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I cracked MN lottery scratch off barcodesReply
Newer barcode technologies have redundancy and error correction built in that allow partial barcodes to be read successfully. Barcodes that are damaged or partially missing can still be read and even recreated if enough of the barcode remains. It's always a good idea to never publish any part of a barcode until a ticket is cashed...
Jan 11, 2019, 10:54 pm - duckman - Lottery Discussion Forum

Post your scratch ticket resultsReply
Uh oh, I think I was a victim of lottery fraud. I tried to cash my $500 today and it came up as already paid. It hasn't left my house since I got it, so I think posting the picture here or at Facebook would be the culprit. Unless it is a real error. I will never post open barcodes again on big wins. I should be able to get my $500 since I have the original and it would have been cashed by fraud.
Jan 3, 2019, 11:38 pm - MattfromPA - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Take5 NYReply
Hey that s great! So you can play your take5 numbers instant win? Okay my mistake then, I m glad it worked well for you. Congrats casperina ;) Sorry for my error in facts.
Dec 14, 2018, 5:40 pm - Soledad - Pick 5 Forum

**GUARANTEED PAIRS** (All States)Reply
I personally cant change any ones rating. If your speaking on myself, it was a error on my behalf, that I cannot go back and change. Thanks for your support
Nov 7, 2018, 10:53 pm - Honey502 - Pick 3 Forum

$1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot won by 1 ticket sold in South CarolinaReply
A common story in your link says that a woman bought it but didn't know she had to pay cash and had to leave without it and that the winner then bought that ticket. If that's true, wow just wow, she will be haunted by her error for the rest of her life.
Oct 29, 2018, 1:14 am - Kingofearth - Lottery News

Winners in Iowa, New York to share $687.8 million Powerball lottery jackpotReply
This is crazy , but in both the latest Mega and the Powerball - the lotteries OVERSTATED the prize value by $62.2+ million. To be off by 9%+ is ridiculous. Sorry but as a retired actuary I don't that you can have that margin of error on two draws in a row. In the meantime, congratulations to the winners.
Oct 28, 2018, 9:40 am - ronechuck - Lottery News

Cycles - Interesting NumbersReply
one data point k, the categorical cross-entropy is: Hk(pk, qk) = XN n=1 pk(n)log (qk(n)) (1) With N being the number of categories (number of possible numbers, 75), pk, the target distribution and qk the prediction from the neural network. To obtain the overall categorical cross-entropy, we average over all data points. The optimizer used was Adam. We split the set of observations into a training set of 892 draws and a validation set of 315 draws. Input Cross-presence
Sep 13, 2018, 7:03 am - dr san - Lottery Discussion Forum

Texas: 8/1 - 8/31/2018Reply
OOOO GEEZ I lost by clerical error twice (TN too)...grrr I forgot to check the boxed format. I need more coffee. Lesson learned.
Aug 30, 2018, 11:28 am - Plush08 - Pick 3 Forum

Florida: 8/1 - 8/31/2018Reply
We all go through trial and error. I am still learning as well. The problem is sometimes I have too many number sets. The hard part for me is staying consistent, which is not easy to do. The missed 24 is not your fault. I should have turned 04 and 14 sum into 14 and 24 sums.
Aug 23, 2018, 11:37 am - darthfury78 - Pick 3 Forum

A new way of picking random numbers using Random_seed
Sub Lotto() '10 Draws lots from values in a table finding 7 different past numbers. 'If a number occurs in the table more than once, the probability 'increases for this number to become a winner. Dim lVal As Long Dim rInput As Range Dim rCell As Range Dim colCheck As Collection Dim colWinners As Collection On Error GoTo ErrorHandle 'We assume that the table is on the first worksheet and starts in cell A1. 'The range, rInput is set = the table. Set rInput = Wor
Aug 21, 2018, 9:09 am - timmsy - Lottery Discussion Forum