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Florida Lottery Pre-Post DrawsReply
This is an old article from 1998, but nonetheless a very informative history lesson on how the states began to control the lottery games and payouts to the detriment of the players. Pa. Doesn't Take Chances On Lottery Here's How Math Experts Help Control The Odds On A Daily Basis. By Loretta Tofani, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Posted: April 05, 1998 Michelle Coleman, 39, was feeling lucky when she placed her order for lottery tickets at a newsstand at Ninth and Market. Let's
Sep 24, 2015, 5:48 pm - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Iowa Legislators start spinning TouchPlay debate todayNews Story
There are a lot of jackpots on the line today when legislators begin debating the future of the Iowa Lottery's slot machine-like games located in Main Street businesses across the state. More than 6,000 machines in 2,800 taverns, grocery, convenience stores and other locations across Iowa have brought in more than $212 million in sales since July. Another 4,500 machines are expected to be installed. Large companies such as Royal Financial, which operates 25 percent of the machines, and
Mar 13, 2006, 8:38 am - Todd - Lottery News

The little firm that got a big chunk of D.C.'s lottery and sports gambling contract has no employeesNews Story
The Greek company Intralot, which last month received a $215 million contract to bring sports gambling to the nation's capital and to continue running its lottery, says more than half the work will go to a small D.C. firm a condition that helped the gaming giant win the no-bid contract. The firm, Veterans Services Corp., will perform the ENTIRE subcontract with its own organization and resources, according to a document signed this summer by a top Intralot executive. District law requires
Sep 2, 2019, 6:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery state chart/anonymity and claimants
I have been working on this off and on for a while and it is a work in progress. It is not meant to serve as legal opinion or legal advice. Feel free to send me info to add if something elaborates on the anonymity or other entity claiming issues. Prepared by Artist77. ANONYMITY FOR INDIVIDUALS/ WHAT ENTITIES CAN CLAIM?/NEWS Updated April 5, 2023 UNITED STATES ALABAMA No lottery . 3-19-2019 State Sen. Jim McClendon of Springville announced he is introducing legislation
Mar 30, 2019, 11:45 am - Artist77 - Jackpot Games Forum

Investigation: Illinois Lottery didn't award 40% of scratch-off grand prizesNews Story
It was called The Good Life and offered the biggest grand prize of any instant game the Illinois Lottery had ever produced. Two lucky winners could scratch their way to $46 million each, paid in periodic installments. At $30, tickets weren't cheap, but millions were sold. Then the game ended before the lottery sold most of the tickets that were printed, with neither top prize awarded. The same thing happened with another instant game, called Birthday Surprise. Two large grand prizes offere
Dec 9, 2016, 1:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News

NJ Lottery investigating retailer lottery ticket 'discounting' practicesNews Story
Some people seem to have all the luck. And in New Jersey, some of the luckiest people are retailers who sell lottery tickets. Or so it appears from the New Jersey Lottery's list of winners. An Asbury Park Press review of Lottery claims submitted since 2009 found that half of the 20 most frequent prizewinners are either licensed lottery retailers or family members of store operators. As a group, those 10 people collected 840 prizes totaling almost $1.8 million, the Press found. About 70
Dec 6, 2014, 11:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery director hires core management staffNews Story
Outcry over high salaries; Director defends Ernie Passailaigue, who started his job two weeks ago as executive director of the Arkansas Lottery Commission, has been steadily hiring employees to fill core management positions, while defending the high salaries he is giving the new staff. Before the hiring commenced, a legislative committee signed off ealier this month on the newly hired lottery chief's plan to pay his top deputies more than $200,000 each. Passailaigue asked legislators t
Jul 15, 2009, 11:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

RL's T-Lex program download, free softwareReply
Hi all I scanned several of my programs using the link in the above post and got false-positives on every one I tested. It seems that the same scanners are reporting the mal-ware. I guess I need to contact the vendors and have them tested so that they can fix their scanners. For anyone who uses QB64 and wants to test the false-positives I put together a small source code example that I call sliders. This is a simple code block that draws several different sliders that can
Oct 1, 2015, 5:28 am - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Lottery Systems Forum