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Georgia Lottery mistake gives players extra chance to winNews Story
Georgia lottery players have an extra chance to win Fantasy Five, due to a mistake made by lottery officials during the drawing.An internal audit, conducted as a normal course of business, revealed that one of the 39 numbered lottery balls was not placed into the drawing machine last Friday.As a result, the Georgia Lottery is honoring all winning tickets from Feb. 11th, and a bonus drawing will be held to make up for the mistake.Lottery President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret DeFrancisco
Feb 17, 2005, 7:52 am - Lottery News

Texas Lottery recalls 'Set For Life' ticketsNews Story
The Texas Lottery Commission announced today that, effective immediately, it is recalling all Set For Life instant tickets (Game #499) from Texas Lottery retail locations.The agency has identified two tickets where, due to manufacturing errors, prize symbols on the face of the tickets do not match the prize amounts for those tickets in the lottery computer system.The agencys primary instant ticket manufacturer and producer of this game, Scientific Games International, Inc., has indicated to the
Jan 14, 2005, 9:30 am - Lottery News

Connecticut lottery error gives players another chance to winNews Story
A malfunction with the Connecticut Lottery's equipment on Wednesday resulted in more winning combinations for ticket buyers in the state's mid-day drawings.The state Division of Special Revenue was investigating what went wrong with the drawings of the Mid-Day 3 and Mid-Day 4 numbers. The problem did not affect the nightly drawings, which are done on different machines, Lottery officials said.Officials discovered the malfunction after the numbers were drawn live on television just before 2 p
Dec 9, 2004, 8:08 am - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery's Midday Mistake Leads to Questions About DrawingsNews Story
When news outlets received the results of the Pennsylvania midday lottery drawing 20 minutes earlier than usual, some questioned how the non-televised drawing operates. Sales for the Daily Number and Big 4 midday drawing end at 1:05 pm every day. Until recently, the Pennsylvania Lottery website had said the drawing took place at 1:35 pm daily. But this week, news organizations received the midday drawing results around 1:15 pm. Now, lottery officials say the website was wrong and new
Aug 21, 2004, 3:40 pm - Lottery News

Connecticut recalls 300 scratch ticketsNews Story
A printing glitch on tickets for a scratch-off lottery game has prompted a recall of 300 tickets, Connecticut lottery officials said Friday.Printing omissions were discovered on a Tropical Fun $10 scratch-game ticket by a customer. The mistake could lead customers to believe tickets were winners when they actually were not, said James Vance, president and CEO of Connecticut Lottery Corp.About 300 tickets were deactivated because of the glitch, 102 of which were sold before the error was discov
Aug 2, 2004, 9:48 am - Lottery News

$10,000 winner suing Tennessee lotteryNews Story
How much is a lost chance at $1 million worth?That's the crucial question raised by a lawsuit filed by a Fayetteville man who claims mistakes during the state's first $1 million lottery drawing cost him a chance at the top prize.But determining how much he was damaged by a lost chance would be difficult, local attorneys said.Dennis Perry, a 57-year-old disabled veteran, won $10,000 in the June 26 drawing at Opry Mills. He was one of three finalists for the big prize. In a lawsuit filed in Lincol
Jul 19, 2004, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Lottery foul-ups rare but expensiveNews Story
Lottery mistakes don't happen often, but when they do they're costly resulting in multiple awards or increases in the prize money.Here are some lottery foul-ups from across the country in recent years: Earlier this month, a missing nine ball in a drawing machine led the New Hampshire lottery to honor two winning numbers. It was the second double payout resulting from missing balls in the state's lottery drawing machines this year. In April, the Wisconsin lottery posted an incorrect winning num
Jul 19, 2004, 8:20 am - Lottery News

Drawing error leads lottery officials to pay on two numbersNews Story
It is the state lotterys equivalent of a poker dealer forgetting a few cards from the deck.A missing nine ball led to lottery officials honoring two winning numbers for yesterday afternoons Tri-State Pick 3 game. The first numbers drawn were 7-2-2. When the mistake was caught, officials drew again: 1-9-9.Unfortunately, we cant prepare for every circumstance or happenstance, said Maura McCann, a spokesman for the lottery who has been doing the evening drawing for 15 years. It is very infrequent,
Jul 7, 2004, 9:21 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin Lottery sorts mixup on Badger 5 numbersNews Story
The Wisconsin Lottery will pay on two sets of winning numbers from Monday's Badger 5 drawing after a mix-up caused confusion over which five numbers were actually drawn, a lottery official said Tuesday.The Wisconsin Lottery sent the media a winning combination of three, five, 15, 19 and 29, the correct numbers drawn Monday night, spokesman Andrew Bohage said. But lottery employees mistakenly substituted a 25 for the 29 in the numbers posted on its Web site.Bohage said neither combination produce
Apr 14, 2004, 7:25 am - Lottery News

Visible numbers end sales of Louisiana Lottery scratch-off gamesNews Story
The Louisiana Lottery Corp. has stopped sales of three scratch-off games because numbers supposed to be hidden could be read without scratching off anything.The Louisiana Boil, Extra Free Spot Bingo and Winning Combinations games all had the problem, the company said in a news release Monday.It said sales of Winning Combinations were halted Thursday after lottery workers realized that the numbers were visible through the latex scratch-off coating.Lottery President Randy Davis ordered the printer
Mar 30, 2004, 4:52 am - Lottery News