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Tenn. Lottery asks firms to pay cost for errorNews Story
Letters seeking $1.4 million are sent to 2 vendors Tennessee Lottery officials have asked two vendors to pay a total of $1.4 million to make up for losses caused by a computer coding error that compromised the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games in August. Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul Hargrove and two board members disclosed the figure during a meeting Tuesday with The Tennessean's editorial board. Letters demanding the payment were sent to Smartplay International, the vendor that supplied the computer
Oct 31, 2007, 7:35 am - Todd - Lottery News

Computerized lottery drawing glitch picks same numbers for 3 daysReply
Jack,That's what I've been trying to say ever since I started the petition. With computerized drawings, the lottery draw operators cannot possibly see what program code is actually generating the numbers every night, so there's no way for them to have the slightest clue if they are being scammed by a hacker or insider. The only way they can know everything is OK is by guessing -- looking at the results and trying to somehow sense if something is wrong.Now we clearly see the results of th
Dec 23, 2005, 8:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

Basic charting [The starting point]Reply
Ohio players and others,There is an error on the top chart for the data entry for april box numbers.I was taking breaks while setting up the worksheet which created the error.Missed it while double checking the work. Caught the error this pm while checking drawn results against the worksheet.JohnQuote: Originally posted by JAP69 on May 26, 2003 I list the drawn numbers in box order on this chart. [Lowest digit to highest]. look up , down and across the chart and you will see where the pairs come
May 26, 2003, 6:20 pm - JAP69 - Lottery Systems Forum

Human error caused expensive Va. Lottery mistakeNews Story
New Game Generated More Than 600 Winning Tickets Debra and Raul Bennett are faithful lottery players, though in nearly 15 years of playing they never had won much more than pocket money. So on Sunday, when the retired Hampton, Va., couple realized they had a winning ticket from the Virginia Lottery's brand-new Fast Play Super 7s game, they were ecstatic. Plans for spending the $7,777 the game's top prize came fast and furious. But when the Bennetts went to the Hampton Virginia Lottery o
Oct 22, 2008, 6:44 pm - Todd - Lottery News

chad g petey told me it only gives numbers that "appear random"Reply
Generally training data would be to take a data set and split it up, maybe the first 70% for training an AI model, and the last 30% for testing the model. You can change parameters on the model and redo the test data until it becomes more accurate. The error function measures how far off the predictions are off from the test data, then the computer learns to reduce the error by applying techniques like gradient descent to find a minimum error level, and adjusts the model (the weights applied
Jul 26, 2025, 6:45 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

SC Lottery not paying winnings on game because of 'programming error'Reply
I'd assumed it was simply a printing error, such as too many winning symbols shown. Based on the report, that's exactly what it was. Sort of. The tickets were printed incorrectly, but it was obviously a flaw in the software that resulted in the printing error. Since something caused the software to incorrectly print the tickets so that they appear to be winners it seems perfectly reasonable that those tickets would appear to be winners when they're checked against what's likely to be the sa
Dec 29, 2017, 3:42 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Virginia: 9/1 - 9/30/2015Reply
I found an error in my back-checking program. Rats. Funny thing is, the error only affected some numbers and not others, and it happened that the two numbers I checked the program against manually were not affected by the error, so I completely missed it. Oops! What passes for good news here is that the error was easy to fix (way easier to fix than it was to find, that's for sure). Anyway, here is the output for today from my workup combined with the corrected back-check program. 001 072 072
Sep 4, 2015, 6:52 am - factorX - Pick 3 Forum

Warning Black list of online play sites/guess who is on the list?Reply
Hi Todd. My post certainly wasn't to promote the entity, convince anyone, or anything like that as I do respect you and your rules here. The case with Dan , though, seemed to have a red flag upon discovery of a bad (inflated) line. Seems he actually felt uneasy about the 7000:1 deal which made perfect sense. You know the old cliche, 'If it sounds (or looks in this case) too good to be true then it probably isn't. Personally, I would've never touched that bet and he shouldn't have either. However
May 29, 2014, 7:06 pm - Lucky Loser - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia winners may have to pay for Lottery's mistakeReply
Statement From The Virginia Lottery About Fast Play Super 7s October 20, 2008 The Virginia Lottery sincerely apologizes for the error with its new game Fast Play Super 7 s. Unfortunately, there was a technical problem when the software was loaded on the computer gaming system. The problem caused misprinted tickets. Thanks to the Lottery s retail partners, the error was caught by 9:00 a.m. Sunday, October 19 and the Lottery stopped selling the game immediately. The Lottery sold
Oct 22, 2008, 8:21 am - jump1900 - Lottery News

Getting Error Popup Window
This help topic deals with error popup windows on the Lottery Post web site. There are many types of error popups, some generated by Lottery Post, and some generated by your web browser. We will show you common error windows generated by Lottery Post, but because of the number of possible browser and operating system combinations, it would be difficult to show all the possible browser-generated popups. See your browser documentation (or Google) for those. Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerP
Jul 18, 2007, 11:11 am - Todd - Help