Connecticut lawmaker may request hearings over costly drawing error

Comment #8

KY Floyd — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:35:02 GMT

Start your ticket numbering at 1 .

That would probably be a really simple fix on the lottery's end, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some players feel that a ticket with the number 1, or 101 is somehow different than a ticket with the number 100001 or 100101. Maybe that could be solved by making the first ticket 000001, but I've got a suspicion that a lot of players will sill feel that a ticket with a bunch of leading zeros is somehow less worthy than one that starts with a real... [ More ]

Comment #7

rca1952 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:03:45 GMT

And so it goes boy's and girl's what happens when one tries to control the out come and screw the little people! Look for more screw up's from other states such as this to do the same thing!!! Just bring back the ball's and put the drawings on T.V. like before and be honest about it....

Comment #6

winoneday — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:56:57 GMT

An even simpler solution. Simply enter the number of tickets sold. Let the computer do the addition and calculate the range of tickets eligble for the draw.

Comment #5

Todd — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:07:19 GMT

Simple fix for the next raffle drawing: Start your ticket numbering at 1 .

Comment #4

justguessin — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:50:53 GMT

THANK YOU

Comment #3

ckrakowski — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:36:39 GMT

Mess with a certain amount of government money and the government will get involved but if the amount of money is lower the government will not care.

How much money from the drawing had it gone correctly would have gone to the government?

But when a scratch ticket gets miscut in a machine the government does not care since it is such a small amount.

Comment #2

Raven62 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 23:51:36 GMT

Goes to show you: You can't run a multi-million dollar operation on a shoestring

Comment #1

music* — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 23:44:24 GMT

How are the other Lotteries here in the U.S. reacting to this? I am assuming that some have the same type of system that could go wrong. They must be working overtime to prevent this problem from happening in their State. Including D.C., Virgin Islands, and maybe Puerto Rico.

Connecticut lawmaker may request hearings over costly drawing error

Lottery Post — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 23:17:53 GMT

It should have been so easy for the five-member team in charge of a Jan. 1 lottery drawing to enter and verify the right numbers in a machine that electronically selected the winners of the Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s New Year's $1,000,000 Super Draw game.

Such an easy thing, but now so many problems.

The team members had the benefit of illustrated, step-by-step instructions that you or I could follow in the form an Official Drawing Procedures manual for the game in which $10 tickets were... [ More ]