Tennessee Lottery glitch shuts out players

Comment #17

four4me — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:20:31 GMT

Hargrove said a programmer for the vendor, New Jersey-based Smartplay International Inc., made a keystroke error when setting the parameters for Cash 3 and Cash 4, typing a u for unique instead of an r for repeat.

what's to stop them from doing this for any particular drawing they want to.

This is one more reason computerized drawing should be banned.

Comment #16

tnlotto1 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:14:06 GMT

Comment #15

tnlotto1 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:13:24 GMT

you are right jim and also with your math about the 4.5 million that is what they are saying for the tickets not the actual amounts so each of those 4.5million tickets could be worth $5 of plays or more so it could easily have been more than $20 million they robbed from the players in this state.

Comment #14

Uncle Jim — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:06:59 GMT

Yeah I bet Rebecca is real sorry!

I read somewhere that the Tennessee Lottery sells about 1 million Pick 3 tickets and 1/2 a million Pick 4 tickets a week. This problem went on for 3 weeks. That's roughly $4.5 million in sales.

Somebody wrote that about half of the tickets sold are doubles. Assuming that info is correct that equals roughly 2,225,000 tickets.

These tickets had absolutely no chance of winning so all the tickets sales from this group was just pure profit for the Tennesse... [ More ]

Comment #13

rdc137 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:55:32 GMT

Oh she could never do that. Then the players would miss out on those really exciting computer animations

Comment #12

Uncle Jim — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:33:51 GMT

The New Jersey gaming company that contracts with the state admitted there was a flaw in the computer system.

An interesting development to say the least.

Jim

Comment #11

Greg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:23:25 GMT

Computerized drawings are UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

You FEEL me?????

Always tell the truth-- that will astonish some and gratify the rest

. Pres. Harry S. Truman, Democrat

Comment #10

tnlotto1 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:40:28 GMT

that link was funny rebecca paul was pretending like she was really sorry. if she was sorry she would go back to the live ball drawing and dump RNG.

Comment #9

Tnplayer805 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:14:47 GMT

http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/lottery-officials-consider-legal-action-for-contractors-mistake/113803.htm#top

This is an interesting video... *Rolls Eyes

Comment #8

Uncle Jim — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:54:04 GMT

As I said in another post...This is the Hoosierization of the Tennessee Lottery.

NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK...

Jim

Comment #7

time*treat — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:32:45 GMT

Tennessee players ... Ignore that man behind the curtain. Oh, and welcome to the Hoosier Lottery.

Comment #6

Uncle Jim — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:48:20 GMT

They couldn't possibly have tested the drawings and gotten multiple (let alone a single) doubles. The statement said the programmer hit u for unique instead of r for repeat. If this is a factual statement and this really is what happened, then it is absolutely impossible for a test drawing to have produced a repeat number.

We are suppossed to believe that a highly paid, professional programmer...who presumably does this for a living...made a fundamental mistake and simply hit the wrong... [ More ]

Comment #5

DoubleDown — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:33:52 GMT

This Tennessee thing is blowing up-

Good

Comment #4

Todd — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:21:30 GMT

You're absolutely right. This should be investigated from many angles, including the computers, as well as the stories told to players questioning the lottery. I want to know if they really did test draws after hearing complaints.

Comment #3

Todd — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:20:29 GMT

Thanks for cross-linking to the other story. I posted this one also, because it brought some new information and different perspectives.

Comment #2

Raven62 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:17:29 GMT

Sounds like Computer Fraud: Contact the Tennessee Attorney Generals Office

Comment #1

DoubleDown — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:35:19 GMT

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/161314

Tennessee Lottery glitch shuts out players

Lottery Post — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:50:20 GMT

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... [ More ]