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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

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

Iowa Lottery blames "human reporting error" for posting incorrect Powerball resultsNews Story
Players who claimed prizes under wrong numbers can keep their winnings By Kate Northrop The Iowa Lottery attributed posting the wrong Powerball numbers on their website for Monday's draw to a human reporting error and told players who already redeemed prizes that they can keep the winnings. Several hours after the wrong Powerball numbers were posted on the Iowa Lottery's website the night of the drawing on Mon., Nov. 27, the Lottery removed the incorrect sequence and republished the
Nov 30, 2023, 9:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Virginia: 5/1 - 5/31/2024Reply
Hmm, that is a little peculiar. I must have made an error in my back-of-the-napkin stats workup, because I have an even-odds expectation of 11 days which is much shorter than your 15 days. Reality doesn't lie, I must have made (another) bonehead math error somewhere. I have to go, but I'll try to remember to take another look at this when I get home, because my calculated expectation is off by too much. Meanwhile, here's my $500 question. Do series numbers cluster?
May 2, 2024, 2:28 pm - parlayman - Pick 3 Forum

Lottery Hanky PankyReply
Anytime computers and networking is involved, there's always room for hanky panky. As an IT admin, with enterprise rights, anything can be done and all these lotteries are networked. The speed at which things are calculated should have no room for error, unless it's 'human error' which means manipulation/tampering. Code it, program it, run it, check for errors, if all is proper, leave it alone. But when jackpots get this big, and supposedly the lottery proceeds are meant for education(either a l
Apr 16, 2024, 6:03 pm - Bluegal1 - Lottery Discussion Forum

DC man sues the lottery after incorrect numbers posted on website would have won him $340 millionReply
Because we made an error, here is $340 bucks. Thanks for playing.
Feb 21, 2024, 9:37 am - heisenberg991 - Lottery News

North Carolina: 1/1 - 1/31/2024Reply
My bad-I meant to say Plshelpme, thank you!! I regret the error.....
Jan 1, 2024, 2:59 pm - GHL1234 - Pick 3 Forum

Florida LLC revealed to have claimed $1.6 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpotReply
Exactly my thoughts. If the doctor had a winning ticket of more than $600 that he must redeem at a Florida Lottery office prior to September, then his name and address was saved in The Florida Lottery's database. When The Jackpot Winners and Retailer Information Report was created in September, it's very plausible that his name was placed on the report either by a software program error or it was manually put on the report in error by someone that works at The Fla Lottery. G5
Dec 31, 2023, 10:49 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Roulette predictionReply
@edessaknight, yes I have received your PM mail, but the reply is returned with an error message saying your mailbox is full.
Dec 23, 2023, 9:42 pm - Wavepack - Mathematics Forum

Massachusetts woman accidentally receives $20,000 worth of lottery tickets in the mailReply
If she was doing the right thing: She would have contacted FedEx and reported the error instead of opening the package that wasn't addressed to her place of business!
Nov 15, 2023, 7:12 pm - Raven62 - Lottery News