dec 21, 2015, 11:11 am - osmannica2001 - Mathematics Forum

Ohio Pick 3 Overdue VtracReply
Dave notified me of an error with the dates in the draws tab were not updating. The error is when you add a new drawing the dates are not correct. Fixed the error. Here is the new link: http://www.box.net/shared/bvv1oejkid
Feb 10, 2010, 11:43 pm - winsumloosesum - Pick 3 Forum

Pick-5 Number Strategy
After playing the lottery games for the past 8 yrs off and on and winning mostly in the cash-3 straight from 2001-2003 using lottery software,i have finally discovered in my opinion the best way at possibly HITTING a PICK-5 jackpot.Currently after much trial and error i am using a method that selects 22 numbers and generates 5 combos for 3/4 number hits and 15 combos for 4/5 number hits.The 22 number selection strategy is an idea i got from one of Steve Players Systems called the PICK-5 CASHFLEX
Oct 25, 2008, 1:47 pm - Pick-5Player - Lottery Systems Forum