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Texas Lottery to add 'Sum It Up' feature to Pick 3 gameNews Story
Daily 4 launch deemed 'successful' On September 30, the Texas Lottery launched a brand new game, Daily 4 with an add-on feature called Sum It Up. According to unaudited numbers, the game and associated add-on feature brought in more than $5.2 million during the first three weeks of sales. Of that number, approximately $1.2 million came directly from sales of Sum It Up. The Texas Lottery is hoping to strike gold a second time, by adding the Sum It Up feature to the state's other daily n
Oct 30, 2007, 12:21 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee House Speaker backs lottery oversight meetingNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery Post feature: See the actual letter from Senator Kyle A meeting of the Tennessee Lottery Oversight Committee inched one step closer today, as Speaker of the House James Naifeh, D-Covington, indicated his support for the meeting, according to an advisor for Senator James Kyle, D-Memphis. Sen. Kyle sent letters Last Friday to the Speakers of the House and Senate, requesting a meeting of the oversight committee as soon as possible, after the Tennessee Lotteries
Sep 18, 2007, 10:36 pm - Lottery News

Another day another mistake for the Tennessee LotteryNews Story
Can it be possible? It appears that once again the Tennessee Lottery has made a mistake so glaring it requires them to pay out two sets of midday numbers. The lottery spokepeople must be getting tired of the mistakes too, because they didn't even attempt an explanation this time. A terse statement on the Tennessee Lottery web site Monday evening reads as follows: The official midday Cash 3 and Cash 4 numbers for Sept. 17, 2007 are 133 for Cash 3 and 6121 for Cash 4. Players can clai
Sep 17, 2007, 9:42 pm - Lottery News

Mass. lottery players still waiting for delayed final drawingNews Story
Some Massachusetts Lottery players have given up hope that they'll ever cash in on a $10 million Hold 'em Poker scratch game the state launched more than two years ago. State Lottery officials acknowledge that a few finalists have died waiting. But they say ticket sales have been slower than expected and it may be another year before the game sells out and prizes can be drawn in the championship round. I'm really disgusted, Nicholas Zeogas told The Patriot Ledger of Quincy. He became the
Sep 7, 2007, 9:41 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery says duplicate numbers drawn were legit; can we be sure?News Story
Strange drawing results come right after revelation of weeks of flawed drawings The Tennessee Lottery's Cash 3 game had the exact same winning number in both the midday and evening drawings Thursday. Kym Gerlock, vice president of communications for the Tennessee Lottery, said the reappearance of number 940 was random chance. It was not an error. It's rare, but it does happen, Gerlock said. Each drawing is a totally separate instance and one is not related to another. Gerlock sai
Aug 31, 2007, 8:19 pm - Lottery News

Players warned lottery about tickets flawNews Story
Tennessee lottery players say they warned lottery officials more than 10 days ago that a new computerized system to pick random numbers in the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games appeared to be malfunctioning. They say they were ignored for days while a computer software glitch kept duplicate numbers from being drawn in the games. That meant players who picked numbers like 6-6-9 in Cash 3 or 5-5-5-3 in Cash 4 had no chance of winning. Lottery officials announced Tuesday that the glitch had been correc
Aug 23, 2007, 11:00 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery glitch shuts out playersNews Story
Robert Johnson's lucky number is typically 909, but not this month. The Nashville man has played the Tennessee Lottery's Cash 3 game twice a day, every day this month, and his numbers haven't come up. Turns out, they couldn't have. A computer programming error has prevented any number from being selected more than once in Cash 3 and Cash 4 drawings over the past three weeks, the Tennessee Lottery said Tuesday. The error meant that no winning draw included duplicate numerals, so any tic
Aug 22, 2007, 10:50 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery computerized drawings flawed since inceptionNews Story
Lottery throws all blame on a contractor; players bear the brunt By Todd Northrop A month ago, Tennessee Lottery officials claimed the state's new computerized drawings would be exciting . What Tennessee lottery players got instead were buggy, unfair drawings, in which almost half the numbers people picked had no chance whatsoever of winning. The severely flawed drawings have been happening every day since computerized drawings replaced the lottery's real mechanical ball drawings mo
Aug 21, 2007, 7:04 pm - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery's Super Raffle results announcedNews Story
The winning numbers were selected Monday for the Michigan Lottery's most expensive game. The winning numbers are available right now at: https://www.lotterypost.com/mi-lottery-raffle-2007-06-18.asp The lottery's Super Raffle game included 250,000 tickets sold at $50 each, with two top prizes of $2 million each. The top prize-winning numbers were 175038, a ticket sold in Livonia, and 215994, a ticket sold in Sylvan Lake. Twenty-five ticket holders will get $100,000 each, and 4,500
Jun 19, 2007, 12:01 pm - Lottery News

Glitch Delays Jersey Cash 5 Lottery DrawingNews Story
A mechanical glitch forced New Jersey Lottery officials to manually draw the winning numbers for the Jersey Cash 5 game on Friday night. The machine containing those game balls jammed, so they followed the emergency procedures, which call for an off-air manual drawing that is observed by the independent auditor, New Jersey Lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco said. It was not immediately clear what caused the problem, or whether a similar machine problem had ever previously affected a New
Jun 16, 2007, 12:33 pm - Lottery News