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• JosephusMinimus

  

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  This is for players in states where 4 minute draw Keno is offered.  DC, MO, RI, MD, OH, OR, GA, CA, NE, NY, KS and MI

  If I've left anyone out feel free to call it to my attention.
• Jon D

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by JosephusMinimus on Apr 27, 2011

  This is for players in states where 4 minute draw Keno is offered.  DC, MO, RI, MD, OH, OR, GA, CA, NE, NY, KS and MI

  If I've left anyone out feel free to call it to my attention.

  Email would not be practical. Too many numbers. Better if they provide search capability on the website of the ticket or draw ranges.

  Do you want an email with several hundred lines like this:

     DATE     DRAW                          WINNING NUMBERS                       B/E
   --------  -------  ---------------------------------------------------------------
   04/22/11  1614551  01 05 06 08 12 19 20 36 38 39 40 41 47 52 53 54 57 70 73 78  06
   04/22/11  1614552  04 11 12 13 16 17 21 24 27 34 41 48 50 55 57 62 66 73 75 79  48
   04/22/11  1614553  01 04 07 09 11 15 16 28 32 38 40 45 46 49 54 64 66 72 73 74  45
   04/22/11  1614554  03 07 09 14 17 18 19 23 25 27 32 37 41 42 47 54 63 66 68 77  25
   04/22/11  1614555  10 13 14 15 27 32 34 36 41 43 49 50 61 64 66 68 72 73 77 79  34
• JosephusMinimus

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Jon D on Apr 27, 2011

  Email would not be practical. Too many numbers. Better if they provide search capability on the website of the ticket or draw ranges.

  Do you want an email with several hundred lines like this:

     DATE     DRAW                          WINNING NUMBERS                       B/E
   --------  -------  ---------------------------------------------------------------
   04/22/11  1614551  01 05 06 08 12 19 20 36 38 39 40 41 47 52 53 54 57 70 73 78  06
   04/22/11  1614552  04 11 12 13 16 17 21 24 27 34 41 48 50 55 57 62 66 73 75 79  48
   04/22/11  1614553  01 04 07 09 11 15 16 28 32 38 40 45 46 49 54 64 66 72 73 74  45
   04/22/11  1614554  03 07 09 14 17 18 19 23 25 27 32 37 41 42 47 54 63 66 68 77  25
   04/22/11  1614555  10 13 14 15 27 32 34 36 41 43 49 50 61 64 66 68 72 73 77 79  34

  300 lines each with a date, draw number and 20 numbers.

  If I lived in CA I'd want it, but everyone would have his own desires on whether to subscribe or not.
• Jon D

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by JosephusMinimus on Apr 27, 2011

  300 lines each with a date, draw number and 20 numbers.

  If I lived in CA I'd want it, but everyone would have his own desires on whether to subscribe or not.

  I think for Keno, it's just too much to go through, especially if you play several draws.

  My point is: the Lotto guys have the server and the raw data, make THEM do the work! It would be a piece of cake for them to have a search tool like some sites already have, but also one that searches a range of draws and automatically calculates and displays your total winnings. Heck, even I could write that script!

  You know...that would almost be like online gambling: You buy $50 bucks Keno at the store for the next 50 draws, and then take it home. And for the next few hours you can watch the website and see how many hits you are getting and how much money you have. All the while you can be cooking dinner or watching the news, or out and about and monitoring from your iPhone.

  Much better than standing around in a liquor store with Bubba the local vagrant watching a monitor for several hours...
• JosephusMinimus

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Jon D on Apr 27, 2011

  I think for Keno, it's just too much to go through, especially if you play several draws.

  My point is: the Lotto guys have the server and the raw data, make THEM do the work! It would be a piece of cake for them to have a search tool like some sites already have, but also one that searches a range of draws and automatically calculates and displays your total winnings. Heck, even I could write that script!

  You know...that would almost be like online gambling: You buy $50 bucks Keno at the store for the next 50 draws, and then take it home. And for the next few hours you can watch the website and see how many hits you are getting and how much money you have. All the while you can be cooking dinner or watching the news, or out and about and monitoring from your iPhone.

  Much better than standing around in a liquor store with Bubba the local vagrant watching a monitor for several hours...

  Hi Jon.  Thanks for the reply.  I like your idea about just buying the tickets and going home to do other things, then being able to check visually later to find out what was drawn.  Maybe you're right about it being too much trouble for most players to want to have all the results for a day.  The only basis we'd have for guessing about it would be what each of us would prefer.

  But having the LC providing the means of searching and calculating your winnings would probably make a lot of people happy.

  You:  "Much better than standing around a liquor store with Bubba the local vagrant watching a monitor for several hours..."

  You've got to admit it's a unique concept for a lottery game.  The guy who thought that one up must have graduated at the head of his class.