Tennessee Lottery a step closer to restoring real drawings

Comment #16

konane — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:14:07 GMT

The Lottery is not going to do anything more than they've done already except maintain they made the right decision, they're going to have to be forced to change back to ball drop through legislation.

Comment #15

tntea — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:50:47 GMT

I wrote the Tn lottery again about changing back to ball drawings... If/When are they?

I got this:

It is the Lottery's intent to use the current system.

Your comments will be forwarded to the appropriate staff.

Comment #14

tntea — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:40:50 GMT

after the quad v3333 in GA on the first, I was expecting KY or TN to hit those trip 2's or 7's

Comment #13

littlejsing — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:52:52 GMT

I think something has been up with the pick 3 for several months.

Remember the repetition of 3,6,9? The 222 the other night was

really out of nowhere

Comment #12

KyMystikal — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:08:52 GMT

With this RNG crap I broke down and played 077 after it came out two days but I played it Friday night. I'm done with TN until they get the balls back.

Comment #11

tntea — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:33:59 GMT

077 is real hot with these computer draws right now.. Maybe the ball dropping will put a stop to this silly stuff.

Comment #10

littlejsing — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:54:56 GMT

Thanks for being involved!!

Representatives for Lottery Oversight Committee:

Beth Harwell

rep.beth.harwell@legislature.state.tn.us

Larry Miller

rep.larry.miller@legislature.state.tn.us

Gary Odom

rep.gary.odom@legislature.state.tn.us

Randy Rinks

rep.randy.rinks@legislature.state.tn.us

Charles Sargent

rep.charles.sargent@legislature.state.tn.us

Harry Tindell

rep.harry.tindell@legislature.state.tn.us

Les Winningham

rep.leslie.winningham@legislature.stat... [ More ]

Comment #9

Todd — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:32:29 GMT

Excellent! Thanks for posting the appropriate e-mail addressses.

Comment #8

littlejsing — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:15:33 GMT

Please get involved and email these Senators regarding the computerized drawings in Tenn.

Lottery Oversight Committee Members

Sen. ULYSSES JONES, JR. - Co-chair

rep.ulysses.jones@legislature.state.tn.us

Sen. BILL KETRON - Co-Chair

sen.bill.ketron@legislature.state.tn.us

Sen. JASON E. MUMPOWER

rep.jason.mumpower@legislature.state.tn.us

Sen. DEWAYNE BUNCH

sen.dewayne.bunch@legislature.state.tn.us

Sen. TIM BURCHETT

sen.tim.burchett@legislature.state.tn.us

Se... [ More ]

Comment #7

littlejsing — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:59:20 GMT

People should contact their legislators and Gov. Bredesen.

I have sent several emails criticizing the computerized drawing.

Here's Bredesen's email: phil.bredesen@state.tn.us

Comment #6

konane — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:08:43 GMT

All who play Tennessee Lottery games should continue contacting their legislators because you can bet the farm both the Lottery and company who does RNG drawings will be telling them how wonderful, cost effective, random and tamper proof RNG's are.

My hope is RNG's will be eliminated in Tennessee and have a domino effect across the US.

Comment #5

JADELottery — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:12:32 GMT

Woo-Hoo TN players!!!

I hope you get Real Number Generators back and dump the Virtual ones.

Comment #4

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:40:42 GMT

i'm keeping my fingers crossed,wow i'd be happy if it happened though.

Comment #3

four4me — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:59:49 GMT

It's a well known fact that all states that have keno, race track, horse track, poker, and games of the nature which run every 3 minutes or so use RNG generating software. This is a whole different thing from pick 3 - 4 and 5 games and is understood by the players.

The only place that i know of that uses balls for 3 minute keno games are the casino's in Vegas.

Comment #2

four4me — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:54:22 GMT

Congratulations to House Minority Leader Jason Mumpower and the committe for getting this far and we hope they continue to be successful in returning the drawings back to mechanical ball drawings.

Comment #1

Tnplayer805 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:46:37 GMT

One step in the right direction vs how many steps in the wrong? Yes, this is a positive but remember we have a long way to go and a lot of stuff to correct. Remember, if they do take away computer drawings all together there will be no chance of Hot Tracks or keno in the future. OR the play it again program may be discontinued. Just some things to look at; however, I would be happier without hot tracks and play it again if we had our old drawings back.

Tennessee Lottery a step closer to restoring real drawings

Lottery Post — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:02:07 GMT

A Tennessee House panel has advanced a proposal to require the state lottery to abandon computerized drawings for its games.

House Minority Leader Jason Mumpower, a Bristol Republican, says he sponsored the manual drawings measure in response to a loss in consumer confidence following a computer programming error last year.

The glitch prevented duplicate numbers to be drawn for nearly a month.

Lottery officials estimate it would cost about $5 million a year to return to drawing numbered... [ More ]