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• Todd

  

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  This evening I worked feverishly to come up with this new page, which I think captures the sentiment perfectly (if I do say so myself).

  Please take a look, because I need some help filling in the missing pieces and verifying my info.

  https://www.lotterypost.com/drawing-report-card.asp

  Please help me track down the "Unknown" games, and please verify your state's games against the info I have.

   

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• Bingo Long

  

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  Looks pretty good, Todd, at least for MA, but I think simply claiming to have ball drawings isn't enough.  In MA many games claim to have ball drawings, but the balls are never televised anywhere, which really isn't a heck of a lot better than having a computer drawing.  Why should I trust the person running the ball machine any more than I would trust a computer programmer?  If we want fair drawings, we don't just need ball machines, we need televised (or at least public, in a mall maybe?) drawings.
  
• JimmySand9

  

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  I'm glad to say the PA only uses computers to draw the midday Daily Number and Big 4. Every other game uses balls. And in Canada, 6/49 and Super 7 both use balls.
  

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• JimmySand9

  

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  I also think MI only uses computers for Classic Lotto47. And all the Tri-State games use balls. Kentucky uses RNGs for Double Up and Tic Tac Cash. I'm not sure what Iowa uses for the Cash Game. BC is the longest running user of RNGs, since 1986 I think.
  
  

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• LANTERN

  

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  • Texas (100% true lottery drawings)
    
    True Drawings: Cash 5, Lotto Texas, Mega Millions, Midday Pick 3, Pick 3, Texas Two Step
    
    Computerized: none
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  You got Texas right, but that could change later maybe (They seem to want to).But I hope not !

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• Bryan

  

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  Howdy Todd,

  
  
  

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  • Missouri (13% true lottery drawings)
    
    True Drawings: Powerball
    
    Computerized: Lotto, Pick 3, Pick 4, Show Me 5
    
    Unknown: Midday Pick 3, Midday Pick 4, Midday Show Me 5
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  You have MO right and the unknowns you have listed for MO are all computer drawn. That will finish up MO for ya.

  It gets a big, fat, whopping F. The losers...

  Thanks for all you do,

  Bryan  :)
• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  tennessee is 100 percent balls......cash 3,cash 4,lotto 5 and powerball are all computerized...
• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  todd,thanks for the information...hopefully most of the a+ states will stay that way including tennessee....
• Badger

  

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  You have the state of Taxconsin (formerly known as Wisconsin) correct, Todd.

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• CARBOB

  

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  Todd,

    Florida is correct! All balls.

   Carbob
• Shaggy

  

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  Todd

  Pennsylvania has two drawings a day Midday and Evening. The Midday draw is only the 3 and 4 digit, and is computerized. All the evening games are drawn by ping pong balls. They would be the 3 and 4 digit, Cash 5, Match 6, and Lucky for Life. All drawn the old fashioned way.

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  Shaggy
• Todd

  

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  Fixed:

  
  
  

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  JS9:  Michigan was correct as-is, and I agree about the other factors being important.  I will gradually add various components to the Report Card, so that it becomes a complete picture of how good a lottery is.  Naturally, we'll also have to add the percentage of games that offer a cash option (CO will like that one).

   

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• Todd

  

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  Per KyMystikal's post in another thread I changed KY's Tic Tac Cash and Double Up to computerized.

   

  Check the State Lottery Report Card
  What grade did your lottery earn?

   

  Sign the Petition for True Lottery Drawings
  Help eliminate computerized drawings!
• Sandy K

  

  Clarkston, Michigan
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  Todd, I think New Mexico uses the ping pong balls.....

  Here is the link for lottoMike's info on the computerized and the ping pong ball states..for the Pick3

  https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/94617/3

  it's near the end of the thread

  Sandy
• Peach3 $treet

  

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  • Georgia (100% true lottery drawings)
    
    True Drawings: Cash 3, Cash 4, Fantasy 5, LOTTO South, Mega Millions, Midday 3, Midday 4
    
    Computerized: none
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  Georgia's report card is 100% correct.

  Great work, Todd!  And very much appreciated.

  >Peach