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California couple face felony charges for stealing $135 worth of Iowa Lottery ticketsReply
In this area, greater Louisville, all of the machines that I've encountered are touchscreen. There are still the old style IGT machines here and there, especially from what I've seen outlying areas. Not sure if they're being replaced. One ticket seems to have misprinted for me on a draw game and could not be scanned anywhere. Looked it up and of course not a winner! Often wonder why QRS codes aren't used on lotto tickets, especially scratch ones.
Jan 12, 2024, 6:24 am - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

California couple face felony charges for stealing $135 worth of Iowa Lottery ticketsReply
Bought Cash Ball tickets at a Five Star and the scanner, kiosks and terminal couldn't scan them. Never had a problem scanning scratchers. Thought it was a printer problem with the kiosk and bought tickets from the terminal. None of their scanners could read them either. Are the touch screen kiosk IGT machines?
Jan 11, 2024, 10:05 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

$1.55 BILLION: Biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever to be drawn TuesdayReply
I just did, there she was on the big blue IGT machine ready to bite me. Trucker came in. Rig #249, so played that straight for mid-day.
Aug 7, 2023, 1:16 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

Accidental lottery ticket purchase nets Maryland couple $2 million in PowerballReply
Not sure if your comment was directed to me and I don't know what some of your acronyms mean (WOF, IGT etc) I'm currently in Texas, a huge lotto state and it's shocking how out of shape these machines are and how unreliable they are. I've lost money by the machines double printing tickets either from me pressing the push buttons or using my app QR code. This happens over and over again at multiple machines and I've contacted the lottery and they are very non chalant, we appreciate your feed
Apr 11, 2024, 9:39 pm - goldfish777 - Lottery News

Kentucky woman quits job after winning $90,000 in the lotteryReply
Just like one of the old NYC hotels that had a machine in the basement to wash those nasty coins. Probably long gone. Did comment this morning on their general FB page that 'sure going to miss the #'s hot-line'. It got to be a pain in the a-- to do things on the phone. IGT putting out too many updates and things just never seemed right so gave up. I do use it @ home. Oh, last four of my cell phone came in box last night. Week before it came in straight...of course I never play it!!
Apr 4, 2024, 9:43 am - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

$1.55 BILLION: Biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever to be drawn TuesdayReply
For those who this is offered, is anyone going to do 'Just the Jackpot?' Sometimes I do, but not certain if the IGT machine end of road even has this on the screen. Usually play it @ home, but no money in there to play!! It appears from their answer that Kentucky will cut separate checks for group play annuity win. Kind of surprised me. Will check later to see if they responded to my reply that if it were up to me it would be cash option multi checks cut...but I don't write the rules do
Aug 7, 2023, 12:27 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

PRNGs and CyclesReply
To my knowledge the best way to mitigate this is to use a true random seeding method for the PRNG, like from a hardware RNG that uses atmospheric noise, in the broadest sense. The language that a PRNG is implemented in and the device's operating system also affect the performance of a PRNG. It's unlikely that IGT and Scientific Games use Python on the back end of the devices they sell to state lotteries, I believe the operating systems they use are proprietary, though I suspect they are usin
Jul 28, 2023, 6:59 pm - cottoneyedjoe - Mathematics Forum