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S.C. lotto questions deal with GeorgiaNews Story
Top officials in South Carolina said Tuesday savings projections acquired by Tennessee lottery board members regarding a potential partnership with the successful Georgia lottery are likely inaccurate.They also detailed other concerns they had about partnering with Georgia before they rejected such an alliance.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) is poised to make a decision next week on whether to team with Georgias lottery to possibly maximize spending power and curb start up cos
Aug 27, 2003, 3:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery gift scandal continuesNews Story
The upheaval in the Colorado lottery office over gifts just won't go away.The latest controversy involves warning letters sent to 13 lottery employees charging that they didn't, as required, report gifts given to them by vendors.Michael Cooke, director of the Colorado Department of Revenue, which oversees the state lottery, said the Colorado Bureau of Investigation cross-checked records provided by vendors regarding gifts they had given lottery employees against the gift reports employees filed
Jun 4, 2004, 7:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

House approves strict rules for Colorado LotteryNews Story
Widespread gift-taking, conflicts led to measureLegislation designed to prdvent conflicts of interest at the Colorado Lottery passed a key hurdle Monday and will likely soon land on the governor's desk.The legislation was created in the wake of deep-seated problems at the Lottery, where officials routinely accepted dinners, golf games and other gifts from vendors doing business with the agency.A key portion of the bill would add the force of law to rules adopted by Lottery officials earlier this
Apr 27, 2004, 8:08 am - Todd - Lottery News

Colorado lottery bill would tighten ethics rulesNews Story
One of the Colorado state Senate's most powerful members unveiled legislation designed to prdvent conflicts of interest at the Colorado Lottery.The legislation was created in concert with an ethics overhaul already underway at the Lottery and as the Arapahoe County district attorney is deciding whether to file criminal charges based on a recently concluded probe of the Lottery by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.The legislation, in part, would bar Lottery officials from taking jobs with agen
Mar 23, 2004, 4:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Some lottery winning streaks have defied beliefNews Story
The Brudnicks may be one of the luckiest families in Massachusetts. In just the last couple of years, Chelsea insurance agent Robert Brudnick has cashed in 140 winning Massachusetts lottery tickets worth at least $1,000 each. His 25-year-old daughter Ashley has racked up another 100 wins. And his 23-year-old son Nathan, has turned in 99 more. The total take: More than $440,000, mostly from scratch tickets. But state lottery officials and statisticians say they doubt any family could be tha
Jul 20, 2014, 3:02 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery to compare vendorsNews Story
The Oklahoma Lottery Commission is scheduled to meet today to consider proposals for a variety of services related to the lottery start-up.The commission is looking for vendors to provide online gaming services, a drawing studio, instant tickets and other projects associated with the start-up of the state lottery.Lottery officials still are hoping to have instant tickets go on sale in October, with Lotto-style drawing games available in November. The commission also will consider applying to mul
Aug 9, 2005, 10:15 am - Todd - Lottery News

Back Testing FormulasReply
So many of Us running our own Back Tests . There are probably as many Test Setups out there as There are People Testing. It occurred to Me that there should be a Standard way of Doing a Back Test . By Standard, I don't mean My Setup, I mean The List of Questions that a Test Should Answer. The Obvious First and Only Question Is the System Profitable ? From what I have seen so Far, there is No System That is Profitable over a long stretch of Games in any State. Most of the Systems produce
Jul 6, 2017, 10:34 pm - AllenB - Lottery Systems Forum

Minnesota Lottery confirms technical communications error delayed $2 billion Powerball drawingReply
I would agree that redundant communications are needed, but disagree as to cost. It is actually cheap these days to have redundant architecture. There are ways to (relatively) cheaply build redundancy into every single part of an architecture. The state lotteries are largely reliant upon a few large lottery vendors to do all the work for them; the in-house IT staffs are not the lotteries' strength. So if the vendors are not good at it, then the lotteries will not be either.
Nov 13, 2022, 9:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

California lottery reps are afraid of being attacked — so they asked for unmarked carsReply
Yes l am sure. I have no reason to advance a lie. As a matter of fact, l went into the store and spoke with the vendor, and he said that was the vehicles they are issued. I asked him whether he had heard of other lottery vendors being harassed he said he had not. This whole story is about a SEAL. If there are other vehicles that are issued to other lottery vendors, l have no knowledge of it, but it is what it is.
Dec 23, 2019, 11:20 pm - noise-gate - Lottery News

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
I doubt they have thousands left given many retailers have been asking for them and being told no, but I know that certain distributors keep books in their van/inventory which don't show up in a warehouse and are not assigned to a store. That happened to me with the 100X the Cash. Near the end of the game when there were almost no confirmed books anywhere (warehouse, District Offices and vendors), I got a call from AK's telling me that their distributor found 10 books in her van and was going to
Feb 10, 2017, 10:15 pm - gatorsrok - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum