Pa. Lottery drawings go on Thursday despite machine malfunctions

Comment #17

uprrman — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:28:53 GMT

heh heh

Comment #16

DoctorEw220 — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:36:11 GMT

I don't think a whole lot of people were worried about the Pick 2 drawing. Judging by the payout information, it doesn't look like many people care for it. I don't blame them.

Comment #15

Marilyn222 — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:52:39 GMT

Lottery people forgot to put the magnet on the chosen balls...he he he

Comment #14

noise-gate — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 02:59:50 GMT

l say its some mischievous officials kids hiding under those table- playing unplug the power cords game.

Comment #13

grwurston — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 23:31:54 GMT

Maybe it's the parimutual payouts. Who wants to win $316 for a Pick 3 straight one day, and $484 the next? Especially when most other states are offering $500 for every drawing. IMO the parimutual states are screwing the players over big time.

Comment #12

haymaker — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:17:51 GMT

How much of that is from PB or MM, I have'nt played either for months also I only play JC5 when it's over 250G

Pic6 I still play every draw.

I used to spend $19 every week, I just looked at my tix for all Jan. $12 spent on JC5 and $8 on Pic6

Grand total of $20.

Comment #11

Gleno — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:16:17 GMT

Have you seen the Article on the front page of the Asbury Park Press today 02/01/15 that is reporting the N.J. lottery income is down by $28 Million?

Maybe some folks are forced to stick to a tight budget

Comment #10

Astekblue — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:02:22 GMT

Well Said Tinker ........ Well Said

Comment #9

Quinto — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:57:19 GMT

OMG dr65 I'm grinning at you right now

Comment #8

dr65 — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:50:13 GMT

One of our posters on the PA thread is going to be famous...he knows who he is...that's his video.

Okay...at about 30 seconds in the video and I rewinded it a few times - you can see the first 2 balls in the chambers but

there is a delay in the 3rd ball going in and this seems to be when the balls stopped bouncing around.

jojo, the whole thing stinks, you're right. Now tell me how they can let a draw like that stand? I thought their security

and integrity was above question. The... [ More ]

Comment #7

jojosurf — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:16:52 GMT

they should have had a re draw on all games to be fair to all other players to me it appears balls were in tube on pick 2 and pick 3 when she raised her hand not the usaally way when you see the balls floating in unit then appear ,as far a first 2 results pay those players and a new redraw for those 2 games also should have been done all I can say it wasn't a fair drawing and a lot of players lost money on what they played

Comment #6

Tinker — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 02:18:03 GMT

However, the lottery official who the lottery declined to identify to avoid putting them in positions where they become targets of unnecessary public attention,

Should be the same for us players.

Comment #5

mypiemaster — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 01:17:49 GMT

Don't tell me these guys are also having issues with DEFLATED BALLS .

Comment #4

temptustoo — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:52:06 GMT

she raised her hand during the pic 3 and pic 4 but that was okay........REALLY

Comment #3

Ron5995 — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:21:06 GMT

It was a bizarre drawing, but PA Lottery seemingly handled it well. With physical balls one can more readily detect problems / review the drawing video for anything out of the ordinary. The same can't be said for computerized randomizers.

It's interesting the number of doubles that have occurred in PA Pick 2 in just 10 drawings (3 out of 10: 33, 55, and 99). And 9 has been a very commonly occurring first digit ... 4 out of the 5 past Day drawings; twice today with it appearing in both Day and... [ More ]

Comment #2

grwurston — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:16:11 GMT

Well, if they had conducted 4 or 5 more pre-tests they might have detected the problem before the drawing... I'm kidding of course.

Comment #1

DoctorWhy — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:22:43 GMT

Wow. Anything can happen with the lottery.

Pa. Lottery drawings go on Thursday despite machine malfunctions

Lottery Post — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:52:41 GMT

Includes video report

Technical difficulties wreaked havoc with Thursday evening's Pennsylvania Lottery drawings, forcing the Pick 4 and Pick 5 drawings to occur after the telecast ended.

No one knows exactly what went wrong. We don't have the information right now. The folks who design the machines are coming down to make sure everything runs smoothly tonight, said lottery spokeswoman Lauren Bottaro.

What viewers saw signifying a problem, which Bottaro said is in accordance with lotte... [ More ]